January 10, 2013 I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile, in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them. However, I soon learned that hiring the best and brightest would be a lot harder than I thought. In my Silicon Valley experience, the best engineers look for audacious challenges, because the bigger the challenge, the greater their chance to prove themselves and reap the corres......[查看详情]

English.news.cn 2012-11-12 18:31:16 BEIJING, Nov. 12 (Xinhua) -- Chinas job market is feeling the pressure from the countrys economic downshift, as new job growth slows and more people become unemployed, a senior employment official said Monday. The impact of economic slowdown on the job market is starting to emerge, said Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security Yang Zhiming at a press conference on the sidelines of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, which opened on Nov. 8. The growth of newly added jobs in c......[查看详情]

WASHINGTON | ThuDec 9, 2012 4:52pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week, offering hope that some of last months improvement in job growth could be sustained and give the U.S. economy a lift. Other data on Thursday was also positive with the international trade deficit in June the smallest in 1-1/2 years as the petroleum import bill dropped sharply. While the smaller trade gap implied upward revisions to the governments estimate of second-quarter gross domestic produ......[查看详情]

WASHINGTON | Thu 1st, Nov, 2012 4:52pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week, offering hope that some of last months improvement in job growth could be sustained and give the U.S. economy a lift. Other data on Thursday was also positive with the international trade deficit in June the smallest in 1-1/2 years as the petroleum import bill dropped sharply. While the smaller trade gap implied upward revisions to the governments estimate of second-quarter gross domestic p......[查看详情]

Sep 10th, 2012 Editors note: The following text is from Global Post, which provides views important, moving or just odd from around the world. The views expressed are solely those of the author. Whether you call them jiu ling hou the post-90s generation or millennials, things are not so different for recent college graduates in China and the United States. Derided in both countries as spoiled, selfish and entitled, yet struggling to find decent work, they belong to generations whose high expectations for comfort and prosperity have been thwarted......[查看详情]

August 9, 2012 These are goldilocks jobs numbers - not too hot, not too cold. 5.03pm: Our live coverage of the markets is now ending. Thanks everyone for reading this blog and posting your comments - well be back tomorrow morning at 9.30am. For a wrap of todays session, click here. Advertisement 4.39pm: The following Chinese data was released today: Consumer prices rose 1.8% yoy (1.7% expected) Producer prices fell 2.9% yoy (2.5% fall tipped) Industrial production rose 9.2% yoy (9.7% tipped) Retail sales grew 13.1% yoy (13.5% predicted) 4.33pm: ......[查看详情]