Job Hunting
收入英语Task One: Graduates Feel Market Squeeze
According to the job fairs we’ve just en and also recent surveys show the hiring prospects are bleak for this year’s college graduates. In China’s financial hub—Shanghai, and the country’s export ba—Guangdong province, most students are still waiting for job offers. As Wang Xiqing reports.
Seven out of ten here still haven’t found a job, and most of them are desperate.
On average, the students in Shanghai have nt out thirty to fifty applications each. And in extreme cas, some have posted copies of their resumes six hundred times.
颁奖词Surveys show students’ minimum salary expectations are between two to three thousand yuan a month. Foreign or multi-national companies top the list in applications, while small private companies are the least favored, becau of fears they could go bust the next day.
Many students say they’re willing to work as interns in the hope that excellent performance during their probation period（实习期，试用期）might win them a contract. However, only a very small proportion of companies are actually
willing to take on interns. And even if they do, that often means low-value positions like answering phone calls at reception.
The situation is even wor in Guangdong, where only 8.4% of final year students have signed labor contracts.
Over 330,000 local college students will graduate in July, 14% more than last year. And adding the number of graduating students from other provinces coming to Guangdong in arch for jobs, the army of young job ekers in the province will top 500,000 this year.
To rub salt into the wound the demand for graduates has dipped by 20%, as companies are trying to limit their labor costs in the wake of the economic slowdown.
The unfortunate figures mean that all their efforts to hunt down a job could prove to be fruitless.
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考试作文(A graduate student in Guangdong)
草莓的简笔画―Whether you’re from an urban or rural area, if you’re unemployed, then you should expect some kind of minimum subsidy from the government. But we graduates are not officially considered to be unemployed. We’re called people awaiting jobs. I’m very disturbed by this definition.‖
The employment situation was a top concern during the
government’s political ssions earlier this month. Officials acknowledged that hiring prospects in China are grave, and a slew of measures have been announced in the hope of relieving the situation.
A total of 7.1 million college graduates will cha jobs this year, including 1 million who failed to cure employment last year.摄影大赛策划案
Task Two: New Year, New Job
(Tracy) If you look at any list of New Year’s resolutions, you wouldn’t be surprid to e―Find a better job‖ right at the top. Vera Gibbons of Kiplinger’s personal finance magazines is here to have some tips to help you get a better job or maybe take on a career change.
(Vera Gibbons) That’s right. Good morning, Tracy! Nice to e you.
(Tracy) Nice to e you, too. Happy new year.
周反思
肾火(Vera Gibbons) The same to you.
(Tracy) Start the new year, start looking for a new job, it’s amazing. How many people are actually doing that? (Vera Gibbons) Yes, one survey finds that 75% of American workers plan to look for a new job this year.They’re unhappy with the pay, they’re unhappy with the situational
they work, they want new challenges since there’s no room for advancement with their current employer, so a lot of people are going to be out there looking for work. This is a time of the year where we’re more inclined to take the bull by the horns, take the initiative to go out there and find a good job…
(Tracy) Resolution thing.
(Vera Gibbons) Yes.
(Tracy) Is there a good time to go about doing this?
(Vera Gibbons) Well, opportunities pop up all the year along, but, yes, the heaviest of hiring does take place in the beginning of the year: they fire at the end of the year and they hire in the new.
(Tracy) They fire for Christmas. So if you think about doing, you really should get out there now.
(Vera Gibbons) Get out there now, and get the ball rolling, yes.
(Tracy) What about the job market in 2007? What does it look like?
(Vera Gibbons) It is softening a little bit, job growth is a
little slowing down some becau of the contraction in housing and auto-ll ctor, b ut that’s been offt a bit by
the rvice ctor. The companies are high in the rvice industry. We’re actually expecting 1.3 million jobs be created this year, and once a writer by Career Role Builder actually found that 40% of employers will be hiring full-time employees this year, so it’s not a bad time, it’s not great, it’s, it’s OK.
(Tracy) OK, so if you’re ready take the plunge, if you want to get out there, you have some tips, No. 1 is ―Do some soul arching‖.
(Vera Gibbons) Yes, I just think in order to get out a job that isn’t going anywhere career, that’s gonna drift, you really need to sit down and be proactive here. You can’t be reactive, you have to be proactive. Motivation is really the key to make any changes in your personal life. People may sit back and say: well, getting a paycheck and benefits are good, why rock the boat? Here’s the thing: we’re spending half of our life in workplace. If you’re unhappy, do some soul arching, figure out where you are, where you would like to go.
(Tracy) And part of that, as you say, is ―Prioritize your
o ptions‖, what do you mean?
(Vera Gibbons) Yeah, I mean write down five to ten things
