2010-07-21 16:53

Beijing releases long list of specialists needed by firms

There are as many as 835 job vacancies in Beijing for high-end talent, according to a hi-tech industry-recruiting plan released on Tuesday.

About 76 percent of the jobs require master's or doctoral degrees and some of them also require specialized technical certification.

The recruitment is open for applications starting today and applicants can send their forms to the Beijing Bureau of Human Resource and Social Security.

Recruitment will end in late October and those who get jobs will also get a Beijing hukou (permanent residency permit) according to the recruiting policy.

The recruiting plan, which is mainly open to Chinese people, including Beijingers, has been carried out since 1999. As of the end of 2009, about 29,866 people have been brought into Beijing through the plan.

But usually the recruitment is done individually. This is the first time that the local government has released the job postings all at once.

"The unified release is good for information spreading and could attract more attention from talented people," said Song Fengjing, deputy director of the Beijing Bureau of Human Resource and Social Security.

Song said most job vacancies are in Beijng's six pillar industries, which include electronics, information technology, manufacturing, new energy and biological medicine.

"The recruiting plan will help economic restructuring," Song said.

Besides granting hukou, some businesses involved in the recruiting drive say that they will offer more benefits.

"We can break the salary system in our company to negotiate a suitable salary for the talent," said Sun Wei, director of the technicians department at Sougang Group.

Sun said the group is updating its products from traditional to hi-tech and needs more technicians. In the last five years, the group has already employed almost 50 technicians through the recruiting plan, Sun added.

"We also can give some subsidies for housing or even collect money to build houses for our new recruits," Sun said.

Some employers said the 835 jobs posted are too few and that they need more qualified people.

"The quantity of talent is still not enough, because the demand for such people is large," said Wu Wu, director of the personnel department of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education, which manages 54 universities and colleges in Beijing and needs 107 people through the recruiting plan this year.