Some 25,800 people attended Saturday's job fair for white-collar
workers, vying for about 20,000 job vacancies offered by 320
enterprises, yesterday's Shenzhen Special Zone Daily
reported.
Nearly 15 percent of the employers at the Shenzhen Convention
and Exhibition Center were among the world's top 500 companies,
including Sony, Hitachi and Emerson. The rest included famous
domestic companies including Lenovo, Huawei and ZTE, the
Daily report said. The participating companies represented
sectors ranging from electronics and telecoms to logistics and
bio-engineering.
The average annual salary on offer was 50,000 yuan (US$6,579).
"Since the start of this year, our employees have seen a 10 percent
increase in their salary," said a woman surnamed Zhang with the
human resources department of a Shenzhen-based software
company.
Software and mechanical engineers were still the most
sought-after employees, the Daily report said. Some
companies still failed to find the right people among the attendees
even after offering an annual salary of more than 100,000 yuan.
(Shenzhen Daily August 27, 2007)