ABOUT  GUCDC

Global University Career Development (China) Conference (GUCDC) is an annual conference host by Lockin and Global University Central Career Union (GUCCU-previously named Global University China Career Union). In order to better provide professional career support to overseas talents who seek global opportunities, the conference invites both career officers from global universities and HRs from reputable enterprises to have face-to-face conversations on the fast-changing employment status quo.

During the conference, we aim to deliver challenging possibilities, practical and proven tools and more answers than questions. We encourage all delegated to reflect their practice and plan for the new challenges that lie ahead in the career development and employability field. An updated version of global overseas returnees¡¯career development report will be published.

As the internationalization and economic develop rapidly, an increasing number of enterprises are seeking candidates with overseas study experience and relevant working experience. However, a large population of overseas talents misses out a lot of valuable opportunities due to the lack of the understanding the ever-changing labor market and the latest talent demands. Therefore, we hope to work together with global Career Service teams at universities to help overseas talents prepare well to catch better opportunities.

AIMS

- To allow universities understand the situation of China’s economic development and talents demand status of enterprises in China.

- To provide universities an opportunity to inform Chinese returnees employment status currently.

- To help Chinese returnees and foreign students better understand the increasingly competitive job market in China and guide them in realizing their potential and capitalize on the buoyant Chinese economy.

- To allow Chinese returnees and foreign students to re-adjust to China’s job hunting environment upon graduation.

- To provide a platform for employers to target and recruit a niche group of highly qualified professionals from all over the world.

- To promote communication between universities and employers.

BACKGROUND

Researches have shown that in 2021, a total of 820,000 Chinese talents who have studied or worked overseas are returning to China for career development. By 2021, proximately over 3.1 millions overseas talents from different countries are expected to work in a great variety of industries in China, working in different industry branches. With the rapid development of Chinese economy these last decades, an increasing number of Chinese employers are looking for Chinese returnees as well as foreign graduates wanting to settle in China. However, most of the Chinese returnees and foreign graduates lack job seeking skills and knowledge about the Chinese job market. Their understanding of Chinese enterprises is insufficient, hence Chinese returnees will have to face these obstacles in the future.

Meanwhile, Chinese returnees are facing another big challenge, which also results in difficulty of global universities: Although they spent a lot of time, money and effort on studying at overseas universities for years, it still takes them about 3-6 months to find a job, much longer than domestic graduates, according to a survey. Additionally, the salary and status of their first job hardly meet their satisfaction.

This phenomenon has drawn much attention of the Chinese government and society. On the one hand, it hurts the returnees’ confidence on setting off their career in China. On the other hand, parents complain that their “pain” turns out to be “no gain”. These major “sponsors” of overseas study begin to doubt whether it is still worthwhile to send their children abroad. This even has a negative influence on the enrollment number of global universities and brings the biggest stress to careers service offices they have ever faced with.

The uncertainty of career life is a real problem, which we are confident can be solved as long as Careers Service teams are well prepared an dedicated to help Chinese overseas students and foreign students who want to start a career in China.

Conference Organizers

Lockin is one of the largest global career development platforms for young professionals. As of Early 2021, Lockin has more than 80,000 registered companies, providing more than 300,000 job opportunities. Lockin have helped over 1.5 million global young talents hired successfully from more than 1,600 universities. Lockin, also as a career development platform for global young talents, is now slowly transforming into Lockin U. Lockin U is a global version of Lockin China. Focusing on the global recruitment, providing a platform for talents that would like to touch the global market. Lockin’s global partner engagement team is establishing a strategy partnership with global recruitment platform in India, Malaysia, Korea etc.

Global University Central Career Union (GUCCU-previously named Global University China Career Union) was founded in 2016, it is the very first union founded by global leading universities and Chinese leading recruitment platform-Lockin. Uniting the career center of global universities and thousands of Chinese Employers to provide career help to Chinese overseas students as well as other international students and alumni.

With everything that we have accumulated over the past few years, GUCCU is now finally ready to evolve from GUCCU (Global University China Career Union) focusing mainly on the Chinese market to GUCCU (Global University Central Career Union) - providing comprehensive resources and guidance of the global market.

With this transformation, GUCCU (Global University Central Career Union) is aiming to work with more universities worldwide to further integrate various cooperation. Devoting itself to help both domestic and international students of each partner university, and achieve their universal career development. Meanwhile, GUCCU will also expand and integrate global recruitment resources to allow students to gain global career development opportunities and promote optimal allocation of job resources on a worldwide scale.