December 4, 2008
Guru is forever receiving emails about some recruitment firm opening a new office in Slough or Chorley or Kings Lynn. Big deal...
But Guru was mightily impressed when he heard that executive search firm Pedersen & Partners had opened an office in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Not just impressed by the extreme location of the new opening (how many executives need finding in central Asia?), but also the volume of letter 'a' used in spelling the capital city.
It led Guru on an internet search to find some more interesting factoids about this distant country. But he couldn't find any really, not even on Wikipedia. The best he could come up with was that the area now recognised as Mongolia was founded in 1206 by one of Guru's heroes, Genghis Khan.
What didn't help was the fact the press release accompanying the email about the new office was written in Mongolian, a snippet of which can be found below:
Зах зээлдээ тэргүүлэгч, нэр хүндтэй олон улсын компани болох Педерсен & Партнерс ХХК нь 2008 оны 12 дугаар сарын 1-ний өдөр Монголд салбар компаниа нээснээ албан ёсоор мэдэгдэж байна.
Guru believes this paragraph to say that Mongolia is very nice in the spring time, has wonderful landscapes and is a good place to go and work if you have been exiled from the West.
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