Is a 33-year-old doctorate graduate too old to apply for a job as a university teacher?

Not overage.

Yes. In principle, when recruiting teachers in colleges and universities, they should have a doctoral degree or the highest degree in the subject. Applicants for lecturer positions are generally not more than 35 years old, and applicants for associate professor and above positions are generally not more than 45 years old. Those who have graduated from key universities and have doctorates from overseas are older than or Will relax.

Expand: Recruitment scope of college teachers

(1) "Domestic talents" refers to high-level talents such as domestic famous experts, well-known scholars, and young and middle-aged backbones.

(2) "Overseas talents (annual salary system)" refers to foreign experts, Chinese experts who have worked overseas for a long time, and outstanding scholars who have obtained doctorates from first-class overseas universities.

(3) "Overseas Ph.D." refers to scholars who have obtained a doctoral degree from a first-class overseas university and are not employed in China.

(4) "Transferred from other units" refers to scholars who have obtained doctorates from first-class universities at home and abroad and are already employed at home and abroad.

(5) "Graduates" refers to recent doctoral graduates from mainland universities who graduated in 2015.