Chapter 12 Employee Crisis

  Duan Lei quickly got back into the swing of things at the base, spending every day in the lab tweaking the formula for the culture medium before taking time out to produce client orders in the pilot plant.

  However, with the increasing orders, Duan Yue sadly found himself unable to cope.

  In the trial production workshop, a considerable part of the production process requires manual operation and is not the so-called fully automated production line. In addition, having certain chemical knowledge and experimental hands-on ability is crucial in the operation process, which has led to many processes requiring personal participation.

  Inside the base, Jin Xin had a number of strong and capable young men under his command, but they were only able to help with physical labor, and finer operations were beyond their capabilities.

  When there were fewer orders in the past, Duan Lei could finish the production of the trial car room and then go to busy other things. However, with the sharp increase in orders, time is becoming increasingly scarce for Duan Lei.

  Helpless, Duan Yue could only turn to Xiong Yiping for help!

  "Director Bear, I've come to seek your help!" After some small talk, Duan Lei stated his purpose.

  "Xiao Duan, you're being too polite!" Xiong Yiping said with a smile, his eyes narrowing: "Isn't the original intention of our association to serve start-up companies?"

  At first, Xiong Yiping just treated Duan Yue as an ordinary entrepreneurial student, and his support for Duan Yue was limited to the extent stipulated in the file. However, as Duan Yue's career continued to upgrade, Duan Yue's position in Xiong Yiping's eyes became more and more important.

  The endless stream of customers in the high-tech building office proved that Maca Biotech's business was on the right track. Although it is impossible to know the specific business income, Xiong Yiping still has some way to judge from some clues. The pollution control project successfully passed the evaluation committee of Haida University and was sent to Haicheng Science and Technology Association for award evaluation, which itself proved Maca Biotech's scientific research strength.

  What surprised Xiong Yiping even more was that Duan Lei had actually managed to move Gu Yu-liang, who always looked down on others, with just one design plan. He was willing to assign the most elite construction team from Hai Da Jian Gong to build the experimental building for Ma Ka Biology at the earliest time possible.

  Various signs indicate that Duan Lei's Maca Biotech has great development potential and will provide sufficient assistance to Xiong Yiping, the head of the Academic Affairs Office. Driven by interests, Xiong Yiping naturally strongly supports Duan Lei and Yan Yuecai.

  "Director Bear, it's like this!" Duan Lei paused for a moment to organize his words: "Now the company's orders are getting more and more, and relying solely on me to work in the middle of the trial car is also a bit busy, thinking of recruiting some employees from school through you."

  Nowadays, there is a strange phenomenon in the talent market. On the one hand, employers are complaining about the shortage of talents, while on the other hand, job seekers are lamenting that there are few job opportunities.

  Taking Makabiology as an example, it is easy to recruit ordinary clerks and financial personnel in the market, but those technical positions with higher requirements for education and ability are neglected.

  Those graduates who just want to get by in school naturally can't enter Duan Yun's eyes, but technical personnel with a little ability are also dissatisfied that Makabiology is newly established and don't look good at its prospects.

  It's been a while since the recruitment advertisement was sent out, but Makabiology still can't recruit suitable technical personnel to work in the trial car room, and Duan Lei can only ask Xiong Yiping for help.

  "Alright, leave the recruitment conditions with me and I'll keep an eye out for you." Xiong Yiping also understood Duan Yue's current difficulties and nodded: "If all else fails, I can arrange a few graduate students to help out at your place first, and we can discuss further after this period of time passes."

  Nowadays, many graduate students are treated as cheap labor by their supervisors, working hard every day without any benefits. Haven't you seen some graduate students calling their supervisors "boss", making it seem like a company, and losing the rigorous academic spirit of the past?

  Xiong Yiping estimated that as long as Maca Bio offered a decent price, they would always be able to recruit some graduate students with good hands-on skills to help out for a while. As for what happened afterwards, they could cross that bridge later; first, they had to solve the immediate crisis of being short-staffed.

  "Then I'll thank Secretary Xiong first!" Duan Lei said with great pleasure, "In a few days, my hometown will send some local specialties, and I'll deliver them to your home at that time!"

  During this period, Duan Yue began to frequently contact people from all walks of life and got entangled in a complicated web of human relationships, which was quite vexing. Asking for favors and exchanging pleasantries is an art that requires careful consideration, as it can easily backfire if not done properly.

  Giving cigarettes and wine is a bit tacky; directly giving money is too blatant, which has a bad influence. As for other valuable items, it's not convenient to give them out when the relationship isn't close. Like this period of time, towards those who have helped him greatly, such as Xiong Yiping, Zheng Kaiming, Zhang Jiuhe, He Yuanzheng, Li Jie and others, Duan Lemu had the idea of giving something to express his gratitude.

  After some thought, Duan Yue let his family buy some local specialties, mountain goods and cured meats to send by mail.

  Send it over and when the time comes, send a little bit from door to door, which shows gratitude and thoughtfulness.

  Of course, sending things is just a minor consideration. To maintain a good relationship between the two parties, mutual benefit and reciprocity cannot be lost. Duan Lei is also very clear about this point.

  "What's with the politeness?" Xiong Yiping patted Duan Yue's shoulder and said, "As long as you do a good job with Ma Ka Biotechnology, that will be the greatest support for me and Chuang Xie!"

  Coming out of Xiong Yiping's office, Duan Wei still couldn't help but feel a little emotional. Starting a company isn't child's play, there are countless things to deal with, and it really isn't something that just anyone can handle.

  What Duanwei wants to recruit now is not a technical talent who continues in the middle test drive, but an assistant who can oversee the overall situation, the executive manager of Makabiology, or the CEO for short.

  Duan Yue clearly, his focus should be on the laboratory to improve and scale up various technologies, and he cannot do a good job in the daily management of Maca Biology. The current scale of Maca Biology is still small, and the drawbacks are not visible for the time being.

  However, Duan Yue understood that once the scale of Maika Biotechnology expanded and business increased, various affairs would also increase. It was impossible for Duan Yue to manage the company well while dealing with the laboratory at the same time.

  "It seems that we really have to go all out now!" After sorting out the current situation and development direction of Makabiology, Duan Lei made this decision with a sigh.

  Of course, recruiting a C-suite executive is not an easy task. High salary alone cannot solve the problem, as it also involves mutual trust between both parties.

  Duan Lei brought people in, as a senior manager, the other party will definitely understand the profit model and profit margin of MaKa Biology and other core situations. Duan Lei's only concern is that once some secrets of the company are familiar to others, will it cause other adverse consequences?

  Moreover, it is also necessary to consider whether top professional managers are willing to come to MaKa Biotechnology, a small company that has been established for too short a time.

  This world, contradictions are always everywhere!

  Xiong Yiping's actions were swift, and within two days, Duan Lei had already met with 5 graduate students in the old building of Gaokao Tower who were willing to work part-time at Ma Che Biotechnology, including two graduating seniors.

  Although these students had heard that Ma Ka Bio was founded by a student who was recently very popular in school, they were still shocked after seeing Duan Lei. Because Duan Lei was too young, only a junior, to be honest, the childishness on his face had not completely dissipated, how could this not make these old birds feel surprised?

  Just thinking that such a young kid has become his own boss, these so-called princes still have some discomfort and feel a bit of a drop. However, everyone is an old bird now, although they look down on Duan Lei a bit, but considering the salary, they haven't shown it.

  These students come from the College of Biotechnology, School of Pharmacy and College of Chemical Engineering, and basically meet Duanduan's requirements in terms of basic knowledge and experimental techniques. It is worth noting that Haida University has similar strengths to Imperial Capital University and Shuimu University in these colleges, and even surpasses them in some aspects.

  Being able to get into graduate school in these colleges is enough to show that they have accumulated a solid foundation in professional knowledge; as for the two seniors, having completed their graduation thesis, their abilities are probably not bad either.

  As expected, after a round of communication, Duan Lei was still quite satisfied with the people brought by Xiong Yiping, and handing over the test car room to them was naturally not a problem.

  Unlike Duan Lei's satisfaction, several graduate students who originally had some disdain for Duan Lei now have a cold sweat. Not for anything else, but because Duan Lei's professional knowledge and skills completely convinced them! They suddenly discovered that Duan Lei, a third-year student in the College of Agriculture, has knowledge in fields such as chemical engineering, biology, and pharmacy that is no worse than their own supervisor's!

  At this time, they finally understood why Duan Yue could develop the pollution-reducing "Kai" and start a company. For tech enthusiasts, it's easy to convince them as long as you can show higher professional standards than theirs!

  After being ravaged by Ding for half a year, flipping through countless materials and experimenting with hands-on numerous times, Duan Lei transformed into a human library, so dealing with several students was naturally no problem.

  The addition of several students made Duan Yue feel much more relaxed, as he only needed to prepare some key components of the pollution-reducing liquid in the morning, and the rest of the production tasks did not require his intervention. As a result, Duan Yue had more time to spend in the laboratory doing experiments, without affecting the growing orders of Maika Biotechnology.

  In Duan Yue's view, as long as these students stay in the company for a longer period of time, with good research environment and high salaries, they can be retained to gradually solve the crisis of personnel shortage.