Employment New Fashion Youth Going Afar
A Summary of College Students Volunteering in the West Plan to Promote College Students' Employment
Not surprisingly, Zhao Wenlong, who was born in the 00s, will go to a distant place after graduation.
It would be a 3,800-kilometer journey from Nanjing to Lhasa, a transformation from students to volunteers that lasted 1-3 years.
What brings all this is the College Student Volunteering West Program (hereinafter referred to as the "Western Program").
It is understood that this year, more than 250,000 fresh graduates and postgraduate students from more than 2,400 colleges and universities signed up for the Western Program, and the number of applicants reached a record high.
It can be said that the Western Plan is becoming a highly recognized employment option for college graduates.
The full implementation of the Western Plan and other grassroots projects for college students is one of the important measures for the whole group to implement the requirements of the Party Central Committee this year and ensure the employment of more than 100,000 college students.
It is understood that this year, the total scale of new recruits in the western region will be expanded to 36,700, including 11,000 for national projects and 25,700 for local projects.
The Communist Youth League organizations at all levels and the Western Planning Project Office, in accordance with the requirements of “promoting the key tasks of the whole regiment in a single game”, take their respective responsibilities in post setting, publicity and guidance, recruitment and selection, and make concerted efforts to jointly manage and advance collaboratively. All work progresses It went well, and now it has entered the post docking stage as a whole.
Implementing the Party's Requirements to Help Youth Employment
Zhao Wenlong, who was born in Anshan, Liaoning Province, is a 2022 graduate of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, majoring in applied statistics.
When he first went to college, he was full of yearning for the frontier. After learning about the western plan, he decided to sign up for it.
Whenever she recalled that she drove into Lhasa by car and passed the Potala Palace, An Yumei could still feel the excitement of 8 years ago.
Since that day, the post-90s who grew up in Tongren, Guizhou and studied in Jiangsu have forged an indissoluble bond with Lhasa.
In the Lhasa Statistics Bureau, where An Yumei served, she was the only college student who had studied statistics in the bureau at that time, and the leaders placed great hopes on her.
But the gap between theory and practice can only be filled with experience, and she often has to get familiar with and grope for simple reports.
It is gold that always shines, and expertise is never useless.
In 2016, with the reform of the national statistical system, it was not easy for local cadres to learn the materials distributed by the superiors. In the end, An Yumei took over the task of training subordinate units and enterprises, and used professional knowledge to promote the implementation of the new system.
After the service period expired, An Yumei found that she could not do without here. She was admitted to the Economic Development Bureau of the Management Committee of Lhasa High-tech Zone, and now she has become the backbone of the unit. child.
Across the country, there are still many young people like An Yumei who have found their ideal jobs and realized their self-worth in the grassroots through the Western Plan.
As one of the special projects of the central department to guide and encourage college graduates to work at the grassroots level, the Western Plan has become an important platform for college students to exercise and grow.
Since 2003, a total of 410,000 volunteers have gone to the grassroots level to provide services through participating in the Western Plan.
Objectively, the Western Plan has become a transitional way to ease employment pressure.
The Communist Youth League organizations at all levels and the Western Planning and Project Office guide college graduates to establish a correct employment concept, practice and exercise at the grassroots level in the west, and take the first step to enter the "social university".
Optimizing post settings to expand employment supply
Li Fan is a 2017 Japanese graduate of Jinan University. After graduating in 2021, he came to Nyingchi, Tibet as a volunteer of the Western Program, and took up news and publicity work in the ninth batch of aid teams in Guangdong Province.
For 4 years at the university, Li Fan has been the monitor, and also served as the deputy secretary of the undergraduate party branch of the college and a teaching assistant for freshmen, and participated in the volunteer service team for 3 consecutive years.
People around her felt that volunteering in the West was a good fit for her.
Some people admire her courage more, "choose what they want to go, but have no choice because of concerns." Li Fan said.
During his work, Li Fan learned little by little how to open an interview and how to make an appointment.
Thanks to her efforts, the work of the Tibet aid team and the development and changes of Linzhi have been known to more people, and more and more cooperation between Guangdong and Tibet has been witnessed by her.
In the face of the severe employment situation this year, the National Project Office of the Western Plan started deployment as soon as possible, and did a good job in the project planning and design work of the Western Plan around actively serving employment, so that more young people could grow rapidly in grass-roots positions like Li Fan.
To guide college graduates to go to grassroots employment through the Western Plan, it is necessary to strengthen targeted design in terms of the number of posts and the setting of post categories, so as to achieve ideological and political guidance for young people.
In terms of setting up new job capacity, encourage provinces to organize and implement local projects with reference to the operation mode and work requirements of national projects, and focus on quality improvement, efficiency enhancement, capacity expansion, and other standards, such as Xinjiang, Guizhou, Guangdong, Jiangsu and other places Actively seek the support of local party committees and governments, coordinate relevant departments, expand the scale of local project implementation, and effectively increase the capacity and absorption capacity of the grassroots employment "reservoir" of college graduates.
In terms of the setting of job categories, all localities closely follow the relevant deployment of the comprehensive promotion of the rural revitalization strategy, strictly implement the grass-roots orientation and rural orientation, and focus on adjustments to the national rural revitalization key counties. , healthy villages, grassroots youth work, rural social governance and other special projects, more than 90% of the service posts are set up in towns and below, and effectively allow college graduates to serve the people, contribute to the society, take root at the grassroots level, and grow and develop. Economic and social development and rural revitalization contribute to the happiness and sense of achievement of youth.
For example, Guizhou has dispatched volunteers of the Western Program to relocated poverty alleviation and relocation areas and youth rural revitalization night schools, as well as their villages and communities, to provide volunteers in rural revitalization, new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control, social governance, cultural inheritance, "six stability" and "six guarantees", etc. Make a positive contribution to your work.
Innovative propaganda methods boost concept change
On May 20, there was continuous applause in the lecture hall of the library of Guizhou University for Nationalities. Volunteers from the Western Program took to the podium one by one to share their experience at the grassroots level for the fresh graduates.
According to statistics, since May 12, 11 members of the propaganda group have entered 19 colleges and universities, and shared on the spot for nearly 10,000 college graduates, and nearly 100,000 college graduates have listened online through webcasting and other methods.
Behind the enthusiasm of the students to sign up is the mobilization and publicity of the regiments and project offices at all levels.
Qin Changjian, deputy secretary of the Youth League Committee of Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, said that in order to complete the recruitment work of the Western Plan with high standards, closely focus on the overall situation of the school's employment work, and carry out multi-dimensional and wide-ranging publicity work.
"The Youth League Committee and the School's Admissions and Employment Office, in conjunction with the 'Employment Policy Promotion Month', made detailed policy interpretations of the Western Plan through the new media platform. At the same time, on-site guidance and answering questions on registration, policies, treatment, development and other issues were conducted at previous large campus job fairs. ."He says.
In Hubei, the story of the West Plan has also left the campus.
With the help of Benyu Volunteer Service Lecture Hall, a number of volunteers from the Western Plan went deep into communities, universities, enterprises, etc., and told more people about grass-roots services.
On the campuses in Henan and Shanxi, the West Plan has become part of the campus culture.
Every graduation season, the broadcast stations, campus networks, and bulletin boards of colleges and universities in Shanxi Province can always see the call to "go to the west"; "Net language" short video, H5 and other methods to interpret the western plan for youth.
The service spirit of yearning for the west and dedicating to the grassroots is not formed overnight.
In many places, seminars are held on a daily basis.
In Shandong Province, the project office instructed colleges and universities to integrate the cultivation of volunteer service awareness of the Western Plan into the daily education of college students. Liaocheng University built the Western Planning Museum, and Shandong Youth Political College established the "Western Dream Association" to regularly preach the spirit of volunteer service.
Not only that, the project office of Sichuan Foreign Studies University uses various forms such as the school's freshman entrance education and themed group day activities to "promote" the western plan to young people from the moment of admission.
Chongqing Normal University organized students to search for volunteers of the Western Program through summer social practice, allowing students to take the initiative to approach the volunteers of the Western Program.
"Through this form, students have a first-hand experience of the Western Plan before graduation, can plan their careers earlier, and have a clearer judgment on their graduation choices." Gao Jingli, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of Chongqing Normal University Say.
"The reason why college graduates are willing to choose to go to the west and to the grassroots is largely inspired by the volunteer spirit of the Western Plan. The Western Plan has played a driving role in changing the employment concept of young students." The relevant responsible person of the National Project Office people introduced.
Select talents for the grassroots, help talents grow
In recent years, the western planning work has become more and more "fine" and "strict".
For example, the Henan Provincial Project Office has clearly stated that it is necessary to strictly control the examination, written test, interview, physical examination, and publicity, so as to open the recruitment information, open the selection process, and open the admission list.
During the annual recruitment process, South China Normal University organizes interviews and comprehensive ability tests for registered students. Relying on the advantageous resources of the school's psychological counseling center and the top three hospitals, it standardizes the psychological tests and physical examinations for volunteers.
The school project office carefully reviews the professional background of volunteers, and prioritizes the selection of applicants who match the professional qualities required by the service position, so as to promote the appropriateness and precise connection between people and positions.
In Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, the Youth League Committee, together with the Academic Affairs Office and the Recruitment Office, set up a special working group to strictly carry out psychological tests and interviews, pay attention to multi-dimensional inspections, and take participation motivation, future plans, policy understanding, and parents’ opinions as important factors to consider. Efforts will be made to deliver outstanding talents with family and country feelings, volunteer awareness and dedication to the west.
To enhance the contribution of volunteers, training is also a key part.
Sichuan Agricultural University invites more than 20 experts inside and outside the school to bring ideological and political education, mental health knowledge, as well as theoretical and practical training on office skills, service concepts and skills, policies and regulations, safety and self-protection to volunteers in the west, so as to promote volunteers as soon as possible Change roles and improve service skills; Sichuan Foreign Studies University includes all volunteers of the Western Program into the school's Qingma project training, and regularly conducts ideological and political education and business ability improvement.
"Most of the planned volunteer service areas in the west are economically underdeveloped areas with relatively difficult conditions, which poses more challenges for volunteers. To do a good job in selecting and cultivating talents is not only responsible for the service areas, but also for the growth and development of youth." National Project Office About the person in charge.
China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Yang Baoguang Source: China Youth Daily
July 06, 2022 Version 01