helloworld.bensonchu.com » employment http://helloworld.bensonchu.com the official fan club blog Fri, 24 Dec 2010 04:35:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= NYTimes: Educated and Fearing the Future in China http://helloworld.bensonchu.com/2010/03/10/nytimes-educated-and-fearing-the-future-in-china/ http://helloworld.bensonchu.com/2010/03/10/nytimes-educated-and-fearing-the-future-in-china/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:41:11 +0000 Benson http://helloworld.bensonchu.com/?p=810 “As China’s economy recovers, employers are competing to hire low-skilled workers, but many of China’s best and brightest, its college graduates, are facing a long stretch of unemployment.”

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When applying to VIA, I listed this as a future concern that Vietnam would one day face. China’s economic growth in low-skill labor markets and education were impressive, but where were the high-skill jobs that students were training for? I argued that the education of students was far outpacing the actual growth of white-collar jobs by merely comparing graduation numbers to the number of jobs available. Vietnam, I believed, would be heading in the same direction.

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