Expo.com, March 13: This is the time of the year when "graduation songs" are sung in "ivory towers". Many students harbor dreams of life, eager to open a new chapter in the workplace. However, by the impact of the current financial crisis, this year's "graduation song" is a bit unusual ......
History records that the 1933 Chicago World's Fair, held during the Great Depression, had directly or indirectly provided society with 100,000 jobs. million jobs.
With the current international financial crisis continuing to spread and the world economic outlook in doubt, many people have high hopes for the 2010 Shanghai Expo. "Expo organizers, should put employment in a more prominent position." Hong Hao, a deputy to the National People's Congress, deputy secretary-general of the Shanghai Municipal Government and director of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Affairs Coordination, said so in an interview with reporters. Hong Hao said, "The current financial turmoil is coming very hard, and the employment problem of college students has attracted great attention from the society. On January 1 next year, the Expo will enter the trial operation stage, which will also certainly bring new employment opportunities for young people."
Reducing volunteers to make room for freshmen
"The Expo, which requires a large number of volunteers, is estimated to be in the range of 70,000 to 80,000, of which youth will be the main part." Hong Hao said recently that volunteers will be recruited nationally and even internationally from later this year. However, that number is down from the earlier disclosed need of 100,000 volunteers.
Hong Hao said, "Nowadays, if some volunteer positions are suitable to be made into trainee positions, then all try to free it up and leave it for trainee positions. And, the Expo trainees, are paid in accordance with state regulations."
Freeing up more positions for the trainee program and offering them to fresh college graduates will undoubtedly have a positive effect on easing the current employment pressure. Hong Hao said frankly: "Now it is clear that the Expo organizers, should put employment in a more prominent position, and do everything possible to even out some positions to provide to college students. If the relevant positions are evened out, then the number of volunteers looks like it will be reduced. If there is a need, a number of trainees will still be able to do their volunteer duties by the time of official operation."
Thirteen types of positions will be available for the first 1,000 people this fall
Xu Weiguo, deputy secretary of the party committee of the Bureau of Shanghai World Expo Coordination, disclosed in the "2009 Shanghai Livelihoods Interview" that a "college students' expo service program" will soon be launched, and that there will be 13 types of positions available for volunteers. The Shanghai World Expo will have 13 kinds of positions to recruit fresh college graduates for apprenticeship.
Xu Weiguo disclosed that in the next two years, the Shanghai World Expo Bureau will provide fresh college graduates with 13 kinds of trainee positions in three categories: administrative support, operation services and business support. The first batch of recruitment is expected to be about 1,000 people, after training, is expected to be on duty in the fall of this year. 2009 the end of the year to the beginning of 2010, will complete the second batch of recruitment and training, on board is expected to be directly involved in the operation of services during the World Expo.
It is understood that the 13 types of trainee positions involve administrative secretarial, archives, Chinese, computers, communications technology, news media, foreign languages, marketing, choreography, architectural engineering and other specialties.
Xu Weiguo said that combing the various positions at the Shanghai World Expo for college students' apprenticeships is, on the one hand, to alleviate the employment pressure caused by the financial crisis on fresh graduates and provide them with the opportunity to accumulate work experience, and on the other hand, to cultivate and reserve a group of comprehensive international cultural exchange talents for Shanghai.
It is reported that fresh graduates participating in the "Student Expo Service Program" should have a good moral code of conduct and the spirit of volunteerism, and that they should voluntarily apply for the program, and then be screened and trained for the job. The treatment of such trainees will be implemented by the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security in accordance with the relevant regulations, and the standard will not be lower than the minimum wage standard stipulated by the Shanghai Municipality.
Employment "buffer zone" for college students to build up
Shanghai Hongkou District Ouyang Road Street Office recently intends to set up a college student Expo planning group, recruiting fresh graduates for the Expo activities to come up with ideas.
"The Expo has entered the countdown, and now the community is full of middle-aged and elderly cadres, planning activities more suitable for middle-aged and elderly people, some of them lack of vitality. We hope to invite active-minded college students to plan activities that young people like." Pan Huiqin, director of the Ouyang Road Street Office, told reporters that in mid-March, they will recruit the first batch of about 10 college students for the Expo planning team, hiring college students with planning ability and strong communication skills to plan for Expo activities.
"Today's employment situation is not good, many college students in the community have no direction yet, rather than to find a job and anxious, it is better to go to the community first to draw grass-roots work experience. Expo publicity is the focus of the community this year and next year, college graduates have a lot to offer!"
It is reported that once hired, these college students will enjoy government subsidies. "But that doesn't mean they have to stay in this position forever, the Expo planner is a mobile position, once the college students find a suitable job, they can leave and the street will continue to recruit new people." Pan Huiqin explained.
Like this similar community Expo promoter's work has become the current employment of college students "buffer zone", to get the experience of dealing with the grass-roots people, know how to deal with practical problems, will undoubtedly give college students in the future to better employment to build up strength.
"Please note that I used the word extremely important, youth employment, is an extremely important issue we are currently facing." Around the topic of youth employment, yesterday's deputy director of the Expo Bureau, CPPCC member Zhou Hanmin's words just fell, the group discussion classroom will ring with the sound of soft discussion. An hour later, Zhou went to another venue to the CPPCC National Committee members on the way to introduce the Expo preparations, the reporter "stopped" the Shanghai well-known "expert director".
Encourage college students to bravely go to the grassroots
In 2009, the number of official data on the number of national university graduates 5.9 million, superimposed on the years of college students have not yet been assigned to work, this year, the number of graduates to be employed is 6.5 million.
5.9 million, 6.5 million, 11 million, 20 million ...... Zhou Hanmin member of the mouth reported this series of figures - this series of figures when in his heart, revealing a former longtime university president of the CPPCC members of the The concern of what lies behind these numbers. "In 2009, the official figure for the number of university graduates nationwide was 5.9 million, superimposed on the number of university students who have not yet been assigned jobs over the years, the number of graduates awaiting employment this year is 6.5 million. And how many jobs can the national total **** provide?11 million, behind this figure are 20 million people waiting to be employed." Zhou Hanmin's voice tone is a bit heavy, "As a former long-time university president and continues to lead a doctoral program today, the issue of college student employment is always of high concern to me."
"With the current situation like this, I thought I could make three suggestions. First, I would like to say to college students, please look back at history, go back to a slogan in the 1960s - 'think of the motherland, think of the world'. At that time, university students identified themselves with the four seas and took the development of the country as their own responsibility, not caring to leave their hometowns. Can our college students nowadays do the same? The courage to go to the grassroots, the courage to work across specialties and even across fields?" Zhou Hanmin said.
"Secondly, now the economy is very depressed, college students deserve to continue their education. We have seen that graduate students have been expanded again, and even undergraduates have been expanded again, the country this moderate expansion of the proportion of graduate students is very obvious. However, college students should understand very well in their hearts that they should make early preparations for the 'reservoir' that the state has strengthened during the economic downturn. In the downturn, be prepared to wait for the peak, make a difference."
"A very important part of the high degree of civilization in an international metropolis is reflected in the share of college students in the employed population over the age of 25. As far as I know, New York's proportion is the highest in the world, getting 52%, Japan's is 45%, Beijing's is 18%, and our Shanghai is only 11% from previous years. If Shanghai is to become a truly international metropolis, this proportion must be greatly increased. In this sense, our enterprises, no matter how difficult, must first consider the employment of college students."
Apprenticeship opportunities proposed during the Expo
We have now collaborated with the Municipal Education Commission, the Youth League Municipal Committee and other relevant departments to draw up a plan to arrange post-graduation apprenticeships for a certain number of college students in the volunteer corps.
"For Expo 2010, we are going to use thousands of people. This includes 100,000 people and 90,000 volunteers. Their service, support and participation, the role they play is crucial to the Expo. We have already seen the dedication, efficiency and commitment of volunteers at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. By 2010, we will do everything we can to train, organize and use this volunteer force." Member Zhou Hanmin said.
"Volunteers for the World Expo is a certain requirement, at least bilingual, all-round quality ...... Therefore, college students can be said to be the mainstay, among them, there will be a part of the fresh graduates. We have now collaborated with the Municipal Education Commission, the Youth League Municipal Committee and other relevant departments to draw up a certain number of college students in the volunteer team to arrange for post-graduation apprenticeship positions." Under the reporter's "when the rules will be introduced," Zhou first said it was not convenient to disclose, and then added meaningfully, "If you want to match the pace of the graduation of college students in July this year, you can make your own projections." Zhou Hanmin also said that the planning and training of volunteers has now been initiated, "On the basis of consultation with relevant departments, we will take this task seriously. The specific data and ratio, please wait and see."
coincide - city people's Congress Pu Donglin
permanent volunteer positions to fresh graduates
"The Expo will last 184 days, and need a large number of volunteers, if the volunteer positions can try to absorb fresh college students, it will be a great benefit to the special period of time to ease their employment." "After 80" city people's congress representative Pu Donglin has initially drafted the "on the play of the World Expo effect to ease the employment pressure of fresh college graduates in Shanghai's proposal" written comments. And according to Pu Donglin's previous survey found that this proposal in the fresh college students in the support rate is super high!
Suggestion 1 permanent positions suitable for fresh graduates
According to Pu Donglin, during the Expo, it is expected that there will be a need for 100,000 Expo volunteers, in which college student volunteers will surely play an important role. "However, the Expo will last for 184 days, and due to student semester limitations, many volunteer positions, especially permanent volunteer positions, are not well suited for college students to hold on a long-term basis. If permanent volunteer positions can be recruited more towards fresh graduates, it can directly relieve the pressure of thousands of fresh graduates."
Suggestion 2 can sign a short-term labor contract
"According to the workload and requirements of the volunteer positions, combined with the overall salary level of the community, with reference to foreign countries and other provincial and municipal practices, to be graduates of the Expo volunteer service positions of the economic subsidies to provide graduates with a certain degree of life security. If the policy permits, short-term labor contracts can also be signed with the volunteers, giving certain social security and medical insurance, and enjoying the treatment of laborers. In this way, not only to meet the needs of the Expo volunteers, for the employment of college students, but also to alleviate the pressure." Pu Donglin further explained.
Feedback written comments will be submitted to the People's Congress
The reporter was informed that, in order to understand the views of fresh graduates of this program and recommendations, Pu Donglin previously also special to Jiaotong University, Tongji, Huashi University, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai University, Sibao College and other parts of the university of more than 200 fresh graduates of the research found that 96.4% of the students for the play of Expo effect of alleviating employment pressure. Measures are welcomed."
In this regard, the Expo Bureau and the Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security yesterday in the handling of the views of the representatives of the scene, but also expressed recognition of this creative reference, the Expo Bureau of the relevant sources revealed that they are being investigated. Pu Donglin will be in the next few days, the written comments to be perfected formally submitted to the People's Congress.
Another way - CPPCC member Lu Jianming
Expo should be developed stage employment
This newspaper newsletter He lintel to seize the opportunity of the Shanghai World Expo for the employment of college students to provide opportunities and space. The reporter found that many members of the proposal for the employment of college students to offer advice, in the Municipal Women's Federation to submit the "proposal on the promotion of flexible employment" proposal, it is recommended to organize the World Expo as an opportunity to develop stage employment. Suggested that the relevant departments of the World Expo held during the required jobs for thematic research and development, and take appropriate measures to protect the city residents to practice.
One of the drafters of the proposal, CPPCC member Lu Jianming, said in an interview with reporters, Lu said that with the further increase in the publicity of the World Expo, the World Expo to the employment of college students to bring the opportunity, not only the government to arrange a fixed position, but also should be the government to give some space for young people relying on the Expo to provide the soil for entrepreneurship. During the World Expo, the service industry, hospitality industry, exhibition, tourism, consulting and so on have broad prospects for entrepreneurship, we encourage college students to look for jobs in the World Expo on the one hand, on the other hand, encourage college students to start their own business around the rich soil of the World Expo, so that not only solves a part of the people's employment, but also pulls a group of people's employment.
Youth and employment have become hot words
There has never been such a period when the words "youth" and "employment" have been so frequently and so closely linked together. In the words of one CPPCC member, these two words have become a "must" for every participant in politics to consider.
The venue is not big - in the Party School of the Municipal Party Committee, from this building to the other building, a walk of only five minutes. The venue is very large - in each of the group discussion room, CPPCC members of the country's current situation, free speech, every time to cause controversy. One of the members said with emotion, because everyone's "heart" is big, loaded with the country, loaded with the world. In these "wide-open sky" discussions, all eyes are focused on the current generation of youth. They have education, vigor, and the desire to do their part for society, however, they encountered a "blizzard", they lack some opportunities.
Yesterday afternoon, in the various sub-groups to discuss the venue between the "scurrying field" of the reporter, y felt, from all aspects of society, all areas of the CPPCC members, are temporarily unable to implement the work of young people racking their brains, caring for the future of these future pillars of the society's future prospects.
World Expo offers apprenticeships for college volunteers
In the global economic and financial crisis, the employment of college students is a key concern for the government. "Can the Expo effect be utilized to ease the employment pressure on fresh graduates?" Pu Donglin, a deputy to the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress, suggested in a written submission that for the nearly 5,000 permanent volunteer positions at the World Expo, consideration could be given to recruiting fresh graduates and providing them with a certain amount of economic subsidies and other labor protections, as well as providing employment preferences for the graduates after they leave their jobs. "Volunteer jobs at the Expo can effectively ease the employment pressure on graduates, and more importantly for Shanghai's college student job market, it can solve the pressing problem."
Lin Hongyang, a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), submitted a proposal on the acceptance of fresh college graduates as volunteers for the Shanghai World Expo. "Taking the opportunity of recruiting college volunteers for the Expo can temporarily solve the social pressure of employing college graduates for a year and a half."
Zhou Hanmin, vice chairman of the committee, told the Oriental Daily News that college students are the "backbone" of volunteers. In view of the current increasingly severe employment situation, the Expo Bureau is working with the Municipal Education Commission and other relevant parties to **** with the consultation and formulation of how to provide more employment opportunities for college students. "During the Expo, there are many apprenticeship opportunities for Shanghai college students."
Talent will gather under Expo opportunities
"Accompanying the Shanghai Expo, a major economic event, is an industry chain, of which the three main links are the construction industry, the exhibition industry and other service industries." Lei Weiming, general manager of the Shanghai branch of Wisdom Link Recruitment, analyzed that the construction industry is the one with the greatest employment demand. The large-scale construction of urban roads and venues, as well as the improvement and construction of various urban basic facilities, and the construction of intercity railroads, including Shanghai-Nanjing and Shanghai-Hangzhou City Railway, all provide huge employment space for Shanghai and the surrounding areas.
But when it comes to the convention and exhibition workers needed for the Expo, Chen Ning is a bit worried. He believes that the World Expo is rich in "exhibition" content, and many countries and cities realize the concept of the World Expo through in-house exhibitions, but at present the number of real exhibition talents who can meet the market demand is still very small. "To set up exhibitions and send out materials is not called convention and exhibition talents. From the experience of developed foreign conference and exhibition industry, the personnel who can realize the innovative exhibition content planning and presentation is what is really needed, who can break through the already outdated exhibition concepts, and who can apply high-tech and multimedia to the display." Chen Ning said that although the number of core talents in the exhibition industry will not be too many, it is this small group of people who are crucial to the upgrading of the whole exhibition industry.
The logistics industry is facing the same problem. As early as three years ago, the media said that although all kinds of logistics enterprises have absorbed 600,000 employees and nearly 100,000 logistics personnel, but still can not meet the needs of the rapid development of logistics in Shanghai. But the real market situation is not "demand exceeds supply" so simple. From the Zhiliang Recruitment data, the number of applicants in the logistics industry in Shanghai is high, and the competition is fierce. In the past three months, the demand for jobs in the logistics industry and the ratio of job seekers is as high as 1:100, that is to say, every company to provide a job, will receive 100 resumes. "For employment in the logistics industry, the impact brought by the Shanghai World Expo will be indirect." According to Wang Zhen, the more important significance lies in the "strategic long-term value", through the Expo to drive the development of logistics industry infrastructure (such as Pudong, Hongqiao transportation hub status), as well as a substantial increase in the level of logistics, which will provide more sustainable development of the logistics industry talent space.
In addition, the Expo has a strong demand for language professionals. Language talents at different levels will be extremely active during the Expo, in the Expo Park, in the venues, in the visitor services, as well as the interpreters for various activities and meetings related to the Expo period. In fact, the demand for simultaneous interpreters in Shanghai has been very high in the past two years because the position is very "specialized" and the training process is relatively difficult and long, Lei said.
Where will people go after the Expo
Wang Zhen said in an interview with reporters that from the time of the success of the Expo bid, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, where he works, has begun to study how the Expo will promote the domestic economic development of the subject, which also includes the impact on the employment situation. Now, as the World Expo is approaching, experts and scholars have begun to focus on research gradually to "Shanghai after the World Expo" transfer. "After the end of the World Expo, the relevant supporting industries will have a callback, some professionals engaged in the work of the Expo how to digest is also a problem. So we are focusing on how to transform the phased employment growth of the Expo into a sustainable growth."
Unringing the bell. How the new jobs directly related to the Expo will be digested after the event is still to be solved based on the characteristics of Shanghai's own job market in the first place, and the demand for talents in specific industries is still closely related to Shanghai's future urban positioning.
Chen Ning said, has been, and Beijing for the IT talent demand is outstandingly different, Shanghai job demand is the largest top three manufacturing, financial industry and management consulting, especially the financial industry is more typical. "Despite the spread of the financial crisis around the world, but in fact, domestic banks are not affected by the impact of several major domestic banks this year, campus recruitment positions are still quite a lot." Moreover, due to the promotion of the Shanghai World Expo and the deterioration of the financial employment environment in the U.S., many overseas students have shifted their career development plans back to the country, which is exactly the result of the development of the financial industry that Shanghai has always been good at.
"The post-World Expo path to employment still needs a lot of exploration." Lei Weiming said that the impact of the Expo on China's employment prospects, by no means only lies in a short-term boost, but lies in whether Shanghai can seize the opportunity of the World Expo, complete the upgrade of industrial sectors, which will lead to the overall upgrade of talent.