China s Job Crisis Even Students From Top Universities Can t Escape

Lately, finding a job has become incredibly difficult. Really, I am telling you, a lot of my classmates around me have been looking for jobs recently, and they just cannot find one. They truly cannot find one. Even Peking University students are unemployed during graduation season. You may have won this award, or that certificate, or whatever other honors, but when the economic environment is bad, none of it works. It is completely useless. I already, a top student who studied engineering at Tianjin University, at our delivery station. There are many people with degrees, so I feel that education is actually not that important. The main thing is, do you not still need to make money? And right now, money is so hard to earn. Degrees are no longer important. Now even college students cannot find jobs. Everyone, I simply cannot find a job. I worked so hard, just to get some little opportunity. But in the end, I still cannot find a job at all. My mother ran a street stall to support me through university, and after I graduated from college, my result was this. I am now running a stall selling ice cream, even saying it out loud. Makes me feel a little bitter inside. It is just too hard. This job is really too hard. College student employment right now is simply at the highest level of difficulty. I am a member of the class of 2025, a fresh graduate. Up until this year, I still have not been able to find a job. I belong to the ranks of the unemployed. Before we dive into all of this, let us know in the comments where you are watching this video from. Connecting with viewers across the world is a huge source of inspiration for us. Which university did you graduate from? Tsinghua. Then how do you view the fact that even graduates from 985 universities cannot find jobs now? First of all, let me just say this. Do not even mention 985 universities around me. There are many Tsinghua graduates who also say they cannot find jobs. The employment situation in Beijing right now is basically one position for 100,000 people. That means a husband and wife office post, where people just sit in an office with polished smiles. For that one single position, there are 100,000 people competing. Brothers, when you are young, you should really enjoy life. Do not study so much. Otherwise, you will end up like me. I got into Peking University through the college entrance exam. And I still ended up delivering food. I was admitted to Peking University as an undergraduate through the Gaokao. And in the end, I truly had no other way. So I chose to become a food delivery writer. It has been almost a month since I last found a suitable job. These past few days, I was originally very anxious. But today, when I went online, I realized that everyone seems to be facing the same kind of difficulty. There are simply too many college students who cannot find jobs or who are doing jobs. They do not like and are not satisfied with. If you're still watching Comment One, so I know you're still with me. These days, is there really still any point in going to college? After more than 10 years of studying hard, spending bags of money and buying bags of books, you graduate and still cannot even find a job. College students in our country right now are truly pitiful. They simply cannot find jobs. Do not even compare it to 10 years ago. They cannot even compare with five years ago. Now, when college students graduate, they all go through the three-part escape path, taking civil service exams, taking public institution exams, and taking graduate school entrance exams. If they cannot pass those, then they move to the three-part startup path, setting up a street stall, opening a shop, or doing self-media. After going bankrupt, they immediately move into the iron triathlon, food delivery, parcel delivery, and ride hailing. They cannot make money, and the work is exhausting. Their bodies get completely worn down. And in the end, there are the so-called three treasures, cleaner security guard, and nanny. To be honest, it is not that those jobs are impossible. But when you think about our children, barely in their 20s, and already doing this kind of work, how bad is the job market right now? How should I even describe it? Right now, I am in the middle of a frantic job search, and I can clearly feel it. HR staff and bosses right now are really incredibly demanding and difficult. Even though this is supposed to be the golden March and silver April season, the time when lots of positions are usually hiring, I feel like the employment market now is really getting worse and worse. There are simply too many job seekers now. The number of university graduates in the class of 2026 has directly risen to 12.7 million. And if you add the graduates from earlier years, who still have not found work, and add the people already in society who want to switch jobs or change tracks, the army of job seekers has directly hit a record high. For every popular position, 200 people are competing for one opening. So if you send out your resume and it disappears without any reply, that is the most normal thing now. I am a fresh graduate from the class of 2025. Today is my 10th day in Shenzhen. I still cannot find a job. I simply cannot find a job. Other than telephone sales, all kinds of sales jobs, customer service, and some so-called cultural companies or media companies looking for live stream hosts. There is nothing else. I want to ask all of you who just graduated, have you found a job yet? Have you found a normal job yet? As for me, I have not found one at all. I've already been unemployed for two months. And I went through eight interviews, but every single one of them was abnormal. I really had no choice. I've submitted more than 1,380 resumes. I did receive one offer, but it seemed a little dangerous. They wanted me the moment I arrived to go on a business trip with a man. How long was the trip? Half a month. And the salary was only 3,000 yuan. I really had no other options. Today did I not just find a job. It was so hard to finally find one. But just because I did not accept their overtime demands, it was gone. Making money as a weak little worker is truly not easy. How has the workplace become like this now? Is the economy really this bad? We really have no way out. I found a job washing dishes in a restaurant kitchen. When I got home, I asked what time I should go tomorrow. And they told me I did not need to come anymore. Now even dishwashing jobs do not need people. There is simply nobody hiring. Right behind me is the site of the Zhigang University Spring Campus Recruitment Fair. So after the two of you walked around and came down, how do you feel? Your mood? I feel like I cannot hold on much longer. So if you are feeling lost right now, would 2,000 or 3,000 yuan still be okay? 2,000 or 3,000 yuan. I probably could not even survive on that. For undergraduates at Zhigang University, is it easy to find a job? No, it is not easy. Even for 985 undergraduates, it is still not easy to find a job. Yes, definitely. I have already interviewed with more than 30 companies and not a single one wanted me. Then I started sending messages and making phone calls. I asked several classmates I am quite close with. Some of them found jobs, but most of them, up to now, still have not found work. And the jobs they did find were all the kind that are really bad and exhausting. Some of them were jobs with only three days off a month. And a salary of 2,800 yuan. One of them even went to try the job for three days, but found it too exhausting and ran away. And on top of that, the company did not even pay him for those three days. A person that unlucky, really, is just too pitiful. So I realized that not being able to find a job is simply not our fault. And it is not because we are not good enough. It is just that this economic environment is truly too bad. If you are also feeling anxious right now, afraid that next month you will not be able to pay your rent, scrolling through all kinds of job apps every day, and all you get in return is silence and no reply, then honestly, everyone is like this now. Finding a job is just too hard. Really? Just stop looking. Stop looking. In the end, how many thousand yuan can you even take home in a month? You have to work 10 hours, sometimes 12 hours, and still do overtime. You only get one day off a week, plus the commuting time. And on top of that, they still delay your salary until after the 20th of the following month. When there is no other way, the only thing left is to lie flat. Even if all you can do is take temporary day labor work. I lost my job today. Today, today. I was just fired by the company. I am already 35 years old this year. I really do not know. All of a sudden, I do not even know. How I am supposed to walk the road ahead. I am a girl who graduated with a second-tier bachelor's degree and a non-elite master's degree. It has only been a little more than half a year since I graduated. And I have already been fired on the spot by two companies. Now just to survive, I have gone into sales. I need to eat. I need to pay rent. First of all, I need to stay alive. I graduated from junior college three or four years ago. And even now, I still do not have a job. Every day, I just keep scrolling through recruitment apps, staring blankly. Sometimes, quietly, all of a sudden, the tears just start falling. Graduate students now simply cannot find jobs after graduation. I have already been sending out resumes for four months. But not a single company is willing to take me in. And now companies are all laying people off. The staff at all these companies are already saturated. So what exactly are we supposed to do? A master's degree graduate, 33 years old, and still unable to find a job. At this point in life, it feels like all that is left is to drift along and wait for the end. I really feel like I am going crazy. Going to college was pointless. More than 10 years of studying were all for nothing. Other than wasting my parents' hard-earned money and wasting my own youth, I gained nothing at all. So what if I went to college? So what if I became a doctoral graduate? I still cannot even find a job. From having nothing and not a penny to my name. To now being in complete ruin. I do not even know where my future is anymore. And sisters, what kind of work are you all doing now? How did you find the kind of job that suits you? Or at least a job that can support you? The two of us are really so lost. We have looked for a lot of jobs, but there is just nothing suitable for the two of us. We have really stressed our brains to the breaking point. It is always either that the salary is far too low. So little money that I do not even know how they can say that amount out loud. Or we get scammed. She got scammed. It is just too awful. And we do not want to go back to our hometowns so early. If I go back, then for the rest of my life, I will not be able to hold my head up in front of my relatives. And if I go home, what can I even do? Go on blind dates, get married, have children. We are still children ourselves. We are only in our early 20s. My God, we still wanted to struggle for a few more years and become little rich girls on our own. It is really so hard. We are truly so lost. Please tell me, why is the world so big? And yet there is no place suitable for us. It has already been two years since I graduated. And I am still in the state of preparing for the public staffing exams. But right now, there are simply too few positions being opened. In our entire local area, only four positions are being recruited for my subject alone. The entire city is only recruiting four people. Right now it really is graduation season and unemployment season at the same time. After graduating, you realize that even finding a job is extremely difficult. You cannot even become a teacher. So many teacher training graduates finish school and still have no job. They cannot do anything. And now the country's demand for teachers really seems to be almost non-existent. Each year they recruit only a few people. So few that you can count them on one hand. How are we supposed to pass the exam? I feel like it is simply impossible. It has nothing to do with how much effort you put in. When you are already in your 20s and still cannot even support yourself, you just break down. I feel like there are far too many people like this around me. Now even people born in the 2000s are finding it hard just to barely get by. Everyone, how is your mental state now? While looking for work? As for me, I feel like I cannot even sleep well at night. And during the day, I also feel extremely anxious and helpless. At night when I sleep, I often wake up suddenly. And after waking up, I cannot fall back asleep for a very long time. Even when I do sleep, in the morning, I am woken up again. By this anxiety about work, the moment I wake up in the morning, I feel extremely anxious. My mind is completely filled with all these things about finding a job. I feel like crying all the time. I do not know what kind of state everyone else is in. But as for me, this is what I am like every single day. What salary are you expecting? 4000. But generally, it seems like most of these jobs start at 3000. And many of them are not high at all. The cost of living in Chengdu is relatively high. So it really has to be 3000. But a lot of people cannot accept that. So I did not really go for it. Everyone, how is your mental state now? While looking for work? As for me, I feel like I cannot even sleep well at night. And during the day, I also feel extremely anxious and helpless. At night when I sleep, I often wake up suddenly. And after waking up, I cannot fall back asleep for a very long time. Even when I do sleep, in the morning, I am woken up again by this anxiety about work the moment I wake up in the morning. I feel extremely anxious. My mind is completely filled with all these things about finding a job. I feel like crying all the time. I do not know what kind of state everyone else is in. But as for me, this is what I am like every single day. I am a fresh college graduate from 2024. Only after stepping into society, did I realize that my bachelor's degree is worth absolutely nothing. The pressure of life will crush the pride I once had, little by little. Maybe this society does not actually need that many college students. It only needs college students' tuition fees. College students have solved the employment problem of university teachers. They have solved the employment problem of the vendors around the schools. But the one problem they cannot solve is their own employment. College students support so many people, but they cannot even support themselves. If you really cannot find a job, the employment problem is getting harder and harder. In 2026, it is expected to reach 12.7 million. That, once again, has actually made the difficulty even greater. China's economic development has already stalled. Foreign trade is no longer doing well. And then the whole real estate sector has collapsed as well. So there are more and more people, while the number of positions keeps getting smaller and smaller. For those majors that are bad for finding jobs, can they just stop opening them already? When I go look for work, people ask me, can you sing? Can you dance? Do you have any talent? Can you wear makeup to work every day? Can you wear high heels every day? Can you accompany the boss on business trips? Can you accept frequent business trips throughout the year? Can you accept having only one day off on weekends? Life is really so bitter. Let us just take this. How difficult is this environment? You can already see it clearly even in the subway. Just now, I was sitting right here on this bench. Because this morning, I had just been rejected by one company. And then, I felt like I had failed. Like I had lost hope. So I immediately turned around and prepared to go interview with the next one. I opened the job app and looked for another interview. Then I thought, I will just sit here for a while. As soon as I sat down, I noticed there were two girls sitting next to me. They seemed to be in the same kind of situation. Not even a minute later, a subway staff member walked over and said, Mrs, could you please? I noticed you have been sitting here for a long time. Are you waiting for someone? Just a reminder. If you stay in the subway for more than four hours, when you exit, you may have to pay extra. The moment I heard that, my heart really ached. That meant they had already been staying in the subway for a very long time. I saw that they were also looking at Boss Jaipin on their phones. The two of them were completely overwhelmed, leaning against each other. Do you know how terrible the hiring environment is right now? This is 2026. For all of us, across basically first-tier, second-tier, and third-tier cities nationwide. We all have branch offices. And in every branch office, for frontline sales staff, there is a strict age limit. Anyone over 35 is absolutely not wanted. And then there is this kind of job. Do not think it is just a basic position. It gives only one day off a week, and the hours are from 9 in the morning to 9 at night. Even people like us, who are responsible for recruiting for these positions, feel that it is especially abnormal. Because I myself am also already in my 30s this year. Deep down, I really hate this kind of hiring standard, but there is no way around it. The market is just like this. Because if you have ever done recruitment, once you open Boss Jaipin and take a look, with just a casual filter, you will see huge numbers of young people on the market. People in their 20s, just over 20, under 30. There are extremely, extremely many of them. In other words, there are so many that it feels like you could never use them all up. And also, for these frontline positions of ours, I can say without exaggeration that a lot of people apply. And even among the people who do apply, when we send them to the store for interviews, basically 70-80% of them still do not pass. So I feel that this market has already become completely distorted. So if you cannot find a job, do not be anxious. It really is not about your own ability. Why are more and more college students coming out to do food delivery now? It is actually because the overall environment right now is truly very bad. And now even food delivery is no longer easy work. Do not be fooled by what you see. We are really exhausted and worn out. It is completely the kind of exhaustion where you are treated like nothing but a beast of burden. And honestly, among the many friends I know in Shenzhen, including those who came looking for me, from what I have seen, around 70% of them are college students. And college students doing food delivery are also very easily tricked by shady labor agents. And now, there are even many female college students coming out to do food delivery too. It has been a year since I graduated, and I still have not found a job. So today, I went to a restaurant to work as a daily paid server. It paid 100 yuan for the day. So I went because it was relatively close to home. And after I got there, I actually felt pretty happy. Basically everyone there was a college student. There were also two long-term workers there, and they were college students too. They had already been working there since graduating last year. So when everyone was together, the atmosphere was actually pretty good. Everyone was chatting away, and the boss was not in the shop. So we just talked together and cleaned up the place and things like that. Actually, it does not matter that much if I cannot find a job. I am not anxious at all anymore. Being anxious is useless anyway. With my lazy self, it is not like I am the only one like this. Anyway, everyone is like this now. You can see it. Now inside restaurants, especially those in shopping malls, there are more and more young people. And there are also more and more young people doing food delivery. Education used to be the ticket for Chinese people to get better jobs. That is why young people desperately push themselves to go to college and take graduate school exams. But people on the mainland criticize that Chinese universities have already turned into institutions for making money. The expansion of university enrollment has treated parents and children like chives to be harvested. No matter whether you have a way out after graduation or not, huge numbers of young people are unemployed. And the hidden social problems and political crises brought by this are becoming more and more serious. The Chinese communist regime has already entered the final garbage time of history. And everyone is waiting for its final disintegration or collapse. This is simply shameless. And they still call it flexible employment. How do you think people in so-called flexible employment are supposed to feel about that? Poverty is poverty. Having no job is having no job. Unemployment is unemployment. So why do you call them flexibly employed people using these grand-sounding, fancy-sounding names to fool ordinary people? People are not stupid. If we follow what these experts are saying, then homeless people should also be called flexible residents. I'm checking the newest employment and graduate figures first so the ending hits harder and stays anchored in current data, not just street-level emotion. I have enough to ground the outro graduate pressure youth unemployment and the weak property slash consumption backdrop. I'm shaping it into a closing that sounds like a YouTube ending, not a news bulletin, thought for 58 seconds. Here is a strong English closing you can use directly for the video. What you have just watched is not only a collection of personal complaints, it reflects a labor market that is under real and measurable pressure. China is expected to produce about 12.7 million college graduates in 2026, up from 12.22 million in 2025. That means another 480,000 young people are entering an already overcrowded job market this year. And the latest numbers show why so many young people sound exhausted, anxious and defeated. In February 2026, China's unemployment rate for 16 to 24-year-olds, excluding students, was still 16.1%. For the 25 to 29 age group it rose to 7.2%. Meanwhile, the National Urban Surveyed Unemployment Rate stood at 5.3% in the first two months of 2026. These are not small signals. They show that the pressure on graduates' young workers and people trying to switch jobs is still extremely heavy. The broader economy also helps explain the mood in this video. In January and February 2026, retail sales rose 2.8%, but property investment still fell 11.1% year-on-year. That means even when some headline indicators look better than expected, the pressure on jobs, housing and household confidence has not really gone away. And when education keeps expanding, but opportunity does not expand at the same speed, the result is exactly what we are seeing now. More diplomas, more anxiety, and less certainty about the future. So now I want to ask you a controversial question. Are young people in China giving up too easily? Or has the system itself stopped rewarding education hard work and patience the way it once promised? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. I really want to know whether you agree or disagree. If you care about the real changes happening inside Chinese society and the economy, please subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications so you do not miss the next video. Thank you for watching. Goodbye and see you in the next video.