Housekeeping jobs becoming new choice for graduates

Source: CRI | 02-20-2009 09:12

Jobs like babysitters and tutors have become new choices for Chinese university graduates, as job vacancies become fewer amidst the current global financial crisis, the Yangcheng evening news reports.

Undated picture shows university graduate Tan  Xuemei, who now works as a babysitter for the  Zhongjia Housekeeping Recruitment Agency in  Shenzhen, southeast China's Guangdong Province.  [Photo: Yangcheng Evening News]

Twenty-two year old Tan Xuemei graduated from Hunan University, one of China's top universities, last July. After majoring in computer science, Tan applied for a babysitting post in Shenzhen, in southeast China's Guangdong Province.