Recently, in response to the tide of returning to work and production after the Spring Festival holiday, the 2024 Spring Breeze Action Job Fair was held in Jiangsu Province's odd jobs market. 128 enterprises and more than 6000 jobs gathered here, which shows the great potential of the part-time job market to alleviate employment pressure. Employment is the most basic livelihood, building a bridge between job seekers and employers to "go in both directions", so that "small odd jobs" can continue to activate "large livelihood", which can be regarded as a "good recipe" for maintaining economic and social harmony and stability.

The emergence of the part-time job market is essentially a response to the development of flexible employment groups. According to the data of the National Bureau of Statistics, by the end of 2023, China's flexible employment has reached 240 million people. At a time when many people's perception of "odd jobs" is still "odd jobs", the scope of flexible employment has quietly expanded. Today, whether it is traditional housekeeping, valet riders, or IT practitioners and webmasters in the new media era, they can all be included in its scope. From the issuance of the Notice of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security of the People's Republic of China on Strengthening the Standardized Construction of the Spare Parts Market to the introduction of the first standardized construction standard of the spare parts market in Jiangsu, it can be seen that promoting the continuous development and expansion of the spare parts market is not only an important way to expand the employment channels of workers in the current new forms of employment, but also a useful supplement to maintain the stability of China's employment market.

Although small, odd jobs are an important part of survival. When the part-time job market really becomes the "reservoir" to release employment pressure, it can better help thousands of families to harvest "stable happiness". Faced with the problems of migrant workers' "grabbing jobs" on the road in the past, low matching of work information, and difficult rights and interests protection, Jiangsu continued to promote the construction of "one county (district) one part-time job market", created 50 standardized part-time job markets offline, and changed "squatting jobs on the road" to "finding jobs". Nowadays, the employed people can not only obtain the "first-hand" employment information provided by the government at the "gate", but also accurately match and quickly enter the desired post. To standardize the construction of the odd job market, Jiangsu is continuing to help more "flexible employment" move towards "stable employment", and to support the "umbrella" for new employment groups.

The odd job market is connected with the migrant workers at one end and the employers at the other end. Pushing forward the construction of odd jobs market according to the time and place can not only solve the "immediate difficulties" of new employment groups, but also save "long-term benefits" for enterprises and even economic and social development. In view of the seasonal employment gap of enterprises after the Spring Festival, the spring breeze action of Nanjing Human Resources and Social Security Department will continue until April to solve the urgent problem of enterprises lacking labor. The vision is raised to the whole province. There are many migrant workers from Anhui, Jiangxi, Guizhou and other provinces in the local odd jobs market. As an important economic center in the Yangtze River Delta, Jiangsu needs to absorb a large number of labor forces from other provinces every year. Taking the part-time job market as a bridge, we will not only press the "acceleration key" for the resumption of work and production in Jiangsu after the festival, but also guide more workers outside the province to understand and love Jiangsu, helping Jiangsu's economic development.

Let the part-time job market serve more flexible employees and employment groups, and ensure that the vast number of migrant workers can "stay, work and earn money". We have reason to believe that the part-time job market can become a powerful engine to activate the "people's livelihood". (Xiaoyu Rao Yutong)