Authorities step up to help job-seeking grads

Education authorities are making efforts to help college graduates find jobs who are facing greater challenges in employment due to the novel coronavirus pneumonia this year, an official said on Tuesday.

The online recruitment platform the Ministry of Education launched in late February, jointly with five recruitment agencies such as Zhaopin and Boss Zhipin, has offered information about over 7 million vacancies to graduates so far, said Wang Hui, director of the ministry's college students department at a news conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council in Beijing.

The platform, which offers vacancy information and organizes online interviews 24 hours a day for college graduates throughout the year, is welcomed by students, he said.

Some 1.1 million new users have registered with the platform, and 11 million resumes have been delivered through the platform, he said.

At all levels, governments and colleges are stepping up efforts to organize online job fairs for graduates. A daily average of 2,000 online job fairs have been held recently and 70,000-plus online recruitment events have been organized in March, he said.

He said the ministry will endeavor to improve the success rate of online interviews and encourage universities to organize more offline job fairs after reopening the campus.