i doubt whether you can find good candidates from huasing readers' profile, and perhaps good ones will not be interested in your company or your job opportunity. This is very common and you just need to accept the fact that it is difficult to hire a good person with limited budget :p

we are still struggling with our secretary post as well, sigh...

my good friend is doing conference management now, and she's a master of material science.

but as i said, if your company doesn't want to spend on headhunting, and rely on cheap recruitment way like posting here for such a position, then... good luck! :)

please treat them purely as friendly suggestions, and i would not say anything to you if i didn't know you for so many years and liked you as a good friend. forget it please if you are not happy after reading the following:

1. I think for your company, it is the time to consider whether you are willing and can afford the time and cost to train someone, who may not be ideal now but worth the money and time of training. If you are in need of an employee, and after such a long time you still cannot find one, it is time for you to think of alternatives.

There are always alternative solutions to a problem, and it is up to you or your manager to decide which one to adopt.

2. As a friend, i do think maybe you can relax and sincerely start reading the posts above carefully, written by whom seems to be criticing you, but actually helping you. We all like you as a talented, pretty, out-going, and passionate young lady. But in the corporate world, your personality can be your advantage or disadvantage, no matter you like it or not.

They do have a point that sometimes your tone is a bit strong and making everyone uncomfortable while reading it, even to me as someone knowing you for several years. again, please treat it as a constructive and friendly suggestion, and don't get annoyed please, which will simply defeat the whole purpose. then i will cry :'(

3. I do want to say that, everyone including myself, needs to continously polish our language skills. We are all impressed by your language expertise, but that is not the end of learning yet. Let's be humble together and keep learning every day. It is a fact that from your posts so far, i have spotted some minor grammar mistakes already. but please relax as i understand that you may not have paid enough attention to your writing, simply because it is informal english writing here.

again, please understand that this is just a sincere friendly suggestion, and i am doing it for my self-learning every time when i read anything in english, as well as Chinese, thanks to my family background. :p

maybe you can try some online networking portal, like LinkedIn. www.linkedin.com

if you do not have any contact there yet, give me your email and i will add you to my network. then through me you will connect to a lot other people :)

just my two cents, and hope you can find the right candidate asap.