Why is it so difficult for college students to find jobs in recent years?

Under the epidemic situation, the employment pressure is increasing. Nowadays, under the general environment of our country, the employment pressure of college graduates is an objective phenomenon, which must be faced squarely and valued. "A position is almost competed by hundreds of people, because not only recent graduates, previous graduates and people with work experience are in great need of work, so the competitive pressure is very great." Huang Xiaoying said one of the main reasons. Huang Xiaoying, a graduate of the School of Journalism and Communication of Nanning Normal University, told the reporter that there were more than 800 people competing for a position in Guangxi TV Station. "Affected by the epidemic, there have been a large number of layoffs, salary cuts and layoffs in enterprises. Whether it is an experienced unemployed person or a college graduate who has just entered the workplace, there are more people to be employed and the difficulty of employment has increased. " Wei Yun, a graduate of Nanjing Normal University 18, told reporters.

Lai Desheng, deputy director of the Teaching and Research Department of Social and Ecological Civilization of the Central Party School, once said when analyzing the current employment difficulties of graduates: "The epidemic has increased the difficulty of students' internships and job hunting, and some graduates have been unable to return to school, which has brought difficulties to employment guidance and employment services. From the demand side, the recruitment of some enterprises is delayed or at a standstill, especially small and medium-sized enterprises. Under the triple pressure of "demand contraction, supply shock and expected weakening", the recruitment motivation and ability are insufficient. " Generally speaking, the coexistence of "employment difficulty" and "recruitment difficulty" makes the task of promoting the employment of college graduates more arduous and arduous. Now more and more people want to improve their employment competitiveness by upgrading their academic qualifications. According to the news released by the Ministry of Education, in 2022, the number of applicants for the national postgraduate entrance examination was 4.57 million, an increase of 800,000 over the previous year, with an increase of 2 1%. However, with the popularization of higher education and the upsurge of postgraduate entrance examination, the relative depreciation of academic qualifications has been brought. Wei Yun, a graduate student, has his own opinions on whether to take the postgraduate entrance examination because of excessive employment pressure. In her view, the higher the education, the easier it is to find a job, which is itself an uncertain factor. She believes: "With the expansion of graduate students and doctoral students, we used to think that the number of people with high academic qualifications is gradually expanding. On the one hand, it gives young students a platform for promotion and learning. On the other hand, it is undeniable that it has also brought some doubts about whether academic qualifications are depreciating. " The seventh national census shows that in terms of educated population, the population with college education or above in China is 2180,000, accounting for 15.5%, which means that there is one college student in every seven people. Due to the increasing number of graduates, the recruitment threshold is also rising.

Therefore, graduates are faced with the choice of various employers. Therefore, the more capable people are, the more competitive they are in employment. Netizens in Weibo, such as "They want me to do everything, but they only give me more than 3,000 yuan" and "3,000 yuan can't hire migrant workers, but they can hire college students", show that people are in an era of crazy involution. Employment expectation is not in line with reality. At present, a survey conducted by the Social Investigation Center of China Youth Newspaper on the 2007 fresh graduates shows that when it comes to future jobs, 69.5% of the fresh graduates interviewed have high expectations for their own development prospects. The reporter also found in the interview that several graduates said they didn't find a suitable job, not that they didn't find a job.

"Either I feel that my ability is insufficient, or my salary is not up to expectations, or I am too far away from home." This is why Yuan, a graduate of our college 18, thinks he hasn't found a job yet. "Some people have no jobs and some people have no jobs" is a structural contradiction. Personally, some job seekers are too eager for "stable and decent" jobs, and their expectations are too high or their vision is too low, which makes it more difficult to solve this problem. Most of the employment difficulties of college students in China are structural contradictions rather than total shortage, and the essence is the mismatch between supply and demand. Zeng Xiangquan, director of China Employment Research Institute of China Renmin University, made an in-depth analysis of the current employment situation.