National Bureau of Statistics data show that in 2022, China's population aged 60 years old and above will be 280 million people, accounting for 19.8% of the population. A survey shows that a significant portion of them still have the willingness and ability to work. Under the trend of re-employment of the elderly, China Elderly Talent Network went online in August last year, marking the launch of the construction of China's elderly talent information service platform.
The Nandu Big Data Research Institute combed through all 80 job postings on the site and found that the most frequently recruited positions were online part-time teachers, 12 of which came from a Beijing-based company's school society, with positions in 12 disciplines, including calisthenics, calligraphy, photography, dance, painting, and musical instruments. There are also more consultant positions for older people, accounting for 8.8% of the total, such as industry consultants, career consultants, sales consultants, course consultants, lawyer consultants, and pension consultants. The salary levels of different consultant positions vary greatly, for example, agricultural and water conservancy consultants are paid 2,000 to 5,000 yuan per month, while lawyers' consultants are paid 80,000 to 100,000 yuan per month. The salary conditions for re-employment of various professional elderly talents are higher, with tens of thousands of yuan, or even tens of thousands of yuan, paid to doctors, nurses, professional caregivers, managers, journal editors, teachers and other positions, while the salary of a booster social worker is only 500-2,300 yuan.
The educational requirements for different jobs on the China Elderly Talent Network are different, but the overall educational requirements are not high, with 25% of the jobs having no educational requirements. In contrast, college education is the most popular, requiring 37.5% of the post; the highest educational requirements are bachelor's degree, accounting for 18.8% of the post, including the director of internal medicine, departmental doctors, industry consultants, nursing home directors, equipment managers and so on. It is worth mentioning that among all the 80 job positions, there are no job positions for master's and doctoral degrees.
In addition, nearly half of the job openings have no requirements for work experience, but 20% of the positions require more than 10 years of work experience.
The Nandu Big Data Research Institute found that all 80 job openings on the China Elderly Talent Network came from 35 employers in 13 cities, with 15 employers in Beijing offering 39 job openings, accounting for nearly half of all positions. In second place was Guangzhou, with four units offering 15 jobs. In addition, recruiters from Shenyang and Ningbo offered seven and five jobs, respectively, and ranked third and fourth. The rest of the Xianning, Wuxi, Shanghai, Tianjin, Hangzhou and other cities have only sporadic one or two jobs.
The 2022 Retirement and Re-employment Research Report for the Elderly Group released by MileagePlus shows that 68% of the elderly have a strong desire to re-employ themselves after retirement, and 19% of them want to continue to pursue career development. The "14th Five-Year Plan" for the development of the national aging program and the elderly service system also mentions the need to strengthen the employment services for the elderly and to promote social participation of the elderly.