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Graduates get more teaching jobs

Yvonne Dong — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:19:33 +0000

6.11 million fresh graduates will crowd into the job hunting market this year while it was only 5.59 million in 2008. Since there is a great pressure of the employment around the country, this year, 50000 graduate students which are three times more than it was in 2008 could work as short-term teachers.

There is a contract with the local government that graduate students should work there for 3 years and the central government will pay a special fund for them. “Some jobs are only available to students who will graduate in the summer of 2009,” Ministry Spokeswomen said on March 18th 2009. However, some excellent graduates such as those who once volunteered to work in the countryside in the past year, still, could take part in this project.

The short-term teacher project began 3 years ago to help college graduates find the jobs. Most of the graduates in this project may work in the rural areas and teach pupils or high school students. Besides the wage the get from the central government, they could get some extra money from the local government, said the Xu. Schools may have the right to decide whether to recruit students again after 3 years. The teachers will be employed in public job fairs.

This week, the Ministry also showed some other policies to the public, which may relieve the pressure of employment. There is also a new policy for the graduates who join the army. Government will pay their education loans and those who contribute a lot in the army may have the right to be recruited as the postgraduate students without taking those tough exams.

Those small and middle-size companies who may employ graduates this year will have good news. The government may give them some bonus and reduce some taxes.

MHRSS demanded the local governments to create more jobs for the graduates to ease the employment pressure. In the earlier interview, Wang Yadong, the deputy director of MHRSS’s employment promotion said that local government will give some bonus to college students who work at the bottom class.

Why are there some special funds or subsidies for the college students? These benefit policy is to encourage students to work in the rural area or the grassroots position or to have their own business.

Quite different from the students in the developed countries, Chinese students tend to work in the large cites and companies rather than start their own business. A recent study from MHRSS shows that only 0.3% college students choose to have their own business, while the number is much lower than the number of developed countries which is 40 percent.

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More graduates have access to get business start-up loans

Yvonne Dong — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:16:39 +0000

On April 1st, Shanghai launched a new policy, which will enable more people to get loans to start business.

The new policy of Shanghai human resources and social security bureau says that after providing a feasible business plan, any Shanghai citizen under 35 can apply a one-year loan up to 100,000 Yuan ($14,630), which is guaranteed by the government.

An official with the bureau surnamed Zhang said that it was the first time the government was giving loan guarantees to business startups that covered a wide range.

Two years age there were only a small number of graduates could get the government loans in Shanghai.

The new policy consists of several full-round measures to help start-up business. However, entrepreneurs have to take the risks in the first 3 years, according to a notice from the bureau.

Compared with the earlier one-year qualified for loans policy, nowadays any Shanghai native who run a business less than 3 years can apply for start-up loans.

The loan amount could be as much as 100,000 yuan without collateral security and could be a maximum of 1 million with a guarantee.

The students, who graduate from a Shanghai university without residence permit, can also apply for the loans within 2 years of getting the degree. This policy aims to alleviate employment pressure of the 158,000 graduates in Shanghai this summer. It has been proved by the statistics from the bureau that a new business can provide 6 jobs on average.

In 2008, 7.4% of the working-age people in Shanghai had their own business, in addition, more people, account for about 10%, said they would try this if they could have an opportunity.

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Tight job market for graduates

Yvonne Dong — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 08:53:09 +0000

In this tough time, more than 70% upcoming graduates are hunting jobs. In March 70% graduates had job offers, but the situation was really different now.

It is reported by Shanghai Foreign Service Co Ltd (SFSC) that since last fall more than 60% graduates have sent out more than 30 resumes. According to Wu Xiaohui, senior campus recruitment consultant with SFSC, graduates are forced by the financial crisis to make full use of every chance to get a job, because lots of companies do not intend to recruit.

In Shanghai, lots of graduates have regretted to lose chances to hand out their resume since last year. Now there are not really many chances for students to find an ideal job. After the Chinese Spring Festival, March is the peak season for fresh graduates to sign job contacts with employers, according to the survey by SFSC.

And another survey shows that more than half of multinational companies didn’t intend to recruit new employees in this tough time, while companies have recruitment plan are going to hire fewer employees.

However, 157 multinational corporations will offer 1000 vocational training opportunities 1,000 vocational training opportunities, 1,000 internship positions and 1,000 job openings for graduates.

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Volunteers for Shanghai Expo

Yvonne Dong — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:32:46 +0000

As a college graduate in Shanghai this year, Yu Min is still looking for a job. Though it is difficult to find a good job this year, Yu Min does not feel anxious, for she has planed well.

The student from the shanghai University of science and Technology wanted to apply for the Shanghai World Expo volunteer program, which he believed would bring her “some experience to build necessary social skills” while getting involved in “such an exciting” event.

If she failed to find a satisfactory job this year, at least she could do something in this world-class event, which would benefit her in the future.

Yu is happy that the expo will give up its volunteer recruitment program in May this year. Now more than 1 million volunteers hope to be hired.

Chen Zhenmin, director of the shanghai World Expo Social Mobilization Office, said yesterday that while most volunteers would be hired from college students, this did not mean that other people would not be welcomed.

The Expo will last for 184 days, from May 1 to Oct 31. During these days, volunteers will serve 14 to 20 days on average. But authorities might extend the period because of passionate and enthusiastic response form the public.

Authorities said the expo would provide 2000 to 3000 jobs for college graduates this year. “A large number of people would be trained to communicate with foreigners, which will help the city in the future,” said Xu Weiguo, deputy Party chief of shanghai World Expo Coordination Bureau.

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Jobs for graduates come first

Yvonne Dong — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 09:39:14 +0000

As Premier Wen Jiabao said “your difficulties are my difficulties, and if you are worried then I am more worried than you”, college graduates’ employment become the first in the government’s agenda.

Students in the Beijing University of Aeronautics and Aerospace’s library greeted Wen cheerfully who visited the university in surprise with the good news.

The news that government is going to help 6.5 million graduates find jobs next year renerved many job hunters amid global recession.

Based on the report of a Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a quarter of China’s college graduates would have difficulty finding a job next year.

But Wen has promised that the government is putting the problem of graduates’ employment on top of their agenda.

The two issues created by financial crisis the government is worried about most are migrant workers returning home and jobs for graduates.

The government will try to create 9 million jobs for the 6.5 million students expected to graduate next year, based on an 8 percent GDP growth, Wen said.

The government will work on a policy package to stimulate major scientific research projects and large enterprises to create jobs for graduates, he said.

Some graduates will be encouraged to work for research programs in their universities, too, and relevant ministries asked to make the procedure smooth, he said.

The State Council has issued a directive asking companies to avoid large-scale lay-offs and solve any labour disputes, especially those over pay, on a priority basis.

The directive also said that companies that down shutters or go bankrupt must strictly follow the law and owners who unnecessarily hold back wages or run off without paying workers will be firmly dealt with.

Before visiting the university, Wen and former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda joined 2,008 youths from China and Japan at the university gym for the closing ceremony of the China-Japan Youth Friendly Exchange Year.

Wen and Fukuda had decided to hold the program when they met in Singapore last year.

Wen gave high comments of the activity during his half-hour meeting with Fukuda before the closing ceremony.

Under the programme, there were more than 12,000 youth from two sides visiting each other’s country after President Hu Jintao launched it in Beijing in March.

The programme, which coincided with the 30th anniversary of the signing of the China-Japan Peace and Friendship Treaty, makes “the exchange all the more significant”, Wen said.

The 1,000-member Japanese delegation visiting to China for a week is the finale to the programme.

The programme will continue for the next three years, with 4,000 people exchanging visits each year.

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