Competition for government jobs has become fiercer, with the same number of job seekers taking the national civil service exam on Sunday as last year, but for fewer job opportunities.

 

Experts said that a record number of college graduates entering the labor market this year plus increasing transparency in the recruitment of civil servants has led to the situation.

 

Some 1.12 million applicants took the annual national civil service exam on Sunday, but only 19,000 will be hired by the central government, according to the State Administration of Civil Service.

 

Some 1.52 million people qualified to take the exam on Sunday after applying online a month earlier. About 400,000 of those did not take the exam.

 

This year saw a decline of 1,000 job vacancies from the previous year.

 

About 7,200 people competed for the most popular position as a researcher with the State Ethnic Affairs Commission.

 

Li Huanzhong, a student from Nanjing University who took the exam in Beijing, said that he was happy with his exam performance.

 

"There are too many questions for the administrative professional ability test and I could not answer them all, but in general, the exam was not difficult for me,' he said.

 

Li said he applied for a position with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The French major believed that what he learned in college is applicable for the position.

 

"This exam is one option but not the only one for me to find a job," he said, adding he will also look for jobs at State-owned enterprises and public institutions.

 

The tough employment situation for nearly 7 million college graduates this year has pushed more college students to take the civil service exam, he said, adding that the number of students taking his organization’s training courses increased by 20 percent year-on-year. 

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