China government will help to get employment for college student

A college diploma is still the ticket to a good job in China, even under the deepest economic slump in decades, the latest official graduate employment rate shows. "Last year, we made all efforts to help the college seniors find jobs and the employment rate reached 87 percent by the end of last year," Yin Chengji, spokesman with the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security said at a press conference on Friday. The data with the ministry showed that the number of college grads is more than 6.1 million last year and will reach 6.3 million this year. Helping graduates find employment in 2010 is still at the top of the government's agenda, Yin said, adding they will provide employment information and government-funded posts in communities for those unemployed grads. But the large number of graduates this year is posing a great challenge to the authorities in how to help them get employed, he added. Last year alone, in order to increase the graduate employment rate, about half a million government-funded positions were provided to grads, Chen Jianhui, deputy- director of the Chinese Talents Society told China Daily on Friday. "With the efforts taken by the authorities, getting a job for a college grad is not that difficult. For the rest of the unemployed, some of them have impractical expectations for their first jobs," Chen said. Wang Boqing, manager of MyCOS HR Digital Information Co Ltd, said the rate is reasonable, and that many students landed work in the last half of the year. As a senior student majoring in information engineering at Communication University of China, Ai Zeng believes the employment rate among his fellow students who graduated last year could be even higher than 87 percent. "None of my classmates failed to find their bread last year," Ai said.