The reasons why college graduates encounter employment traps and preventive measures

The reasons why college graduates encounter employment traps and preventive measures

The meaning of employment refers to the work performed by workers within the legal age for remuneration. Next Let me bring you the root causes and preventive measures of employment traps encountered by college graduates. I hope it will be helpful to you!

The root causes and preventive measures for college graduates to encounter employment traps

In recent years, due to factors such as the expansion of college enrollment and the saturation of some market demands, it has become difficult for college students to find employment. Optimism, and various employment traps are everywhere.

Basic types of employment traps

The employment trap for college students refers to recruitment units, other institutions or individuals that take advantage of college students’ disadvantaged status (such as lack of social experience, poor self-protection awareness, lack of employment, etc.) Fierce competition, etc.), using employment opportunities as incentives, using illegal and unethical means to reach various employment intentions (agreements) with college students with unequal rights and obligations, in order to infringe on the legitimate rights and interests of college students. There are various employment traps for college students at present, which can be roughly classified into the following aspects:

1. According to the main classification of employment traps, they include job fair traps, employment agency traps and "leather company" traps. First, the job fair trap. It refers to the use of false propaganda by job fair organizers to defraud job seekers of tickets, registration fees, information fees, etc. Second, the employment agency trap. It refers to employment agencies charging high agency fees on the grounds of introducing jobs. Such agencies often have simple facilities, no formal personnel organization, and are not qualified "agents". When job seekers pay a large amount of agency fees, the agencies will list various reasons to refuse or even walk away, thus Defrauding job seekers of agency fees. Third, the "leather company" trap. The essence is that illegal employment units employ workers, usually with low academic qualifications and high remuneration to attract job seekers.

2. Employment traps are classified according to the means of use, including high salary traps, contract traps, location traps, and security deposit or deposit traps.

First, the high salary trap. This type of trap generally takes advantage of college students' shallow social experience and high ambitions, and uses the guise of "higher vocational" to lure job-seeking college students, but in fact makes these people work as salesmen or even engage in illegal pyramid schemes.

Second, contract trap. Some units offer very good benefits when recruiting, but do not sign an employment agreement or even an employment contract; some units make various promises when recruiting employees, but there are no words in the contract; and some The employer sets some ambiguous or confusing words in the contract to deceive job seekers.

Third, the margin or deposit trap. In accordance with relevant national laws and regulations, recruiting units are strictly prohibited from charging fees for employment of college students, including materials fees, training fees, guarantee deposits, deposits, etc. However, during recruitment, college students still often encounter requests for fees for creating clever names. On the one hand, college students are eager to find jobs, but on the other hand, they lack corresponding legal knowledge and protection awareness, so they often fall into such traps.

3. Classification according to the purpose of employment traps, including fee traps and cheap labor-earning traps. First, the fee trap. Nowadays, many companies charge a lot of fees under clever pretexts: for example, they tempt you with attractive positions, and then require you to participate in training and pay training fees; or they require you to purchase company products after admission, etc. Second, the trap of earning cheap labor is also called the probation or internship period trap. Its essence is to use the probation period to extract cheap labor. It is understood that there are two main ways to use the probation period to defraud cheap labor. One is to tell the job seeker that he is unqualified for various reasons after the probation period, and the company will have no choice but to fire him; the other is to extend the probation period without reason.

2. The root cause of employment traps encountered by college students - inaccurate career positioning

Based on the above types of employment traps, it is not difficult to see that no matter what kind of employment trap it is, There is one thing in common: the employers do not want to arrange employment at all, but take advantage of the graduates' eagerness to find jobs and lack of experience to squeeze their money and labor through various means. Investigating the reasons, we usually find the following aspects:

1. Our country’s laws are not sound enough and school students are not included in the adjustment objects of the Labor Law.

The relationship between college students and intermediaries is not a labor relationship, but only a contractual relationship. There is currently no strong legal basis to sue intermediaries. Therefore, the labor supervision department is helpless when college students are defrauded of part-time jobs.

2. There are currently some loopholes in the supervision of recruiting units in the talent market. According to regulations, if an organization enters the talent market to recruit, it needs to issue a business license, the recruiter's ID card, a letter of introduction from the unit, etc. However, most talent markets are unable to effectively identify the authenticity of the business license. Some people in the industry are worried that college students lack sufficient social experience and experience. If they only rely on subjective impressions to distinguish the authenticity of recruitment units, there is no guarantee that they will not be deceived.

3. College students have insufficient social experience and poor discernment ability. Because college students have lived in an "ivory tower" for a long time, they are not deeply involved in the world, have insufficient experience, are relatively simple, and are easily deceived. And the interpersonal relationships in society are quite complex. Many college students who are looking for jobs are easily deceived if they are not careful.

4. College students have little awareness of rights protection. The self-protection behavior of college students after being deceived is really not optimistic. According to surveys, nearly 50% of college students choose to swallow their anger when encountering employment traps, which invisibly encourages the arrogance of unscrupulous intermediaries or scammers.

3. The main means to prevent college students’ employment traps - strengthening college students’ career planning education

The so-called 'career planning' refers to the combination of personal development and organizational development, which plays a vital role in determining a career. Analyze, summarize and measure the subjective and objective factors of a person's career, determine a person's career goal, choose a career to achieve this career goal, prepare corresponding action plans for work, education and training, and time each step. , sequence and direction to make reasonable arrangements. As long as a graduate has established a personal staged or long-term life goal, he will have a full estimate and positioning of his talents, specialties, and hobbies, and will choose and pursue them according to his own situation. If he feels that he is suitable in big cities or in popular industries, then he can go to these places; if he feels that he can maximize the value of his life in small and medium-sized cities or in the Midwest, he will not follow the trend and will follow his own path. Willingness to choose. Another reason why some graduates encounter difficulties in applying for jobs is that they do not understand the requirements of the employer and whether they are qualified in their assessment system. They just follow the trend blindly. At the same time, they do not know whether they are suitable for this position and whether they are consistent with their career. Development goals and life plans are consistent. If you apply for a job with such blindness, it will naturally not go smoothly. Of course, whether college students can accurately position themselves depends on two aspects: one is their understanding of themselves, and the other is their understanding of the employer. Therefore, the current schools or employment guidance units must combine guiding graduates to face the grassroots, face the west, and integrate into the construction of the country's western development, with graduates' career education and life goal planning education, and do so in a concrete and not general way. Calling on them in vain, asking them to lower their expectations and so on.

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Analysis of the employment situation of college graduates

The starting salary of college students may rebound

After experiencing the financial crisis, China’s economy It has begun to stabilize and rebound, and college students’ salary expectations have also begun to increase. From a city perspective, it is expected that the average starting salary for bachelor's and master's degree graduates in cities such as Beijing and Shanghai will reach around 2,800 in 2020.

Can Hefei reach the level of 2,800 yuan in first-tier cities such as Beijing next year? Li Min, deputy director of the talent market of the Provincial Federation of Industry and Commerce, said frankly that from 2009, the average monthly salary of college students was around 1,200 yuan, and it is expected to increase by two to three hundred yuan next year, to around 1,500 yuan. She explained: The salary level of graduates is related to the consumption level of the region. It is impossible for Hefei to rise to 2,800 yuan all of a sudden.

Faced with the rise in starting salaries, Lu Lei, director of the Employment Department of the Hefei Municipal Human Resources and Social Security Bureau, analyzed that the recovery of the overall economic situation is the main reason for the rise in wages, and orders from companies are also increasing. Considering For long-term development, retaining talents is also key. He humorously told reporters: Everything is increasing in price now. Affected by rising prices and the overall increase in wages in various industries, the wages of college students should increase a little. If the salary is set too low, everyone will leave, and the company boss will become the boss, so the trend of salary increase next year is certain.

Those with multiple skills in one specialty will become a hot commodity

Judging from this year’s job market situation, employment in high-tech majors such as energy, geology and mining, surveying and mapping is relatively optimistic, and the salary is relatively high. It is expected that Things will be good next year too. Li Min told reporters that in high-tech majors such as energy, the monthly salary for undergraduates this year is generally around 1,700 yuan, which is several hundred yuan higher than other majors. In addition, the engineering and financial industries are also relatively optimistic.

Compared with the optimistic prospects of high-tech industries, salaries in marketing, computer and other industries are relatively low. Li Min told reporters that the basic salary in the marketing industry in 2009 was around 1,000 yuan.

National Vocational Information Analyst Lin Yuntao believes that students in high-tech industries such as energy, geology and mining, because they have relatively specialized abilities, and not everyone can do these abilities well, so their salary is It's normal to be higher. Technology has entered all fields of human activities. Those who can master one or several professional technologies must be a sought-after talent. Lin Yuntao told reporters that the demand for people who can identify problems, solve problems and make effective decisions quickly will continue to heat up.

Salary depends on ability

The necessary ability for college students to work is the ability to adapt to society. Lin Yuntao believes that college students are basically out of touch with society during the learning stage, and there is a big difference between the ivory tower and social reality. Therefore, before going to work, the ability that college students must possess is the ability to adapt to society.

How should college students who graduate next year prepare for employment? In this regard, Lin Yuntao reminded that we must be mentally and physically prepared. We must learn how to face the gap between ideals and reality, and we must also realize that after working, it is no longer about studying hard, but more about learning to do things and learn to solve problems by hand.

Salary depends more on ability, and the ability to solve problems is particularly important. Shi Zhengfa, winner of the Hefei City Skills Award, told reporters that he only has a high school education, but the team he led cooperated with the Beijing Aeronautical Materials Research Institute to develop an aircraft wing material, which is blank in the country. With this material he researched and developed, he not only received a reward of 10,000 yuan, but also received a salary of hundreds of thousands of yuan.

The salary of college students is expected to increase next year, but the key still depends on personal ability. Lu Lei said that when seeking employment, college students should not only focus on salary, but should also consider job prospects, and salary is closely related to personal abilities. In addition, he believes that social welfare is also an important aspect for college graduates to consider.

Employment of college graduates

How far is the school gate from the enterprise? Nowadays, college students generally lack employability when seeking employment. Companies always complain that college students are not "professional." The differences create an insurmountable gap between college students and companies, hindering college students' employment. The employment mentality of college graduates is very important. However, now more and more people are beginning to worry about the lack of employability of college students.

The "attitude" of college students is the most problematic

Staff at the Jiangxi College Student Employment Guidance Center told reporters that graduates' employability should include work ability, adaptability, job hunting, or survivability. . Employability is a basic professional quality that enables college students to maintain their ability to be employed. However, college students currently generally lack this ability.

The current pre-employment training for college students should be divided into three stages. The first is training on the difficulties encountered in the job search process. This stage requires industry knowledge, corporate knowledge, career planning, career mentality, and job search skills. Secondly, after obtaining employment opportunities through hard work, it is difficult to adapt to the requirements of the workplace due to lack of basic professional qualities. This is also an important reason why many employers are currently unwilling to directly recruit college student employees; The third is that there is a gap between the professional knowledge that college students have learned in school and the actual professional abilities required by employers for specific positions, which requires target-position-oriented professional skills training. For employment, please refer to "The Employment Mentality of College Graduates is Important".

The view of enterprises on the lack of employability of college students is that attitude is the biggest problem. Tang Changjun, training manager of UFIDA Software Co., Ltd., believes that it is normal for college students who have just started working in a company to fail to meet the company's employment standards.

When companies recruit college students, they value their strong plasticity, their ability to learn new knowledge and new things quickly, and their willingness to do some heavy work to enhance the vitality of the company. However, if college students lack a proactive attitude, it will be difficult for them to gain favor from companies. He said: "When I was a student, I had a passive mentality and an accepting mentality, but the company hopes that every employee has a proactive mentality, a mentality of taking the initiative to care about the company, a mentality of taking the initiative to work, and a spirit of ownership. But now Students lack this kind of spirit and are in urgent need of a change of mentality. ”

Having a normal mind and being able to start from scratch is often the most difficult thing for graduates to achieve. An open-minded attitude is extremely lacking. of. Today's graduates think they can do everything, and often ask to take on important positions as soon as they arrive at the company. However, only when they arrive at the company do they realize that the actual operation is very different from what they learned in the textbooks. In order to take a leading role in a company, you must at least understand the company culture. As a result, I found out after arriving at the company that I couldn't actually do anything.

Employment first and then choosing a career is not blind employment

Nowadays, many college students follow the principle of employment first and then career choice when looking for jobs. However, companies also warn graduates that employment first is not blind employment. , You can't be desperate for employment, and you don't have to be completely ignorant of the industry position or even the company you want to work in.

Xiong Li from Nanchang University told reporters that he studied engineering, but he was also interested in sales and management. He said: "My current feeling is that I can do anything. Sometimes I really don't know what kind of job I want to do. When I graduate, my job search may be based on income."

Jiangxi College Student Employment Guidance Center Staff believe that it is very common among graduates to just find a job at random. Many people do not have a clear sense of employment and do not know what kind of job they should do, so they just want to find a job first. He said: "Especially for some graduates from other places, if the company can handle their household registration, they can do anything. In fact, the first step for students to enter society is very important. The career they choose depends on the life they choose. It must be Think carefully. ”

Many graduates who come to apply for jobs now have no understanding of the industry or position they have chosen, or even the company, and some are starting to make demands. Some students ask that they be transferred to Beijing, Shanghai, etc. It doesn't matter what they do, but how can someone who doesn't understand the industry and position do a good job, so companies will naturally not choose them. ;