Chinanews client, Beijing, July 16th (Ren Jing) Recently, there has been a lot of "contrast news" about the employment of college students.

Zhongchuan graduated from the master's degree and sold houses, and the National People's University and Wuhan University graduates went to cigarette factories. More and more high-educated graduates entered the low-threshold industries in the traditional sense, which inevitably caused heated public opinion.

　　Is the job market rising, or is the value of academic qualifications really depreciating?

With more diversified employment opportunities and employment options, how should we correctly understand the "first step" for college students to enter society?

Data map: 2021 undergraduate graduation ceremony and degree-granting ceremony of a university.

Photo by Yang Bo

Cigarette workers, sellers...

The employment of college students in Kochi surprised you?

　　Another graduation season.

　　When more than 9 million graduates poured into the job market, the fierce competition for talents can be imagined.

Stepping out of the "ivory tower", quite a few of these young people who have just entered the society choose to enter non-used industries, get jobs first, and then choose jobs.

　　But some college students who started their careers in other ways have attracted controversy in public opinion.

As a result, graduates from prestigious schools go to the assembly line of cigarette factories, and graduates with high academic qualifications to work as real estate agents have become the hot news in this graduation season.

　　Yao Qinwen, born in 1995, is a master's degree graduate of Communication University of China. Before that, she worked as an intern in a real estate agency store to complete her graduation thesis research.

　　Unexpectedly, after 3 months of work, she was really attracted by this career.

After graduation, the girl who has studied journalism for many years drove an electric car and rode on the career path of a real estate agency.

　　"Post-95 graduates and go to sell houses" once appeared on the Internet hot search list. Highly educated college students went to sell houses and caused people to argue about "depreciation of academic qualifications".

　　One wave has not settled and another wave has risen.

Recently, "Henan China Tobacco Industry Co., Ltd. 2021 College Student Recruitment Announcement" has aroused heated discussions among netizens.

　　In the "Publicity", the graduate schools that are planning to recruit personnel for "first-line production operations positions" include Renmin University of China, Wuhan University, Zhengzhou University, Hohai University, and other 985 and 211 schools, and there are also a large number of postgraduates.

　　As a result, "Renmin University and Wuhan University graduated cigarettes" has become a hot topic on the Internet, and netizens exclaimed: "Education really depreciates?!"

Data Map: Photo by Wang Dengfeng of China News Service at a job fair

The job market is rising, or is education really depreciating?

　　"Renmin University graduates to cigarettes", "Chinese master's degree to sell a house", "Bilingual master's resignation to be a nanny"... Behind the continuous emergence of such news, more and more highly educated talents are pouring into traditionally low-threshold industries. The status quo.

　　In response to the controversy over the recruitment of famous school students by the cigarette factory, the relevant person in charge of the Henan China Tobacco Human Resources Department told the media: "Our Henan China Tobacco recruiting staff requires a bachelor degree or above. It is normal to have graduates or postgraduates from prestigious schools."

　　The entry of highly educated talents into the real estate agency industry is actually not a new topic.

A real estate app.

Screenshots

　　A real estate agency app deliberately uses "double first-class colleges" as one of the tags for users to search and find real estate agents.

The APP indicates the university graduated under each real estate agent's avatar, and you can see that many of them are graduates from prestigious schools.

　　According to the "2021 College Student Real Estate Broker Career Survey Report" released by an intermediary agency, the scale of college real estate brokers continues to expand.

In the past three years, the number of college student brokers has increased by more than 50%. In Beijing and Shanghai, college student brokers with a bachelor's degree accounted for more than 60%.

The picture shows netizens' comments

　　Faced with such a situation, many netizens said: "a waste of resources" and "it is a pity to do this job at this academic stage", but some netizens expressed helplessness, "Masters are worthless", "Doctors are not new to sell houses." .

　　From an analysis point of view, with the expansion of the enrollment scale of colleges and universities, especially the expansion of the enrollment scale of postgraduate students, the employment requirements of employers will also "rising.

Under the employment competition, some positions previously dominated by higher vocational college graduates may be recruited for undergraduates or even postgraduates.

Data map: The scene of the 2021 job fair organized by Qinghai Province.

Photo by Sun Rui

People make the best use of their talents

How does the society treat diversified employment in a normal mind?

　　Some critics say that for individuals, any kind of career choice itself is understandable, and the outside world does not need to have too much moral judgment.

However, when a type of career choice phenomenon has caused widespread public concern and is clearly inconsistent with existing career judgments, it should not be ignored.

It is necessary to think deeply about why such a talent market is formed and how it should be optimized.

　　Facing the controversy of "depreciation of academic qualifications" in public opinion, Xiong Bingqi, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, said that whether academic qualifications depreciate depends on the actions and contributions of highly educated talents after entering traditional positions.

　　"If the influx of highly educated talents promotes the improvement of the employer's overall level and competitiveness, then the academic qualifications have played their due value."

　　Xiong Bingqi said that if high-educated talents are employed in traditional low-educated positions, the content and essence of the work content has not changed and cannot bring real progress to the unit, the academic qualifications are indeed depreciated.

　　However, employment options are inherently diverse. When asked what he thinks about selling a house after graduating with a master’s degree in China Transmission, Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, said, “Whether you choose to sell a house or do professional-related work, it’s actually personal. select."

　　Earlier, Lu Buxuan, a pork seller of Peking University who was focused by the media, also revealed in an interview with the media, “Our company recruits college students and graduate students to sell pork. They have grown from front-line positions to support the company’s rapid development. This is what we do. Innovative changes made in this industry.

　　In the opinion of experts, academic qualifications and majors should be tools for individual job hunting and self-realization rather than constraints.

In the era of popularization of higher education, new employees from all walks of life will have college diplomas.

If high-degree personnel can promote the improvement of the service level of the industry they enter, it will be valuable for both the industry and the individual.

　　Xiong Bingqi believes that instead of paying attention to the depreciation of higher education qualifications, it is better to pay more attention to the quality of talent training in colleges and universities.

The benign interaction between the development of higher education and the development of society and economy should be based on the quality of talent training. High-quality talents in all walks of life and make innovative contributions will promote the upgrading of the industry as a whole, and will also create creations for future university graduates. More job demand.

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