BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) — China’s job market is feeling the pressure from the country’s economic downshift, as new job growth slows and more people become unemployed, a senior employment official said Monday. “The impact of economic slowdown on the job market…
SHANGHAI – With the growth of the national economy and the continuous development of Chinese enterprises, more middle- and high-level professionals in China now prefer to work for domestic companies rather than foreign-owned enterprises, human resources experts said. “Multinational companies have long…
BEIJING, June 9 (Xinhua) — More Chinese college graduates are finding jobs, with the employment rate back to the pre-crisis level and a significant rise in salaries, a latest survey shows. The employment rate of college graduates has risen over the last…
“A total of 593,832 foreigners were living on the Chinese mainland at the end of 2010, data from the sixth national census reveals. The top three home countries of the foreigners were South Korea, the United States and Japan. Among the foreigners…
To check companies reported violation of rules to require hepatitis B tests for job applicants, the Chinese Government has reiterated a strict ban on the tests during pre-employment physical examinations. China’s Ministry of Health said that no health institutions are allowed to…
IN the past weeks, I’ve joined several Christmas parties in Berlin, but what I am really longing for is coming back to Shanghai and celebrating the Chinese New Year with my parents. I need a short break from my doctoral thesis in…
A total of 57 million jobs will have been created in China’s urban areas over the 2006-2010 period, the Minister of Human Resources and Social Security (MHRSS) Yin Weimin said Thursday. Annual employment for the period will be 11.4 million, or 2.1…
By Robert Parkinson 2010 has seen the rate of professional level hiring in China rapidly accelerate and those in the recruiting and HR community can now really feel the pressure to find the right candidates starting to mount: MNC/Fortune 500 and SME…
For Yukimasa Uchida, managing director of the Japanese arm of the Boston Consulting Group, a recent recruiting trip to sift the best and the brightest among China’s top graduates was a revelation. “It was like striking a gold mine,” Uchida said of…
The economy’s twin engines, the Yangtze and Pearl river deltas, are spluttering due to a shortfall of migrant workers, especially in the service and manufacturing industries, amid soaring living costs and stagnant salaries. “The labor shortage has hit customer services and the…
