China opens nationwide job fairs for graduates amid global financial crisis

More graduates than jobs.

China's Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security has run a weeklong job-hunting service campaign to help university graduates get employed amid the global financial crisis.

Nationwide job fairs and online recruitments will offer more than 520,000 job vacancies for the graduates.

Statistics showed that about six million students will graduate from universities and colleges next year and some 800,000 of this year's graduates are still awaiting job offers.

Si Yilei, director of the ministry's National Center for Human Resources, said besides the job fairs, the ministry would also provide consultations on job-hunting, give guidance and training to the graduates who choose to start their own business, and establish a database of unemployed graduates.

More job opportunities in less-developed central and western parts of China will be offered to the graduates, he said.
Source: China View