The number of college graduates in 2022 this year is expected to be 10.76 million, a year-on-year increase of 1.67 million.

What is the current employment situation of college graduates?

What kind of favorable policies can college students enjoy in their employment and entrepreneurship?

  Recently, Zhaopin Recruitment released the "2022 First Quarter Employment Market Prosperity Report for College Graduates". The data shows that since the first quarter, the supply and demand of the job market in January have been basically flat; after entering February and March, the recruitment needs of enterprises and the number of graduates delivering The employment sentiment index fell to 0.58 in March.

The reporter learned that the fluctuation of the employment prosperity index is not only due to the large base of graduates, but also due to factors such as the blockade of offline job search activities caused by the epidemic and the return of students studying abroad to seek employment.

At the same time, the job search season for graduates has cyclical changes every year. The number of job seekers in the first and second quarters is relatively concentrated, and the number of job seekers will gradually decline after August.

Facing the current employment situation, what changes have the graduates' job-seeking mentality changed?

Zhaopin’s 2022 college graduate employability survey shows that, from the perspective of employment, 50.4% of 2022 college graduates choose to work in units, down 6 percentage points from last year, while freelancers (18.6%), slow employment (15.9%) %) increased by 3 percentage points compared with last year.

In terms of employment expectations, this year's graduates are more pragmatic. 57.1% and 49.4% of graduates have rational expectations for the pressures faced by the economy and the job market.

The data shows that the average expected monthly salary of 2022 graduates is 6,295 yuan, down about 6% from last year's 6,711 yuan.

  In response to the current situation of college students' employment, Dong Yan, a professor at the Economics and Management Research Institute of Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, said that government departments, schools, enterprises and other sectors of society can start from various ways to support the employment of college students.

Specifically, the first is to strengthen information connectivity, especially the release and connection of employment information, and to solve the problem of information asymmetry to the greatest extent by means of network information release, online and offline job fairs, special job fairs, industry job fairs, etc.; Local government departments can stabilize and open up new jobs, and promote the implementation of grass-roots employment projects; third, universities and enterprises cooperate to provide high-level pre-employment guidance; fourth, while vigorously supporting young people's innovation and entrepreneurship, they must guide them Correctly understand the risks of innovation and entrepreneurship, and promote high-level innovation and entrepreneurship.

  Recently, relevant departments have taken a package of measures in view of the current employment situation to create favorable conditions for the employment of college students.

The Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security's 2022 joint recruitment of college graduates in large and medium cities has been launched successively, and a total of 100 special service activities have reached the eighth batch.

These include online special job fairs for aerospace talents, science and engineering majors, and those with employment difficulties, as well as employment guidance and policy presentations such as live streaming jobs, online job-seeking skills, college graduates' entrepreneurial ability improvement training, and job-seeking resume production.

Private enterprises are the channels for absorbing employers.

7 departments including the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Education have organized customized on-site recruitment activities, created continuous online services, and strengthened all-round enterprise employment guidance to focus on job hunting for various employers such as private enterprises and college graduates. Provide services and launch the 2022 Private Enterprise Recruitment Month campaign on April 27.

  To attract college graduates, it is even more necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of market players.

It is understood that this year, enterprises can enjoy many preferential policies for absorbing college graduates.

Among them, small and micro enterprises (including social organizations) can apply for social insurance subsidies for absorbing graduates who have not been employed within 2 years of leaving school. Enterprises recruiting college graduates who have been registered as unemployed for more than half a year can deduct value-added tax, urban maintenance and construction in turn. Taxes, education surcharges, local education surcharges and corporate income tax concessions; small and micro enterprises that recruit college graduates and other qualified personnel in the current year can apply for a maximum of 3 million yuan for entrepreneurial guaranteed loans, with interest discounted by the government ; College graduates who work in small, medium and micro enterprises can enjoy the same treatment as similar personnel in state-owned enterprises and institutions in terms of professional title evaluation, project application, and honor declaration.

  Chen Yongjia, deputy director of the Employment Promotion Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, said that the next step is to increase job promotion efforts, continue to promote public employment services into campus activities, and deliver job information, guidance and training, entrepreneurship support and other services to graduates.

At the same time, 100,000-day, 10,000,000-year online recruitment was launched in advance to respond to the impact of the epidemic on large-scale online and offline job postings, expand social participation, and launch more unique industry-specific recruitment.

  Ao Rong