Employment season breaks through in adversity
Investigation on Employment Situation of Some Universities in Hunan
Every name on the employment registration form of every college and university leads to the happiness of a family; behind every string of rising numbers, a group of people is working hard.
For the first time, the campus gymnasium did not have a long-running corporate leader and classmates applying for offers. In the spring of 2020, Yuan Hang, a graduate student of the School of Civil Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, approached employers in a new way at home-"Open the public account, click to improve basic information, browse employment information, fill in resumes, and enter the video job fair site Listen to the lecture, interview online..."
Soon after the Spring Festival, he found a job opportunity.
In Hunan, Changsha University of Science and Technology, located in Nancheng, Changsha, was one of the earliest universities to report good news for employment-by June 12, the school’s employment rate reached 74.7%.
After the Spring Festival this year, the outbreak of the new coronary pneumonia was unexpected and caught the Chinese by surprise. The "Golden Three Silver Four" glory in the traditional spring recruitment season is no longer, and the employment of college graduates once fell into a passive situation.
The first to eat crabs, but also the first taste of meat
"In the past, there were at least a few hundred companies in the gymnasium in the spring and autumn, and the crowd was rolling. After the epidemic, both sides could not understand each other face-to-face, how could it be effective?" A director of the employment department of Changsha University told the China Youth Daily · China Youth Net reporter, at first everyone was somewhat confused.
In contrast, Changsha University of Science and Technology was caught up with an "early set." Cao Ying, the director of the school's recruiting office, revealed to the reporters of China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that the total number of 2020 graduates of the school is 8,360, including 1,700 doctoral and master students and 6,660 undergraduates. When the school formulated the epidemic prevention and control program in early February, it adjusted the employment work plan for the spring semester, paid close attention to the employer, and sent letters to the fresh graduates to communicate the adjustment strategy. On February 7, the Recruitment Office launched the “Announcement of the First Weekly Online Video Double-Selection Activity for Spring Graduates” on the official micro and official website, turning all offline recruitment activities online.
Changsha University of Science and Technology has distinctive industry characteristics. Cao Ying said that last year's recruitment, civil engineering, transportation, IT and other majors basically completed recruitment, and nearly half of the students solved the employment problem. But throughout the winter vacation, everyone in the Admissions and Employment Office was “crazy” contacting employers to seek cooperation from third-party service agencies to solve technical problems in online publicity, online video interviews, and online contracting, which dispelled employers’ online recruitment concerns. "The phone burst, and my voice shouted dumb."
It is reported that Changsha University of Science and Technology tried “cloud recruiting” as early as a year or two ago to encourage students to make electronic resumes. In 2018 and 2019, electronic signing was first attempted in Hunan Province. This inadvertently paved the way for the embarrassing situation after the epidemic.
There are far more than one university in Hunan devoted to "homework employment". Recently, Xu Zan, director of the Employment Center of Central South University, told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that after the epidemic, the school shifted employment to the "air channel" for the first time, trying to build a solid "between employers and graduates." Network Bridge".
At present, there are 15747 units in the Smart Management Platform for Employment Service of Central South University. The platform can monitor the data of the units and positions in real time, and calculate and analyze the trends and reasons, which greatly improves the efficiency of employment work.
Xiao Cai, a student at the School of Business of Central South University who once missed the autumn recruitment due to postgraduate entrance examination, is the beneficiary of this system. At home, he was "anxious and living like a year", and he repeatedly praised the "cloud recruitment" for its efficiency and convenience: he received an interview notice one day after submitting his resume, and finally found a satisfactory job.
Xu Zan introduced that at the first large-scale online recruitment fair for the 2020 graduates of Central South University not long ago, 1,055 companies participated, providing more than 68,000 jobs and receiving more than 15,000 student resumes.
Holding a group to heat up
As a 985 university, despite many efforts, as of the reporter of the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily in early June, the employment rate of Central South University was only slightly higher than that of the same period last year.
Taking medical students as an example, affected by the epidemic, most domestic hospitals are unable to operate normally, and the recruitment of health systems has been delayed. The medical graduates of Xiangya Medical College of Central South University, known as "North Association and Nanxiangya", bear the brunt.
Under the epidemic, in addition to independently holding large-scale online job fairs, major universities in Hunan have adopted alliances with foreign schools to resolve the pressure.
Central South University and Wuhan University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Zhejiang University, Tianjin University and other colleges and universities have “powerful alliances” to hold aerial dual elections with distinctive professional characteristics and concentrated geographical distribution. "The three schools jointly hold the 2020 Air Bi-Elections; at the same time, they also hold air bi-elections in the metallurgical industry, chemical industry, and medical industry with related universities, "resource sharing, eat together".
Tan Chuansheng, vice president of Changsha University of Science and Technology, said that from the Spring Festival to May 22, the school held a total of 23 online job fairs, and connected with 43 provincial and municipal public employment service information platforms, and the number of jobs provided by employers exceeded 20. Ten thousand. These positions are not "alone food", but open competition to all school students.
Hunan Normal University, a 211 university located at the foot of Yuelu Mountain, broke the situation by adopting the method of "internal connection and external introduction". On June 9, Zhou Jun, the director of the school's recruiting office, told reporters at China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that as of that day, the employment rate of graduates was 3 percentage points higher than the same period last year. "The data is not a little water, this is the result of the school's extreme."
Zhou Jun directly reported the difficulty of employment after the epidemic: As a well-known university in the central and southern regions, at that time the school greeted each other, at least one or two thousand units would come to recruit offline, and they had to review and screen again, and the campus was crowded. After the epidemic, recruitment work was not available offline, and three recruitment platforms including Yunxiao Recruitment became the main battlefield.
"Early results are good," Zhou Jun said, but in dozens of practices, they found that there are not many students and employers who are not very adapted to cloud recruitment. "Like online dating, do you still have to meet to talk about marriage?" Exploiting internal potential has become an effective means. Fully mobilizing alumni resources and giving full play to the teaching teacher's network has become the basic action of each college.
Zhou Jun, who has been responsible for recruiting for many years, said that many colleges use their own influence to directly "penetrate" across the platform to employers, which solves the trust problem of online recruitment.
In some colleges and universities, a lot of retired old teachers have also gone into battle. After the outbreak, Chen Junjie, a 79-year-old retired teacher of Changsha University of Science and Technology, rushed for online employment for students, contacted the unit through voice calls, and recommended 10 students to work in alumni companies.
How cold noodles become hot rice
According to a survey conducted by a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily, the employment of students in secretarial, accounting, journalism, tourism and other majors in many colleges and universities was greatly affected by the epidemic. South China University of Technology published a set of data. As of May 25, the employment rate of undergraduates at the School of Journalism and Communication was only 35.17%, and the signing rate was even less than 20%. The head of the recruitment department of many universities in Hunan said that science and engineering students have obvious advantages in this year's employment. For some liberal arts majors, the situation is relatively severe because of civil service recruitment, public institution recruitment, and offline education and training institutions, which make them worry the most.
In the deadlock, there are also dark horses.
Zhang Xuewen, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Tourism, Central South University of Forestry and Technology, introduced that the previous "Xiang You" had encountered great difficulties this time. In order to help students find a way out, the college has worked hard, according to the current status of the industry, put forward the "cross-border employment" work ideas, to guide graduates to employment in the fields of cultural media, education and training, network information technology. Dean Zhong Yongde took the lead and "knocked open" the "gate" of more than 20 companies by way of visits.
After learning about the needs of a media company in Hunan, they recommended 6 students to participate in the application. Among them, Liu Mingjing, Huang Manhe and other 4 students successfully passed the hiring assessment, and after signing the diploma, they can formally sign up for employment.
Zhang Xuewen said that mastering the needs of employers is crucial. Teachers of the School Work Office often take the initiative to communicate with the human resources department of the employer. Under the premise of meeting the requirements of the position, the graduate's resume statement and interview guidance are improved, and students are encouraged to try boldly and slowly reverse the passive situation.
The practice at Hunan Normal University is similar. Among its 206 students at the Tourism Institute, more than half of them were employed in early June.
In the employment list of Central South University, the most surprising thing is that the College of Liberal Arts is at the forefront, with an employment rate of over 80%. Xu Zan, director of the Employment Center of Central South University, believes that the situation has been reversed. On the one hand, there are factors in the leadership team of the college to come up with all the contacts. On the other hand, the college has caught the job very early. Freshman began to promote employment education, the second-stage simulation of the workplace exam, resume and training. "The early bird flies farther!"
However, several responsible persons of colleges and universities pointed out that Changsha’s colleges and universities have regional advantages, which is unmatched by other local schools in Hunan. Especially for the two colleges that are not in Changsha, the employment pressure on liberal arts majors this year is very great. "We used to say that civil service exams, students from prestigious schools failed to pass ordinary school students, but now this work has been delayed." They suggested that students should be mobilized to participate in the recruitment of primary and secondary school teachers, special post teachers, three branches and one support, western plan, etc. To become a realistic choice.
The structural contradiction of college employment in epidemic situation is outstanding
The information systems of many colleges and universities in Changsha and the information provided by them show that the structural contradiction of college employment is very prominent in the epidemic.
From the data point of view, the demand for practical positions is greater than that for research positions, and science and engineering is more than liberal arts. Computer, automation, machinery, civil engineering, materials and other majors in the above schools are very popular, but some unpopular majors are still difficult to pry.
A spokesman for the National Bureau of Statistics said on June 15 that due to the epidemic situation, the company's production and operation difficulties are outstanding, and the demand for recruitment and employment has declined. Some individual industrial and commercial households and small and micro enterprises have recovered slowly after the epidemic, and employment absorption has been affected. From January to May, there were 4.6 million new jobs in cities and towns across the country, a year-on-year decrease of 1.37 million. The feedback from some colleges and universities shows that quite a few private enterprises have lowered their salaries, some even up to 30%.
Many college recruiters told the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporters that there is a big gap between graduates and employers in terms of job requirements and salary. School students' previous salary is used as a reference, and employers need to face the actual economic situation. For example, Hunan colleges and universities majoring in computer science have a starting salary of at least 300,000 yuan per year, and the highest can earn 600,000 yuan. Nowadays, there is a sharp decrease in the number of companies with annual salary of more than 300,000 yuan, which has led many graduates to focus on more stable government agencies and state-owned enterprises and industry leaders.
Xu Zan said that non-ferrous mining and processing enterprises are the “traditional strengths” of Central South University graduates, but there were signs of faults in the past few years. After the epidemic, this sector was valued by students, and employment data doubled. This year, the Hubei Daye family included dozens of students, and Huawei took more than 80 people. Only 300 graduates have a 90% employment rate in the Transportation College, of which more than 150 are employed by the National Railways, Rail Transit Group and CRRC Group.
There are also colleges and universities reporting that the employment of legal students also suffers from uneven grief and happiness. There are a lot of opportunities, and salary growth is also fast. But many students expect to enter the Public Prosecution Law Department, and many people are waiting for the exam, so their desire for employment is not positive. "We want to have a bowl of rice to eat first, but students want to serve a good bowl at a time."
Personnel from the recruiting department of Hunan Normal University and Changsha University of Science and Technology pointed out that the desire for high academic qualifications caused by the concept of high talent consumption is increasing, and the phenomenon of non-employment and slow employment is gradually becoming more prominent.
Marketization forced education reform
Zhou Jun said that many students now want to enter big cities, and their willingness to find employment at the grassroots level has declined. "A counsellor called the parents after contacting the unit. When they were not in a big city, the parents refused, saying that it would be no trouble to raise the children for another year or two." He lamented that at that time, his generation of college students were all mature at the grassroots level. Come back later, but now the parents' goal is too realistic.
He believes that such positioning has errors, because parents' desires, children's abilities and actual market requirements are often different.
For example, there are teachers in Changsha that many teachers are looking for, but the competitive pressure of examinations is as high as 1:500. Fresh students must not only compete with outstanding national students, but also face old teachers with years of work experience. "Counselors do work, they can go to private schools to exercise for a few years and try again, or they can go to other prefecture-level schools, so there are more opportunities. But knowing is easy to do." Zhou Jun said that the country has given many policies, and enterprises also have Opportunity, student initiative and ability become the key.
He often gave an example to the students to preach: an assistant he had brought into a central enterprise went to work in Shanghai for several months, but he returned to Changsha because of the pressure and found a decent job.
"After one experience, people can find their own position." A person in charge of a university in Hunan told a reporter at the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that 10% of the unemployed students at the school have offers, but most of them Wait for a better opportunity. In fact, the country's economy is large, and after slowly recovering, the employment problem can always be solved. "From the historical point of view, no matter how difficult, it has been digested in a few years."
The structural problems of employment this year are outstanding, which has attracted the attention of many universities. Tan Chuansheng, vice president of Changsha University of Science and Technology, believes that the quality of teaching is the key to the quality of employment, and the teaching needs to transform the requirements of the standard society, and the actual needs of the employers must be considered, changing from time to time in order to have more Employment opportunities. The person in charge of the recruitment office of Central South University of Forestry and Technology also said that in the future enrollment and employment must establish a linkage mechanism.
Zhou Guangli, deputy dean of the School of Education of Renmin University of China, recently pointed out in an interview with a reporter from the China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that universities and colleges develop their majors according to their professional catalogs and use this as a resource to control, rather than to run schools according to social needs. The result will inevitably lead to a disconnect between the university’s major and the market. Colleges and universities seek majors and perfections, and majors that are disconnected from the market and industry are constantly training people who are not needed by society. This is actually a huge waste.
Zhou Guangli said that Germany, Denmark and other European universities combined with industrial development to cultivate talents worth learning. Domestic universities in the eastern and southern coastal regions like Zhejiang University and Sun Yat-sen University are already advancing the pace of reform and abolishing a number of majors that do not meet the needs of the market. He believes that this is also due to the competitive pressure of the job market. The general trend of future reforms is that colleges and universities should establish introspection and evaluation mechanisms, connect the majors of universities with social needs, and integrate production and education, rather than separating higher education from society.
China Youth Daily reporter Hong Kefei Source: China Youth Daily
June 22, 2020 version 05