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Dilemmas and Challenges of Graduate Un/employment

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In 2013 Chinese graduate students face “the hardest job hunting season in history”, as their number reaches 6,990,000. This is almost equivalent to the population of Hong Kong (MOE, 2013). However, such pressure from the graduate job market has existed every year since 2002 when the first students who enrolled after China’s expansion of higher education in 1999 graduated.

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Bai, L. (2016). Transitions from Education to Work. In: Guo, S., Guo, Y. (eds) Spotlight on China. Spotlight on China. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-881-7_17

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