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Graduates swarm job fair for death business
(Xinhua/CRI)
Updated: 2009-03-22 16:54

 

Desperate job-hunting graduates line up for interviews with funeral companies at a job fair at Shanghai Human Resource Exchange Center, March 21, 2009. Some 23 funeral parlors, cemeteries and undertaking agents offered 395 positions of office and marketing staff, funeral planners, designers and researchers for graduates at this job affair. The average monthly pay is around 3000 yuan (US$439) a month.[Xinhua]