Many university leaders also publicly stated that the employment rate of liberal arts majors has been lower than that of science and engineering majors in recent years. In the context of the global economic downturn this year, liberal arts students have been hit harder.
Zhu Jing complained angrily, "Everyone's scores in the College Entrance Examination (Weibo) [Weibo] are similar, and their knowledge level is similar. They also received formal higher education and worked hard for four years. Why is there such a big gap when they are looking for a job? "
Zhu Jing and his classmates call themselves "cold steamed bread", which seems to be a basic staple food. Everyone can eat it, which is suitable for most people's tastes, but it's "terrible".
"This is determined by the characteristics of enterprise management," said Ms. Guan, the human resources manager of a Japanese-funded enterprise in Beijing, bluntly. "Enterprises just need talents to create value for themselves." This means that liberal arts majors who have received a lot of theoretical education in school but lack skills may create less practical value, so they naturally do not have an advantage in the fierce employment competition.
At the same time, the mobility of comprehensive management positions suitable for liberal arts students in enterprises is poor and slow, while the recruitment of civil servants (Weibo) and institutions with corresponding majors is extremely fierce, and the "diversion effect is not great", which limits the choice range of liberal arts students to some extent.
Graduate students are not as good as undergraduates.
20 13 national postgraduate entrance examination was held on10.5, and10.8 million people signed up for the examination. According to the survey released by Max, a third-party survey agency, the main reason why candidates study in Weibo is that they have good employment prospects and want to go to a better university.
In 2065,438+03, 3,899 undergraduate graduates went to China to study. The first reason was "good employment prospects" (34%), followed by "wanting to go to a better university" (29%). Only 9% want to do academic research.
"I started my master's degree because I could find a better job after graduation." Zhu Jing said that the second "unexpected" was that the idea was ruthlessly shattered before the graduate students graduated.
According to the Employment Situation of College Graduates in China published by the National Information Consulting and Employment Guidance Center for College Students, from 2005 to 2009, the employment rate of graduate students continued to decline. In 2009 and 20 10, the employment rate of master students was worse than that of undergraduates. A statistic of Jiangsu talent market also shows that among 20 1 1 college graduates, the employment rate of master students is 86.6%, that of undergraduates is 90.3%, and that of junior college students is 94. 1%. The employment rate of master students is nearly 8 percentage points lower than that of junior college students, and employment and academic qualifications are upside down.
According to the latest Yearbook of Labor Statistics in Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, among the urban unemployed in 20 10 years, the unemployment rate of men aged 25-29 with bachelor's degree is 28.7%, that of women with bachelor's degree is 53.3%, that of women in the same age group is 37.8%, and that of women with master's degree is 57. 1%.
Many experts believe that there are three main reasons for the difficulty of graduate employment: first, after the enrollment expansion of graduate students, the software and hardware of some colleges and universities do not match, and the quality of training has not kept up; Second, the employment expectation of graduate students is generally high. After studying hard for several years, everyone hopes to get a better salary, preferring to be unemployed at home rather than "condescending"; Third, in the eyes of many employers, it is necessary to recruit graduate students with high salaries, but also to worry about their "high eyes and low hands." On balance, it is obvious that undergraduate course is more cost-effective.
Zhu Jing's boyfriend Xiao Lei graduated from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Weibo) [Weibo] majoring in electrical engineering. As early as 2006, he went to a small power plant under China Southern Power Grid. In a coastal city in the south, he gradually became the technical backbone of the unit. He thinks: "When graduating from college, the employment expectation is really not small, and the scale requirements for cities and enterprises are much lower."
From the perspective of employers, small and medium-sized enterprises are now the main employment providers, but their attraction to graduate students is limited. On the one hand, industrial structure affects the employment direction of enterprises; On the other hand, the small development space and nonstandard employment standards also make graduate students worry a lot.
According to Xinhua News Agency. Com, at present, most of the tutors of master students in universities or scientific research institutes are engaged in theoretical research, which gives limited help to students' actual needs and development and cannot provide a training platform. As a result, although a large number of talents have been trained, the demand of the job market has been ignored, which makes universities and enterprises unable to digest and can only "depreciate".
The certificate does not work.
"I printed and bound my internship experience and published works. Reluctantly accept a good attitude. Those who have a bad attitude simply shout at me, as long as my resume is enough. " At the special job fair for graduate students, Zhu Jing took a lot of CDs of her own programs and copies of articles published in paper media. "Not only is it expensive, but it is also repeatedly laughed at by classmates and doesn't look at it at all. Indeed, many units are too lazy to accept it. Don't.
Zhu Jing complained that teachers and seniors told him that more research and more internships were very useful for employment, but the actual employment situation was not the case. "Now most companies have provided standard resumes for you to fill out online, and there is no room for you to write these. In fact, people's attitude is very clear. They only need to look at your basic situation and major, and don't care about your efforts at all. "
Many HR said that there is really no time to look at the number of certificates one by one, mainly according to the basic situation and determined by the on-site ability. However, in the finalist stage, "the importance of schools and majors goes beyond certificates."
A sample survey from a training institution shows that at present, more than 50% of the students participating in textual research training in training institutions are college students studying in colleges and universities above undergraduate level; Another survey shows that nearly 30% of college students hold more than one "unnecessary" certificate, and some students even have five or six certificates.
On the one hand, the high cost of examination and the large amount of time it takes up, and on the other hand, the reality of difficult employment, whether to take the examination or not has become a difficult problem for many college students. No wonder some college students say that "facing the qualification examination, people are in a dilemma."
According to the survey, at present, more than one million college students in China have obtained various qualification certificates, but nearly 80% of them have not played any role in the job search process. In addition, there are too many "local" or "foreign" qualification certificates in the society at present, which makes employers lose interest in this. Moreover, some qualification certificates are out of touch with the talents needed by employers, so it is difficult to get the upper hand in the job search process; Moreover, some professional certifications in society are not standardized, and it is difficult to reflect a person's professional ability in related fields, so it is difficult to be favored by employers.