Employees in high demand and resumes keep rolling in

Recruiters talk to a job seeker at a job fair in Shenzhen on Feb. 2. Xinhua

Shenzhen's labor market has seen an uptick in both recruitment and job hunting right after the Spring Festival holiday that ended Jan. 27, Shenzhen Special Zone Daily reported yesterday.

Companies are launching searches for various open positions to fulfill their full production, while a wide range of migrant workers are seeking for jobs in Shenzhen.

The city’s human resources departments took measures to match the local companies and jobseekers from outside Shenzhen, dispatching chartered trains and buses to pick up migrant workers from their hometowns and organizing enterprises to conduct offline recruitments in labor-exporting provinces and cities at the beginning of the Chinese New Year.

The city has organized 208 recruitment events in the first three months of this year, with 111 going online and 97 offline. More than 5,000 companies sought for talents during the events.

In recent days, the daily schedule of Zhang Yumeng, a recruitment manager from the South China Branch of China Construction Second Engineering Bureau, was filled with screening resumes and giving rounds of interviews.

“Our projects in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area are in full swing. So, we are in need of employees,” the recruitment manager said. She added that the company will recruit 350 talents in housing construction, infrastructures, mechanical materials, financial affairs and others.

Many enterprises told the Daily that the growing number of orders required more labor forces. In the meantime, they expect a promising market this year and they are planning to hire more talents for future development.

“We are expected to receive subsidies worth over 300,000 yuan (US$43,670). The subsidies will help us resume production,” a staffer from a manufacturer in Yantian said. The company has more than 3,000 employees and nearly half of them went back to work before the end of the Spring Festival holiday.

According to the measures released by the city’s human resources bureau to encourage employment, the company can apply for 200 yuan per day for each employee who worked during the holiday.

The city is scheduled to release subsidies worth 270 million yuan to support enterprises in production and employment, the Daily said.