Postgraduates get hard lessons at job fair

Many jobseekers being rejected due to high salary requests: employers

Zuo Baochan used to dream of becoming an executive financial planner during her undergraduate days, but now she has lowered her expectations to simply getting an entry-level position as a bank teller.

"It's too hard to find a job," Zuo told China Daily at an employment fair mainly for postgraduates on Friday. "Spending two more years in graduate school, we thought we could get the edge to ask for a high-paying job, but it turns out we were overly optimistic."