Graduates urged not to make income an obstacle
17/3/2003 16:03
According to an education expert, many university graduates,
especially those from top local universities, set a minimum income requirement
when seeking jobs, which may cause them to miss valuable career opportunities,
the Jiefang Daily reported today.
This year many local university
graduates are scornful of relatively low salaries, giving little importance to a
job's potential for future career development.
It is true that Shanghai
employers are offering lower salaries this year, with some foreign-invested
companies slashing monthly wages by up to 2,000 yuan (US$241).
"We don't
worry about not being able to recruit highly-qualified people because of lower
salaries," said a human resources manager with a foreign-invested company. "The
market dictates that we must reduce salaries to cut costs," he
added.
University graduates must adapts to lower salaries and put more
emphasis on a position's career development potential, said Fei Yufang, director
with the employment center of Shanghai's Jiaotong University. Maintaining a high
income requirement is equivalent to setting an employment barrier for
themselves, Fei said.
To date, more than 60 percent of job vacancies for
this year's university graduates have been filled and demand will gradually
decline in the following months, Fei said. Therefore, graduates should seize
opportunities rather than take a wait-and-see approach, Fei
added.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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