The Pearl River Delta Under The "Labor Shortage": Boss Recruitment Along The Street And Enterprise "Direct Seeding"

Holding "board clothes", holding up recruitment cards and standing in line to yell, people who do not know will think that this is a clothing sales market, but it is actually a "long recruitment dragon" in Chengzhong Village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou. In March of spring, the annual recruitment peak comes as scheduled.

"We go to Kangle street every morning at 7:00 a.m. and start to recruit workers here. At present, there is still a large gap in employment." Standing in the recruitment crowd, Li Hua (not his real name), the recruitment director of the clothing factory, felt great competition pressure, and the pressure from the scene of the recruiters was more than the job seekers. In fact, Li Hua is not the only one under pressure.

Since the Spring Festival, the reporter team of Securities Times has traveled to many places in the Pearl River Delta and visited many recruitment sites on the spot. It has been learned that the structural problems of "difficult recruitment" and "labor shortage" in the Pearl River Delta region have plagued many factory owners as always, and even become more prominent. The phenomenon of "the boss recruiting along the street, being picked in line" and "young people's disdain for entering the factory" has aroused a heated discussion in the society. In response to the recruitment flood, cities and enterprises in the Pearl River Delta have tried their best to cope with the job recruitment flood: the special train returning to work and the "Online + offline" job fairs were conducted simultaneously. Enterprises also used their brains to change from "live delivery with goods" to "live broadcasting with posts".

Boss more than worker

In Kangle village, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, there are many "handshake buildings" and clothing workshops. The surrounding textile related industries are concentrated, which is very sensitive to labor costs. Li Hua told reporters that there are more orders at the end of the first quarter and the beginning of the second quarter each year, so the demand for labor is relatively large. "It's better to recruit about ten people today than yesterday, but there is still a big gap." Li Hua said. What's more, Li Hua is more and more embarrassed by the fact that the applicants are more and more demanding on their salary, and they are not willing to do it for less than 500 yuan a day. Another person in charge of the garment factory also said with a little helplessness: "the boss used to pick the workers, but now the workers pick the boss." The reporter learned that due to the approaching of the peak period of employment, the wage requirements of workers are higher than usual. If it is a little more complicated manual flatcar workers and ironworkers, it will be more difficult to recruit, and the wages will be higher.

In fact, according to the past practice, enterprises in the Pearl River Delta began to recruit workers on the seventh and eighth day of the lunar new year, and the number of migrant workers returned to the tide around the Lantern Festival. However, this year's scramble was unexpectedly earlier. In Zhongshan, the person in charge of recruitment of a robot technology enterprise located in Cuiheng New District told reporters that on the first day of the lunar new year, the company organized relevant personnel to start recruiting on the street. In addition to the administration, even the staff of the company's procurement department took action. "Because a lot of people stay here for the Spring Festival this year, we have to recruit early." According to the monitoring statistics of local human resources and social security departments, more than 60% of migrant workers from other provinces are expected to stay in Guangdong this year.

In the Shuitian industrial zone of Shiyan street in Bao'an District of Shenzhen, there are large factories such as Great Wall computer, Xinwangda and Shuangyi electronics, with tens of thousands of employees. On both sides of the road leading to the industrial zone, there are mobile recruitment vendors with recruitment brochures in their hands, and labor agencies riding motorcycles with the words "Recruitment" everywhere. They are like falcons, chasing passers-by with luggage and blank eyes. They are always ready to step on their feet and ask, "are you looking for a job?"? However, there were far more recruiters on the spot than job seekers. The reporter walked all the way and his hands were filled with more than ten recruitment brochures.

There are both factory direct recruitment personnel and third-party labor dispatch companies. Factory direct recruitment generally recruits formal workers, while labor dispatch companies recruit more temporary workers. According to the salary standard in the recruitment brochures, many factories offer a monthly salary of 5500-6000 yuan, but the minimum wage in Shenzhen is 2200 yuan / month. The reporter roughly calculated an account, according to the basic salary + 19 yuan / hour of weekday overtime pay, and 25 yuan / hour of weekend overtime pay to calculate, even if an employee works six days a week, 12 hours a day, but also only 5000 yuan of income, if you want to get 5500 ~ 6000 yuan of income, the intensity of work needs to reach 28 ~ 30 days a month, 12 hours a day. Ms. Wu, who came to apply for a job, told reporters that, as the reporter had calculated, the high salaries marked by some factories were not true. "Those with high salaries of 7800 were actually obtained by working overtime for a long time."

According to the reporter's investigation, the current popular trend of recruitment is that enterprises are more and more fond of temporary workers. "The current economic situation has also brought great turbulence to enterprises. Once the situation drops or the off-season occurs, fixed workers will become the burden of enterprises, while temporary workers can be dismissed at any time. Moreover, temporary workers do not need to buy social security, so enterprises can save this part of expenses." A person in charge of stall recruitment told reporters that many workers are willing to work as temporary workers, because they are free and don't want to be able to leave at any time. There are many people who have a month off and a month off.

Young people are reluctant to enter the factory

"This kind of person can at least make it to the end of the year." Lao Deng glanced at a female worker who came to apply for a job and told reporters. Mr. Deng's reason is that most of the job seekers aged between 40 and 45 are old and young. They shoulder heavy pressure to support their families, so they can deal with a hard-earned job more steadfastly.

Lao Deng is the person in charge of a labor dispatch company stationed in a toy factory in Shenzhen. He specially recruits workers for the toy factory. In order to recruit people more quickly, he expands the age range of recruitment to 55. "The young people after 95 are not willing to enter the factory. I don't like to use them. They are not very obedient." After eight years of cooperation with this toy factory, Lao Deng observed that the age structure of job seekers had changed greatly. "In the past, many young people came out to work, but now many of the applicants are middle-aged people."

"I'm looking for a job with a higher salary and more stability." Liu Hua (not her real name) came from Guangxi in 1995. In response to the call to stay in the factory for the Chinese new year, Liu Hua resigned after receiving an extra subsidy of 2000 yuan. She wanted to take advantage of the recruitment of major factories after the festival to find a better job and do it for a long time. Liu Hua and his fellow villagers have been cycling around the factory for three days, but they haven't decided which one to go to. "It's almost the same. It's not very interesting."

Xiao Wu, who was born in 1992, admitted in an interview that it is not difficult to find a job, but it is very difficult to find a satisfactory one. "The salary should be at least 5000 yuan. In addition, I hope to have fun, be tired and afraid of boredom. It's better to have more girls and do things not boring." Xiao Wu said.

Lao Deng told reporters that at present, there are about 300 workers in the factory he serves, but he is more confident that he can fill the vacancy by the end of April. "The epidemic has left many people at home for a year without income. Now they have to come out and look for jobs, especially from Hubei Province." Mr. Deng said that since February 22, 200 people have been recruited, and some people should come in one after another, just in time for more orders in April and may.

But even if people are recruited, the probability of repentance is high. "You sent me 10 people yesterday, but there are only two left today. These two are expected to leave. Can you recruit some good people?" At the gate of a large factory in Longhua, Shenzhen, the reporter saw a factory human resources supervisor complaining to the intermediary agency. "Now these people don't know what's going on. They're not sure what's going on," the complainants said with a smile

The reporter saw that a black business car pulled another truck of temporary workers to the gate of a factory. After checking the name, he was led into the factory. The director of human resources of the factory said to himself, "how many more can I leave behind? Fifty or sixty of them were sent last week, but now only 10 are less. I can't handle the formalities every day. "

"Word of mouth" in recruitment

A huge human resource intermediary service market has been formed between the great demand and the difficulty in recruitment. However, in the current social environment and economic situation, even the intermediary agencies that spread the net dare not guarantee 100% of the available people. Mr. Deng, who has worked as an intermediary for more than ten years, feels that the factory business in recent years is not easy to do. Especially in Shenzhen, with many factories moving out, the factories they serve are becoming less and less, and "receiving orders" is becoming more and more cautious, because enterprises often default on wages.

"Now we will cooperate with large factories to make it safer. Small factories are easy to default on wages and affect our reputation." Lao Deng said that word of mouth is particularly important for them to go to different places to recruit workers. Lao Deng told reporters that their recruitment methods rely on word-of-mouth and local promotion. "Through the people who have done well in the factory, they will bring their fellow villagers together and help us recruit in disguised form; we will also go to some remote mountainous areas to recruit directly, but we must also have a good reputation. The most important thing for people who come out to work is whether they can give money on time."

According to the reporter's interview, the salary of the talent agency is composed of "base salary + commission". The base salary is 3500 yuan / month. The Commission is calculated according to the number of people recruited, and the Commission is 0.5 yuan per hour. That is to say, if each employee works 12 hours a day, the talent intermediary can get a commission of 6 yuan / day, and if a month works for 26 days, it is 156 yuan. Assuming that the talent agency can recommend 50 people to enter the factory every month The monthly income of commission plus base salary can reach more than 10000 yuan.

But only in the first two months of the employee's employment, two months later, even if the temporary workers continue to work in the factory, the intermediary personnel no longer enjoy the Commission. Therefore, every talent agency will add wechat of employees to contact them at any time. Once the other party indicates that they want to change jobs, they can arrange for them in time, so that they can get the Commission of their next job.

"Generally, there is so much business after the Spring Festival. We only have high income in these two months, which is very rare." Lao Xiao has been a talent agency for many years. He also works as a temporary worker in the off-season. After the Spring Festival, his business is the best.

All over the country to welcome the recruitment peak

58 cities in the Pearl River Delta are among the top 10 cities with recruitment demand, according to the data from the city wide recruitment Research Institute. Among them, Dongguan ranks first in the top 10 cities with a large demand for recruitment. In addition, Guangzhou and Shenzhen, two core cities in the Pearl River Delta, also ranked sixth and seventh in the list. From the perspective of the trend, the recruitment demand of enterprises in Shenzhen and Dongguan grew faster than that in the sixth and seventh day of the first month.

In response to the recruitment flood, the human resources and social security departments in Guangdong Province and other places have already made every effort. On February 20, the d3840 train carrying more than 610 Yunnan migrant workers left Kunming South Railway Station and arrived at Guangzhou south railway station at 20:17 on the same day, comprehensively opening the prelude of "point-to-point" special train transporting migrant workers back to Guangdong after the inter provincial labor cooperation Festival. It is reported that this is the first return to Guangdong special train jointly organized by the Department of human resources and social security of Guangdong Province and the Department of human resources and social security of Yunnan Province. All the passengers on the train are returned employees who have been employed in Guangdong before the festival.

According to the relevant staff of the Department of human resources and social security of Guangdong Province, in order to fully support the employment of enterprises, relying on the cooperation mechanism between the East and the west, Guangdong has closely strengthened the communication and docking with Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan and other cooperative provinces, established a list of employees who need to return to work and a list of migrant workers' travel, and jointly organized a "point-to-point" return to Guangdong with the local human resources and social security department The special train for returning to work actively provides convenient service for migrant workers returning to Guangdong, and provides employment guarantee for migrant workers returning to work and enterprises returning to work.

In addition to the early recruitment time, in order to make it more convenient for migrant workers to obtain relevant recruitment information, "Online + offline" dynamic recruitment has become the mainstream. The reporter learned from the Department of human resources and social security of Guangdong Province that after the Spring Festival, the whole province will organize more than 300 online recruitment. Some enterprises have also made full use of the recruitment potential of live broadcast and other online ways, from "live with goods" to "live broadcast with posts".

On March 1, 2021, Shenzhen held the "online spring breeze action" live recruitment, 20 enterprises "live broadcast with posts", providing a total of 7520 posts. During the live broadcast, in addition to viewing information and delivering resumes, enterprises and job seekers can also conduct online interaction and Q & A in the comment area, which can not only visually display the enterprise environment and corporate culture, but also enable job seekers to select jobs more targeted to achieve more accurate and effective job matching.

"Since last year's epidemic, live broadcasting has become an important way of enterprise publicity. Taking advantage of the recruitment peak, we also try to use the live broadcast to see if there is any effect. " A mold manufacturing enterprise recruitment director who participated in the live recruitment introduced to the reporter, "through the live broadcast, the candidates can interact with us on the spot. At present, the effect is good. Many job seekers can see our recruitment information through the live broadcast and leave us a resume."