Exploit more employment space from the list of missing jobs
In the third quarter of 2020, the ranking of the 100 "most job-necessary" occupations with "recruitment greater than job hunting" in the country shows that there are more job shortages in the fields of manufacturing and social production services and life services.
Among them, salespersons, cleaners, restaurant waiters, security guards, merchandise salespersons, couriers, lathes, etc. have been among the top ten in the absence of jobs for six consecutive months.
(See "Worker's Daily" on October 25)
Since the third quarter of last year, my country has begun to publish the rankings of job-hunting shortage occupations in the human resources market.
From the perspective of occupational classification, in the past year, social production services, life services, and manufacturing have often been on the list.
Speaking of which occupations lack people, it is easy to think of some "tall" occupations that require a high degree of education, rich knowledge background, and superb technical skills, while the lack of people on the above list is not the case.
With low barriers to employment and sufficient employment space, why is there still a shortage of jobs?
The main reasons may be tired work, low salary, low social status, limited development space, etc.
Nowadays, young and middle-aged groups pay more attention to the sense of professional honor and sense of achievement. However, marketers, cleaners, waiters, etc. usually cannot meet this demand.
On the one hand, the job list for job shortages is a mirror. It is more helpful to analyze and solve problems by putting the jobs and social service categories that are more difficult to attract and stabilize talents.
For example, in view of the pain points such as low salary and insufficient sense of spiritual gain, how to strengthen the guarantee of treatment, expand the space for career development and promotion, and enhance the sense of professional belonging and gain.
Some time ago, many places have successively carried out the job title evaluation of express staff, so that many practitioners have seen their career prospects; in some places, based on local actual conditions, job subsidies and higher treatments have been provided to qualified workers in shortage jobs.
These practices to increase the “gold” content of the profession have to a certain extent unblocked the career development channels of practitioners, motivated them to keep their feet on the ground and enhance their enthusiasm for work. "People" provide a useful reference.
Of course, job seekers should also change their prejudice against certain occupations, pay attention to the needs of the human resources market, and continuously improve their professional skills according to their abilities and interests.
On the other hand, the job rankings for job shortages reflect that structural contradictions in employment still exist, with "difficulties in recruiting" some positions and "difficulties in finding jobs" for some workers.
Due to factors such as economic restructuring, industrial transformation and upgrading, and related reforms in the education and training field lagging behind the labor market demand, the mismatch between "there are no jobs" and "there are no jobs" persists—some ordinary workers are in short supply and senior skilled workers are recruited Difficulties; some college graduates are under great employment pressure; some senior workers have difficulty transferring and re-employing, and so on.
Strengthening vocational skills training, allowing more job-seekers to master the skills, and "share a piece of the pie" in job-negative occupations is an effective way to alleviate the structural contradictions in employment.
At the same time, the quarterly announcement of the "most shortage of jobs" rankings provides directional guidance for the development of skills training, solves the key issues of "who to train" and "what to train", and helps to improve the "targeting rate" and effectiveness of training.
Of course, in the training process, we must pay attention to the pursuit of "quality", starting from the needs of the labor market, and combining industrial transformation and upgrading, knowledge update, and technological progress to carry out training to maximize the effectiveness of training.
The future of the world of work is not only high-skilled, but low- and medium-skilled jobs are also indispensable.
The service industry and manufacturing industry play an important role in absorbing employment. With the development of new technologies such as artificial intelligence and the widespread application of automation technology, positions in these fields will continue to be optimized and upgraded to provide people with better services and manufacturing. High-quality products, such as cleaners, waiters, turners, and other positions closely related to daily production and life, the labor value created by them is still an important support for people to achieve a better life.
It is a far-reaching thing to discover the shortcomings and opportunities from the ranking of the lack of jobs, to make up for the shortcomings, and to promote the harmonious development of the human resources market.
Li Danqing
Li Danqing