The Job Hunt: Sell Air Purifiers, Manage a Bar, Make Crazy Facial Expressions, Coordinate Events, Lead Workshops

Summer is coming up, and who wants to spend the best of Beijing's days locked up in a boring, dead-end job, with horrible colleagues you'd rather never see? As our beloved reader, you should know that you don't have to submit yourself to such an unbearable situation. Instead, take a look below at the best of our job Classifieds:

Bar and Restaurant Sales Manager for True Run Media
Are you the type that spends their weekends heading straight home, ordering something in, and burying your nose in a good book, quietly enjoying your time at home before re-emerging Monday morning to return to work? Then read no further, as this job announcement is not for you. However, if you are looking at your social calendar and just can't imagine how you're going to manage to fit in the engagements and events you've planned to attend, we might just have the perfect job for your lifestyle.

Membership Director at Canada China Business Council
The Canada China Business Council (CCBC) is looking for a membership director in Beijing, whose main role it will be to develop and maintain a growing and vibrant network of member organizations, both Chinese and Canadian, in the Beijing area. Must be someone with work experience in and strong personal knowledge of China, and excellent spoken and written English as well as Chinese.

Facial Expressions
A facial expression collection project has created some interesting and easy job vacancies: they're looking for 20 people between ages 30 and 50, and 10 people between 50 and 70. All you'll have to do is make expressions according to cues, in order to help complete research on facial recognition technology.

Director of Development at Australia China Alumni Association
The Australia China Alumni Association (ACAA) is a non-for-profit organization looking for someone to deal with ongoing liason with allied organizations, continued engagement of ACAA's existing network in the region, and organizing and hosting regular alumni events in the region. Must have a degree from an Australian university.

Bar Manager
A successful cocktail bar is looking for a bar manager to work either full- or part-time, must have both good English and Chinese. Understanding alcohol, obviously, is also necessary. Check out the link in the title for more information if you think you might be a good fit.

Sales Assistant at Mila Living
A rapidly growing IOT brand selling a connected home air purifier system is in development and are looking for someone to help sales, who is sharp, talented, and a quick learner. Be prepared: there will be weekly happy hours and dogs at the office, but this is not a cushty 9 to 5.

Workshop and Events Lead at Smart Air
Smart Air is looking for a Chinese local to take on Smart Air's growing workshop program. You'll be educating people on air pollution and helping people protect themselves, and managing the team of workshop coordinators who hold these workshops. As it is a small company, employees are always free to develop the enterprise in other areas.

Events Coordinator
Shangrila Farms is looking for an events coorindator, for events mostly taking place on weekends and evenings. This position only requires four to five hours a week in the office, with the rest of the time being spent at said events. Must be fluent in English and have conversational Chinese, as well as retail sales experience, knowledge of photoshop, and is able to work weekends and evenings.

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