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June 27, 2008 at 10:43 am · Filed under henan, jobs, students, graduates, china
High school graduate Yang Caifeng has been racking her brains over which subject to major in college.
“I’m not sure if a popular major will secure me a good job four years from now,” the 17-year-old from Shandong Province said early this week.
Yang said her farmer parents are unable to provide suitable advice, while her teachers always give “vague suggestions”.
“I’ve learnt that students majoring in certain hot subjects still cannot find work after graduation,” she said.
Huang Kaixiang, a high school student from Henan Province, is being confronted with the same problem. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 23, 2008 at 5:12 pm · Filed under jobs, graduates, china
For fresh graduates, China’s fluid and fiercely competitive job market is like the Wild West. It’s full of job-hoppers, headhunters, poachers and the lure of lucre.
Sammy Yang has had five jobs since 2000. The 28-year-old administrative assistant in a foreign-invested company says change is easy. She quit because the work was tiring, boring, the pay wasn’t commensurate with her efforts, and she didn’t like the office politics.
“I will definitely leave if I feel unhappy where I work,” says job-hopper Yang, whose latest company specializes in intellectual property protection. The college grad has moved up in salary over the years and now earns 4,000 yuan (US$580). Read the rest of this entry »
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June 10, 2008 at 4:55 pm · Filed under jobs, expats, graduates, china, recruitment
Drawn by economic optimism and demand for English speakers, UK university leavers are increasingly heading east, says Danny Vincent
There was a time when a career in China for new graduates was limited to teaching English as a second language in a conversation school, but as a new generation realises its potential, graduates are now making careers from would-be career-breaks.
China has long inspired interest among graduates looking to broaden their horizons while adding to their CVs. The vast landscape, mystique and culture exceeds the nation’s borders, but for all its thousands of years of history, it is the current expectations of the nation which is now capturing the imagination of many.
“I graduated in French and German from Oxford University in 2003, but realised that the bigger opportunities actually lay eastwards,” says Daniel Nivern, 27-year-old director and founder of China Recruitment, an organisation that he set up two years ago to bring UK workers to China, linking them with Chinese companies and businesses that have a need for English speakers. Read the rest of this entry »
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June 5, 2008 at 1:31 pm · Filed under jobs, students, graduates, china
Nineteen years after a crackdown against student protesters at Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, China’s youth are more focused on iPods, designer jeans and buying their first car than political reform.
Most of all they are worried about getting well paid jobs and a share of the newfound wealth that many Chinese professionals are enjoying as the economy surges ahead with double-digit growth.
That is easier said than done. Last summer, China had to provide jobs for nearly 5 million college graduates. This summer, 5.6 million more are getting ready to move out of dormitories and into the job market.
Often the first in their family to get higher education, these graduates of colleges and vocational schools have high expectations that are not being met despite soaring economic growth as there are more graduates than jobs in China. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 8, 2008 at 3:17 pm · Filed under henan, jobs, graduates, china
Fresh out of college, Shen Juntian returned to the village he left with a “city dream” four years earlier. He returned as a village administrator.
Now a village head assistant in Maozhuang in central China’s Henan Province, Shen’s routine includes drafting reports for the village committee, mediating conflicts and organizing activities like basketball games.
Shen enjoys his work. “At first, it was a compromise between reality and dreams, when the competitive job market forced me to think again about this position,” he said, referring to his return to the countryside although most of his classmates chose to stay in the city.
“But later, I began to love this job, where I get the chance to know the realities of China and help make changes in the countryside,” he said.
Shen invited agricultural experts to give lectures and taught farmers to choose high-quality seeds. He went door-to-door to persuade villagers to eliminate unhealthy habits, such as raising fowl in close proximity to humans and drinking well water without boiling it. Read the rest of this entry »
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May 7, 2008 at 9:58 am · Filed under google, jobs, graduates
Google Inc, the world’s largest search engine company, announced on Saturday that it planned to increase its employees in China by 30% in 2008 and gain more market share by increasing promotional spending, sources reported.
Lee Kai-fu, Google’s global vice president and president in Greater China region told sources that the company plans to add 200 Chinese employees, and maintain the recruitment level in the coming three to five year.
Those new job openings will be mainly in technology, sales and marketing departments and 50% of the new employees will come from fresh graduates, according to Lee.
Google Inc, as one of the most popular employers in China, has cut its recruitment plans in the past two quarters globally, with 800 new employees, which is only half the number of the same period last year. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 29, 2008 at 2:36 pm · Filed under overseas, talent, expats, graduates, china, recruitment
American-born Thomas Kwan’s career has taken off since he moved to China to work as the country manager for a U.S. health products company.
“If I’d stayed in the U.S. I wouldn’t have had the same opportunity for advancement,” said trilingual Kwan, 46, who was brought up in a Cantonese-speaking household in Virginia and also speaks fluent Mandarin and of course English.
“The U.S. is still a Caucasian-dominated society,” added Kwan, who now lives in Shanghai.
China’s rapidly expanding economy has created a seemingly insatiable appetite for Chinese-speaking managers. Read the rest of this entry »
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April 24, 2008 at 3:47 pm · Filed under graduates, beijing, china
In a survey by China Youth Daily last week, 67.8 percent believe a Beijing hukou or registered permanent residence is worth at least 100,000 yuan. Some 14.6 percent thought it should be worth 200,000 yuan.
A questionnaire asked 3,000 fresh graduates if they were given the choice of an annual salary of 100,000 yuan or Beijing Hukou, most chose the latter.
The hukou system is the central government’s method of managing urban population. Registered permanent residence allows people to live, work and study in a specific city, but makes living in another city difficult. Read the rest of this entry »
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