A considerable number of college graduates have various psychological problems and even psychological obstacles due to various reasons in the process of choosing jobs. These psychological problems and obstacles affect their career choices and future development to varying degrees. The common psychological problems of college students in the process of choosing jobs are:

(A) anxiety, hallucinations

Anxiety is a complex and comprehensive negative emotion, which is the anxiety, uneasiness, worry and panic that people feel unable to take effective measures to prevent and solve terrible things that may cause danger or require efforts and costs in their lives. Job-hunting anxiety is manifested in worrying about whether one's ideal can be realized, whether one can find a unit and working environment that is suitable for giving full play to one's strengths and conducive to one's growth, and whether one's choice is correct. A special manifestation of college students' job-hunting anxiety is impatience. Impatience often makes them restless and at a loss. Anxiety can produce a sense of crisis, confusion and even fear. Many college students have illusory psychology under anxiety, which is caused by psychological conflict or fear of frustration. They either fantasize that they can find their ideal work unit without participating in the competition, or fantasize that the employer can find you on its own initiative. It is easy for college students with this kind of psychology to be divorced from reality, fantasy replaces reality, and they are in a state of fantasy all day, which leads to a great gap between career choice goals and reality, and it is difficult to find an ideal career.

(2) Inferiority and timidity

Inferiority is a negative emotional experience of self-knowledge for some reason (physical or psychological defects, or other reasons), which is manifested in the psychological state of underestimating one's own ability or quality, doubting oneself, looking down on oneself, and worrying about losing the respect of others. Before choosing a job, college students are often full of ambition and want to show their talents. Once frustrated, it is easy to have inferiority complex, weaken self-confidence, damage self-esteem, and thus completely deny yourself. Students with low self-esteem are often timid and afraid to sell themselves to employers, which is particularly obvious in graduate interviews.

(3) Blindness, comparison and conformity

Young college students are full of blood, like to be competitive and have a strong vanity, which easily leads to the psychology of keeping up with the joneses. Conformity psychology is characterized by the convergence of thoughts and behaviors under the influence of most people. Under the influence of herd mentality, graduates are often very blind and lack rational thinking when choosing a job. Blindness, comparison and conformity are manifested in the process of choosing a job, that is, they ignore their own characteristics, lack objective and correct analysis of themselves, do not proceed from their own reality, and do not consider whether the selected unit is suitable for them.

Fear of setbacks and dependence on others

Frustration psychology refers to the nervous state of college students when they are hindered in the process of employment. When choosing a job, the psychological expectation is too high. Once frustrated, it is easy to complain, feel ashamed and lose confidence. Because college students lack active participation, competitive consciousness, confidence and courage, they hope to find jobs in schools, parents, relatives and acquaintances, and don't put themselves on the job market at all.

Second, the causes of these psychological problems

College students have relatively simple experience, unclear understanding of the employment situation, poor psychological endurance and self-adjustment ability, large emotional fluctuations, fragile emotions, easy to have anxiety when encountering difficulties, and easy to have inferiority complex after being hit. Due to psychological immaturity and confusion of self-identity, this confusion is manifested in the confusion of college students' judgment on their own knowledge structure, ability and quality, specialty and occupation suitability, the weakening of autonomy, and the influence of others and peer groups on their pursuit of self-goals. Due to the confusion of self-identity, psychological imbalance, blind conformity and comparison are prone to occur in employment. Most of them are only children, and parents do everything for their children. Students lack the ability to live independently and solve problems, lack psychological preparation for hardship, can't stand setbacks and failures, and are easy to rely on others.