2015 Volume 10 Pages 78-88
The purpose of this paper is to examine changes in how university students seek jobs and employment conditions outside the province as informatization advances, using Jinan City in Shandong Province, China, as a case study. One change found by the study in the university students’ job-seeking behavior was the large number of students now using an online system introduced by the provincial government. The system supports job seekers by providing job search information. On the other hand, conventional methods, such as company information sessions held on campus, were still used by many students as a method of finding jobs. Meanwhile, there were few students who placed much weight on other job-seeking methods besides the provincial jobs information system, such as commercial employment websites and social networking services (SNS). The survey conducted by this study revealed that job searches tended to be confined to within the boundaries of the province. An issue is that although many job-seekers were native residents of the province, because many of them also sought the option of seeking jobs outside the province, the jobs information system only listed jobs offered within the province. Despite this constraint, however, there were many job-seekers using this system. This finding indicates that they placed a premium on the large number of job vacancies listed on the system, the system’s detailed information, and its reliability.
