A well-known IT professional in China recently suggested on social media that job applicants could pay employers to get work, and address the nation’s youth unemployment issue.
The suggestion attracted significant attention and criticism, as similar practices already exist in China’s IT industry— where graduates pay companies off the books to intern.
The IT professional, who goes by the name “Diade Technology,” posted on Weibo on May 29: “China’s economy in 2022 is facing two major problems: one is that more than 10-million new college graduates need to find jobs; the other is that small and medium-sized enterprises are struggling to stay afloat. I just thought of a way to solve these two problems, it’s actually very simple: just make college students pay the companies to work there. The graduates can get training from their employers, which is well worth the money they pay the companies. In this way, the companies can get cash from it to help their operation, and college students also get employed. One stone, two birds.”…