Southwest University takes multiple measures to help graduates
Help students strengthen their ability to boost employment (do a good job in the employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates ④)
Our reporter Liu Xinwu
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In order to help graduates find employment smoothly, Southwest University has taken multiple measures: put work ahead, focus on improving students’ comprehensive literacy, improve the assistance mechanism, and strengthen employment guidance; actively visit and contact employment units to understand job requirements and recommend students to apply for jobs ; Guide students to change their ideas and adjust their expectations, and provide guidance and services such as job-seeking experience sharing and resume optimization to help students find suitable jobs.
Covered with green trees and lush flowers and trees, Southwest University in Beibei District, Chongqing has closed for the summer vacation, but Tian Li, the deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Economics and Management, is unable to rest. She is concerned about a dozen classmates in the employment account.
Tian Li establishes an employment account for each master's graduate of the college, and keeps track of the dynamic situation of students who are preparing to delay employment and who are willing but have not signed a contract. She often communicates with them and makes suggestions.
The phone rang, and Tian Li answered immediately, "Okay! Congratulations, congratulations!" "This company is good, work hard!" After that, she swiped the mouse and noted on the ledger that the student had successfully found a job.
This is what makes her happiest.
At Southwest University, a large number of teachers like Tian Li actively care about students' employment and help them find suitable jobs.
Improve students' comprehensive quality
Enhance student competitiveness
After graduation and before work, Wang Lei returned to his hometown with a stack of honorary certificates such as outstanding graduates and outstanding student cadres, and his parents showed gratified smiles.
Seven years ago, this rural girl was admitted to Southwest University majoring in plant protection.
Due to the low income of his parents working, and his younger sister to support, the family was financially strapped, and Wang Lei only touched the computer when he was in his third year of high school.
The first time he came to a big city, Wang Lei was reticent and always timid when he met people.
After getting the registration form from the Student Union, he scratched his head when filling out the skill column - "I found that I have no skills at all." Wang Lei spread his hands and smiled.
However, the school provided a broad stage for Wang Lei.
With the care and encouragement of teachers, Wang Lei quickly integrated into campus life.
He learned to use computers and programming proficiently; became the head of the grade and helped the counselor to do some administrative work; participated in the academy's speech contest and practiced his eloquence...
Over the years, Wang Lei has become sunny, confident, cheerful and talkative.
In his senior year, he was successfully recommended to the graduate school for further studies with excellent grades.
Originally, there were many other good job choices after graduation, but Wang Lei chose to become a volunteer of the Western Program for College Students and worked hard in the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps.
"Employment work is not only the work of graduation, we also focus on it at ordinary times." The cadre of the Admissions and Employment Office of Southwest University told the undergraduate that the school focuses on improving the comprehensive quality of students and enhancing their competitiveness in employment.
For difficult students like Wang Lei, the school has improved the support mechanism, established a help roster, and paid special attention to relieve their worries.
The school also gives priority to providing them with work-study positions and material guarantees.
Wang Lei works part-time in the school library and other places, which eases the family's financial burden.
After 7 years of study, Wang Lei has a clear goal in life.
Not long ago, he had gone to the Great Northwest.
"As long as I can adapt to life there, I'll stay," he said.
Contact the matching employment unit
Multiple channels to expand positions
Enhance students' ability to "strengthen internal strength" and open up employment channels to "add external strength".
Mou Jinmei is a graduate of the Master of Chinese Language and Philology from the School of Literature, Southwest University.
Under the guidance of the teacher, she established a career plan as a teacher early.
In the early days of the job search, Mu Jinmei interviewed several high schools including Chongqing No. 1, No. 3, No. 8 middle schools, but unfortunately all failed in the last round of interviews.
When feeling embarrassed, the college sent a "gift package" - the leaders of the college visited the employment unit to expand their positions, established a cooperative relationship with the primary school affiliated to Southwest University, and recommended Mu Jinmei to participate in the application.
After the competition, she successfully signed a contract to become a primary school Chinese teacher.
Southwest University has implemented the "Special Action for Visiting and Promoting Employment". The school leaders take the lead in visiting enterprises and institutions, "selling" students, and also give full play to the advantages of alumni to provide more employment opportunities for students.
"The main purpose of our visits to employment units is to strengthen communication and exchange of information, but students apply for jobs in strict accordance with the application procedures." Xiang Beng said that no students have ever applied for a liquor company in Sichuan before.
Through the visit, the school learned that the other party needed some students with specific majors, and recommended the students to apply, and finally successfully signed the contract.
The school takes the lead and the college implements it.
The school incorporates employment work into the performance assessment of the college, urges various colleges (departments) and functional departments to follow up, the faculty and staff participate extensively, and all staff work together to promote the employment of graduates.
The school also promoted 11 provinces such as Sichuan, Yunnan, and Hainan to include Southwest University as a selective recruiting university to guide students to take root at the grassroots level.
This year, the number of transfer students has doubled compared to last year.
At the same time, with the party committee and government of the district where the school is located, the special action of "Thousands of People and Thousands of Posts to Help Rural Revitalization" and the entrepreneurship plan for college students are jointly launched to expand employment opportunities.
To promote employment, technical strength is indispensable.
The school promotes the construction of the "AI Intelligent Cloud Employment Service Platform" and accurately pushes jobs.
"For example, if a student from Sichuan wants to go back to his hometown to work, our system will give priority to the recruitment information in Sichuan." Introduced to the undergraduate.
Guide to adjust the concept of expectations
Carefully provide job search services
In addition to increasing employment opportunities, it is also important to help students change their employment concepts and rationally adjust their employment expectations.
"If I do it all over again, I will definitely try different positions more widely and find a job opportunity that suits me." Before graduation, graduate Liang Jing was packing books in the dormitory and preparing to leave the school, watching the younger brothers and sisters holding job-seeking guidance books Entering the library, it was as if I saw myself last year.
Liang Jing is a graduate of Southwest University with a master's degree in finance. She has always wanted to be a civil servant or work in a bank.
On the recommendation of the teachers of the college, Liang Jing came to the Chongqing Branch of Agricultural Bank of China for an internship.
The tall and majestic office building and the clean and tidy office made her yearn for it.
In the autumn of 2021, the Chongqing branch of Agricultural Bank of China only recruited 15 people, and the district and county branches recruited more, but Liang Jing insisted on choosing to apply for the branch.
Before long, reality poured cold water on her—the online application failed.
Despite the setbacks, Liang Jing was not discouraged. Every day at two o'clock, she prepared carefully for the civil service exam.
Many companies came to the school to hold lectures. Although the teachers of the college often reminded her to participate, Liang Jing didn't care and basically never went there.
Failures followed, and until the spring recruitment, Liang Jing still did not implement the work.
She began to worry, with a sad look on her face, and wanted to postpone her employment for a while.
Tian Li looked at her, talked to her, and carefully "checked the pulse" - "It doesn't matter if you fail, you must sum up your experience, open your mind, and don't just stare at one job opportunity."
Not only Liang Jing, Tian Li also convened more than a dozen students with similar experiences to have a meeting to persuade them to change their employment concepts and expand their horizons.
While changing the concept of students, while serving the guidance carefully.
Tian Li shared recruitment information peer-to-peer, and asked past graduates to come back to share their employment experience, help students carefully optimize their resumes, and guide them to improve their self-introduction...
After rationally adjusting employment expectations according to the actual situation, Liang Jing found that it was not that difficult to find a job, and then successfully signed a contract with a renewable resource enterprise in Yibin, Sichuan.
"Although I'm far away from home, my monthly income is more than 8,000 yuan, and the industry prospects are good!" Liang Jing's long-lost smile appeared on her face after receiving the call for the job notification.
In recent years, Southwest University has made every effort to implement the practical matter of graduate employment. By holding lectures, individual tutoring and other methods, it has guided students to change their employment concepts, rationally adjusted their employment expectations, and helped a group of students find suitable jobs.
After going to work, Liang Jing excitedly took out her mobile phone to report her new life to Teacher Tian Li.
"After holding a job sharing session, you can come to me to speak out. I want to provide some experience for juniors and seniors to help them open up their job-hunting horizons and ideas!" she said.