Zhongxin Finance, April 14 (Reporter Pang Wuji) The job market is highly competitive.
Does today's university education provide adequate support for graduates in terms of work-ability development?
The reporter learned from the Michaels research on the 14th that in the past five years, the level of basic work ability mastered by undergraduates after graduation has shown an overall upward trend.
Judging from the feedback data of graduates, the basic work ability level of national undergraduate graduates has risen from 56% in 2016 to 58% in 2020.
Through the follow-up evaluation of the 2015, 2016 and 2020 graduates, the research shows that the ability training effect of undergraduate graduates continues to improve, and the graduates believe that the basic work ability satisfaction they have mastered has increased from 83% in 2016 to 2020. 86% of the session, an increase of 3 percentage points.
In this study, 35 basic work abilities are divided into five categories, namely understanding and communication ability, scientific thinking ability, management ability, applied analysis ability and hands-on ability.
In general, the overall training effect of undergraduate graduates in understanding and communication skills is good, and there is still room for improvement in applied analysis and hands-on skills.
In terms of satisfaction of basic work ability, among the 10 most important abilities considered by 2020 undergraduates, the satisfaction degree of troubleshooting, design thinking, and computer programming ability is relatively low, at 83%, 81%, and 75%, respectively.
Troubleshooting skills are more important in technical positions such as electricity/energy, electrical/electronics (excluding computers), machinery/instrumentation, etc. Troubleshooting and computer programming skills are important in Internet development and application, computer and data processing positions The degree of satisfaction is relatively high, but the satisfaction degree of these abilities is relatively low.
Majors serving these fields, such as electrical, electronic information, mechanical, computer, and instrument majors, have relatively low levels of satisfaction in such abilities.
The report believes that with the optimization and upgrading of traditional industries with terminalization, intelligence and refinement, the requirements of enterprises for relevant professionals will be further improved, which also poses new challenges to the cultivation of relevant talents in colleges and universities.
From a longer time line, based on the feedback research of undergraduates five years after graduation, Michaels found that information search and processing and lifelong learning ability are in the highest demand in jobs, but the proportion of lifelong learning ability to meet the job is still relatively low.
The 2015 graduates believe that information search and processing, and lifelong learning ability are in the highest demand in work (both 73%), but the proportion of lifelong learning ability satisfying work (86%) is lower than that of other work abilities.
The report believes that in addition to focusing on the cultivation of professional abilities, colleges and universities also need to pay attention to the cultivation and improvement of transferable abilities such as continuous learning.
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