November 23, 2007: Job fair in China
 

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Of course China has too many people, but now it has too many people looking for work or looking to change jobs. The poster at World Stock Markets Live takes these shots as a sign that things are bad, that people can't find work there. His commenters take it another way, that this is productive change... and that everything done in China is done with too many people.

I guess we would know more about this shot if we knew how many jobs were being offered; are companies there hiring by the hundred? Are they placing warm bodies, or actually differentiating between candidates?

where's wardo, plick?

That looks anuything BUT fair...

(was gonna make a Godzeera joke, butthat's Japan...)

That guy, right there, his IQ is 25 points higher than mine. He is screwed.

How do you shout "FIRE" in Chinese?

Bwahahahaha....

Sad - the only thing I could compare that to in the UK is X Factor (Pop Idol) auditions.

The really sad part is that parents have sacrificed to send their child to university admonishing them to "study hard, get good grades and get a good job". Upon graduation they are faced with the above because all they learned in college was to pass the exams. They have no marketable skills and no understanding of "problem solving" which western students acquire. I live here and see it everyday!

no understanding of problem solving? Surely some of those people got degrees in things like computer science or engineering. Isn't problem solving inherent in such disciplines?

What else do they study? I can't imagine their universities teach Western-style humanities, or even business.

And, okay I know this is simplistic, but aren't people just supposed to be provided jobs under communism? I thought that was kind of the point.

Aren't you glad you use Dial?
Don't you wish everybody did?

Can you hold my place in line? I need to go to the bathroom.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THIS IS THE LINE FOR THE BATHROOM?!!!

If they form more than one line in front of a table, can the recruiter pick one from column A and one from column B?

Line? You gotta be kidding!
 

My office staff laughed at clouds comment about learning problem solving with a computer degree, because we had a newly graduated girl with a degree in computer science and she was bloody hopeless at using even our routine office computer. Her contribution to our brainstorming sessions about business ideas was that they wouldn't work..no matter what the idea. She is no longer with us.
It is completely understandable that cloud would think that China is a communist country. After all, every reference in US news is to "the communist government" or some such other reference to "communist". Friend, you have never seen a more capitalist economy than this one! There is free enterprise everywhere and the economic growth is phenomenal!
Standing in line? NOT in China! The culture here forbids standing in line. It's everyone to the front in every situation whether it's getting on a bus or waiting at a traffic light. Possible exception...to use the womens room at KFC. There is always a line there

I wouldn't get a job because I would be insane by the time I applied.

Lucky for the Chinese that they don't seem to suffer from claustrophobia!

hi rage, how are you today? *stalking*