Data from the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) shows that in 2022, China's population aged 60 and above will be 280 million, accounting for 19.8%. A survey shows that a significant portion of them still have the willingness and ability to work. Under the trend of re-employment of the elderly, the China Elderly Talent Network went online in August last year, marking the launch of the construction of China's information service platform for elderly talent.
The Nandu Big Data Research Institute combed through all 80 job postings on the site and found that the most frequently recruited positions were online part-time teachers, with 12 positions coming from a Beijing-based company's school club, and positions in 12 disciplines such as calisthenics, calligraphy, photography, dance, painting and musical instruments.
There were also more consultant jobs for older people, accounting for 8.8 percent of the total, such as industry consultants, career consultants, sales consultants, course consultants, lawyer consultants, and pension consultants. The salary level of different consultant positions varies greatly, for example, agricultural water conservancy consultant monthly salary of 2,000-5,000 yuan, while the recruiter of the lawyer consultant offered 80,000-100,000 yuan of high salary. Various types of professional elderly talent re-employment salary conditions are higher, doctors, nurses, professional caregivers, managers, journal editors, teachers and other positions of tens of thousands of dollars, or even tens of thousands of dollars, while the salary of the booster social worker is only 500-2300 yuan.
Education requirements: the highest for the bachelor's degree
Chinese elderly talent online different educational requirements for different jobs, but the overall educational requirements are not high, there are 25% of the positions for the education requirements. In contrast, college education is the most popular, requiring 37.5% of the post; the highest educational requirements are bachelor's degree, accounting for 18.8% of the post, including the director of internal medicine, departmental doctors, industry consultants, nursing home directors, equipment managers and so on.
It is worth mentioning that among all the 80 job openings, there are no job openings for master's and doctoral degrees.
In addition, nearly half of the jobs have no requirements for work experience, but 20% of the jobs require more than 10 years of work experience.
Distribution of cities: nearly half in Beijing
Nandu Big Data Research Institute found that all 80 jobs on the China Elderly Talent Network came from 35 employers in 13 cities, of which 15 employers in Beijing provided 39 jobs, accounting for nearly half of all jobs. In second place was Guangzhou, with four units offering 15 jobs. In addition, recruiters from Shenyang and Ningbo offered seven and five jobs, respectively, and ranked third and fourth. The rest of Xianning, Wuxi, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hangzhou and other cities have only sporadic one or two jobs.
The 2022 Retirement and Re-employment Research Report for the Elderly Group released by MileagePlus shows that 68% of the elderly have a strong desire to re-employ themselves after retirement, and 19% of them want to continue to pursue career development. The "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the national aging program and the elderly service system also mentions the need to strengthen the employment services for the elderly and to promote social participation of the elderly.