China's surge of college graduates finds white-collar work elusive

A heavily blue-collar economy and the global financial crisis have made it tough for graduates, whose numbers have risen sharply.

Students from Guangdong Province, China's wealthiest region, are so desperate for work they're applying for jobs as nannies – and getting rejected, a local paper reported last month. Full Story »

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Peter L. Combs
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by Peter L. Combs - Feb. 4, 2009

Well sourced, names names, gives annecdotes and perspective. The Monitor always does a good job..today the log jam in China is worsened due to limits on legal imigration from there it would have made a good adjunct to the story.

Even with a 6 percent growth economy jobs are hard to find.

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