With the aging of China's population deepening, China's relevant departments and localities are paying more and more attention to the silver-haired people, and have begun to promote and serve the re-employment of the under-aged elderly.
The China Elderly Talent Network (CETN) was formally launched on August 24, marking the official start of the construction of China's Elderly Talent Information Database and Elderly Talent Information Service Platform.
China's elderly talent network has more than 40 large and small columns, covering the elderly concerned about talent policy, research, knowledge of talent, recruitment information, volunteer public welfare, elderly education and other aspects of the content for the national elderly talent, old age-related organizations, pension service agencies and employers to provide information services for the elderly talent.
In order to adapt to the reading needs of different age groups, China's elderly talent network in the upper right corner of the home page set up a barrier-free browsing button, you can enlarge the font size, you can also use the screen reading function, for the elderly netizens to provide personalized reading needs.
According to media reports, the network was online for 2 days, attracting more than 5,000 job seekers and more than 100 companies to register. For a while, the re-employment of the elderly has become a hot spot of social concern.
These positions are popular
Job seekers aged 50 and above who submitted resumes grew 32.4 percent year-on-year from February to September 2020, more than four times the rate of job seekers under 35, according to a report by a recruitment platform. The proportion of China's population over the legal retirement age that has the will to stay in the labor market is currently around 40 percent.
Currently, China's senior citizen talent network has listed positions such as dean of senior care institutions, senior care sales, medical social workers, nurses, senior care customer service, retired service workers, etc., with salary levels centered on a range of 3K to 30K.
The recently released "2022 Retirement and Re-employment Research Report for the Elderly Group" also shows that 68 percent of the elderly group have a strong desire to be employed after retirement.
For job seekers with professional skills, positions such as financial accounting and technical consulting (16.3 percent) and training industries such as calligraphy teachers and photographers (9 percent) are their most popular choices.
For job seekers who are not highly educated but are patient and meticulous, they are more likely to choose to work in the service industry (41 percent) and logistics (20 percent) in labor-intensive industries, such as cleaning staff, urban sanitation workers and cooks.
Re-employment of the elderly has become a hotspot of social concern
According to Xinhua News Agency, Wang Jianjun, executive deputy director of the National Office for the Elderly and president of the China Association of the Elderly, said that China's elderly talent network aims to broaden the channels for the re-employment of the elderly and build platforms to accelerate the gathering of elderly talent, create a manpower think tank of the elderly, and promote the development of human resources of the elderly, which has great significance for actively responding to the aging of the population, and serving the economic and social development. It is of great significance to actively respond to the aging of the population and serve the economic and social development of high quality.
Looking around the world, the phenomenon of re-employment of the elderly is very common in some countries that have entered an aging society. According to relevant reports, the number of elderly workers over 65 years of age in Japan was 8.92 million in 2019, maintaining growth for 16 consecutive years.In 2017, South Korea's hiring rate for 65-69 year-olds was 45.5%, and that of 70-74 year-olds was 33.1%.
This way of re-employing the elderly adds a different look to their retirement life and solves the livelihood problem for some retired elderly in rural areas. If the elderly feel that re-employment is too hard, you can also enjoy the retirement life, usually square dancing, playing Tai Chi, climbing mountains and so on are very good, re-employment is just to give the elderly one more option!