Recruitment

[Name: Wang An

Essence: 1.32

Qi: 1.16

Spirit: 2.12

Talent: Avatar

Professions: Intelligent Life-form, Student, Martial Artist

Skills: Basic Taijiquan (Proficient, 250/1000), Health Qigong Baduanjin (Proficient, 100/1000), Mindfulness Meditation (Proficient, 50/1000) [Refining Essence into Qi, Beginner, 4/100] [Compound Bow Archery (Beginner, 40/100)]]

The pace really had picked up. His Spirit had also increased by 0.02 today, about twice as fast as before.

Seeing those attributes rise, Wang An wanted nothing more than to grind until heaven and earth went dark!

But it was time to practice Basic Taijiquan in the early morning. The physical body was the foundation, after all.

On the afternoon of the seventh day, the company registration was complete, and the agent brought over the business license and other documents.

Aside from the public registration of Changnan Interstellar Exploration Technology Co., Ltd., Wang An secretly registered and established Wang Capital Co., Ltd., wholly owned by him.

Using Wang Capital as the GP, he initiated the establishment of the Star Sea Exploration Investment Partnership.

He signed a "partnership agreement" specifying the GP's unlimited liability and full authority to manage its affairs.

The Star Sea Exploration Investment Partnership acted as the lead promoter and, together with the recruited legal representative and general manager as a nominal shareholder, registered and established Changnan Interstellar Exploration Technology Co., Ltd.

Its registered capital was one million yuan. The Star Sea Exploration Investment Partnership contributed 670,000 yuan, and the legal representative shareholder contributed 100,000 yuan.

Wang An did this to completely separate his personal assets from the potential legal and debt risks of operating a company.

Even if legal risks arose later, the fire would not reach him.

Of course, this arrangement could not conceal things from anyone determined to investigate. As long as he was not implicated at the legal level, that was enough.

Wang An went straight to a headhunting company and recruited a middle-aged professional manager named Hu Yingxiong, who had just lost his job.

Although this was a newly established company, Hu Yingxiong agreed when he heard its main business was meteorite exploration.

Meteorite exploration was all the rage right now, and he thought the company had a promising future. Besides, he had elderly parents and young children to support, and his family could not go without a stable income.

Wang An recruited him as the company's legal representative and general manager. Nominally, he held a 10% stake, but he had signed an "equity holding agreement" with Wang An specifying that the 10% stake in Changnan Interstellar actually belonged to Wang An.

He held the shares in name only and was responsible for all of Company D's daily operations and official business.

That afternoon, Wang An and General Manager Hu Yingxiong went to the company's office in the high-tech park. The space they had rented was fairly large.

One floor covered a little over one mu, enough for the early stages of development.

Manager Hu served as the company's legal representative and general manager; he was the company's "boss."

All official business, bank accounts, and external communications were conducted in his name.

That way, he knew only that the company engaged in "commercial exploration and trade in special mineral and meteorite samples." He had no need to know, and did not know, that Class Change Stones and the Profession Panel existed.

As far as he knew, "this was a high-value special ore with collectible and scientific research value."

Later on, if problems arose, he could also avoid risk by being unaware of the facts.

Wang An instructed Hu Yingxiong to set aside a small section as office space and use the rest for storing supplies and providing the necessary training areas.

He continued outlining the plans. "Manager Hu, we need to start recruiting employees immediately."

"First, we need a legal adviser, finance staff, a procurement officer, an intelligence analyst, a logistics coordinator, and the main exploration personnel. The others will be support staff."

"Let's start with those people. Once the company grows, we can gradually add more."

"One more thing: I already have someone in mind for the main exploration personnel. You can handle the other hires as you see fit. There's only one requirement: they must be professionals who won't fish in muddy waters."

Hu Yingxiong had only just met Wang An and did not yet know what kind of personality his boss had. He could only do his best to meet his boss's requirements.

Manager Hu said, "Boss, we've only just established the company. For legal and financial matters, we can find local accounting and law firms and outsource the bookkeeping, tax filings, and basic legal consultations.

"Finance will only handle compliant accounts for things like equipment purchases, travel reimbursements, staff salaries, and income from sample sales. The legal adviser will review commercial contracts and handle changes to the company's registration.

"This choice is professional and aboveboard, and it provides a natural firewall. They won't participate in core operations."

Manager Hu said, "The procurement officer will make purchases on the open market. We need specialized exploration equipment, outdoor survival gear, and ordinary office supplies."

"We can recruit someone from among local outdoor club organizers, experienced hikers, or car and construction machinery salespeople."

"They know the equipment market, can negotiate prices, and have uncomplicated social connections."

Wang An nodded in approval.

He had already looked into each of the positions they needed online.

Now, hearing Manager Hu's suggestions, he approved. Hu's plan was practical and focused on the ability to solve problems.

Manager Hu continued, "For the intelligence analyst, we can look for graduate students studying geographic information systems, geology, or library science at universities. We can have their advisers post a part-time 'data organization' project or recruit on campus forums."

"Students offer good value and have a professional foundation. The work can also be divided into separate tasks that don't involve the core business."

"We can also post clearly defined technical projects for 'public data collection and organization' on freelance platforms, such as 'organizing historical data on meteorite falls worldwide' or 'analyzing public satellite imagery of specific terrain and landforms.'"

Finally, he said, "We can recruit a logistics coordinator locally. Candidates could include a detail-oriented middle-aged person with a vehicle, a retired military driver, or a dispatcher from a small logistics company. We should pay attention to their local connections, driving skills, and reliability.

"They'll arrange transportation and accommodations for the explorers, obtain entry permits, such as research registration for nature reserves, and send and receive shipments. They'll be the bridge between the company and its frontline employees, with no need to enter the actual work sites."

After hearing all this, Wang An felt that Manager Hu was highly capable.

Lastly, he told Hu that the main exploration personnel would arrive shortly and that he could recruit employees with him over the next few days. Then Wang An left.

There was actually another possibility: he could try recruiting professionals who had already taken up a profession, even if they did not know how to do anything.

After taking up certain professions, they would grow much faster than ordinary people, laying the groundwork for future development.

But Wang An would have to recruit them himself.

He went to the archery club, paid for the compound bow and its accompanying equipment, and collected them. He also bought some archery props and range setup supplies from the club.

His Avatar was on the way to the company with the equipment. He planned to set up the training area first so that he could begin training nonstop over the next few days.

Incidentally, the Avatar's training could also increase proficiency.

Wang An generally did not do this, though, because controlling his Avatar to train while training himself consumed quite a bit of mental power.

With only a little over two points of Spirit, he could keep it up for at most two hours. Moreover, the finer the control required, the more mental power it consumed.

Ordinary physical activities, for example, consumed almost no mental power. He only had to follow muscle memory.

Besides, Wang An still needed to use the Focus skill to study and train every day.

Only when he had enough mental power later might he be able to grind skill proficiency at twice the rate.

After returning home, Wang An began posting recruitment notices on Tieba forums.

He made it clear that he needed employees who could learn quickly. There were no other restrictions, regardless of their academic credentials or what work they had done before.

Upon joining the company, they would start with a monthly salary of at least 10,000 yuan, the five social insurances and housing fund, and a year-end profit share.

The company would also make them its primary development candidates and give them focused training.

With the company's main problems resolved, Wang An could concentrate on cultivation.

Wang An felt that, in the future, his role would be management, researching and experimenting with cultivation techniques, taking up professions, cultivating, and improving his physical attributes.

He could leave the fighting, killing, exploring, and treasure hunting to the company and his Avatar. He only needed to stay behind the scenes and quietly grow stronger.

Aside from cultivating, Wang An also spent his time reading books on mechanics.

He planned to take up another profession, such as Mechanical Engineer or Technician.

That was because, if he later came into conflict with those large companies over Class Change Stones, there was a problem.

The forest was a lawless place. Even if Wang An's Avatar could revive every day, he still would not be able to get his hands on the resources.

So he also needed some deterrent weapons to make the large companies' people wary.

Firearms could certainly be made if he wanted to make them.

But once something like that appeared and was discovered by others, the trouble would be enormous. The authorities certainly would not stand by and do nothing.

So a top-of-the-line crossbow was his first choice.

However, making a tremendously powerful crossbow and bolts by hand was fairly difficult.

At first, he could order some non-core components shared with compound bows and make the core, regulated components himself. That would greatly reduce the difficulty and time required.

Wang An checked the requirements for taking up the Mechanical Engineer and Technician professions.