As the Jiangnan Group steadily reduced its business scope, the number of personnel required naturally decreased significantly.
However, the Jiangnan Group was a company with a strong sense of humanity. As long as Boss Huang had no shortage of money, he rarely took the initiative to dismiss employees who did not make mistakes.
Of course, if an employee's work ability declined, or if their abilities did not match their position, the Jiangnan Group would resort to transfers. They would move the individual to the logistics department, or other auxiliary departments, or even departments specifically designed for retirement.
Naturally, upon transfer, salary and benefits would be significantly reduced, and it would be impossible to receive the same high salary as before. However, it would still be much higher than the average salary in the same industry.
Of course, if one could not tolerate this, they could choose to resign voluntarily. The Jiangnan Group would provide compensation in accordance with the national regulations for employee resignation.
However, most employees were unwilling to leave the Jiangnan Group, preferring to accept a substantial reduction in their monthly salaries. This led to a further decrease in the positions available for recruitment by the Jiangnan Group, and the number of positions available for campus recruitment also steadily declined. Ultimately, even prestigious universities like Tsinghua and Peking University were left with only 50 positions in total.
The situation for other key universities was even more dire. Fortunately, the path of Jiangnan University remained consistently open.
Although Jiangnan University later increased its dropout rate, from nearly 80% of graduates successfully entering Jiangnan University to only about 60%, it could still provide over 8,000 employee positions for the Jiangnan Group each year. Therefore, Jiangnan University remained a highly sought-after institution for countless high school students.
Even though the school was still a second-tier university, its final admission score far surpassed that of first-tier universities like Tsinghua and Peking University, making it a legendary existence.
Thus, this time, when the Jiangnan Group's twenty most famous subsidiaries simultaneously opened over 100 positions, with a total of 2,000 job openings available to the public, society was in an uproar.
Many graduates who had failed in campus recruitment confidently presented their resumes to compete for these 2,000 positions, only to discover that all of them were related to football and sports.
That's right, this time the Jiangnan Group was recruiting exclusively professional football talents, with the aim of various companies competing for the championship of the "I Love Boss Huang Cup" league within the Jiangnan Group.
Well, everyone was speechless. Only those in the sports and football circles rejoiced.
The first batch of people who joined with their resumes were naturally professional football personnel. These football professionals often did the hardest and most inconspicuous work in the industry, yet received the lowest salaries and endured the worst environments.
However, their work dictated that apart from the football circle, there was nowhere else they could be accommodated.
Now that the Jiangnan Group had appeared, things were naturally different. These football professionals immediately submitted their resumes to the Jiangnan Group, hoping to secure an opportunity to join the company.
At the same time, they cautiously kept their intentions hidden from their colleagues, as there were only 2,000 positions available, and with more contenders than positions, the probability of being selected was slim.
And if they were not selected, and their desire to switch jobs was discovered, wouldn't they be ostracized within the circle?
However, later they realized they were overthinking, because when they attended the interviews, they found that almost everyone in the circle had shown up.
It wasn't just these ordinary, inconspicuous football people. Team doctors, coaches, managers, and so on, one and all, as long as they weren't famously high-earning individuals, almost everyone came to the interviews.
In other words, all the grassroots personnel in the entire football circle had participated. Even if they weren't selected, the management wouldn't dare to do anything to them. If everyone went on strike together, the competition would simply be halted.
In fact, it wasn't just the ordinary people. During the interviews, although many wore overcoats, sunglasses, and masks, they could not hide from the eyes of those within the circle. These individuals were well-known coaches and players in the Chinese Super League. It was unbelievable to many ordinary football people that they had also come.
After all, these coaches and players had annual salaries of at least hundreds of thousands, with the highest even reaching five million. How could they be willing to play in an internal league of the Jiangnan Group?
However, they overlooked one thing: whether these high annual salaries could actually be obtained was another matter.
Currently, all Chinese Super League clubs were operating at a loss according to their official accounts, which allowed them to legitimately withhold salaries from all players and coaches. Despite these individuals boasting annual salaries of hundreds of thousands or even millions, if they couldn't get paid, they were still paupers.
Another point was that this was not a job that could be done for a lifetime, or even for a long term. Generally, once a player reached around 35 years old, clubs would not be willing to renew their contracts.
If contracts were renewed, the signing bonuses would be outrageously low. Therefore, a player essentially had to earn enough for a lifetime during their youth. It was unrealistic to expect to earn over ten thousand yuan per month after the age of 35.
But the Jiangnan Group was different. Given the Jiangnan Group's treatment of its employees, as long as one could join the Jiangnan Group and not commit any serious offenses, they could essentially work for the Jiangnan Group until retirement. This was a benefit that the Chinese Super League absolutely could not offer.
Therefore, after careful consideration, many players and coaches, even those who were currently very famous, were willing to come and attend the interviews. This was akin to many top talents choosing to take civil service exams even if they didn't need a job; the appeal was stability.
Ultimately, statistics showed that over 85% of those working in the Chinese Super League had applied. The Jiangnan Group, naturally, did not hesitate to select the 2,000 most elite personnel from among them.
The remaining individuals were naturally those that the Jiangnan Group deemed unsuitable, those with bad records, or those whose illicit involvement in match-fixing was known to the Jiangnan Group but not to others. All such individuals were directly rejected.
Consequently, after this massive recruitment drive concluded, many Chinese Super League clubs and the Football Association discovered that the 2,000 most elite working staff had disappeared from the entire Chinese Super League, leaving behind only those with insufficient abilities and those keen on match-fixing for profit.
Of course, the latter point was of no concern to the Chinese Super League, but the former point was unbearable.
The entire Chinese Super League experienced a series of laughable incidents in the subsequent schedule.
There were instances of the pitch not being cleaned properly before a match, teams being unable to arrange their matches properly in advance, team doctors who were incompetent in emergency care, referees who had not fully grasped the rules of the game, and even comical live broadcasts with shaky camera feeds.
The subsequent matches of the Chinese Super League became a source of jokes and amusement. The most absurd incident involved a match that was supposed to be held in an eastern city, but the staff notified one team to travel to a city in the west.
When the team raised an objection, stating that by convention the match should be held in an eastern city, the staff member became angry and retorted, "Are you more knowledgeable than I am?" As a result, the club directly traveled to the western city.
When the match was about to begin, the home team discovered that the away team had not arrived. The astute staff directly declared the away team to have forfeited the match, and the home team was awarded the victory. When the away team learned of this news outside the empty stadium in the western city, the club owner directly sued the Football Association.
In short, such jokes and amusing incidents were countless, and the Chinese Super League almost came to a standstill.
Logically, it shouldn't have been this way. After all, the Chinese Super League, in all its aspects, had around 40,000 people. Having 2,000 people poached should have been insignificant to the Chinese Super League, so why did it descend into such absurdity?
This was, of course, because the Jiangnan Group had poached the most elite and the truly hardworking individuals within the Chinese Super League. Too many people in the Chinese Super League had entered to coast along through connections and favoritism, with all the actual work falling on the shoulders of the few who truly worked.
In the past, these individuals could only endure in silence, as they could not find any soil that would accept them outside the Chinese Super League.
Now that they had left, the entire Chinese Super League had revealed its true colors.
Subsequently, the chairman of the Football Association directly rebuked certain commercial companies at a press conference for poaching personnel from the Chinese Super League, stating that their actions were breaking the backbone of Chinese football and preventing it from ever standing up.
These words made the fans burst into laughter, as if Chinese football had been standing tall before.
However, the Football Association could only resort to verbal criticism, as they had no recourse against the Jiangnan Group.
Firstly, if they were to compete in terms of backing, it was uncertain who had the stronger connections.
As for the authority held by the Football Association, it held no significance for the Jiangnan Group.
After all, this was a league organized internally by a commercial company. Although the league was directly broadcast on the Jiangnan Group's official website, and the total number of viewers for each match was consistently over five million, with some other companies even starting to sponsor and name the Jiangnan Group's branch teams, the Football Association could not interfere with the internal affairs of a company.
At most, they could angrily issue a statement declaring that anyone playing in the Jiangnan Group's league would be blacklisted by the Chinese Super League and would never be able to join any other professional sports club in the future.
This announcement was truly amusing, making netizens laugh again. Who in this day and age would voluntarily leave the Jiangnan Group after securing a position there?