Local firms hard to recruit local employees
8/7/2003 16:10
Shanghai residents' superiority complex has become an obstacle for their
employment, so local companies are opting to recruit workers from outside the
city, the Jiefang Daily reported today.
There were 7.92 million workers in
Shanghai last year, an increase of 5.3 percent from a year before, with nearly
two million from outside of the city, more than two times as many as a year
before.
The growing number of foreign-invested and private industrial firms
in Shanghai has spur the demand for technicians in the city, but Shanghaiese are
reluctant to engage in such jobs.
More than 30,000 workers recruited by
companies in Songjiang District came from outside the city, and the number is
expected to grow in the near future, said Song Qingmin, director with a job
agency in Songjiang District.
The Shanghai Foreign Service Limited has
introduced more than 50,000 employees to foreign-invested companies to date,
with less than 20 percent from outside the city, but the proportion was growing
rapidly over the past several years, said Ren Yuli, executive vice general
manager with the international human resources branch of the company.
Low
salary is cited as the main reason for the difficulty to recruit local
employees, said Xiong Xiaoling, spokesman with a job agency in Minhang District.
Many companies in Minhang District cut salaries to save cost, Xiong
added.
Many Shanghaiese come from single-child family, with strong
superiority complex, so they are not willing to take up the jobs with low salary
but frequent overtime work, said an industry analyst.
"I prefer to recruit
workers from outside the city, as they are more diligent and docile than
Shanghaiese," said the spokesman with a local firm.
Shanghai residents should
change their attitudes towards employment, and the out-of-towners that work in
the city should enjoy the same treatment with locals, the analyst said.
Wendy Zhang/ Shanghai Daily news
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