Jobseekers at the fair at Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Saturday.

A JOB fair for professionals at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center on Saturday offered 26,000 vacancies and attracted 30,000 jobseekers.

The job fair, the largest of its kind after the Spring Festival holidays, attracted 605 enterprises, almost triple the number last year.

All the vacancies offered an annual income of more than 60,000 yuan (US$8,790).

Experienced technical and marketing talent was in the strongest demand at the fair while robust demand was also seen in the manufacturing, new energy, IT, education and commerce industries.

The fair organizer, Shenzhen Pengcheng Human Resources Co. Ltd., said experienced talent was becoming increasingly sought-after in Shenzhen, Hong Kong and other Pearl River Delta cities, which were striving to turn themselves from a "world factory " into a "world lab" for economic development.

The fair saw the presence of over 40 world Top 500 companies and more than 180 foreign, Hong Kong and Macao enterprises.

Domestic innovative enterprises accounted for around 50 percent of the recruiters.

Local big players like Huawei, BYD and ZTE all joined the competition for experienced talent. Many companies raised the salary by 10 percent to attract the skilled workers they looked for.

"Thanks to a recovering economy, IBM is demanding more talent in the Chinese market. We plan to recruit 300 to 500 talented people who have two to three years' working experience," said Jing Ying, a senior human resources manager with IBM Global Delivery Shanghai Center.

Jing said experienced technical talent was a rare resource and in the greatest demand.

"We will raise remuneration for such individuals according to the market climate and make it competitive among our counterparts," Jing said.

Luo, a 25-year-old Hunan man, came to the fair seeking a better job.

"There are more enterprises and job vacancies compared with last year. I'm thinking about which to go for," said Luo, a graphic designer, carefully reading a list of recruitment enterprises.

Shenzhen Pengcheng Human Resource Co. unveiled its employment index on Saturday, saying that there is fierce competition among enterprises scrambling for talent in computer services, software development, secretarial and administrative positions.

To meet the increasing demand, another nine job fairs are scheduled to be held on a monthly basis this year, the fair organizer said.

Source:Shenzhen Daily