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"Post-epidemic" employment season
9.09 million, which is the total scale of 2021 college graduates just given by the Ministry of Education.
For college students who are looking for work, this year's employment season is even more challenging under the COVID-19 pandemic.
Early planning of their careers and active participation in recruitment activities. Many college students choose to get early offers during the autumn recruitment; some college students no longer blindly follow the trend to chase the "iron rice bowl" and "first-tier cities", hoping to use their abilities to create at the grassroots level world.
A reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily observed that when nearly tens of millions of college students flooded into the job market, every graduate made early preparations to avoid the impact of the epidemic.
And colleges, education departments, and employers are also working hard to continuously expand resources, guide employment, and escort the employment of college students.
Interweaving 8.74 million and 9.09 million
"Sometimes I have to take a sigh of relief when I go out for an interview, telling myself that I must stand firm, and meditate on it many times in my heart..." Lin Zi (pseudonym) is a 2020 graduate, and both undergraduates and masters are studying at the North China "211" Colleges.
In her view, the major she studied was partial to science and engineering, and it was too niche. Due to various subjective and objective reasons, neither the autumn recruitment nor the spring recruitment of 2020 could find a suitable job. So far, she has been waiting for work at home for several months.
Recently, Lin Zi received an offer and was hesitant to go.
"I may have been waiting and watching for too long, and I have always been uncertain about which job I should sign, and I have hesitated until now. In fact, I am not very satisfied with the job now, but my family and friends have persuaded me to settle down... …"
"Employ first before choosing a career." Lin Zi said.
And when the employment problem of 8.74 million 2020 graduates has not come to an end, 9.09 million 2021 job seekers have also entered the battlefield.
Yu Hanyu, a counselor in the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Hunan University, has been working on the employment of college students. From the beginning of this year to now, she has been very touched by the employment work accompanying two-term students.
"After the outbreak of the epidemic at the beginning of the year, the employment of graduates has been severely impacted. The most direct impact is that all job search methods have been changed from offline to online. Many students who held a wait-and-see mentality during the autumn recruitment period originally wanted to increase their employment during the spring recruitment period. To show your skills and get an ideal offer, you can imagine that there are no offline job fairs in schools or even the whole country. In addition to studying and living at home for a long time, the pressure of job hunting has doubled. The situation of postgraduate entrance examinations, slow employment, and non-employment in the'WWII' has increased significantly. Yu said.
Compared with the unpreparedness under the impact of the epidemic, Yu Hanyu started to prepare early in order to cope with the job search pressure of 2021 graduates.
"In May and June of this year, we have already started the preparations for the employment of 2021 graduates, which has never been done before." Yu Hanyu told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that she started training students before the summer vacation. With the employment awareness, we urge everyone to prepare resumes and conduct one-on-one employment counseling. At the same time, they also constantly help students modify their resumes and mock interviews.
The Ministry of Education and other relevant departments are also continuing to pay attention to the employment problem of unemployed graduates who have left school.
"As long as the positions of unemployed graduates from school have not been implemented, the education system must continue to provide support and make them a continuous kite." At the press conference held by the Ministry of Education on September 28, the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education Director Wang Hui said so.
Wang Hui said that for the unemployed graduates who have left school, some party and government agencies, institutions, and state-owned enterprises will arrange recruitment in the second half of the year. The Ministry of Education will guide localities and universities to guide unemployed students who are willing to apply for employment.
In addition, local universities and colleges should do a good job of linking information with local human resources and social departments to ensure that graduates who are willing to find employment are fully included in the social public employment service system, and strictly implement the policy of keeping graduates’ household registration and files in school for two years in accordance with regulations, and continue Special online recruitment activities for unemployed graduates leaving school.
Shocking "difficulties in employment" and "seeking talents"
When the 2021 graduates enter the employment "battlefield", there are also many challenges to meet them.
Liang Wanying, a senior student majoring in tourism management at Guangzhou University, is a member of the employment official account, class notice, and recruitment network of schools and colleges, and runs between various job fairs and presentations.
With the continuous advancement of autumn recruitment, many companies have entered the stage of supplementary recruitment, but she still only got a Guan trainee offer in the display direction, and she refused because the profession was too unmatched.
Usually, most of the students with the same major as her will choose to work in the fields of exhibition, hotel, and tourism.
These industries are facing the most direct impact under the epidemic.
If there is no epidemic, Liang Wanying hopes that she can enter the tourism industry. She has also done internships such as exhibition hall explanations and tour guides, but the impact of the epidemic has made her lose the opportunity to find counterpart jobs.
"The tourism industry has suffered a lot. Students of tourism management can only choose functional positions in management in various companies to compete with other major management students such as business administration and public management. Perhaps their majors are more inclined to management. We are more inclined to travel." Liang Wanying said, but she felt that everyone's competitiveness is actually similar, because the content of management majors is similar in undergraduate studies.
For many college students seeking jobs, it is more at ease to "hold an offer" early.
According to the stratified sampling questionnaire survey conducted by BOSS for the 2021 fresh graduates, as of the end of October 2020, 19.5% of the students have had at least one offer. While waiting for a better chance, only 11.3% of the students have not yet started their job search. There is no plan to look for a full-time job/freelance or start a business.
Although the epidemic has brought a lot of impact on the employment of college students, many professionals believe that the difficulty in finding a job for college students is actually a structural contradiction. On the one hand, it is difficult for college graduates to find a job. On the other hand, many industries and industries face Severe talent shortage.
Wu Hao, a graduate student in the School of Materials Science and Engineering of Hunan University, feels that his major is not so difficult to find a job.
"Beginning this summer vacation, I started to deliver resumes and interviews for written examinations. I think I am more suitable for dealing with people and broadening my horizons. I already got the offer in September. Now there are five or six offers, but I The process of job hunting has not stopped, mainly large private enterprises and state-owned enterprises related to majors." Wu Hao said.
From an industry perspective, the "2020 China University Student Employment Report" released by the Max Research Institute shows that the industry with the largest employment proportion of undergraduate graduates is the "education industry" (employment ratio 15.9%).
Other industries with a relatively large employment ratio and growth are the construction industry (employment ratio 8.9%), information transmission, software and information technology services (employment ratio 8.9%), and various professional design and consulting services (employment ratio) 5.8%), culture, sports and entertainment industry (employment ratio 4.6%).
Zhang Chao, director of the Student Career Development Guidance Center of Tsinghua University, said in an interview with a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily: “In the second quarter of this year, we have observed that some companies have contracted recruitment, and the contraction of non-critical positions is not special. For important or not particularly critical positions, those who can be recruited or not may not be recruited first."
Although everyone says that "employment is difficult", many places are still "seeking talents."
Not long ago, the relevant departments of Jiangsu Province made a special trip to Beijing to hold a press conference to release information on the 2021 outstanding college graduate talents and urgently needed talent needs, and held special job fairs in Peking University and Tsinghua University.
It is reported that Jiangsu Province selected 11,294 high-quality jobs in the first batch of 3,056 enterprises and institutions across the province, and issued 65,122 talent needs nationwide.
Zhu Congming, deputy director of the Department of Human Resources and Social Security of Jiangsu Province, said: “From the perspective of talent demand, the first batch of talent demands proposed by relevant units in the 13 districts, cities and provinces in the province has increased by 27.5% year-on-year; The demand for outstanding college graduates accounted for more than 98.4%, which is the largest demand for college graduates in Jiangsu Province over the years.” It is understood that the proportion of college graduates specifically recruited for vacancies in public institutions in Jiangsu this year and the next is no less than the total number of recruited positions. 70%, no less than 50% for state-owned enterprises, and no less than 50% for the government to purchase grassroots posts.
In terms of the current employment situation, Zhang Chao believes that many places and large enterprises still provide a large number of jobs.
"From the current situation, the economy is gradually recovering, and the resumption of work and production of enterprises is gradually returning to normal, so I believe that this employment season will provide more opportunities for graduates than in the first half of the year."
Get started early and plan rationally
The employment season is a big test for graduates, colleges and universities, and education departments. Under the influence of the epidemic, this battle, which is staged every year, came very early this year.
"In May this year, I submitted my first resume." Wu Hao said that compared with his seniors, he had a sense of crisis early in the employment season this year, in order to leave himself more abundant. In time, he and his classmates made all preparations in advance.
"In fact, as soon as I enrolled, I began to think about my own employment. In the first half of this year, I was looking for an internship, preparing a resume, thinking about what kind of job I was suitable for, and seeking job search advice from seniors and teachers. There are some in May and June this year. The company started the pre-approved recruitment, and I invested two or three shares at that time." Wu Hao said.
In order to ensure that college students can find their favorite job as soon as possible, college students, employers, and universities have tacitly advanced the pace of recruitment this fall.
According to the data of the BOSS Institute of Direct Employment, from July to the end of October 2020, the campus autumn recruitment for 2021 freshmen will gradually start.
The overall autumn recruitment cycle has moved forward, and the recruitment scale has increased by 24.7% compared with the same period in 2019.
Since July, the number of graduating students in the 2021 graduating class who have begun to seek jobs is 42.1% higher than the 2020 graduating students in the same period in 2019.
For the employment work in the past two years, relevant departments have also made various arrangements.
On December 1, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held the 2021 National College Graduate Employment and Entrepreneurship Network Video Conference in Beijing.
The meeting pointed out that the total scale of college graduates in 2021 is expected to be 9.09 million, an increase of 350,000 year-on-year, and the employment situation is severe and complex.
On the same day, the Ministry of Education issued a notice on the employment and entrepreneurship of the 2021 national college graduates.
The notice emphasizes that for policy positions, it is necessary to implement policies such as the main recruitment of fresh college graduates for vacant positions in the party and government agencies, institutions, and state-owned enterprises in this year and next, and coordinate the recruitment work arrangements, and strive to be by the end of June 2021 Complete the recruitment of all policy-related positions.
For market-oriented positions, organize and organize a series of activities to connect the supply and demand of employment and entrepreneurship in key provinces, key cities, key industries, and small, medium and micro enterprises.
Universities in all regions should actively contact employers and recruitment agencies to broaden the source of job information in various ways.
Encourage the organization of regional, industry, and alliance recruitment activities.
Regarding the "forced tripartite signing" and other issues that have existed in the employment of college students in recent years, the notice pointed out that it should promote party and government agencies, institutions, and state-owned enterprises to take the lead in reversing the employment orientation of "only prestigious schools" and "only academic qualifications." In operation, graduate colleges, foreign (overseas) learning experiences, and learning methods (full-time and part-time) must not be used as restrictive conditions, and a talent utilization mechanism that is oriented by morality and ability and targeted at job needs is established to change The "high consumption" of talents creates an eclectic employment atmosphere that reduces talents.
Zhang Chao also realized that the autumn recruitment season of Tsinghua University came very early this year.
"In September last year, I was still investigating. But in September of this year, I was already busy in school. In this month, we have carried out more than 20 job fairs." Zhang Chao said that this year's school autumn The overall premise of the recruitment season is to use the period when the epidemic is relatively stable to provide students with more job opportunities.
It is understood that since September, Tsinghua University has held a resume carnival, career image carnival and other "career counseling month" activities.
The school invites senior HR professionals in the industry to enter the campus to provide industry awareness and one-on-one resume revisions in both Chinese and English. The Career Image Carnival invites the well-known and time-honored China Photo Studio to enter the Tsinghua Park, allowing graduates to experience the epidemic during the epidemic. You can enjoy professional ID photo shooting services without leaving the campus.
Compared with previous years, the demand for students continues to increase this year, and the number of applicants increased by about 33% over last year.
This year’s employment season, there are so many college students who are well prepared for the war.
"I recently participated in 4 interviews, and every time I interviewed with students from Tsinghua University or Peking University." Wang Zhen (pseudonym) from Beijing Jiaotong University said.
"When the unit recruits people, it will definitely choose the one with the highest degree of matching with the job. Overqualified (overqualified, overqualified) may not necessarily be required." Wang Zhen said, and "previous seniors have also experienced interviews. It was normal to compete with the students in the northern capital of Qing Dynasty at that time. After all, they were in Beijing."
Some people label this phenomenon as the popular "involution" label, but it is not so much that this kind of involution brings anxiety to college students. It is better to say that the competition brought about by involution is forcing college students to do more for employment. adequate preparation.
"Verification" is the most obvious preparation.
The English certificate of CET-4 and CET and the computer grade certificate have long been unable to satisfy the appetite of college students. The teacher qualification certificate, secretary qualification certificate, accounting certificate, driving license, business English certificate, nutritionist qualification certificate, logistics professional qualification certificate, etc. have almost become Many college students' resumes are "standard".
In addition, college students have become more and more planned from the initial "follow the trend" textual research. "After entering the university, freshmen can ask for the "verification" tips from their seniors. Those who are interested will start from the beginning of the freshman year. Planning." Wang Zhen said.
Choose "enter the system" and "lower the grassroots"
When the “verification fever” is no longer blind but planning, the employment of college students has become more rational, and this rationality is particularly important for employment after the epidemic.
Zheng Yuan (pseudonym), a graduate student of a “985” university in Beijing, majored in civil engineering and construction engineering. Like many recent graduates, he is busy looking for a job.
However, he told a reporter from China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily that although the employment situation this year is more severe than in previous years, according to his understanding, “the subway projects that have been suspended in many cities are now being started one after another. These signs indicate that the country is in Policies have begun to lean towards infrastructure. Roads, railways, urban rail and other projects not only help solve people’s livelihood problems, but can also drive labor employment. In contrast, the growth of the real estate industry, which was considered by many to be “highly paid” Some are weak.
After rational thinking, some new trends emerged.
Xue Ping is a master's degree in English in the class of 2020. Many "predecessors" with the same major will first choose foreign companies and the financial industry after graduation, and some will enter the tourism industry.
However, Xue Ping firmly chose to be an English teacher in primary and secondary schools. “Especially after experiencing this epidemic, I think it is important to have a stable job within the system.” Xue Ping said.
In August of this year, the news that “Yuhang District of Hangzhou City recruited a group of graduate students from Tsinghua University and Peking University to work in the neighborhood” even aroused widespread concern in the society. People think that this is "a waste of talents and overkill."
Regardless of people's views on this phenomenon, it cannot be ignored that "within the system" has become an important way for college students to find employment.
In fact, the trend of employment of college students returning to the system has become more and more obvious.
Last year, a special survey on "College Students' Outlook on Employment and Entrepreneurship" conducted by the Youth Development Department of the Communist Youth League Central Committee showed that 71.6% of college students preferred work units within the system.
At the end of last year, the data released by Peking University’s 2019 Graduate Employment Quality Report also showed the same characteristics. The report showed that 27.14% of Peking University’s graduates in 2019 were employed by state-owned enterprises and went to higher education institutions. The proportion of employment is 18.04%, the proportion of employment in party and government agencies is 17.08%, and only 20% of those in private enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises.
Another strong evidence that "within the system" has become a new trend in the employment of college students is the continuous high fever of the civil service examination called the "National Examination". "And other topics have been on the hot search one after another.
Going to the grassroots, to the west, and to the places most needed by the motherland has now become a new option for more and more college students.
Since the beginning of this year, the "Special Post Program", "College Student Village Officials", "Three Branches and One Support" and "Western Program" and other central grassroots employment projects have continued to be implemented and expanded.
Among them, the "Special Post Program" increased by 5,000 people, bringing the total to 105,000; the "Three Supports and One Support" increased by 5,000 people, and the scale was expanded to 32,000.
In 2020-2021, 20,000 volunteers from the "Western Program" national project will be recruited to work at the grassroots level in the western region.
At Peking University, more than 60% of post-90s are selected.
Zhou Fubo is a graduate of the Department of Sociology of Peking University. He was selected for the 2016 orientation of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He is currently the first secretary of Fuxing Village, Linxu Town, Mashan County, Nanning City.
When he was a student, Zhou Fubo actively participated in social and public investigations. The high-rise buildings in Beijing and Shenzhen, the rural areas in Wenzhou, Zhejiang and Huainan, Anhui have left his footprints.
In the end, he chose his life direction, "from the west, back to the west, from the society, and finally back to the society".
At the beginning of 2020, a message went viral, "Sweet past first love!"
The first secretary of Peking University graduated with a family of three "endorsements" for his sweet career.
Zhou Fubo joined hands with his wife and children to act as the "spokesperson" for the sweet sugar orange from Fuxing Village on new media platforms such as Douyin and Kuaishou.
Since then, the demonstration park can receive 100-200 online orders every day, opening the way for sales.
In March 2020, Fuxing Village was officially approved as the 2019 poverty alleviation village.
By November 2020, all 380 households with 1,630 poor people in Fuxing Village will be lifted out of poverty.
"The grassroots is the best field. We go to work at the grassroots level and blend our youth into the mountains and rivers of the motherland, into the vast rural fields, absorb nutrients in the fields, experience growth, and youth can shine at the grassroots level." Zhou Fubo said.
Sugon's new business and new model
In order to create more "outlets" for the majority of graduates, the Ministry of Education on the one hand continues to expand the number of policy-related posts, broaden the employment channels at the grassroots level, promote the recruitment of college students, and also expand the scale of recruitment of research assistants, and carry out undergraduate, master, and Expansion of the second bachelor's degree.
In addition, the Ministry of Education requires that “one person, one file” and “one person, one policy” require key assistance to help poor students who are willing to find employment as soon as possible, and continue to implement the “one gang one” initiative for employment and entrepreneurship of college graduates across the country and Hubei universities.
Not long ago, Wu Aihua, deputy director of the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education, said that under the combined effect of many policies, the employment results of the 2020 college graduates are generally stable and better than expected.
Yue Changjun, a professor at the School of Education and the Institute of Educational Economics of Peking University, said that college graduates should not always focus on external conditions such as income, salary, corporate reputation, etc. when applying for a job. They should pay more attention to the creation of each job for society. The value of.
When your eyes change, you will find that there are many jobs with a lot of talent gaps. "In fact, there are many job opportunities. For example, in the central and western universities, such as some state-owned enterprises, college students need to change their employment concepts."
More importantly, "The epidemic will only have an adverse impact on my country's economic development in the short term, and the long-term trend of my country's economic development will not change. After the epidemic, some industries will usher in greater development opportunities. , New industries, new formats, new technologies, and new occupations will continue to appear.” Yue Changjun said.
China Youth Daily and China Youth Daily reporters also found in the interview that the "teaching and examination fever" (primary and secondary school teacher qualification examination) that has been "blow-out" in the past two years has shown different characteristics from the past. The college students in the team have not only set their sights on public primary and secondary schools with “iron rice bowls”. More and more people have set their sights on private primary and secondary schools and off-campus training institutions. Online education is an industry that has developed rapidly after the epidemic.
New business formats and new models are emerging.
In July this year, the National Development and Reform Commission and other 13 departments jointly issued the "Opinions on Supporting the Healthy Development of New Business Types and New Models, Activating the Consumer Market and Driving Employment Expansion", which proposed support for the development of 15 new business types and new models, and "online education" is among them. In addition, new fields such as Internet medical care, convenient online office, digital transformation of traditional enterprises, "unmanned economy", and sharing economy are also worthy of college students’ attention. New formats and models will create more new jobs for college students. Opportunities and employment space.
It is worth noting that “college graduates are not only today’s job seekers, they will also be future producers, entrepreneurs and job providers.” Yue Changjun said.
Indeed, just as a large number of graduates are fighting various job fairs, more and more college graduates have embarked on their own way of finding a way out.
This year, Cui Tengfei, who graduated from Beijing Vocational College of Economics and Management, majoring in electrical automation, recently formed a team with two seniors to participate in the 6th China International "Internet+" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition and won the "Professional Track" Silver Award.
As the co-founder of the company "Iceberg Data", he has also gone through two years.
In recent years, entrepreneurship has gradually become one of the employment channels for college graduates.
According to Wu Yan, Director of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, only taking the "Internet +" University Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition as an example, according to sample surveys, the total number of participating projects in the first five college student innovation and entrepreneurship competitions has landed more than 70,000 enterprises, creating jobs There are more than 600,000 jobs, indirectly driving more than 4 million jobs.
Nearly 90% of the projects for establishing companies after the game were established in the first year after the game, about half of the companies completed financing, and 19% of the projects completed financing of more than 50 million yuan.
The survey conducted by the “Comprehensive Survey of Employment Situation of Chinese College Graduates During the Epidemic” conducted by the Northeast Normal University, a key research base for humanities and social sciences of the Ministry of Education, also confirmed this point of view from the data: The proportion of entrepreneurs who want to start a business after a few years of experience is 45.85%, 3.71% hope to start a business after graduation, and 50.44% do not consider starting a business at all.
In other words, nearly half of college students are willing to start a business after graduation.
Earlier this month, the 2021 National College Graduates Employment and Entrepreneurship Promotion Action (Hubei·Wuhan) Matchmaking Conference was launched in Hongshan Gymnasium.
The hot scenes of offline job fairs quickly spread online. Although the global epidemic is still raging, the popularity of Wuhan Hongshan Gymnasium, which was once a shelter hospital, is recovering, and people believe that the epidemic will always pass.
China Youth Daily·China Youth Daily reporter Ye Yuting Fan Weichen, intern Zhang Shi Zhenyang Yang Source: China Youth Daily