With social media engaging massive numbers of users in China, platforms like WeChat and micro blogs are increasingly being used as recruitment tools.
This year's ten-day registration period for the national civil service examination will run until Friday with at least 22,200 government spots to be filled, a new historical high.
State employment still favored by most Vietnamese job seekers.
As a migrant worker, Li Weichao spent much of his youth shifting from one temp job to another, living thousands of miles away from his family to perform backbreaking labor for minimal pay.
Graduates with higher degrees in China are feeling the pinch in the job market as competitors with lower education levels rise on par and catch up as magnets for employers.
South Korea's job growth slowed down for three straight months, bolstering concerns that the ferry sinking disaster had a negative effect on employment data, or the lagging indicator which reflects economic conditions with a certain time gap, a government report showed Wednesday.
China's national-level government agencies, their affiliated public institutions and local branches will recruit over 19,000 civil servants in 2014, a slight decrease from 2013.
A growing number of young Chinese are undergoing plastic surgery during their summer vacations.
Deemed the toughest year to find a job, the year of 2013 sees a record-high of 6.99 million Chinese students leave universities at a time when employers are cutting down on recruitment amid the sluggish world economy and tempered domestic growth.
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