BIZCHINA / Biz Life
Turn to "contacts" for jobs
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-07-18 14:23
More than 40 percent of China's college graduates believe the most
effective way to get a job is through social contacts, according to a
survey jointly released here on Sunday by the Communist Youth League of
China and Beijing University.
The survey, covering 6,000 college graduates in 100 schools of higher
learning, reveals that in large cities the proportion who say they needed
good contacts to get a job was more than 50 percent.
Deputy professor Wang Liping with the Research Institute on Public
Policies of the Beijing University said that while using contacts is
contrary to a meritocracy, they are inevitably quite important when
competition intensifies.
The survey said that about 27.25 percent of the grads have not found a
job by the end of May. More then 15 percent of the graduates said they
would continue their education or have postponed job hunting.
Nationally just under 50 percent of the grads have received job offers.
In Beijing the number of grads with jobs jumps to justover 60 percent.
Graduates who majored in agriculture were "unexpectedly popular"in the
job market as more than 78 percent of them have secured jobs, said the
survey.
Business management was the second most popular major among employers
with an employment rate of 58.02 percent. Graduates from engineering,
law, education and medicine were the next most successful job seekers.
With fierce competition and a tight supply of jobs, salary expectations
of this year's graduating classes was low. More than 4.13 million
students graduated with bachelors degrees this year, an increase of 22
percent, said the survey.
More than 66 percent of the respondents expect their monthly salaries to
be between 1,000 and 2,000 yuan (125 to 250 U.S. dollars). While some 67
percent of the respondents said "opportunities for personal development"
were more important than salary. Only 1.58 percent said they would work
for "no payment during probation".
According to the survey, more than 52 percent of the student respondents
viewed "the lack of social experience" as the biggest obstacle in their
job hunting. Almost a quarter of the grads said they lacked good
job-hunting skills.
Of the 44 employers polled, 77.3 percent said graduates expect too much
from their jobs in terms of salaries and personal development
opportunities.
Nearly 60 percent of them said the current college curriculum was
"irrational", which some employers say has hurt graduates chances of
becoming useful employees.
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