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Demand for professionals China-wide plunged by 24 percent in November compared with the previous month’s level, partly as a result of the government’s tightened credit policies aimed at slowing over-rapid economic growth and countering the formation of a property bubble.
Year-on-year, demand for professionals slipped by 6 percent by the end of November, according to an index of executive recruiting in China compiled by Lloyd Morgan, a leading consultancy that tracks professional hiring trends across Asia and Australia.
Three of the professional sectors monitored by Lloyd Morgan posted a decline in demand during the month of November. Two professional sectors registered an incline in demand during the same period.
Demand for finance professionals fell by 55 percent in November, while recruitment aimed at information technology specialists dropped by 9 percent and at marketing professionals by 58 percent. During the same period, demand for engineers surged by 32 percent and for management professionals by 6 percent.
The descent in demand for professionals across urban China was partially triggered by lower recruitment levels by property development firms whose operations have been hit by “government policies on tightening bank credit and reducing the inflow of hot money,” explained Christian Buttrose, executive general manager of Lloyd Morgan’s Asia operations.
At the same time, he said, the government has been gradually raising bank reserve requirements as part of broader measures aimed at cooling overheated economic growth and countering inflation. “It is becoming harder to get financing for real estate projects and in