Young People Opt for Niche Jobs in China
New and different kind of jobs is arousing the interest of young employees in China. Some of these jobs have never been heard of by their predecessors, for instance, pet trainer, home party manager, e-sports consultants, pet trainer, scalp therapist, and photo-shooting tour planner. This shows how the Chinese service industry is going through a consumption upgrading as numerous customized services are created by the increasing demand of customers and the booming internet.
According to a report released by Chinese online recruitment platform Zhaopin and on-demand service provider MeituanDianping, up to ninety percent of employees involved in emerging occupations in the service industry were born after 1980, half of them being from the 1990s and twenty-two percent were born after 1995. This was based on responses from 9,784 participants.
Some of the industries covered include entertainment, catering, hospitality, cosmetic medicine, weddings, training, and parent-child interaction. The top reasons for these career choices were; positive about the future of the industry, chance to deal with different people, pure love, wanting to try new things and flexible working time.
Tu Chao, 31, manages a room escape brand in Chengdu after giving up on his job as a mining engineer at a state-owned enterprise. The Room escape is a physical adventure game when a group of people is locked up and have to solve a series of puzzles and decorations are based on a particular script. Others also involve role-playing.
According to Chao, it is cool and exciting to bring an immersive experience to customers with different settings or stories in your mind. He added that it is more real than watching a film and that the revenue is growing and this particular segment is developing fast in China. KeXuan in her 20s is a stylist specialized in Hanfu, ancient clothing of China’s Han ethnic group. She also left her job with a company in early 2018.
Reference
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201907/23/WS5d364c1ea310d8305640068b.html
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