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Civil service hot job for Chinese college grads

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-09-03 19:36

Xie Yu, a female English major in the prestigious Nanjing University in the eastern Jiangsu Province, said "The work load in foreign enterprises is too heavy. Though the payment is high, we don't get well-covered on other issues like housing and medicare." Challenges ahead

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About 68.3 percent of those surveyed believe most civil servants get their jobs through personal relations rather than by qualifications. "Many real elites are swept out by those with (such) backgrounds," a netizen in the southwestern Sichuan Province wrote.

Those who have taken the exam and found employment, however, tell a different story.

"I did really well in the exam and interview, so here I am," said Li Juan, now a Ministry of Health employee. "I don't have any relations (in the civil service)."

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