(ECNS) - About 80 percent of white-collar workers are planning to change jobs after the Spring Festival -- usually a peak season for job hopping—with young people born after the 1990s accounting for the majority, according to Chinese human-resources website zhaopin.com.
Zhaopin.com interviewed 20,557 white-collar workers in a survey and found that 11.7 percent had found new jobs already, while about 65 percent had updated their resumes online, meaning they were looking for fresh work opportunities.
About 18 percent of white-collar workers said they had plans to job-hop, but they had not yet made any moves to do so. Only 4.4 percent of interviewees said they would like to stay at their current posts.
Among the white-collar workers who had changed jobs or updated their resumes, 77.8 percent were born after the 1990s, 76.8 percent were post-70s, and 76.2 percent were post-80s, the survey said.
In addition, 78.6 percent of white-collar workers in the real estate and construction industries last year had changed jobs, or planned to, topping other sectors, followed by the trade and retail industries at 78.4 percent, and the transport and logistic industries at 77.9 percent, the survey said.
Forty-nine percent of interviewees said they changed jobs in hopes of higher pay, and 42.6 percent said their old employers did not have strong development prospects going forward. Other reasons included limited promotion opportunities and poor benefits.
Employers should provide competitive salaries, reasonable career development and better benefits to their white-collar workers in order to retain talent, the survey concluded.
