The employment situation of college students is becoming increasingly severe, and the law major has become a major with low employment rate because of its narrow employment scope. The survey shows that law students have a rational understanding of the employment situation and obviously feel the employment pressure. At the same time, the survey shows that law students will apply for civil servants as their first choice for employment, while big cities and economically developed areas are their first choice for employment, and they have higher expectations for post-employment income.
I. Analysis of Employment Prospects
With the development of national economy, science and technology and society, China's legal system construction is also in a period of rapid development and gradual improvement. Especially since China joined the WTO, the demand for legal professionals has increased sharply, especially for economic organizations and law firms.
Law major is a sunrise discipline, and from the perspective of social demand, it has great development prospects. Judging from the employment situation of law graduates, they have a solid professional foundation and can engage in legal services in procuratorial organs, judicial organs, administrative organs, enterprises and institutions, social organizations, arbitration institutions and legal service institutions. Employment prospects are very broad, when the police, prosecutors, judges, civil servants of administrative organs; Responsible for the legal affairs of large companies; Be a lawyer; Be a college law teacher; It is a good choice to be a law researcher in the graduate school.
Law majors have a high demand for high-quality and highly educated talents. They should not only have good professional ethics and quality, but also have profound professional knowledge background and interdisciplinary industry knowledge. In recent years, with the higher education requirements for legal talents, the employment situation of law undergraduates is not optimistic. However, highly educated law graduates, especially those majoring in economics and international communication, have broad employment prospects.
Second, the current employment situation
"What happened to the law?" This may be the question that all people who care about the law want to ask most at present. From "professional dragon" to "professional worm"; From dazzling "employment elite" to "employment labor" at the bottom; Employment has turned to ice, but there are still so many candidates applying for the exam every year. In recent years, the low employment rate of law graduates has become a common concern in society. Whether "Peking University students sell pork" or "Western political students sell Sugar-Coated Berry", behind all kinds of exaggerations in the news media are people's worries and considerations about legal education. Judging from the employment situation of law majors over the years, the reasons for the severe form mainly include the following aspects:
① Enrollment expansion. Too many colleges and universities follow suit to set up law majors, which leads to more and more law majors, and finally leads to the "quality cake" of law becoming stale. That's true. It is understood that there is no unified standard for setting up law schools in colleges and universities in China. The setting threshold of law major is too low or even no threshold, which has also caused many "strange situations witnessed by law major" in colleges and universities in China. For example, some science and engineering colleges study hard to upgrade comprehensive universities; Some colleges try to learn in order to enhance their brands; Although some colleges and universities have law, they don't have full-time professors or even regular law teachers. . According to incomplete statistics, in 200 1 year, there were 292 universities in China offering undergraduate courses in law; In 2005, it was about 560, and the increase in four years was similar to that accumulated in the past 20 years; By the end of 2008, the number of students has reached 634, and law has become one of the three largest majors in China. So far, the "Great Leap Forward Movement of Law" in China universities has successfully completed the triple jump. According to statistics, there are about 300,000 law undergraduates and 220,000 law college students in China.
More than 200 times more than 30 years ago. On the one hand, the enrollment of law majors in colleges and universities is "striding forward", on the other hand, the social demand for law talents is "stumbling", which blocks a large number of "law believers" at the high-speed intersection of employment.
2 exams. Known as the most difficult judicial examination in the world, as an access system for the legal profession, it has hindered the progress of a considerable number of people.
③ Professional education. The employment scope of law major is narrow and the threshold is high. At present, the legal education in colleges and universities only focuses on cultivating legal talents in the legal profession according to the tradition, but does not focus on a more macro perspective according to the changes in the demand of the talent market. Market demand is to cultivate excellent legal talents for all walks of life, which is relatively out of touch with social demand. Law is a social discipline and needs rich social practice. Take the lawyer industry as an example, the goods provided by lawyers are services, and they sell the combination of their own case-handling experience and legal knowledge, and strive for the best interests of the parties with their own experience and legal knowledge. This requires law graduates to have some experience in handling cases, so that they can easily find legal work, which is what law graduates lack. To some extent, this is determined by the social nature of law major. Legal knowledge divorced from social practice is lifeless.
⑤ Expectations are too high. After graduation, law students prefer institutions and institutions, and have higher requirements for salary and social status.
Third, face the difficulties and ask about the future.
Facing the severe employment situation, law students should strive to learn their major well.
Knowledge, improve their ability, as soon as possible to cultivate some qualities needed in the future, especially the improvement of some comprehensive qualities. After all, law is a highly practical subject, so the practical ability to solve problems is very important. Only by exercising this ability during the study period can we use it in future study and stand out in the employment competition; On the other hand, graduates should also change their employment concepts and expand their employment fields. For example, they can consider hard areas in their geographical choice, and they can choose some new professions instead of sticking to the traditional legal profession in their specific career choice.
As law is still a highly practical subject, law students should go deep into life and participate in various practical activities while fully learning the theoretical knowledge of this major, such as internship in public security organs, procuratorial organs, law firms and law firms, learning practical operations, accumulating some experience and testing the correctness of theoretical knowledge. Law is essentially a "people-oriented" science, so students must never be divorced from society, otherwise they will be behind closed doors.
When law students enter the senior year, as long as they have various possible employment choices, they should try their best (mainly attending various job fairs and talent exchange meetings).
Students can choose to take the postgraduate entrance examination, take the judicial examination, take the civil service examination of state organs, and broaden employment channels. Or according to their own interests and social needs, learning a skill, such as quick recording technology, and entering the court as a clerk is also one of the good employment channels. The most important thing is not to be arrogant. Sometimes it's not that there is no job, but that students don't want to do it.
At present, there are about 6,543.8+04,000 registered lawyers and more than 6,543.8+00 law firms in China, with an average of one lawyer for every 9,000 people, including one lawyer for every 654.38+0.300 people in Beijing, one lawyer for every 654.38+0.800 people in Shanghai and one lawyer for every 200 people in new york. Judging from the regional distribution of lawyers, the development is extremely uneven. There are more than 1 10,000 lawyers in Guangdong and Beijing, accounting for 17% of the total number of lawyers in China, while there are only more than 400 lawyers in Qinghai Province and only 1 lawyer in some pastoral areas. The annual business of lawyers in China is about 9 million, and their business income is about 9 billion. The per capita income of lawyers is about 70,000 yuan, and the average fee per piece is about 1000 yuan. However, there are still serious regional differences. The annual income of lawyers in Beijing is as high as 260,000 yuan, Shanghai is about 200,000 yuan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang is about 70,000 yuan, and Guangdong is about 50,000 yuan. The average annual income of lawyers in some western provinces is only about 5,000 yuan, or even.
No matter the proportion of employees in the whole population, the proportion of lawyers with high academic qualifications and foreign language talents, or the proportion of medium and large law firms in the total number of law firms, lawyers in the central and western regions are not the same as those in the developed eastern regions. In particular, the extremely unbalanced economic development in the eastern, central and western regions directly leads to the disparity in lawyers' income, which cannot be significantly changed in a short time. This is an indisputable fact. Due to the great contrast between the development of lawyers in the east and the midwest, some lawyers in the midwest are moving to the east, which is also in line with the law of talent flow in a sense.
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