The Ministry of Personnel on Saturday began its annual national
employment service for millions of university graduates, with more
than 480,000 positions up for grabs online and at job fairs around
the country.
A total of 121 local human resources departments and job service
websites and 26,000 employment units will take part in 126 job
fairs across the country including those held over the
Internet.
Employment experts will be invited to university campuses and
job fairs to offer job seeking tips to students due to graduate
next July.
According to the ministry, the most sought-after positions are
in marketing, administration, computer science, machinery,
architecture, finance, chemistry, human resources, foreign
languages and medicine.
Statistics show that 4.13 million students graduated from higher
education institutions this year, 750,000 more than last year.
About 1.24 million college students will graduate next year
without immediate job offers.
The ministry encourages university graduates to work in the
rural areas in West China region with favorable policies such as
guaranteed salaries and medical care, and subsidies for those who
go to undeveloped and remote rural areas,
Statistics show China is facing a severe employment crisis with
34.5 million people expected to come on to the labor market from
2006 to 2010.
About 25 million new job-seekers would enter the market this
year, of whom 11 million might find jobs in the urban areas,
leaving 14 million unemployed.
The unemployed in China are mainly composed by laid-off workers,
college graduates, redundant rural laborers and those returned from
overseas study, or "haigui" which means a "sea turtle" -- a Chinese
pun for overseas returnees.
A random sample survey of 1,500 Chinese returned from recent
overseas study shows that more than 35 percent of them have
employment problems, said Lin Zeyan, researcher with the human
resources study training center of the Development Research Center
of the State Council.
Lin said their job difficulties are mainly resulted from their
high expectations of salaries as they want their huge overseas
educational investment pay off by finding a "lucrative" job.
(Xinhua News Agency November 18, 2006)