How do highly educated people face the job expectation gap in employment?

How do highly educated people face the job expectation gap in employment?

"It's so difficult to find a job. Let's continue studying." "Since the income is not ideal, it is better to study for a doctor." Near the graduation season, the reporter found that such "graduation declaration" appeared more and more in the mouths of undergraduates and graduate students.

Various salary surveys show that the salaries of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students entering the workplace are not as ideal as expected by job seekers. The reporter's investigation found that "high academic qualifications and poor practice" have gradually become the "colored glasses" for HR recruitment in some enterprises, which has also become a reason why it is difficult for highly educated people to obtain expected income. Then, is there a "degree upside down" in the job market?

Are liberal arts students "the most injured"?

"In the past, some people in the society discriminated against female doctors and called us' the third kind of people', but at least it is not difficult to find a job. But now my postdoctoral fellow is afraid to leave the station because I can't find a suitable job. " Jie Chen (a pseudonym), who just turned 30, said. She once devoted herself to academic and scientific research and continued her studies. However, until the post-doctoral student left the station, the academic achievements she had worked hard failed to help her return to the teaching post in universities or related scientific research institutions.

The reporter found that the situation in Jie Chen seems to represent the situation of some people with high academic qualifications in liberal arts. As a native of Beijing, his family is relatively rich, and his study period coincides with the great development of higher education. Therefore, Jie Chen, who likes literature and art since childhood, has been focusing on the study of literary aesthetics since she was an undergraduate. She had successfully studied for a doctorate, and after graduation, she went to the postdoctoral station of Communication University of China for further study. However, after her study stage, she found that finding a "counterpart job" was almost an "impossible task".

Like Jie Chen, it is almost inconceivable that even doctors of arts from Peking University and Tsinghua want to stay and teach at universities in Beijing. "There are only one or two places in the humanities in the school every year. We will also give priority to returning talents who have obtained doctoral degrees overseas. Therefore, it is not easy for doctoral graduates of our school to stay in school. "

After consulting the personnel departments of some universities, the reporter found that the liberal arts teaching posts in Beijing and Shanghai are basically saturated at present. In contrast, Guangzhou, Shenzhen or some other cities in the south have gradually become the first choice for Beijing-Shanghai liberal arts doctors to "return to university".

"I have been studying, and I want to find a job that can stay in Beijing universities to teach and do research. Now, if I am allowed to do administrative work, there is no advantage in terms of age and major. People often criticize us for being too ambitious. I also admit that my actual work is really not so smooth. However, my academic background belongs to the theoretical category and I have not received practical training. " Jie Chen is both helpless and confused about some accusations in the society.

Break the strange circle of "income-only theory"

"After coming back from the United States, I found a job as a senior R&D engineer in the chemical industry, with an annual income of 300,000, but I felt that this position was not very relevant to what I learned and my value could not be realized, so I resigned." For Luo Yan, whose Ph.D. direction is materials chemistry, Chengdu, where she lives comfortably, is a temporary choice. However, Luo Yan still chose to transfer to a research post in a university.

"Unlike liberal arts positions, the combination of production and learning in university scientific research will lead to higher income than that in enterprises, and the school will also give me a settlement fee. In addition, colleges and universities are free, and after Dr. Haigui was rated as an associate professor, his social status was relatively high. " Luo Yan explained to reporters the reasons for his resignation.

According to the reporter's understanding, compared with the worries of those with a high degree in liberal arts who are worried about whether they can find a job, although the natural skill advantage of doctors of science and engineering can generally solve the "survival problem", in enterprises, the salary of many industry talents with bachelor's degree or below is higher than that of those with a high degree who just entered the workplace, which will also make the latter feel that their academic qualifications are upside down.

"In fact, because the job requirements of technical positions are completely matched, the salary and education are still relatively matched. For enterprises, working ability needs past experience to prove. If highly educated people want to make a breakthrough in salary, it is unrealistic to jump directly to the high-end income level of the industry for the first time. " HR Jingyu, a senior enterprise, told reporters that job seekers are often prone to fall into the strange circle of "income-only theory" and blindly compare. "Because there are relatively many opportunities, many doctors of science and engineering choose to start a business or enter colleges and universities, which will be regarded as an unsatisfactory initial stage. But what they may overlook is that the experience of the enterprise can make them better familiar with the market and business, have basic collaboration ability, and get more team resources in the initial stage, while colleagues with lower academic qualifications may get higher salary than them by virtue of their own performance accumulation. "

Career planning may be the way to break this situation.

"Whether education and income are upside down is a false proposition in my opinion." Dale Hong, founder and chief career planner of Xiangyang Career Planning, gave a unique opinion to the reporter of Workers Daily.

"The ultimate goal of education investment is to serve the work. If the pursuit of high academic qualifications is not accompanied by the dynamic debugging of workplace goals and does not follow the basic laws of the workplace, it is not surprising that after joining the job, the views on academic qualifications are reversed. " Dale Hong said that for employers, it is not only academic qualifications and degrees that are valuable, but how many problems job seekers can help the unit solve and how much value they can create.

"It is particularly worth emphasizing that people in the workplace must realize that the essence of employment relationship is the exchange of business value, and the era of academic qualifications has passed." Dale Hong pointed out that some students avoid employment by studying, expecting that they can easily get high salaries with high academic qualifications, and they don't pay attention to practical experience during their study, which may affect their personal development after entering the workplace.

"In terms of supply and demand, second-and third-tier cities still need young scholars in humanities and social sciences in Beijing and Shanghai to prove that those with high academic qualifications in liberal arts are not unable to realize their own value. In the field of science and engineering, whether it is a doctor or a postdoctoral fellow, on which platform their academic research ability can be quickly transformed into direct commercial value is the key. " Dale Hong said, "Make clear the purpose of learning, don't study for the sake of learning, and make a comprehensive comparison according to your own strengths, interests and value orientations, so you can largely avoid detours." Dale Hong suggested that when entering the workplace for the first time, don't care about the gains and losses of "one place, one city", but look to the long-term development. "People with higher education should believe in their late-comer advantage." Dale Hong stressed.

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