Helpful with hunting a job
Tang Tingting is among 6.1 million Chinese college students who will graduate this year. She got cosmetic surgery to change her simple eye to double eye, saying it was absolutely necessary. She thinks it will bring her luck while job hunting. "The new appearance makes me more confident in interviews," said Tang. She is a secretary major at a college in Hefei, capital of eastern Anhui Province. Tang said she was influenced by the current fashion trend. She had consulted the Danfeng Chaoyang Maternity Hospital, a private one in Hefei before she had the operation.
The number of college graduates looking for jobs will exceed 7 million this year, the country's top labor and social security authorities. "I felt my face broad and my eyes small," said the girl. "The appearance made me lack confidence and perhaps affected the judge of interviewers."
Most of the measures, including a three-year internship program for 1 million graduates, encourage students to lower their expectations and to seek jobs in rural areas or in smaller firms, for example. "As long as a graduate is talented and practical, appearance will not play such an important role given the employment promotion measures the country has taken," said sociology researcher with Anhui Academy of Social Sciences