Graduates feel market squeeze

When university graduate Lu Lin accepted her first job offer yesterday from a public relations company in Chengdu, capital of Sichuan province, it marked the end of a fruitless, three-month hunt to find a job in Beijing.

"I was getting so desperate. So many big companies had refused me because they just had no vacancies in Beijing or Shanghai this year amid the global economic downturn," Lu, 25, told China Daily.

"Though I grew up in the southwestern region, I had never thought I would end up working near my hometown," she said.