Do doctoral students generally arrange jobs for their family members when looking for a job?

Yes.

Take Beijing as an example. During the postdoctoral mobility period, the postdoctoral research mobile station (hereinafter referred to as the station) will establish a permanent residence in the unit where the station is established. Public security departments in various places will handle the procedures for postdocs to move out of their household registration and settle in with the letter of introduction from the Bureau of Science and Technology Cadres of the National Science and Technology Commission. If the postdoctoral fellow is a newly graduated international student, he or she must submit a letter of introduction from the Bureau of Science and Technology Cadres of the National Science and Technology Commission to complete the settlement procedures.

During the postdoctoral mobility period, his/her spouse and minor children can move with the postdoctoral fellow. The public security department where the station building unit is located shall handle the temporary residence procedures with the introduction letters from the science and technology cadre bureaus (divisions) of the relevant provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government. At the same time, the establishment unit should issue a certificate to the public security department in the place where the postdoctoral spouse and children’s original residence registration is, explaining the situation.

Extended information:

Relevant requirements for the introduction of doctoral students:

1. The municipal level shall coordinate the establishment of special funds for high-level talents to ensure high-level Disbursement of various talent reward funds. The funds required for various rewards for high-level talents will be advanced in full by the municipal finance department, and will be withheld at the end of the year through financial settlement at the upper and lower levels.

2. High-level talents are mobilized across cities, counties and districts, and reward funds are implemented by finance at all levels in accordance with the principle of complementing each other and not settling each other's accounts. All counties and districts should include the funds required for various rewards for high-level talents in their annual budgets to ensure that the funds for various rewards for high-level talents are realized.

Beijing Municipal People's Government - "Notice on Issues Concerning the Settlement of Postdoctoral Researchers, Their Spouses and Children"