Financial Crisis and College Students' Employment

Overcoming the influence of financial crisis and realizing successful employment

As the main group of employment, the employment of college graduates in 2009 has become the focus of attention of society and schools. Under the influence of the financial crisis, how to overcome the impact of the financial crisis and achieve successful employment is a very important issue for the country, universities or students. To solve this problem, we should at least solve it from the subjective factors of college students and the government level.

Keywords:: financial crisis affects employment

This year's global financial crisis will have a great impact on the employment of college graduates. According to statistics, there will be more than 6 million college graduates nationwide in 2009, and there are about 4.8 million unemployed college graduates in the past two years. In 2009, there will be as many as10 million college students who need employment. As the main group of employment, the employment of 2009 college graduates has become the focus of attention of society and schools. With the increasing number of college graduates in China, the severe employment situation of college students and the impact of the global financial crisis, how to overcome the impact of the financial crisis and achieve successful employment is a very important issue for the country, universities or students.

1. Under the financial crisis, the main factors affecting the employment of college students are as follows:

1) Social factors

The formation of contemporary college students' employment problem is inevitably influenced by various social factors, including: the continuous expansion of colleges and universities brings pressure to college students' employment, the imperfection of employment system has a great impact on college students' employment, the negative impact brought by the development of market economy distorts contemporary college students' employment concept, and recruitment discrimination has an adverse impact on graduates' employment. The attack of the Wall Street financial storm has made the already severe employment problem more difficult and the psychological problems of college students' employment more prominent.

2) School factors

In recent years, the mechanism of "independent employment and two-way choice" has been implemented in the employment of college graduates in China. The reform of this employment system directly affects the employment of college students. However, there are still quite a few colleges and universities that only want to expand the enrollment scale, lacking the investigation and understanding of social needs, and many problems about school specialty setting, enrollment, employment guidance and so on are still being explored.

3) University graduates' own factors

At present, a considerable number of college graduates lack the necessary understanding and understanding of themselves. An online survey of education in China shows that 36.5% of college students are not clear about their interests, 29.3% are not clear about their personality, and 54.5% are not clear about their abilities and specialties. It is very difficult to know yourself, almost no one can be completely objective and accurate, but it is a job that college graduates must do when they move towards their careers.

At the same time, college graduates' understanding of occupation is also vague and uncertain. On the one hand, college graduates are more concerned about employment and have a preliminary understanding of their majors, but on the other hand, they lack the awareness of actively understanding the current employment policy, career development trend, career types, career connotations and professional quality requirements.

2. To overcome the impact of the financial crisis and achieve successful employment, we must solve it from the following two levels.

1) Subjective level of college students

(1) Correctly understand the employment situation of college students

Although the current employment situation is not optimistic, we should analyze it from two aspects in order to correctly understand the advantages and disadvantages of the employment situation of college students.

The favorable factors for college students' employment are shown in two aspects:

First of all, this is a good opportunity for China's political stability and rapid economic development. During this period, it is necessary for a large number of "four haves" newcomers with higher education, professional skills, social morality and good professional ethics to participate in Socialism with Chinese characteristics's modernization drive. The 17th National Congress clearly put forward the grand goal of building a well-off society in an all-round way, and the country needs a large number of high-quality talents, which provides broad career prospects for graduates.

Secondly, no matter the country, governments at all levels, organizations or schools are paying more and more attention to the employment of college graduates. The Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Labor and Social Security jointly issued a notice recently, demanding that the employment of college graduates after the expansion of enrollment be further improved, and that qualified college graduates be given priority in arranging new jobs; In addition, the dilution of household registration, the retention of job-seeking qualifications (two years) and so on, the relevant national policies are tilted in the direction of benefiting graduates' employment; At the same time, the "double election meeting", the opening of the permanent employment market, the establishment of various employment guidance institutions at all levels, and the frequent recruitment of talents by employers have provided a variety of career opportunities for college graduates.

(2) College students should improve themselves and shape their survival instinct.

Practically speaking, it is not difficult for college students to find jobs. It is difficult to find an ideal job. As a young man full of vigor and vitality, there is no need to be blinded by one leaf, let alone be swayed by considerations of gain and loss, shrink back or give up on yourself. Only by facing up to the pressure of employment can college students force themselves to take active actions and have the mentality and action to win. Therefore, college students should change their employment concept and adjust their employment mentality. We should bravely break the traditional concepts of "employment is to choose a lifelong career" and "lifelong". Dare to eat crabs and run a "soup bag shop"; It is necessary to understand that "employment first, then career choice; Seek survival first and then development ","people in the workplace should learn to be human first and then learn to do things ","know the society, know themselves, position themselves correctly and meet challenges "and so on.

Secondly, we should make a ten-year life development plan. From the first employment to the next 10 year, there must be a plan for how to develop. Career planning should not be too short or too long. Career planning should consider "three natures": suitability for career, personal interest and social reality. If you dare to do what you think you can do, you are sure to succeed. With a clear life development plan, people's psychological endurance will be improved and their social adaptability will be further enhanced. At the same time, you should find your favorite job or development direction according to your knowledge and interest. Know what you are suitable for and what you can contribute to society. Position yourself reasonably with a peaceful mind and choose a career that suits you. Only in this way can we reduce or avoid the twists and turns on the road to employment and make employment smoother. From a psychological point of view, shift your energy and attention to the consideration of employment prospects and know what you should do, whether it is pressure release or pressure transfer.

(3) Expectations should be moderate.

On the basis of a correct understanding of social needs and their own competitive conditions, we should take social needs as our first choice for job hunting, appropriately lower our expectations, apply for a job first, base ourselves on it, and then seek development.

(4) Don't talk about professional counterparts. As early as 10 years ago, Hong Kong attached importance to generalist education in order to choose a career flexibly. In western developed countries, due to the popularization of higher education, there are new standards for the division of talents: doctoral students are professionals, master students are applied talents, and undergraduates are general talents. In the process of the popularization of higher education in China, similar concepts are also changing. With the gradual implementation of general education in China University, the extravagant talk of professional counterparts tends to fade. Therefore, even if your major is wrong, your accomplishment and quality will be subtly reflected in your success. I believe that "gold will always shine." Undergraduate students have great plasticity, even master students should flexibly adjust their major direction and don't be obsessed with their major.

(5) Be prepared for setbacks, and face the failure of job hunting optimistically, which may also be the wealth of a lifetime.

The employability of college graduates is not based on the demand of career path, so it is difficult to meet the demand of human resources market. With the deepening of China's economic system reform and structural changes in the labor market, the demand pattern of employers has changed significantly. The employer's labor demand behavior is based on the "post qualification model under post analysis" and selects suitable talents in the labor market through the price mechanism. For example, the basic quality requirements of IBM China District for college students are: the first aspect is service consciousness, can you think from the customer's point of view; The second aspect is the ability to innovate and solve problems; The third aspect is communication ability; The fourth aspect is team spirit, professional ethics and business ethics.

2) Government level

The government should give full play to the management function of guiding the healthy employment psychology of college graduates.

(1) Standardize the employment market for college graduates.

There are many job markets for college graduates recently. However, because the employment market is still in the stage of development and growth, in the operation of the employment market, schools, employers, graduates and competent departments will inevitably encounter such problems, and there are still limitations and defects that affect the employment of college students. As a special talent market, the graduate employment market will gradually become mature and perfect with the development of China's economy and society and the improvement of national quality. To create a good environment for college students to take care of themselves in employment, the development idea of the future graduate employment market should be: to establish a unified, open and diversified market system to ensure the coordinated and orderly operation of the market system.

(2) Optimize technical means to ensure accurate and fast employment information.

Strengthen information services. Strengthening information service is an important aspect of graduate employment system reform. Strengthening information service is to establish and improve the graduate employment market, that is, the employment information network. The government must establish a perfect employment information network for college graduates to provide more convenient channels for graduates to query employment information.

Regionalization of employment information. First of all, the labor and social security departments, personnel departments and education departments should jointly compile information so as to correspond relevant information such as occupation, school major, planned recruitment and employment demand. In the future, relevant departments should open more professional markets, strengthen the pertinence of graduates' employment, constantly optimize technical means, strengthen the construction of information channels, ensure smooth employment information channels, ensure accurate and fast employment information, and further improve the employment information network.

(3) Improve the social security system

In a unified, open and fair labor market, the competitive conditions and opportunities of all kinds of enterprises should be equal. Therefore, it is required to unify the social security system regardless of the nature of ownership, professional status and wage distribution form, so as to facilitate the labor flow and rational allocation of resources, implement the autonomy of enterprises, embody the principle of combining fairness and efficiency, and provide graduates with broader employment channels.

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2. Principles and Methods of Social Investigation, edited by Zhou Deming, Central South University Press, 2006.

3. Jia Lijun's Study on the Structure of College Students' Employability, doctoral thesis of Nanjing Normal University, 2007.

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5. Huang Zhenyu's Employment Psychological Problems and Adjustment of Contemporary College Students, Master's Degree Thesis of Harbin Engineering University, 2007.