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my country's relatively closed sports professional talent training model has laid the foundation for the glory of our country's competitive sports on the one hand, and on the other hand it has also made athletes a special group. They have strong learning ability, but most of them have low cultural quality and insufficient understanding of society. After retiring, they generally have difficulties in integrating into society and re-employing. Fortunately, many new measures and trends have emerged to solve the problem of athletes re-employing after retirement. Together with our readers, we will pay attention to these new initiatives and trends in the hope that this problem will slowly be solved satisfactorily.

Sun Ying, a sprinter who retired due to injury, is planning to open a barbecue restaurant in Changchun. This bold plan was born at the first entrepreneurship training class for retired athletes in Jilin Province held not long ago.

From October 28 to November 7, Sun Ying and 74 other retired athletes walked into the classroom and became the first batch of students in the retired athlete entrepreneurship training class. 69 people received training completion certificates. There are 9 people who have initially reached the intention of starting a business. Weng Jiaren, director of the Human Resources Development Center of the State Sports General Administration, said: "The training class has achieved the expected results. This is the first entrepreneurship training class in the national sports system specifically for retired athletes. It will serve as a good demonstration, guidance and motivation." "

Some people are used to comparing Chinese competitive sports to a pyramid structure. Athletes who can compete for gold and silver in the Olympics are undoubtedly at the top of the pyramid, and provincial professional team athletes like Sun Ying Can only be located in the middle of the pyramid. Over the years, various provinces have accumulated a backlog of athletes. Many of them received financial compensation after retirement, but did not have the ability to obtain secondary employment. Even with academic diplomas, it is difficult to gain a foothold in society.

Currently, there are about 23,000 outstanding athletes in training in our country, and 3,000-6,000 professional athletes retire every year. Figures show that 40% of retired athletes every year are unable to be properly placed on time. In addition to possessing athletic ability and injuries, these athletes lack the professional skills to establish themselves in society, and the competent authorities lack responsibility for career guidance for athletes, making "it is difficult to win gold medals and even harder to find a job" has become a popular saying in the sports circle language.

The difficulty in moving forward in society is also closely related to athletes’ low awareness of re-employment. Chen Zhiyuan, director of the Vocational Skills Appraisal Station of the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau, believes that athletes are bound by traditional employment concepts and lack entrepreneurial awareness. The employment ideas of "waiting" and "depending" are more prominent. Some retired athletes have the idea of ????starting a business, but they often give up halfway due to lack of help. If athletes want to have a good future after retirement, they must fundamentally support themselves and establish a self-confident, self-reliant and self-reliant employment concept to adapt to changes in the market economy. Entrepreneurship is an effective way for retired athletes to achieve employment.

This entrepreneurship training class introduced the entrepreneurial quality and ability assessment, with the purpose of finding out what athletes have advantages and disadvantages in meeting social employment needs.

Through the evaluation, it was found that athletes have strong adaptability and learning ability, strong desire for performance and curiosity, quick response, and extroverted personality. These abilities can help them start their own businesses. On the other hand, the cultural quality of athletes varies, and most of them are not high. Their understanding of society and themselves is also insufficient.

Due to the relatively closed environment in which athletes grew up, the range of careers they can choose when seeking second employment is relatively narrow, and the general employment guidance and training for retired athletes is not highly targeted and lacks substantive content. In the course setting of this entrepreneurship training class, we have specially designed it in a targeted manner, intentionally highlighting the word "effectiveness".

Weng Jiaren said: "The curriculum is very rich, and adopts a teaching method that combines theoretical knowledge with case teaching, classroom teaching and practical inspection. In the theoretical teaching, topics including employment, entrepreneurship, Contents such as business, taxation, law, and modern communication etiquette are targeted, feasible, and practical.” Successful representatives of retired athletes such as Ye Qiaobo and Gao Hong gave their own opinions in the class, which further increased the confidence of retired athletes.

After listening to Ye Qiaobo’s entrepreneurial experience, Sun Ying felt “very cordial”, “The training class allowed us to become familiar with the entrepreneurial process in the shortest time, which surprised me. For the second time starting a business, I Full of confidence." After establishing the desire to start their own business, the Sports Fund Management Center of the State Sports General Administration and the Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau will support the athletes' entrepreneurship and provide them with further assistance.

The first entrepreneurship training class was very effective, and now there are plans to continue and expand it. It is understood that some companies have also expressed their willingness to participate in training classes because they found through the first training class that the abilities of athletes are very different from what they imagined. They hope to attract some retired athletes to enrich the corporate culture. At the same time, it forms a brand effect.

Weng Jiaren said: "It is not enough that 9 athletes now have entrepreneurial intentions. Our State Sports General Administration Human Resources Center and Jilin Provincial Sports Bureau will continue to track, guide and serve the first batch of students, and strive to Let more athletes start their own businesses successfully."

National weightlifting champion Zou Chunlan became a bathhouse worker; when Asian weightlifting champion Cai Li died of illness, he was working as a janitor... Employment and future opportunities for retired athletes. The issue attracted widespread attention for a time.

After several or more than ten years of sports career, athletes often lose the golden period of receiving education in school, and their cultural quality is generally not high, which directly affects their " Secondary employment”.

In September 2007, the "Interim Measures for the Employment of Athletes" jointly issued by the State Sports General Administration, the Ministry of Education and other six ministries and commissions began to be implemented. The State Sports General Administration has also specially formulated supporting documents such as "Opinions on Further Improving the Guarantee for National Outstanding Athletes" and "Opinions on Improving the Transition Period for Athletes' Career Changes", which clarifies that after athletes retire from professional teams, they have a one-year period. Provide vocational training guidance to athletes during their career transition period.

During the transition period, many athletes choose to return to school before entering society. Feng Jianzhong, deputy director of the State Sports General Administration, said: "We have made many good attempts to leverage the advantages of universities and achieved good results."

Weng Weng, director of the Human Resources Development Center of the State Sports General Administration Jia Ren said: "Athletes can enter college without taking the exam after retiring. We have been doing this work for nearly 10 years and have established good cooperative relations with the Central University of Finance and Economics, the Second University of Foreign Languages, Dalian University of Foreign Languages ??and other universities. All students who meet the requirements for admission without taking the exam can Athletes who meet the conditions can enter the university without taking the exam."

Currently, Sun Xiaoli, deputy secretary of the Party Branch of the School of Sports Economics and Management of the Central University of Finance and Economics, is busy recruiting the fifth batch of retired athletes, who will enroll in 2004. The first batch of retired athletes graduated a few months ago. "Except for one of the 11 enrolled athletes who went home for treatment due to injury, the other 10 have found jobs," Sun Xiaoli said.

The first batch of 11 athletes to enter the Central University of Finance and Economics without taking the exam, from gymnastics, shooting, baseball, badminton and other sports, sat in the same classroom as students who passed the college entrance examination. Sun Xiaoli recalled: "When I first entered the school, the athletes were a little unaccustomed to campus life, and they asked me, 'Why is no one asking me to eat?' It took a semester to gradually adapt." What gave the teachers a headache was that the athletes' They have poor foundation in cultural classes and it is difficult to keep up with other students at the same pace. Sun Xiaoli said: "It is more difficult for athletes to understand the knowledge learned in class. Many of them have relatively low educational levels, and some athletes join the team at a young age. The training is not enough, but the systematic learning is not enough.”

However, the athletes’ sunny character and hard-working attitude brought a breath of fresh air to the college, and the class atmosphere was very harmonious. A baseball player named Zhang Lei also stood out. Not only was he elected class president, he also successfully ran for president of the school student union. Sun Xiaoli said: "In the first semester, Zhang Lei got high scores in logic, which surprised me. Through communication, I found that he has strong personal abilities, which is definitely inseparable from his experience in the sports team. "In the past four years, 40 athletes have entered the Central University of Finance and Economics. Now, Sun Xiaoli is negotiating with the Human Resources Development Center to expand employment channels for athletes after graduation. "The college hopes to expand enrollment and let the local sports bureau also They can support us and enhance the brand of the college through awareness, so that graduating athletes can have an ideal future.”

The school has also made some adjustments to the curriculum in response to some problems encountered in the teaching process. Starting in 2006, the Central University of Finance and Economics began to teach athletes in separate classes and develop training programs specifically for athletes, focusing on strengthening the cultivation of applied knowledge and English. The Second Foreign Language School has opened many English classes, which are very popular with athletes.

With the increasing employment pressure, many athletes are worried that they will not be able to find a job after leaving campus, which affects the enrollment effect.

Weng Jiaren said: "What needs to be solved now is how to enable athletes to have strong professional service capabilities after studying, and to be able to get jobs after leaving campus. Regarding this issue, the State Sports General Administration is studying and solving it with relevant departments . ”

In addition to cooperating with universities, the Human Resources Development Center has also organized a number of targeted training courses with good results. From August to November last year, the center jointly organized training courses for retired athletes in water sports with the Ocean University of China, Water Sports Management Center and Qingdao Aviation School. On the day of graduation, a supply and demand meeting was held, and more than a dozen water sports clubs came to the site to select talents. In the end, more than half of the more than 20 athletes went to work.

“An incident like Zou Chunlan’s will never happen again in the Chinese sports world,” said Weng Jiaren, director of the Human Resources Development Center of the State Sports General Administration. All are implemented in a practical manner, and athletes will not be left without a job or a guaranteed life after retirement."

In 2006 and 2007, the State Sports General Administration held consecutive national outstanding athlete protection and sports industry career meetings in Shanghai and Changsha. The Skills Appraisal Work Conference introduced more specific policies and measures, proposing "wages and benefits, social insurance, medical care, disability pensions, employment guidance, retirement placement, poverty relief, study subsidies, and entrepreneurship support" as the main The content is a multi-level and comprehensive athlete protection system that is jointly and hierarchically responsible for the country, society, industry, localities and individuals.

Not long ago, Beijing Olympic champions Zhang Ning, Tong Wen, Qiu Jian and others appeared at the "Easy Financial Management" meeting hosted by Shanghai Pudong Development Bank. They all unanimously expressed that they should make reasonable use of Olympic bonuses and plan My life after retirement. Weng Jiaren said: "Olympic champions still have to consider their own path after retirement, let alone those athletes who have not achieved results. We must not only pay attention to successful athletes, but also pay attention to ordinary athletes. The policies issued by the country must To benefit all athletes, especially those in need, we must allow them to live under a normal social security mechanism.”

The employment issue of retired athletes is a problem that has long plagued the sports front in recent years. In recent years, many provinces and cities across the country have been actively trying. In addition to Jilin's entrepreneurship training class for retired athletes, Tianjin has launched a swimming lifeguard training class for retired athletes; Beijing has organized the first fitness coach training class for retired athletes; Guangdong has established Athletes' career transformation training base; Jiangsu has introduced a number of supporting policies and conducted training.

At present, strengthening the cultural education of athletes and improving their quality have received more and more attention from sports schools at all levels. Many amateur sports schools are either integrated with traditional sports schools or jointly run with ordinary middle schools. , sports and education management departments cooperate with each other to improve the cultural quality of athletes.

“Training is crucial during the career transition period of nearly one year after athletes retire,” Weng Jiaren said. “Strengthening career counseling, vocational training and employment training for athletes during the career transition transition period, Mobilizing all aspects of society and paying attention to the employment of athletes is one of the key tasks of the Human Resources Development Center."

In Weng Jiaren's words, the Human Resources Development Center is "one organization with two brands." We are also the Vocational Skills Appraisal and Guidance Center of the State Sports General Administration." At present, unique occupations in the sports industry include "social sports instructors", "sports agents", "sports ground workers" and "swimming lifeguards". After retired athletes pass the assessment and appraisal, they will obtain national professional qualification certificates in the sports industry and engage in related work. At present, 20 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities across the country have established appraisal stations responsible for the appraisal of vocational skills in the sports industry.

At present, China Sports Beili Fitness Club is actively promoting the employment system for holding national fitness instructor professional qualification certificates. A total of 28 retired athletes participated in the fitness coach training class they hosted at the end of October this year. The training content included equipment operation, marketing concepts and customer communication methods. 24 people passed the exam and obtained the national professional qualification certificate. Many of them People have signed with the club. There are now more than 80 retired athletes serving as fitness coaches in the club.

Although the employment placement work for retired athletes has achieved certain results, Weng Jiaren admitted that there are still many problems and resistance. “The current employment situation is not very optimistic. Athletes’ market employment competitiveness is relatively weak. We need to Sports departments at all levels have further paid attention to the resettlement of retired athletes, increased the intensity and scope of solving problems, and implemented the country's care for athletes."

Weng Jiaren said frankly: "The resettlement of retired athletes is straightforward. Regarding the sustainable development of competitive sports in our country, sports teams must have exits and entrances. If the exits are not smooth, the entrances will inevitably be affected. Athletes can no longer shed tears after bleeding and sweating, so that they can leave the sports teams with a smile and integrate into society. , our sports industry can maintain strong vitality."

Editor

Currently, 3,000 to 6,000 professional athletes retire every year in our country, and about 40% of them are difficult to relocate in time. . Most of them have been playing in the arena since they were young. When other children are still enjoying the comfort of young life, they have already begun to withstand the test of success and failure. When other children are studying in the campus, they have begun to suffer from injuries. trouble. On the way to the gold medal, most of them are destined to only become supporting roles, but in the brilliant achievements of Chinese competitive sports, every medal is inseparable from their sweat and dedication.

Athletes can no longer shed tears after bleeding and sweating. Only by allowing them to leave the sports team with a smile and integrate into society can our sports industry maintain its strong vitality. I believe that with the increasingly complete athlete protection system, incidents like Zou Chunlan’s will not happen again in the Chinese sports world.