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In an exclusive interview with the media, Wang Xiaoping, Minister of Human Resources and Social Security, said that in order to provide more job opportunities for the 11.58 million fresh graduates, this year will continue to optimize employment policies, including granting job-seeking subsidies to graduates with difficulties before leaving school, and providing employment benefits to graduates after leaving school. Unemployed graduates carry out pairing assistance, etc.
Experts say the employment environment has suffered somewhat over the past three years.
With the return of the new crown virus infection to "Class B and B tubes", the prelude to economic recovery has also begun, and market confidence is gradually recovering.
With the help of national policies, the employment problem will gradually be further alleviated.
Employment will be "heavy volume"
"State-owned enterprise or private enterprise?" Every year when the graduation season approaches, the question of how to choose a career is endless.
According to data released by the Ministry of Education, the number of college graduates in 2023 is expected to be 11.58 million, a year-on-year increase of 820,000.
According to Wang Zhangming, a senior human resources service expert, the employment situation in 2023 is not only an increase in the number of college graduates, but also a certain structural employment contradiction of existing groups.
"In the past three years, due to the impact of the epidemic on economic life, some companies' business lines have shrunk and the demand for employment has decreased. As a result, there has been a reduction in recruitment positions, and there has been a short-term imbalance between supply and demand in the human resource market." Researcher at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences , Wang Peng, a researcher at the Intelligent Social Governance Research Center of Renmin University of China, said.
"Nowadays, the implementation of 'Class B and B Management' for the infection of the new crown virus, the economy and the consumer market will also recover, and more and more companies will provide jobs, which is a strong support for the current employment situation, although a complete restoration requires a process, but in the short term, it is good for fresh graduates.” Wang Peng added.
A reporter from Beijing Business Daily learned during the interview that both Shandong University of Science and Technology and Shanxi University of Finance and Economics have already begun preparations for this year's offline job fair.
The "Notice on Fully Resuming On-site Job Fairs to Promote Resumption of Work and Production" issued by the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Human Resources and Social Security made it clear that starting from January 8, on-site job fairs will be resumed in an all-round way to give full play to the job fair's resumption of work and production. The promotion effect of production and labor employment.
"Policy package" promotes employment
In order to effectively alleviate the employment pressure faced by graduates, the Ministry of Education also recently issued the "Notice on Doing a Good Job of Employment and Entrepreneurship for College Graduates in 2023" (hereinafter referred to as the "Notice"), and announced a number of policies to promote employment.
These include giving full play to the role of small and medium-sized enterprises in absorbing employment, launching a special campaign for private enterprises to recruit college graduates; supporting self-employment and flexible employment; improving the employment assistance mechanism; canceling employment registration certificates, etc.
Xiao Wang (pseudonym) is a third-year master's student in the School of Transportation Information Engineering and Control of Shandong University of Science and Technology, and is also a fresh graduate this year. In an interview with a reporter from Beijing Business Daily, he said, "The epidemic has indeed brought us a certain degree of difficulty in finding a job. , but the current demand for high-quality talents in some companies is also the reason why it is difficult for us to find a job.”
"The Ministry of Education's policy specifically proposes to play the role of small, medium and micro enterprises, which relieves a lot of pressure on our computer majors. Now some well-known enterprises have relatively high staff saturation and relatively low development space. , Small, medium and micro enterprises can have more opportunities and space.” Xiao Liang, a postgraduate student majoring in computer science at Hebei University of Technology, told the reporter of Beijing Business Daily.
At the same time, improving the employment assistance mechanism is also a highlight of this initiative.
A reporter from Beijing Business Daily found that Shandong Province requires members of leading groups of colleges and departments, employment guidance teachers, head teachers, full-time teachers, counselors, etc. to carry out "one-on-one" pairing assistance with students in need, and establish a support work account ; Shanxi University of Finance and Economics has opened a total of 1,294 scientific research assistant positions through the two-level development of the school, and the school provides a job-seeking subsidy of 500 yuan per person; Inner Mongolia provides social insurance subsidies for college graduates who have not been employed within two years of leaving school. .
In addition, the cancellation of the employment registration card is also a place worthy of attention in this "Notice".
"When the registration card was required, online entry and stamping were required. The cycle was relatively long, which may affect the student's settlement to a certain extent." Wang Peng said, "Cancelling the registration card will help improve the quality Efficiency enhancement is also an important part of the reform of decentralization, management and service.”
A reporter from Beijing Business Daily also noticed that some platform companies are also helping college students find jobs through their own advantages.
For example, the agricultural industry Internet service platform "One Mu Tian" will cooperate with China Agricultural University, Hebei Agricultural University, South China Agricultural University and other institutions to launch the "Xinghai Project", hoping to drive more than 10,000 college students to find jobs.
According to Hong Tao, director of the Business Economics Research Institute of Beijing Technology and Business University, this kind of school-enterprise cooperation is also a good form for employment, which can play a real role in helping.
The supply structure still needs to be optimized
For graduates, finding a good job is more difficult than finding a job.
Zhu Min, vice chairman of the China Center for International Economic Exchanges and former vice president of the International Monetary Fund, said in an interview with the media earlier, "Now the employment of college graduates is lower than that of college graduates. The employment rate is much lower, which has a lot to do with structural changes in many economic and social environments.”
Hong Tao believes that, “In the past, there was a ladder structure in talent training for doctorate, master, undergraduate, junior college, technical secondary school, and technical schools, so the corresponding talent supply structure was clear, multi-layered, and reasonable. Now many technical schools have been upgraded to Technical secondary schools, technical secondary schools were upgraded to junior colleges, junior colleges were fully transferred to undergraduates, and undergraduates were transferred to postgraduates, so the supply hierarchy changed, which also made the employment direction blurred compared with before.”
"This phenomenon reflects that the supply and demand between the overall employment structure is in a period of adjustment. From the perspective of top-level design, a large number of undergraduate and postgraduate students are currently engaged in 'white-collar' positions, while college graduates are more They are mainly industrial workers and skilled workers, and tend to be technical and practical.” Wang Peng pointed out, “In fact, from the perspective of my country’s economic development level and industrial economic categories, the real economy and industrial economy really need more Skilled workers, and for undergraduates and postgraduates, there are not as many managerial jobs, which creates an 'inversion' between the two."
"This is also related to the current education system, and further adaptation is needed in terms of what students learn and what society needs." Wang Peng emphasized.
In this regard, Zhang Jiayong, deputy director and researcher of the System Institute of the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, also holds the same view: "Universities should continue to optimize their curriculum systems to provide more needed talents for the society."
In terms of future employment and job selection, Zhang Jiayong suggested, "College students also need to face up to new trends in the job market, change their concepts, start from the fields where they can enter the job, use their strengths, grow their talents, and hone their will in the work. For quite For some college graduates, manufacturing, construction, new agriculture and other fields, as well as the central and western regions, are in great demand, and they are choices worthy of serious consideration.”