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Job-hopping widely seen among college graduates

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-08-01 10:54

BEIJING - The Chinese youth, who graduated from college in 2006 have, on average, changed two jobs within the first three years of their career, according to a report released by Mycos, an education consulting and assessment agency.

Eighty eight percent of these changes were voluntary, with the graduates choosing to resign instead of being fired, according the Report on Employment of College Graduates 2010.

Findings of the report are similar to that of a survey conducted by the Employment Guidance Center of Beijing some years ago, which said that 70 percent of college graduates changed their jobs in the first three years after graduation, China Youth Daily said on Thursday. .

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In Pearl River Delta, one of China's economic centers, a survey by Ruiqi Human Resource Company has found that less than 20 percent of newly recruited college graduates remained in the first company they had worked for more than one year.

The Mycos report says that 33 percent of the respondents changed jobs for better career prospects, 25 percent due to low payment and 13 percent just wanted to try new professions.

"The job-hopping fever among graduates will destabilize the companies and do harm to the long-term development of the companies," said Zha Jianzhong, professor of the Beijing Jiaotong University.

The eagerness of the employers to recruit new staff, and the pressure of a tight job market on graduates, contributed much to the high job-hopping rate, he said  "It's just like a 'blind-date' between the employers and the graduates" , noted Zha.

It also signals that some companies have disappointed college graduates by having no long-term development strategies, Zha remarked.