20,000 college graduates compete for 3,000 posts of village officer

20,000 college graduates compete for 3,000 posts of village officer
Apr 9, 2007 03:19
JIMMYB Points: Join Date: Feb 7, 2007 Status: offline	This year, in China's capital Beijing, there are about 20 thousand college graduates competing for 3000 posts of village officers. Among them 1,800 are with a Master's Degree, and the admission rate is 6.3 to 1. Compared with the rate of last year, the competion has become more severe. What does this indicate? Does that mean that more and more college students have a dream of becoming a political leader?

Apr 9, 2007 03:19

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This year, in China's capital Beijing, there are about 20 thousand college graduates competing for 3000 posts of village officers. Among them 1,800 are with a Master's Degree, and the admission rate is 6.3 to 1. Compared with the rate of last year, the competion has become more severe.
What does this indicate? Does that mean that more and more college students have a dream of becoming a political leader?

Apr 9, 2007 03:28	#1
CAOJUAN157 Points: Join Date: Mar 13, 2007 Status: Offline	Well, I think one of the major factors that can explain this is that graduates in Beijing today are not easy to solve the problem of their Hukou or household register when they find a job. Maybe in this way, they can surely have a Beijing Hukou.

Apr 9, 2007 19:31	#2
APAULT Points: Join Date: Mar 11, 2006 Status: Offline	I thnk the ratio of jobs to graduates is worsening ie there aren't enough jobs for graduates. So when any job are advertised there will be many applicants. Also I know that many are pressured by parents to find 'safe jobs' and to many of them that means anything in government or administration.

Apr 9, 2007 22:25

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I think we see a combination of factors here: First, it's not entirely true that there aren't enough jobs for graduates. Rural, inland and western areas are crying out for talent. Secondly, China's students are starting to realise that competition for jobs in the big, developed cities like Beijing and Shanghai is getting really, really tight. They're responding in two ways- 1: getting more education and experience, and 2: looking for other options. Thirdly, the government realises the shortage of talent in rural, inland and western areas and so is offering incentives to graduates to work there instead of the big cities.

Even so, I still read articles about naive little [restraining myself] people who still seem to think a degree is a ticket to some high paying job in a foreign company or an iron rice bowl in a government office. But the majority, it seems, are aware of how difficult it is to walk into a dream job straight out of university (even international degrees are no longer the ticket to the gravy train they once were). Combine that with the government's programmes to attract talent to the less glamourous regions and this is what you have....

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