"Job-hunting phobia" seizing college students

时间：2006-12-07 01:57:56

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A two-day job fair held for this year's college and university graduates opens in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, Nov. 20, 2006, offering about 30,000 jobs. More than 4.95 million graduates enter the job market.

An escalator was bent1 out of shape due to overcrowding during a job fair held in Zhengzhou on Sunday, November 19, 2006.
 
Chinanews, Beijing, Dec. 6 – With the coming of the job-hunting season this year, many Chinese college graduates are exhausted2 by attending numerous job fairs. As the number of job vacancies3 is less than the number of the graduates, many of them are suffering from employment phobia.

 

Around 30 thousand job hunters flocked into the "National Job Fair 2006" in Beijing last Sunday (Dec. 3), while about a thousand companies from all over the country could provide no more than 10 thousand positions. A lot of graduates crowded there and lingered back and forth4 each with an anxious and eager face, but left with a great show of disappointment.

 

Statistics show that there will be 4.8 million students to graduate from colleges and universities next year compared with 4 million this year. Severe competition in employment brings "anxiety", "annoyance5", and even "job-hunting phobia" looming6 in the campus.

 

Not long ago, a postgraduate7 Hong Qiankun in Tsinghua University committed suicide because of failure in job-hunting, astonishing quite a few Chinese people. According to some news reports, Hong left a letter before suicide, saying "I can't find a job and don't want to be a burden to my family."

 

Related data show that up to now 9 students have committed suicide this year in Beijing's universities.

 

Experts say study and employment are the biggest pressure for students. They call on the whole society to pay more attention to this phenomenon. On the one hand, more job opportunities and channels need to be provided to fresh college graduates; on the other, the society should give more tolerance8 to these green hands.

 



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1 bent QQ8yD     
n.爱好，癖好；adj.弯的；决心的，一心的
参考例句：
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
2 exhausted 7taz4r     
adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的
参考例句：
  • It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
  • Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。
3 vacancies f4145c86ca60004968b7b2900161d03e     
n.空房间( vacancy的名词复数 )；空虚；空白；空缺
参考例句：
  • job vacancies 职位空缺
  • The sign outside the motel said \"No Vacancies\". 汽车旅馆外的招牌显示“客满”。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前；向外，往外
参考例句：
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
5 annoyance Bw4zE     
n.恼怒，生气，烦恼
参考例句：
  • Why do you always take your annoyance out on me?为什么你不高兴时总是对我出气？
  • I felt annoyance at being teased.我恼恨别人取笑我。
6 looming 1060bc05c0969cf209c57545a22ee156     
n.上现蜃景（光通过低层大气发生异常折射形成的一种海市蜃楼）v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的现在分词 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近
参考例句：
  • The foothills were looming ahead through the haze. 丘陵地带透过薄雾朦胧地出现在眼前。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Then they looked up. Looming above them was Mount Proteome. 接着他们往上看，在其上隐约看到的是蛋白质组山。 来自英汉非文学 - 生命科学 - 回顾与展望
7 postgraduate ulMzNh     
adj.大学毕业后的，大学研究院的；n.研究生
参考例句：
  • I didn't put down that I had postgraduate degree.我没有写上我有硕士学位。
  • After college,Mary hopes to do postgraduate work in law school.大学毕业后， 玛丽想在法学院从事研究工作。
8 tolerance Lnswz     
n.宽容；容忍，忍受；耐药力；公差
参考例句：
  • Tolerance is one of his strengths.宽容是他的一个优点。
  • Human beings have limited tolerance of noise.人类对噪音的忍耐力有限。

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