I'm going to introduce these ideas to my students. (Can't help it - the class is HRM.) When they're done looking aghast, which is what always happens when their own next 2-5 years are discussed, some might then have the gall to ask, "Okay fine Mr Dr Teacher, but what are these `work-relevant skills' you speak of?" And I'm not going to know. I might be able to tell them about "finding employment in the private sector, services, or small and midsize enterprises" because that sounds a lot like door-knocking. As in, draw up a vague resume and go knock on some doors. I have some experience of this and will be able to tell them, yes, it's very horrible. But slightly better than misery, so people do it. Or, people outside the PRC culture do it. I don't know that impersonal job searches fit in that well with the guanxi culture they all still believe in.