On August 4, 2009, a Chinese senior labour officer said there were more than16.5 million people out of work. The unemployment situation in China, caused by the global crisis, was very serious.
Wang Yadong (deputy director of the employment promotion department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security) said the unemployment rate will remain below 4.6 percent this year. Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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More and more workers in Shanghai have been laid off because of the financial crisis.
As the financial crisis gets closer to the workers’ daily life in Shanghai, the white collar and some gold-collar workers are like toast of the town, feel the pressure from all sectors.
A Shanghai white-collar worker of an American company told us his company has relieved 10 percent of the staff, and there would be more layoffs after the Chinese lunar New Year holidays. Read more…
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Considering the influence of the global economic slowdown on the employment of college graduates, the municipal bureau of personnel declared yesterday that graduates with a Beijing Hukou or permanent residence permit will receive at least one job offer by suitable employers in the coming month.
Lu Lin, director of the bureau’s college graduate employment department, said job seeker can register at related departments in Beijing’s 18 districts and countries and then these departments will match Read more…
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Due to the global economic recession, job seeker started hunting even before the Spring Festival ends. Around 30,000 people poured into the first job fair in the capital on February 6. They were anxious to wait in the long line for about half an hour in order to gain access to the new hall of the Agriculture Exhibition Center. Unfortunately, many of them were kept outside, even having a ticket in hand, because of the overcrowded hall.
At the same time, the job market will be patronized by more that 7 Read more…
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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 Read more…
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According to the government several days ago, companies can delay contribution to pension funds and reduce the rates of various kinds of employee insurance. This move aims to stem rising job losses as the global downturn covers China’s economy.
Jobs can be secured by companies paying hundreds of billions of yuan less in insurance and pension payments, said three Read more…
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Vice-Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Zhang Xiaojian said late last month that the urban registered unemployment rate can be kept below 4.5% this year, but the rate may rise next year.
According to a recent survey of Manpower Inc, a leading global employment services provider, the rate of hiring new employees of companies in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou become the lowest.
The current job market is Read more…
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On August 4, 2009, a Chinese senior labour officer said there were more than16.5 million people out of work. The unemployment situation in China, caused by the global crisis, was very serious. 
