Starting the job hunt after college graduation can be a daunting task. But these college-educated entrepreneurs are beginning to carve their own paths.

We're actually entering just that time of year when a lot of students will be graduating from university, which means the heat is really on now for college students to seek jobs.

According to the Beijing News, a recent survey on the employment pressures facing college students found that 20 percent of Beijing undergraduates would be willing to start a job without pay – that's a huge increase from last year's figure of 1.2 percent. 

Is this the smart thing to do for students looking to get the extra edge in an increasingly cut throat job market, or is it a case of employers looking to cut costs by taking advantage of the situation? We went out to find out what ordinary people thought about this phenomenon, in today's Straight from the Street.

The web in China is buzzing these days with the story of a student who faked being a member of one of the country's minorities to get extra points in the national college entrance exams. But for He Chuanyang in Chongqing, the decision earned him an F for foolish when he was turned away by Beijing University. Still, it's not at all uncommon for members of China's majority Han to take this risk.

When you think of museums, words like ancient, priceless, rare or exquisite come to mind. But in the northeastern suburbs of Beijing, there's a museum which seems a world away from those concepts. And it details the often-ignored parallel history between a special group of migrant workers and the development of China.

These are various temporary residence permits from different cities through the years. They used to be like lucky charms for millions of migrant workers, because if you were unfortunate enough to come across the local police without it, you would likely be fined, arrested or sent home.

But this was never to happen again after Sun Zhigang, a college-educated migrant worker, was beaten to death in police custody after being detained for not carrying a permit in 2003.

Now New York is usually given as the city with the largest population in the US – around 8 million people. But that’s less than half the latest figures given for China’s capital Beijing - almost 20 million inhabitants. B: Beijing municipal authorities say the city grew by 3% last year and is now home to 19.7 million people, which already far exceeds the official projections of 18 million by 2020.