China Job Market for Graduates Shows Stress on Slowdown

China’s job market for university graduates is showing signs of stress as the nation’s deepest economic slowdown since the global financial crisis coincides with a record 6.8 million students completing their studies.

“The job market for graduates is the worst since 2009,” said Jennifer Feng, chief human resources expert at 51job Inc., a Shanghai-based online recruiter. In Beijing, Tang Wen, a spokesman at ChinaHR.com, a Chinese subsidiary of Monster Worldwide Inc., said conditions “may be slightly worse compared with 2011, but not too much.”