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Karine Larocque is a Montreal, Quebec resident and a 10-year veteran of the recruiting industry. She studied Psychology at Concordia University and had absolutely no plans to get into the HR field. However, upon graduation she ended up working at an employment agency for about seven years, where she learned the ropes of the recruiting business. Eventually, her career path took her to one of the most recognizable names in the entertainment business — she joined Cirque du Soleil as a Talent Management Advisor and began pursuing a career as a sourcer with their newly created sourcing function.
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Editor’s Note: This week, SourceCon.com will be sharing a few of our favorite past posts. We’ll continue to do this through New Year’s Eve and will return to our regular content on Monday January 3, 2011.
With unemployment rates hovering at record highs of between 8% and 11% in North America and major European countries, coupled with sluggish economic growth, it’s time for recruitment talent in these regions to look toward the Asia-Pacific for new job and business opportunities. Here’s why. 
In my fourteen years of involvement in both corporate recruitment and agency search/contingent work in the Asia Pacific region, I’ve seen some quirks in this part of the world that may differ from the rest of the globe. Even within Asia, some candidate sourcing practices are different; for example between Singapore and Japan. It is important not to see Asia as a homogeneous entity when it comes to doing business, let alone candidate sourcing. Over the coming weeks and months, I’ll share with you some of the recruitment idiosyncrasies in this growing economic powerhouse.
Corporate recruiting and sourcing leaders gathered from around the world this week for 
