How to understand the current employment situation of college students in my country

Writing ideas: Write your own understanding of the problem of employment difficulties for college students.

There is no doubt that these incidents not only affect the overall employment situation, but will also inevitably have an impact on the employment of college students. However, for college students’ employment, the most critical influencing factor is “structural”. These factors include short-term excess supply, regional selection preferences, insufficient employability, etc. Solving the problem of insufficient employability will be the fundamental way to effectively solve the employment problem of college students.

In terms of time structure, the excessive growth in the supply of college graduates has exceeded the growth in demand in the short term, and the labor market will still need time to gradually adjust. In recent years, my country's economy has been growing rapidly, especially the upgrading of the economic structure, which has driven strong demand for college graduates with high human capital stock, thus promoting the rapid development of higher education.

Only 5% of my country’s working population has various college degrees or above, while the figure is 25-30% in industrially developed countries. Therefore, the need to accelerate the improvement of national quality has also greatly promoted higher education. of rapid development. The problem is that the supply of college graduates is growing much faster than the economy, and more and more college students are looking for jobs. It will take some time for the labor market to gradually digest the excess supply of college graduates in the short term.

However, it must be noted that higher education policies cannot be denied simply because of the temporary employment difficulties of college students. These are two different issues. Strictly speaking, the expansion of higher education enrollment provides more young people with opportunities to receive higher education, which not only promotes educational equity and improves personal career development potential, but also promotes the overall level of human resource development in our country. promote.

In terms of regional structure, differences in regional employment preferences for college graduates and misalignment in government policy incentives have led to insufficient actual effective demand. Due to the differences in my country's economic development between regions and between urban and rural areas, it is difficult for economically underdeveloped areas, especially the western region, to form effective demand for college students, and in the long term, the situation of insufficient regional effective demand will be difficult to change. The market demand for expanded college graduates is a negative factor.

Although the country's implementation of the Western Development Plan has generated a large amount of demand, the price that underdeveloped areas can pay (wage income, development opportunities, mobility, etc.) is not enough to compensate for the human capital investment of college students. , according to the labor market mechanism, the combination of supply and demand cannot be achieved. In our country, the high mobility costs due to the one-way nature of talent flow have further worsened the lack of effective demand in underdeveloped areas. Although the country has also adopted policy measures such as the "Western Volunteer Plan", it is difficult to effectively change this situation in terms of increased demand or human capital compensation.