JinQiao Labour Resource Market Fare, the job fair of largest scale after Spring Festival was hosted yesterday. All together 63 recruiters providing 206 positions are anticipating 2000 employees. However, there is huge gap compared with past years at the number of the further interviewees and the recruited. Job seekers and recruiters both say frankly that 4000 RMB is no longer boarding fee. Quite a few recruiters raise 10% of the basic salary, but still find it hard to ease the thick wait-and-see mood.
Job Seekers Say They Don’t Even Want to Submit a Resume for a Below-4000RMB Position
The positions provided by the recruiters rank in all blue-collar industries from finish machining, security, customer service, driver, catering etc. The recruiters sit in line and the migrant workers kept flooding in, quite a few of whom even seek the job with a luggage case.
However, the journalist of Labour Newspaper noticed that compared the crowded onlookers, the ones who actually submit the resume or fill in the recruiting form are very few. Not a few desks of the person in charge of the recruiters are empty. A responsible person of an electrical machinery factory even loudly screamed: “what job to do? Grinding? Hood? Eat included”, but only get 3 resumes one morning.
What are the job seekers anticipating in hesitation? The core is still salary. Young Sui, after 90s from Anhui Province came to the fair with a friend to get some knowledge of the job market this year. She told the journalist that she was doing mobile phone assembly in an OEM factory in Pudong and got more than 3000RMB per month, she hoped to find a factory of the same kind who can offer better salary.
But after more than an hour stay, Young Sui and her friend didn’t submit one single resume. Sui frankly told:” although salary in Shanghai is higher than hometown, but the life cost is not low, especially living and eating cannot be saved.” She wished to find a recruiter who provide food and accommodation and 5000RMB or more salary, otherwise they are not willing to submit a resume.
More Than 80% Recruiters Expressing 10% Raise is Easier than Offering Food and Accommodation
“The resume is good, can you come to interview on Shenjiang Road this afternoon?” Shanghai Shangshi Estate Management Company Human Resource Department Principal introduced that he achieved further interview intention with 14 job seekers in the morning and 3 of them are very likely to be recruited. It is reported that maintenance electrician, air-condition technician, furnace are the three most heated positions among all the positions provided by the recruiters, which enjoyed the highest base salary around 5000-6000RMB.
“Technicians, above all are easier to be selected with certificate with promising salary, therefore attractive.” The principal told frankly that those positions with below 4000 RMB salary can hardly attract anyone. The low-paid positions are hard to support life in Shanghai without over-time income or replacement income as incentives.
The principal said cleaners are usually in shortage, the recruiters won’t pursue full recruited too much, instead, they keep some vacancy to encourage the current staff to take shifts and give over-time work fee to keep them.
Since the salary demand increases, to raise salary is the most direct method. The journalist noticed among the more than 200 positions on site, less than 20% positions are offering less than 4000RMB basic salary. Most recruiters rise about 500-1000RMB compared to past years, around 10% percentage gain. But the recruiters also face huge pressure arising from the huge raise, which affect the benefit.
BASF, the chemical enterprise gives the solution of Long-term Employee Award. According to their principal of Human Resource Department, BASF gives 8% raise of annual salary, the employees can get it after 3 years in BASF, and get in one time after 5 years. The principal says:”we focus on the long-term development, it’s not realistic to increase base salary one-time.” He introduces that the enterprise has variable encouragement in salary and positions, but same as most other enterprises, they find it hard to satisfy the food and accommodation requirement for migrant workers.
Just 324 Workers Tend to be Recruited, Second Farmer Generation Change in Ideology
“Not ideal on the whole.” said by Mr Sun Xiaowei, director of Pudong Jinqiao Migrant Employment Insurance Service Management Center. According to the data, over 2000 workers attend the job fire, only 419 workers got further interviewed and 324 workers tended to be recruited in the end.
“Second farmer generation changes in ideology.” Said by the manager of Kanglan Labour Dispatching Company, Cao Chunyin, :” looking at the after 90s, 95s talking in employment agency, different from their father generation who believes in job equals to existence, second farmer generation has higher requirement in salary and welfare, otherwise they would rather stay jobless. “This ideology makes them hard to find jobs.” She said.
Sun Xiaowei said the Jinqiao Labour Market will arrange Pudong public service platform “E-place Employment”. The platform will search and match for migrant workers through Wechat or other social media, which provides the job seekers and recruiters a more variable, convenient, intellectual way of information exchange and match and makes the employment more interactive and efficient.
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