25-year-old Geng Jiaming majored in advertising in university, but starting from April 16, he will wear blue overalls and start a new job as a cleaner in Shanghai Luwan District City Appearance Administration. At 4 o'clock in the morning, he took the cleaning tools to the streets and started a day of sanitation work. Coincidentally, not long ago, a bath center in Beijing held a job fair, and thousands of college students went to apply. According to the requirements, all admitted college students should start from grass-roots posts, such as "bath workers" or "foot massagers". The survey found that 40% of the candidates expressed their willingness.
Some people agree with this choice of college students, thinking that it is a pragmatic move for college students to change their concept of choosing a job; Some people object that this is a waste of talents.
The employment situation is grim
Don't ask for salary, just apply for a job.
According to the data of Shanghai Education Commission, there were143,000 college graduates in Shanghai in 2007, an increase of140,000 compared with 2006, with an increase of 1 1%, including 25,000 master graduates, 63,000 undergraduate graduates and 55,000 junior college graduates. With the increasing number of graduates, there is still great pressure for Shanghai college graduates to achieve full employment this year.
At the first job fair held this year, more than 5,000 recruitment companies launched more than 60,000 jobs. Among the 654.38+million job seekers, college graduates accounted for 80%.
"I want to have a job first, and I don't want any salary." Many college students tell employers frankly that they only need one job to be satisfied.
Zhou Xiao, a student from shanghai second polytechnic university, set the psychological bottom line price of monthly salary at around 1500 yuan, but he said that he would not mention it in person, because if the company is too high, there may be no job opportunities. After "finding out" the prices of many companies, he said that many companies offered 1200 yuan.
Xiao He, who majored in advertising in an ordinary university, made an analysis and positioning for himself. Before submitting his resume, he did a background survey of the company and even analyzed the possible competitors and his winning rate. He sent six resumes before and after, and four of them were interested, but by the interview stage, there was no reply.
The change of employment concept
Eyes are aimed at the grassroots.
In the grim situation of difficult employment, many college students are more rational when applying for jobs, and they have turned their attention to grass-roots posts.
Luwan District City Appearance Administration recently released recruitment information, recruiting 30 Shanghai cleaners for the first time in 25 years. As the work scope of these cleaners is in the city center, when the 20 10 World Expo is held in Shanghai, the cleaners will also represent the image of Shanghai. The recruitment conditions offered by the sanitation department are also relatively high: education is equivalent to senior high school or above, and the income in the first year of work is 1.500 yuan, and the income in the second year is 1.800 yuan.
After the recruitment information was released, 1 14 people competed for 30 positions. Among the 30 students who were finally admitted, there were 9 technical school students and 6 junior college students, with an average age of 23 years. Their majors are different, some study "automobile maintenance and recycling" and some study "environmental supervision".
In order to let more college students find jobs at the grass-roots level, Shanghai also started to recruit college graduates to engage in teaching, supporting agriculture, supporting doctors and helping the poor ("three supports and one support") in 2007, and 5 18 grass-roots posts were vacant.
According to the introduction of Shanghai Personnel Bureau, all these posts came from 10 suburban counties this year, including 390 posts supporting agriculture, mainly including township comprehensive management, assistant to village party secretary (director), agricultural technology extension, village management, legal services and so on. In addition, there are 74 teaching posts and 54 medical posts.
Last year, 259 graduates from 35 universities including Fudan University, Shanghai Jiaotong University and East China Normal University were engaged in supporting agriculture, teaching, helping doctors and helping the poor at the grassroots level in Shanghai. Grassroots generally reflect that these college students are willing to endure hardships and have high quality, which has contributed to the development of grassroots.
Employment after employment
Success is not necessarily achieved in one step.
Willing to endure hardship and temper, more and more college students choose their jobs rationally. At the same time, they also regard going to the grassroots as an exercise and life experience.
According to the introduction of Luwan City Appearance Administration, the young people recruited this time should start with the hardest street cleaning work, and it is impossible to do some relatively easy and clean work as soon as they take up their posts, such as driving and sweeping cars.
Zhang Lei from Shanghai Environmental School is one of the 30 cleaners recruited this time. He believes that it is not easy to get this job opportunity after graduating from secondary school. As a boy, he believes that he can bear hardships.
Two girls who went to a bath center in Beijing to apply for foot massage, from the Foreign Languages Department of Beihang University, learned foot massage from their master. They say it's ok to start by pinching your feet, but it's probably not feasible if you keep pinching your feet. .
Xiaoshi, a junior at Beijing Institute of Fashion Technology, wants to be a lobby manager. She is willing to start as a waiter. It is impossible to be a good lobby manager without grassroots experience.
"It is difficult for college students to find an ideal job related to their major." Xiong Bingqi, an expert on university issues and a professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University, believes that college students should learn to adjust themselves. In a pluralistic society, there are many successful ways. Today, we can't get what we want, and we shouldn't give up our ideals. Try other jobs and accumulate more social experience, and the goal will be achieved.
Comments from netizens
What happened to the bather? I respect and admire them. They are a hundred times stronger than college students who are profligate in spending money, picky in society, unemployed for a long time and full of complaints!
—— User IP: 220.207. 1 10.
In traditional thinking, the position of cleaner is not attractive to people. Nowadays, college students are flocking to China. I think they are coming for the word "country", because once they are hired, they can enjoy the treatment of state-owned enterprises! What is the treatment of state-owned enterprises? That is, accounts and files have places to receive and store; Benefits such as pension and insurance are guaranteed. This is the fundamental reason why college students are willing to choose to be cleaners!
-User IP: 220. 1 10.75.
China talents don't have the luxury to use college students as bath workers! This shows that education in China is too unrealistic, and more practical talents should be trained.
-user IP: 60.2 16.8.
When it comes to college students' employment difficulties, the whole public opinion is calling on them to lower their social status and lower their requirements. College students are also very depressed: we are so practical, why does society still not buy it? ! College students are scrambling to do things similar to those of migrant workers. Is it true that there are too many college students? Judging from the current situation that college students are difficult to find jobs and are in the era of low salary, it seems that talents have reached the era of surplus, but is this really the case? It is said that in terms of the proportion of college students in China, both the number and structure are at a low level compared with developed countries and developing countries at the same level. I think the employment difficulties of college students are only structural and temporary.
;