66: Chapter 66 Recruiting Employees

"This is the place. What's the price?"

Zhang Lei's eyes lit up as he quickly pulled a notebook from his bag: "Mr. Chen, Linkai International was just completed at the end of July 2010, which means the units were handed over only a few days ago. The rent is currently 70 RMB/sqm/month, and the property management fee is 18 RMB/sqm/month."

He looked down and tapped on a calculator a few times: "At 256 square meters, the rent is 17,920 RMB per month, and the property management fee is 4,608 RMB, totaling 22,528 RMB. It has central air conditioning, operating from Monday to Friday, 8:00 to 18:00. There are parking spaces above and below ground for a monthly rent of 600 RMB. You can rent those separately if you need them."

Chen Fan nodded and did a quick calculation in his head—22,000 a month, over 200,000 a year, which was nothing to him.

"How long can the lease be?"

Zhang Lei said hurriedly, "At least one year, and up to three years. If you decide today, it's one month's deposit and three months' rent upfront, so four months for the first payment. Our agency fee is one month's rent, split equally between you and the landlord."

"Alright, that works."

...

An hour later, after signing the contract and paying over 90,000 RMB, the office was successfully rented.

However, since Chen Fan hadn't registered a company yet, he rented the office in his own name. Once the company was registered, he could just find the building management to sign a supplementary agreement to change the lessee from Chen Fan to the company.

Now that he had an office, he had to go register the company.

Over the next few days, Chen Fan was basically running back and forth.

He was either going home to sign for valuable items, like a TV costing over 30,000 RMB...

...or heading to the Industrial and Commercial Bureau to handle the company registration, keeping him incredibly busy.

But Chen Fan also encountered a problem.

That was the matter of the registered capital.

Before registering the company, Chen Fan thought 1 million RMB in registered capital would be enough; after all, some people started companies with only 100,000 RMB.

But what Chen Fan didn't expect was that because he wanted to make online games, the requirements for registered capital were different from other companies.

At this stage, there were roughly two ways to do games.

One was to only develop games without publishing them, leaving the publishing to large platforms, such as Tencent's or Sina's free game platforms, or companies like Shanda that specialized in games.

Or to make mobile games and publish them directly on the app markets of various mobile phone companies, such as the various app stores for iOS and android, and so on.

If it were just that, there would be no mandatory requirement for the company's registered capital.

However, if one were to produce and provide game products and services themselves, they would need a "Network Culture Business License."

Applying for this certificate required a registered capital of 10 million RMB, and it had to be fully paid up.

The first option—developing without publishing and relying on platform revenue sharing—had low risk. If a game failed, one could just switch to another. It could be started with 100,000 to 300,000 RMB. The downside was that the platform's cut was average, and due to platform restrictions, it couldn't grow very large. To scale up, one would later need to transition into creating their own platform.

The second option—self-publishing—had high risk. If the game failed, the company might die. It also required 10 million RMB in startup capital. The advantage was that there was no platform revenue sharing.

To be honest, this was a difficult choice for Chen Fan for a moment, as both had their pros and cons.

After thinking for a moment, Chen Fan made a decision: he would go with platform revenue sharing first, and once he had sufficient funds, he would transition to self-production and publishing.

This was the safest approach.

After deciding on the model, Chen Fan continued with the company registration.

Soon, the company registration was complete.

Company Name: [Chang'an Fanyu Technology Co., Ltd.]

Registered capital: 1 million RMB; Paid-in capital: 1 million RMB.

After the company was registered.

The primary task now was to hire people.

As for hiring, Chen Fan only knew about recruitment software like BOSS Zhipin or Zhaopin.com.

Fortunately, although there were no mobile apps yet, there were relevant recruitment websites.

However, Chen Fan didn't even have a computer yet, and the entire company office was empty.

So, he had no choice but to go to the computer city and spend over 8,000 RMB to buy a laptop.

After buying the computer, Chen Fan began registering on major recruitment websites in the company's name.

Once registered, he immediately posted recruitment information for HR and administration.

For the HR recruitment requirements, Chen Fan looked at other game companies on the website for reference. For administration, he just copied from a random company, though he wrote the benefits himself.

Compared to other companies in the industry, Chen Fan raised the benefits slightly.

HR Specialist Recruitment Requirements

Position: HR Manager

Number of Vacancies: 1

Work Location: Chang'an

Salary & Benefits: 6,000 RMB per month, five insurances and one housing fund provided. Five-day work week with two days off.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for screening...

2. Responsible for...

...

Job Requirements:

...

Administrative Specialist Recruitment Requirements

Position: Administrative Specialist

Number of Vacancies: 1

Work Location: Chang'an

Salary & Benefits: 4,000 RMB per month, five insurances and one housing fund provided. Five-day work week with two days off.

Job Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for the management of daily administrative affairs, including office environment maintenance, fixed asset management, procurement of office supplies, etc.

2. Responsible for reception, call forwarding, mail handling, and other front desk duties.

3. Assist in...

...

The salary and benefits Chen Fan offered were quite high for 2010; even in other cities, they would be considered above average.

The reason he made the benefits higher was mainly out of fear that a newly established company wouldn't attract talent, so he had to rely on high salaries to draw people in.

Another point was that the first company Chen Fan encountered in his previous life had very good benefits, so naturally, when he started his own company, he wanted to improve the benefits for his employees.

He didn't care about the extra money spent on salaries.

Besides, perhaps the employees would be more efficient because of the higher pay.

After posting, Chen Fan spent a little more money to buy a corporate package so that job seekers could see the posts more quickly.

For the next few days, Chen Fan basically waited for people to submit their resumes.

Although Fanyu Technology was a startup, the benefits in Chen Fan's recruitment posts were excellent, so many resumes were submitted.

For the HR Manager position, dozens of resumes were submitted in less than two days.

And there were even more for the Administrative Specialist position.

From the HR Manager resumes, Chen Fan screened five whose backgrounds looked relatively outstanding and notified them to come for an interview on July 26th—tomorrow afternoon.

The same went for the Administrative Specialist position, but the interview time was set for the morning.

Chen Fan looked at the submitted resumes; they were all young girls, and a good portion of them were young and beautiful.

Chen Fan selected three with decent resumes and relatively high attractiveness. After all, as the face of the company, the administrative front desk needed to have a good image.