Services for city's graduates are online
The city’s education authorities are using the Internet to help graduates find jobs and streamline employment procedures amid the coronavirus outbreak.
The Shanghai Student Affairs Office has joined with online education platforms Zhihuishu and WNSSE to launch around 50 courses on topics ranging from innovation, startups and job-seeking advice to career skills and planning. All the courses are open to college students for free.
Meanwhile, all the job fairs scheduled for March are being moved online, according to the Shanghai Education Commission.
Industrial supervisors, industrial parks and corporations will launch job fairs on firstjob.com.cn. There will be a fair for minority ethnic group graduates on March 29 and another one with employers from the free trade zone in the Waigaoqiao area in early April.
The student affairs office is improving its services for students to receive recruitment information, submit resumes and receive notices for interviews on their cellphones and for employers to release information, review resumes and send out interview notices on their phones .
It has added three hotline receptionists to the original six to better serve graduates. Since February 3, there had been 2,775 calls seeking consultation services.
Graduates and employers no longer have to sign contracts face to face as they can complete the process on firstjob.com.cn.
About 193,000 students will graduate from the city’s universities and colleges this year, around 3,000 more than last year, according to the education commission.
