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Head of Blackberry: The global financial crisis has brought good opportunities to China.

2008165438+1October 08 13:26:00 Source: Xinhuanet.

Xinhuanet Beijing165438+1October 7 (JUNG WOO Xu Xuedan) Jim Belsley, co-CEO of Canadian RIM Company, who has occupied the high-end mobile communication market with BlackBerry, said in Beijing on July 7 that the global financial crisis has brought China a good opportunity to accelerate industrial transformation, stimulate innovation vitality and enhance added value of products.

In an exclusive interview with Xinhua News Agency, Belsley said: "No one will like this financial crisis. It is a huge challenge to the whole world, but it can objectively accelerate the pace of China's continued development and upgrading. "

He said: "The economic and social development of China in the last 30 years has attracted people's attention. The sustained and high-speed economic growth has provided a good reserve for China to achieve leap-forward development. Especially when there are problems with some traditional economic and financial development models that have been implemented in the West for a long time, China has a better chance to lay the foundation for a new round of take-off through innovation, change and flexibility. "

Belsley said that while China is shaping an economic development model characterized by high added value, multinational companies keen on high-tech R&D can also find their own opportunities.

Founded in 1984, this Canadian company listed on Nasdaq is currently the world's leading wireless communication solution designer, manufacturer and seller. BlackBerry, developed and promoted by the company, is very popular in the North American market because of its powerful real-time email sending and receiving function. At present, there are/kloc-0 19000000000 users of "Blackberry" mobile phones in the world. In June 2006, RIM and China Mobile began to cooperate to promote the BlackBerry business.

"Financial Storm" brings graduates "employment winter"

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Affected by the economic downturn, many enterprises have reduced their scale or even closed down this year. The enrollment of large enterprises has decreased significantly, and the number of jobs has decreased. Even some well-known enterprises have explicitly notified to cancel this year's campus recruitment. Some students expressed their willingness to reduce their monthly salary in order to get job opportunities.

It's another year when graduates are looking for jobs. The cold snap of the global financial crisis has obviously blown into university campuses this year. Traditionally, this month is the intensive period of online recruitment and campus publicity of major enterprises, followed by the "peak period" of job fairs next month. However, the reporter learned from major universities that at present, the number of large enterprises enrolled in schools has decreased significantly, and the number of jobs has decreased. Even some well-known enterprises have explicitly notified to cancel this year's campus recruitment. According to reports, due to the economic downturn, many enterprises have reduced their scale or even closed down this year, resulting in shrinking demand for employment. There will be more than 330,000 fresh graduates in Guangdong in 2009, a record high, and the employment pressure will definitely increase. Relevant departments are actively preparing countermeasures.

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"I didn't expect to find a job even if my major was very good this year."

Recently, a notice about the cancellation of campus recruitment in Chengdu Carrefour supermarket was posted on the website of a university employment guidance center: "Due to the global economic crisis, we have received a notice from Carrefour (China) headquarters that the nationwide recruitment activities will be cancelled ..." Subsequently, Guangzhou Libai Group and others also issued similar notices. This makes the nervous group of fresh graduates more filled with an anxious atmosphere.

At the "Yixian Time and Space Forum" in CUHK, a student said, "I thought my major was good, my English was good, and my computer was good. I didn't expect it to be so difficult to find a job this year Online applications only dare to write a monthly salary of 2000 yuan. It is not easy to find a job this year. I hope it will be better next year. " There are also some CUHK information majors and Lingnan College's "ace major" students who also wrote back online and lamented, "I didn't expect that even a good major in CUHK could not find a job this year."

The reporter found on the website of CUHK Career Guidance Center that almost all the companies giving lectures in CUHK this month are IT companies, only one real estate company, and there are few jobs for recruitment. The four major accounting firms and the world's top 500 enterprises that entered the school early a few years ago are now rare.

A Yan, a major in international finance and trade at Guangwai University, said: "Our major is doomed to be sacrificed! The only thing I can do every day now is to' throw myself into the sea' on the recruitment website, hoping to get a little hope. However, I feel very lost when I open my email every day and can't see the reply from the recruitment company. "

Tan, a student majoring in e-commerce at South China University of Technology, told reporters: "I have participated in two small job fairs, and I feel that this year has really been affected by the financial crisis. The number of enterprises decreased by about 1/3 compared with previous years, and foreign enterprises were greatly affected. The number of people recruited by domestic enterprises has also decreased relatively. Many small businesses have cancelled campus job fairs. I called the companies I usually have contact with, and they said that this year, due to the financial crisis, the cost increased and the sales decreased. There are basically no new employees or even layoffs this year. "

Even some "lucky ones" who have already received the reply from enterprises feel "chill". Xiao Huang, a marketing major in jiaying university Finance and Economics Department, said, "Although I have got several interview opportunities so far. However, during the interview, several companies emphasized the impact of the financial turmoil and tried their best to reduce the wages of recent graduates. " Some students revealed that faculty teachers advised them to lower their expected monthly salary when applying. "Last year, 3,000 yuan fell to 2,000 yuan this year, and last year 1000 yuan this year in 800 yuan."

The huge employment pressure makes students pay more attention to the slightly "stable" choices such as civil servants and postgraduate entrance examinations. This year, the number of civil servants registered exceeded one million, making it the year with the largest number of applicants. Xiao Rao of China Normal University said: "It is too difficult to find a job this year. Even if you find a job, you may not be able to work for long. We have to stare at the' iron rice bowl'! "

The sense of crisis of unemployment also extends to graduates next year. On Netease's forum, many netizens said frankly: "If this year's graduates can't digest it, they will accumulate until next year. The global economy may not fully recover next year, so our graduates next year will be even worse. "

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Real estate and financial enterprises "freeze" recruitment plans

This year, due to the impact of the financial turmoil, many companies have chosen to lay off employees or are studying layoff plans. Some companies have no plans for large-scale layoffs, and some companies have announced that they will suspend their large-scale recruitment plans for the whole year of 2008-2009.

When Guangzhou Libai Group issued a notice on the website of a university to cancel the campus job fair, it said that "the company's personnel demand structure has changed this year, and the recruitment will be announced when there is corresponding personnel demand at the beginning of next year". Real estate giants such as R&F, Evergrande and Merrill Lynch Foundation almost canceled campus recruitment at the end of this year. As a big recruiter on campus, insiders of China Mobile revealed that in previous years, the head office would reply to the specific recruitment plans of each branch in September at the latest, but this year has not seen it. According to the current economic situation, it is estimated that the company will reduce campus recruitment by about 20%. This year, Guangzhou Branch also made it clear that it would not participate in Guangdong Mobile's campus recruitment.

The relevant person in charge of the employment guidance center of a key university in Guangzhou said that only a few real estate companies have come to recruit, and other banks except the four major banks have also significantly reduced their recruitment plans, while none of the securities companies have. It is understood that in the past two years, real estate and securities industry were the two major customers in the talent recruitment market. This year, affected by the financial crisis, these two types of enterprises have exactly cut their recruitment plans the most.

A person in charge of a famous recruitment website revealed that Time Real Estate also promised to expand campus recruitment at the beginning of the year, but recently stopped all campus recruitment projects outside Guangdong Province. The reporter contacted Miss Li, who is in charge of recruitment in Times Real Estate yesterday. She said that the financial turmoil had a serious impact on the real estate industry. The planned number of campus recruitment of Time Real Estate this year will only be 1/3 of last year.

"The number of people and positions that enterprises plan to recruit this year are in a frozen state," Ma Runxing, recruitment product manager of the training center of Guangzhou Weibo Jie Jun Talent Consultant Co., Ltd. said yesterday. Due to the financial crisis, the business projects of real estate, finance and other industries have shrunk dramatically, the income of employees has decreased, and the number of employees has decreased. This difficult situation may last until the second half of next year.