"The postgraduates are inclined to think themselves 'elites' so they are unwilling to start from the bottom and are choosy about the work assigned," Huang said.
According to the report of “Employment Status of University and College Graduates”, the employment rate of postgraduates in China has been declining since 2005 until 2009. In 2009 and 2010, the employment rate of postgraduates was lower than that of the university graduates.
By contrast, more and more Chinese students flock to the National Entrance Examination for Postgraduate. The number of examinees hit a record high of 1.8 million in 2013, the fourth consecutive year of an increase of 100,000 examinees.
If the job hunters with a master’s degree wants to become real elites, they should keep a low profile and work in a down-to-earth way, said Shang Zhongsheng, sociologist at Wuhan University
Mei Zhigang, a professor of sociology at the Central China Normal University, said that the employers' preference to university graduates indicates that the human resources departments are becoming rational and the society also has a reasonable demand for knowledge.
"Our society only needs a small number of top talents but needs more employees with basic ability," Mei said.
Read the Chinese version: 女硕士“冒充”本科生; Source: Wuhan Morning News
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