Dongguan Pformation And Upgrading: Skilled Workers' "Price Hike" Enterprises Still "Recruitment Difficulties"

In late January, the city of central Guangdong was known as the "world factory".

There is another wave of people looking for new jobs.

Zhang Hua, 38, handed in his resume, but because of his lack of skill and age, the recruiter refused him.

Deng Pinggen was lucky in his age.

He has 2 years of experience in mold mechanics.

Many companies offered him more than 5000 yuan a month, more than he did before.

When working, it was about 2000 yuan higher.

This is not a case.

Under the background of the reduction of ordinary labor demand, the demand for skilled workers in Dongguan enterprises began to increase. In the words of an enterprise, "labor force" is not worth a lot of money, and what is worth is "technology".

Nevertheless, Dongguan's demand for skilled workers is limited.

Because Dongguan enterprises are mainly small and medium-sized, and the added value of products is still not high under the "OEM" mode, many enterprises can not afford to hire more advanced skilled workers.

The overall pformation of Dongguan is still a long way to go.

Dongguan: technology talents are popular

As an industrial city, Dongguan has become accustomed to people coming and going.

In the early spring of 2016, although not yet to the Lantern Festival, many people came to Dongguan to find jobs. Large and small job fairs were being held.

In fact, the demand for ordinary workers in Dongguan is decreasing due to the downside of the real economy.

But there is warmth in the cold winter.

After investigation, it is found that for Dongguan enterprises, the most important type of them is skilled workers.

Dongguan Zhongke machinery and equipment manufacturing Co., Ltd. is a small and medium-sized enterprise engaged in the production of precision parts.

Ms. Chen, who is responsible for the recruitment of enterprises, has become a big problem for her to recruit enough qualified technical workers.

"Skilled workers are very busy now. In recent years, the mobility is relatively large, and recruitment has become the norm.

Our enterprise is less than 100 people, and we need to recruit about 10 skilled workers this year. "

"Moreover, technical workers are more eager to be promoted, such as operators who want to program, and the quality jobs in our small businesses are generally less, leading to a lot of technical workers seeking external promotion," Ms. Chen said.

The official said that the wages paid by the company to skilled workers ranged from 4000 yuan to 6000 yuan, which has been significantly improved compared with previous years.

"Unfortunately, there are many people who ask questions.

It's very difficult to recruit skilled workers. "

Faced with recruitment difficulties, Dongguan Jinlong paper plastic products Co., Ltd. recruitment director Fang Aiping also has the same feeling.

"Liquidity has been particularly evident in recent years. People have been walking away and feel at any time recruiting."

He said that for ordinary workers, he made a salary of 3500 to 4000 yuan.

For technical jobs, the wage is above 6000.

"But it's not easy."

An important reason why these enterprises are facing difficulties in recruiting workers is that they are small and medium-sized enterprises.

With the weakness of foreign trade, the relocation of factories and overcapacity, the small and medium-sized enterprises in Dongguan have seen significant fluctuations.

Ms. Chen said that the company mainly engaged in foreign trade, and the current foreign trade environment, the order is not stable, to a certain extent, resulting in loss of personnel and recruitment difficulties.

Zhang Hua had been in a small hardware factory before the Spring Festival, and the company began not to pay wages in time.

Zhang Hua sensitively perceived that he had to find another job.

And this time, he is determined to go to a big enterprise, because big enterprises have more income protection.

But it's not easy.

Dongguan is an industrial city dominated by small and medium-sized enterprises.

In 2014, the Dongguan SME Bureau released the analysis report on the economic operation of small and medium-sized enterprises in Dongguan in 2014. In 2014, there were 4993 small and medium-sized enterprises in the above scale industry, accounting for 95.34% of the industrial enterprises above designated size.

Upgrade dilemma: high-end technology talents "can not afford"

The situation of small and medium-sized enterprises getting together has set a great challenge to the pformation and upgrading of Dongguan.

Before the Spring Festival, Dongguan collected more than 540 enterprises' demand for post holiday labor.

Statistics show that these enterprises will provide 83 thousand vacancies after the holiday, down by more than 40% from 150 thousand in 2015.

According to the analysis of Dongguan's human resources department, there are three reasons for the reduction in the number of post jobs this year.

First, the adjustment of statistical caliber, the lower level posts with a monthly salary of less than 3000 yuan will not be included in the statistics; two, it will be affected by the economic environment. Some enterprises will be affected by orders and so on, and the employment demand will be reduced. Three, in recent years, "machine replacement" has been promoted to make up for the shortage of employment.

For enterprises with reduced orders, if they want to stand out in the competition, they must undergo a pformation and upgrading.

Dongguan tradition

Mainly in the field of furniture, clothing, electronics, toys and other industries.

It is understood that many enterprises in Dongguan began to increase R & D investment, and some OEM manufacturers tried to pform into hardware providers, and many OEM textile enterprises chose to cooperate with e-commerce and even enter the high-end garment customization industry.

Behind this, there is no shortage of highly skilled personnel.

However, under the pressure of capital and cost, a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises in Dongguan can not afford to pay higher salaries and recruit higher level technical personnel.

In the interview, the reporter met Cao Guomin, a senior technician.

He was less than 30 years old, but he started learning machine tools at a very young age and had a high level of technology.

Before his resignation, Cao Guomin worked in a factory in Wuxi with a monthly salary of more than 7000 yuan.

Considering that Dongguan is an industrial city and manufacturing industry is flourishing, he hopes that his technology can be exchanged for a more substantial salary and further enhance his own technology.

But after a day's run at the job fair in Dongguan, Cao Guomin felt very frustrated.

Because many enterprises in Dongguan can not afford to pay as much as he did in Wuxi.

"Even after a company looked at my resume, they said," your technology is too high for us. "

Cao Guomin's problems are reflected in the pformation and upgrading of Dongguan.

Dongguan has previously proposed that high tech and high value-added industries should be replaced by low tech and low value-added industries to achieve "industrial pformation" through "cage changing birds".

Therefore, Dongguan has increased readjustment in several aspects such as industrial structure.

It is understood that Dongguan's three major industrial structure, from 2010's 0.4:51.2:48.4, gradually adjusted to 0.3:46.3:53.4 in 2015, and the proportion of the third industries increased.

In terms of investment in science and technology innovation, the proportion of Dongguan's R&D funding to GDP increased from 1.22% in 2010 to 2.3% in 2015.

The city's dependence on foreign trade dropped from 433.8% of its peak to 166.3%.

However, Dongguan SMEs, which lack sufficient funds and are accustomed to making foreign trade "quick money", need to change not only their development ideas, but also enough courage.

In February 17th, the survey of human resources department in Dongguan showed that the operating rate of enterprises in the city was 60.81%, the rate of return of employees was 77.11%, and two data increased slightly over last year.

In addition, statistics from Guangzhou Railway Group show that starting in February 13th, the number of migrant workers arriving at the major railway stations in the Pearl River Delta every day will exceed 600 thousand, an increase of about 1 over the same period.

This shows that the labour force in the Pearl River Delta and Dongguan has not been seriously draining away.

However, in the process of "voting with feet", migrant workers are not necessarily going to the original enterprises, but they are obviously divided.

Some people came, some of them left.

Dongguan is still struggling in the cold winter of the economic downturn.