Graduates take part-time option
进入英语学习论坛下载音频 Zhao Bin, a 22-year-old industrial design major, has given up hopes of landing a permanent job in the country's financial hub. And a huge number of them are logging on to Witkey, or Weike in Chinese, websites, where Internet users post "People and companies on Witkey sites are looking for help, for which they are ready to pay a suitable amount to anyone who can do the task at hand," said Xiao Qin, an English major, who has landed a part-time interpreter's task through one of the Witkey websites. "Most of the tasks are related to design, such as logos, copywriting for A Jiangsu province-based businessman is offering 800 yuan for designing his company's logo, as posted on Zhubajie.com, a popular Witkey site. According to the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, 7.1 million college graduates will enter the job market this year, including 1 million who failed to secure employment last year. "Even here competition is fierce, as you have no idea how many people apply for a task," said an Internet user, who declined to be named.
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