The internet plays a more and more important role in our daily life. Many people devote themselves in the internet industry to strive for better development. According to LinkedIn, over 280,000 talents work in China internet industry.

The average years of experience of China internet talents are 5.87, well below that of other industries. Over 60% talents work in Beijing, Shanghai, Gungzhou, Shenzhen and Hangzhou, these relatively developed cities in China.

Over 40% talents in the internet industry once studied abroad, and about 97% achieved a bachelor degree or higher. Top 10 domestic and oversea universities talents graduated in 2014 are listed below.

Top 10 Domestic Universities

• 1. Beijing University
• 2. Zhejiang University
• 3. Tsinghua University
• 4. Shanghai Jiaotong University
• 5. Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunication
• 6. Huazhong University of Science and Technology
• 7. Wuhan University
• 8. Fudan University
• 9. Beihang University
• 10. Renmin University of China

Top 10 Overseas Universities

• 1. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 2. The University of Hong Kong
• 3. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• 4. National University of Singapore
• 5. The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
• 6. University of California-Berkeley
• 7. Stanford University
• 8. University of Sydney
• 9. University of California, Los Angeles
• 10. City University of Hong Kong

Top 10 Specialties of China’s Internet Talents 

• 1. Computer
• 2. Business Administration
• 3. Language and Literature
• 4. Electrical Engineering
• 5. Communication
• 6. Economy
• 7. Industry Engineering and Management Science
• 8. Mathematics
• 9. Engineering
• 10. Laws

Talents with computer and business administration specialties are most adaptive in the internet field, and other majors such as as language, social media, economy and the like are also popular.

According to LinkedIn, many talents in its talent pool take positions as managers, directors and other important positions in companies like Tencent, Baidu, Alibaba and etc. Engineering, information technology, sales, HR, operation, project management, product management and design are major job positions in China internet industry. Positions as engineering and information technology meke up of the majority. Apart from some office software, java, Linux, Python, MySQL, C++, HRML and other computer professional skills and comprehensive skills become the basic competence that internet talents should equip with. Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent employ a large number of college students, who just graduated in 2014. The booming of internet needs more excellent talents.

In China, 78% talents are proactive towards their jobs, far above the ratio of global proactive talents. 76% proactive talents are satisfied with their current jobs and 40% of the reactive are satisfied with their current jobs. However, the satisfactory degree has no relationship with job changing.

Passive talents spend more time in building a good social communication relationship with their workmates, while active talents have a tendency to devote more time to job hunting activities. Most talents would seek new work opportunities through internet and relationship network.

When having an opportunity to meet with company recruiters for the first time, 69% Chinese talents would like to obtain information such as the position responsibilities, salary, company culture and vision and the reason for the contact.

About 96% talents believe that interviews are crucial for their acquisition of jobs. 83% talents say that bad interview experiences would influence their opinions towards the companies, and 87% talents show good experiences would change their attitudes towards the positions or companies.

With talents, when they have communications with the company leaders, get answers on positions they employ, receive extra message after the interviews and experience the company culture, they would regard the interviews as pleasant experiences.

After interviews, 77% talents would like to get satisfactory news through phone calls, and 65% talents get unpleasant news from e-mails. Messages are expected after interviews, and timely drawbacks could add positive expressions on talents. 94% talents say keeping in touch with managers may lead them to make a decision quicker.

Salaries, promotion mechanism, company culture, and etc. are major important factors when talents consider the jobs they would engage in.

Chinses talents graduated from universities not long ago tend to evaluate salary as their primary reference of jobs. The expected wage of talents to some extent is determined by the recognition level of talents and wages of their previous jobs. Before an interview, searching for the average wages of certain industries may help talents make a proper estimate.

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