EXPANDED CHANNELS FOR COLLEGE GRADUATES
College graduates in China are experiencing more pressure to find jobs this year as their number reaches a record high of 8.74 million while job recruitment has dwindled or been postponed due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The Ministry of Education has announced measures to ease the pressure, including launching an online campus recruitment service and expanding the enrollment of master's degree students.
Li Hu, who is to graduate this summer from Jiangnan University, is looking for job opportunities through an online spring campus recruitment. During the popular hiring season in normal years, masses of companies go to campuses to advertise their jobs.
"After submitting my resume on the university's employment system, I have been receiving job matches on my smartphone," said Li, who has not returned to the university campus since the coronavirus outbreak.
The university will also hold an online job fair this month, which is expected to provide more than 48,000 jobs by attracting nearly 800 companies.
To provide more job opportunities, the country will expand recruitment in basic education, primary-level medical care and community services, according to vice education minister Weng Tiehui.
Although the outbreak of novel coronavirus has hit the job market hard, there will still be vast job opportunities in the development of new growth engines and the upgrading of traditional engines, said Weng.
Many Internet firms are adding new staff to cope with business surges amid the epidemic.
Yuanfudao, an online tutoring platform based in Beijing, has launched its new spring recruitment plan with over 10,000 job posts ranging from teachers to programmers.
