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2 May 2015

China holds history making first Gay Job Fair

WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals organized the 1st Annual China LGBT Talent Job Fair – the first time in China companies have publicly reached out in support of the LGBT community  – on April 25th, 2015 in Shanghai, China

2nd Annual LGBT Corporate Diversity & Inclusion Conference highlights the business for workplace inclusion, Job Fair welcomes 400 LGBT job seekers and 17 major companies including Google, Starbucks, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, and Microsoft.
WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals organized the 1st Annual China LGBT Talent Job Fair – the first time in China companies reached out to the LGBT community in support of diversity & inclusion in employment – on April 25th, 2015 in Shanghai, China. Earlier that day, WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals held their 2nd Annual LGBT Corporate Diversity & inclusion Conference, welcoming 200 HR leaders and LGBT employees to discuss HR programs and policies that ensure equality at work.
This first of its kind gay job fair took place on Saturday, welcoming hundreds of LGBT graduating students and professionals, from a diversity of industry backgrounds and experiences in Shanghai. Tens of thousands in China’s LGBT community discussed this event via social media, as leading Fortune 500 companies and Chinese multinationals took part in the fair, free of charge to both job seekers and company exhibitors.
“Talented LGBT employees from all across China traveled to Shanghai to be part of this groundbreaking job fair”, said Steven Paul Bielinski, Founder of WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals. “Inclusive employers with programs, policies, and a corporate culture where LGBT employees can bring their authentic selves to work are their first choice”. 
According to the 【2014 China LGBT Community Survey Report】 pioneered by WorkForLGBT & Shanghai LGBT Professionals, China-wide about 50% of LGBT people work for domestic private enterprise, while 13% work for foreign invested companies, and 21% work for state owned enterprises. Focusing in on Shanghai, 41% of LGBT employees work for local private companies, while 35% work for foreign firms (three times the national average), and just 17% are employed by Chinese SOEs.
Companies looking to remain competitive in China, especially foreign invested and domestic firms, require forward thinking and innovative HR programs and policies directed at the LGBT community. This includes non-discrimination workplace policies, diversity & inclusion training programs that create a welcoming environment for LGBT workers, and employee networks that allow LGBT employees an organizational voice.
Direct outreach and recruiting towards the LGBT community as a talent group is also essential to building trust and ensuring LGBT people feel comfortable being honest at work.
With 86% of 18-25 year olds in China according to Baidu’s recent Consumer Business Group survey expressing “total acceptance of homosexuality”, recruiting and retaining talent with a message of LGBT inclusion is essential not just for LGBT employees, but for the millennial generation as well.
WorkForLGBT & Shanghai LGBT Professionals partnered with Kanzhun.com to hold this first annual event. Kanzhun is China’s largest professional employer rating, employer branding outreach, and employee sharing platform.

LGBT Talent Job Fair welcomes 400 LGBT job seekers and 17 major companies including Google, Starbucks, Ford, IBM, McKinsey, and Microsoft.

WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals organized the 1st Annual China LGBT Talent Job Fair – the first time in China companies reached out to the LGBT community in support of diversity & inclusion in employment – on April 25th, 2015 in Shanghai, China. Earlier that day, WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals held their 2nd Annual LGBT Corporate Diversity & inclusion Conference, welcoming 200 HR leaders and LGBT employees to discuss HR programs and policies that ensure equality at work.

This first of its kind gay job fair took place on Saturday, welcoming hundreds of LGBT graduating students and professionals, from a diversity of industry backgrounds and experiences in Shanghai. Tens of thousands in China’s LGBT community discussed this event via social media, as leading Fortune 500 companies and Chinese multinationals took part in the fair, free of charge to both job seekers and company exhibitors.

“Talented LGBT employees from all across China traveled to Shanghai to be part of this groundbreaking job fair”, said Steven Paul Bielinski, Founder of WorkForLGBT and Shanghai LGBT Professionals. “Inclusive employers with programs, policies, and a corporate culture where LGBT employees can bring their authentic selves to work are their first choice”. 

According to the 2014 China LGBT Community Survey Report pioneered by WorkForLGBT & Shanghai LGBT Professionals, China-wide about 50% of LGBT people work for domestic private enterprise, while 13% work for foreign invested companies, and 21% work for state owned enterprises. Focusing in on Shanghai, 41% of LGBT employees work for local private companies, while 35% work for foreign firms (three times the national average), and just 17% are employed by Chinese SOEs.

Companies looking to remain competitive in China, especially foreign invested and domestic firms, require forward thinking and innovative HR programs and policies directed at the LGBT community. This includes non-discrimination workplace policies, diversity & inclusion training programs that create a welcoming environment for LGBT workers, and employee networks that allow LGBT employees an organizational voice.

Direct outreach and recruiting towards the LGBT community as a talent group is also essential to building trust and ensuring LGBT people feel comfortable being honest at work.

With 86% of 18-25 year olds in China according to Baidu’s recent Consumer Business Group survey expressing “total acceptance of homosexuality”, recruiting and retaining talent with a message of LGBT inclusion is essential not just for LGBT employees, but for the millennial generation as well.

WorkForLGBT & Shanghai LGBT Professionals partnered with Kanzhun.com to hold this first annual event. Kanzhun is China’s largest professional employer rating, employer branding outreach, and employee sharing platform.

Reader's Comments

1. 2015-05-02 08:16  
Excellent -
2. 2015-05-02 09:31  
Effort that is worth to be emulated in societies if it is not going to create chaos. Otherwise, let it be done in the most discrete manner. Well done!.
3. 2015-05-03 00:52  
Good progress :)
4. 2015-05-03 02:19  
Impressive!
5. 2015-05-04 06:07  
Wow! I didn't see this coming. Bravo!
6. 2015-05-05 18:34  
I want to show this to my mom who only understands Chinese. Is there a Chinese article on this? I don't understand Chinese.
7. 2015-05-06 16:10  
Did anyone read this:

"The Nazi doctor who experimented on gay people – and Britain helped to escape justice"

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/may/05/nazi-doctor-gay-people-carl-vaernet-escaped-justice-danish
8. 2015-05-07 20:52  
amazing!
Congratulations
9. 2015-05-09 00:43  
positive news for a change!
10. 2015-05-09 13:55  
This is great. I really think China will surpass America in LGBT issues in the near future. With the lack of religion intolerance to block the way, LGBT people will be more accepted here. It will take a generation or two to get the traditional older generation to die off who still hold to the old ways. But, many of them are becoming educated on what a homosexual truly is and that it is not a mental illness or something to be shunned in society for.
11. 2015-05-09 22:05  
Wow! Well done Shanghai. Hopefully the rest of China will catch on. I have just been fired from my work for being gay :(
12. 2015-05-10 16:05  
101% agree with nashboroguy...especially on 'With the lack of religion intolerance to block the way, LBGT people will be more accepted here.'

The greatest reason for slow progress of social development in Asia (or anywhere else in the World) is because of religions!

Hopefully this Asian dream can be fulfilled during my life time!
Comment edited on 2015-05-10 18:33:19
13. 2015-05-10 16:31  
Don't get me wrong, I don't oppose to people practicing their religion. I am also a Buddhist.

However, I think all religions should be made private, strictly private practice!

If everyone can ensure strictly private practice for their religion, the World can be a much more peaceful and safer place to live...
Comment edited on 2015-05-11 17:13:07

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