China recruiter slammed for telling candidate no weekends off for holding bachelor’s degree

A recruiter from a major state-owned insurance company sparked controversy by telling a job candidate that they did not deserve weekends off because they only held a bachelor’s degree. The incident came to public attention on January 18, when a jobseeker from Urumqi, in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region of northwestern China, revealed details of the interview online. The applicant said that a recruiter on the job platform Boss Zhipin, a publicly listed Chinese company specialising in online...

Source: scmp.com at 1/31/2026 1:00:09 AM.

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