College graduates in Beijing will leave campus roughly a month earlier than the usual time this summer due to the Olympics which is scheduled to start on Aug. 8 in the city.

Beijing municipal education authorities required all colleges located in Beijing to have their graduates leave campus at least one month earlier than they are usually asked to do.

Therefore, career service offices in local colleges sped up their paces in employment consultancy and career advice to would-be graduates. The majority of graduating students might find jobs before the end of April.

As usual, graduating students from prestigious schools are more competitive in the job market.

Qi Jinli, director of the career service office at Tsinghua University, said 2,000 domestic and foreign employers provide more than 25,000 vacancies for the 3,800 graduating Qinghua students. Among those students, about 1,400 have found jobs. Tsinghua is best-known for churning out high-quality engineers and technologists.

(Xinhua News Agency March 9, 2008)