How did a sophomore get a job with an annual salary of RMB 100,000?

Li Jiankun was only in his sophomore year when he was spotted by the Mechanical Manufacturing Technology Research Institute of the China Academy of Engineering Physics. The two parties signed an employment agreement. After Li Jiankun graduates from the CNC major of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Zhongshan Vocational and Technical College next year, he can directly work at the institute with an annual salary of about 100,000 yuan. Since 2012, China Institute of Engineering Physics has hired 7 numerical control graduates from Sun Yat-sen Vocational College with high salaries.

“As long as students want to work, they don’t have to worry about finding their ‘in-laws’.” Li Zhanqi, dean of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Sun Yat-sen Vocational College, gave an example. In December last year, the college held a job fair. Because the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering There are more than 400 graduates in the class of 2017, and 90 corporate booths have been set up, which I thought was enough. But more than 100 companies came that day and provided more than 700 jobs. After the Spring Festival this year, many companies contacted the institute's VIPs, but the graduates were all snapped up.

The current employment situation of the School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering of Zhongshan Vocational College is precisely due to the "self-revolution" of the school five years ago. Li Zhanqi gave the numerical control major as an example. At that time, they discovered that because many higher vocational colleges were offering numerical control majors, the market was saturated and it was difficult to improve the employment quality of students. However, due to the large investment in CNC professional equipment, for example, the CNC professional equipment of this college is worth nearly 10 million yuan, many higher vocational colleges are reluctant to withdraw from this major.

The institute visited more than a dozen companies such as Guangzhou CNC Technology Co., Ltd., and after extensive market research, it found that Zhongshan and other Pearl River Delta areas were saturated with CNC equipment operating technicians. With the development of smart manufacturing in Guangdong Province and Zhongshan City, companies are in urgent need of CNC equipment assembly, adjustment, repair, and maintenance personnel, and there is a huge talent gap. However, professional transformation has put forward new requirements for teachers’ abilities and equipment.

The CNC major of Zhongshan Vocational College has broken its wrist and adjusted its professional development direction according to the regional industrial transformation and upgrading. The training direction has shifted from equipment operation to equipment application and maintenance. On the one hand, the institute sends a large number of teachers to universities and enterprises to "recycle" and recruit skilled craftsmen from the enterprises; on the other hand, it purchases a large number of testing and debugging equipment. At the same time, it has built a "factory within a school" with Guangzhou Chaoyuan Mechanical and Electrical Company, and a "factory within a school" with CNC companies such as Zhongshan Jiecheng to implement the talent training model of "dual-track parallelism, alternating engineering and learning, and hierarchical advancement".

Li Jiankun, Xia Lingjing and Chen Yuekai, three CNC students from Zhongshan Vocational College, under the guidance of teachers such as Liu Xiaojuan, won the "CNC machine tool assembly and technical transformation" in the higher vocational group of this year's National Vocational College Skills Competition. "First prize in the competition. Five years ago, Liu Xiaojuan was sent to universities and companies to "recharge" for a year to supplement her knowledge and skills in electrical and other aspects. A large number of "skilled craftsmen" also make the integrated teaching of theory and practice of Zhongshan Vocational College more effective with half the effort. Before Lin Yuehua taught at Zhongshan Vocational College, he worked at Zhongshan Kaida Fine Chemical Company for more than 20 years, growing from a technician to the director of the production department.

According to Wu Jianxin, dean of Sun Yat-sen Vocational College, in order to strengthen students' practical abilities, the school has purchased on-campus practical training equipment worth nearly 150 million yuan and has jointly built 8 "on-campus training centers" with enterprises. "Factory", with 6,654 positions in the campus practice base. Students’ practical training hours account for more than 65% of the total hours during school. At the same time, the school has also signed internship agreements with 368 companies and established 3 "factory lieutenant colonels".

The upgrade of teachers and equipment has boosted the employment situation of Zhongshan Vocational College. As of June 21, the employment intention rate of the school's 2017 graduates was 97.40, and the contract signing rate for six majors, including Internet of Things application technology and animation design and production, reached 100. According to statistics, the initial employment rate of graduates from the school from 2014 to 2016 was above 99, ranking among the top in Guangdong Province.