Thousands of Year Four students aged 22 or so are waiting to see whether they will start work for one of the big four accountancy firms: Ernst & Young (E&Y), PwC, KPMG or Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
E&Y wants 2,000 graduates in China for its global workforce. Some 20,000 applied this year.
Michael Wong, in charge of screening, said, "As long as these kids are suitable for us, we are not too concerned what they learned at university. We have our systematic training programs.
"Typically we would receive 10,000 to 20,000 applications every year, sometimes more than that. Then we will go through a screening process to identify the people we will invite to attend the interviews. Then we have a couple of rounds of interviews at assessment centers."
English People’s Online reports the applicants will also have other applications on the go so this is a question of filtering.