How to improve the employability of college students

How to improve college students' employability: know yourself clearly and plan well.

The continuous promotion of the popularization of higher education will inevitably lead to the problem of difficult employment for college students. Education should not only enable the educated to continuously learn all kinds of knowledge, but also enable them to acquire practical working abilities necessary for a certain occupation during their school study, so that these abilities can become necessary preparations for the educated to make a living independently in future social production activities. At present, people pay more and more attention to the employment of college students. There are many factors that affect college students' employment, and employability is the most fundamental reason.

First, do a good job in career planning.

What is career planning? Career planning refers to the process of combining personal development with organizational development, determining a person's goal through the analysis, summary and measurement of subjective and objective factors of career, and making career system arrangements in advance to achieve this career goal. Career planning, also called career design, is divided into two aspects: personal career planning (design) and organizational career planning (design).

1. The role of career planning

It is to help you set clear goals and management, use scientific methods and practical measures, give play to your personal strengths, develop your own potential, overcome obstacles in career development, avoid life traps, constantly correct your direction, and finally achieve career success.

2. The purpose of career design

It can not only help individuals find jobs according to their own economic conditions and achieve their personal goals, but more importantly, it can help individuals truly understand themselves, make career plans for themselves, plan the future, further evaluate the advantages and limitations of subjective and objective conditions and internal and external environment in detail, and design a reasonable and feasible career development direction that conforms to their own characteristics under the condition of "weighing external conditions and measuring their own strength".

College students' career planning is conducive to self-orientation, self-cognition, self-cognition, clear direction and clear life goals. When they plan, they always ask, "What do I want to do? what can I do? What are you going to do now? What is the employment environment? " This is helpful to the individualized development of students and the cultivation of innovative talents. Personality publicity is not the display of "personality color". Students can find things to do by themselves. If they are interested in writing and have certain ability, they can try to write a book. Find what you are good at and give full play to it.

An effective career planning meeting: guide you to correctly understand your personality characteristics, existing and potential resource advantages, help you reposition your value and make it continue to increase in value; Guide you to compare and analyze your comprehensive advantages and disadvantages; Make you set clear career development goals and career ideals; Guide you to evaluate the gap between personal goals and reality; Guide you to look forward to the career orientation combined with reality, and search for or discover new or potential career opportunities; Make you learn how to use scientific methods and take feasible steps and measures to continuously enhance your professional competitiveness and realize your professional goals and ideals.

Therefore, it is very necessary for college students to make their own career plans as soon as possible, and they must follow certain principles when making career plans, so it is very important to know themselves and position themselves. Under the global competition, everyone should give full play to their own specialties. Engaged in the work they love, such people are the happiest and happiest people, and they are most likely to achieve the greatest success in their careers. "confidant" is very important, and "confidant" is equally important.

Second, we should have a good psychological quality.

Psychological quality plays a very important role in job hunting. Some students will be devastated or have an evasive attitude when they encounter setbacks. We should take part in extracurricular activities to improve their psychological quality. We should encourage them to go out for practice, and let them pay attention to the combination of theory and practice, so as to improve their psychological quality and cultivate a positive and courageous spirit when they encounter difficulties. By going out for internship, they can clearly understand the current employment situation, maintain a good employment mentality, and in the absence of a satisfactory unit, they will find employment first and then choose a job.

There are indeed some graduates who overestimate their knowledge, ability and quality, and overestimate their value creation ability. This employment mentality has caused them to hit a wall repeatedly on the road to job hunting. As the saying goes, you should wear big shoes when your feet are big. This is the truth. In addition, the professional mentality that graduates don't want to start from the grass-roots level and small things after they come to the enterprise is also one of the important reasons why they are not welcomed by enterprises.

Third, recognize your own abilities.

In today's severe employment environment and fierce competition, in addition to various measures taken by governments at all levels, graduates should start from the following aspects to strengthen their employment competitiveness.

(A) an objective understanding of themselves

(B) improve the sense of integrity

(C) enhance team awareness

(D) cultivate good habits

(5) Improve professional skills.

(6) Do a good job in career planning.

(7) identify with corporate culture.

(8) Cherish employment opportunities.

Modern enterprises pay attention to "reality" rather than "high" in employing people. "The higher the education, the better. What enterprises value is the actual combat ability of individuals. They would rather choose people with college education or even lower work skills than graduate students without work skills. Because for an enterprise, there are both professional technical theories and professional technical experience, and it is talents who can contribute to the development of the enterprise.

In short, in the face of fierce employment competition, college students should strive to develop themselves in an all-round way, understand the employment situation clearly, start from themselves, adjust their mentality, actively respond, improve themselves, make good preparations for employment, adjust their employment expectations, strive to improve their employment competitiveness, urge students to devote themselves to practical learning, effectively improve their learning ability, practical ability and innovation ability, and constantly improve their comprehensive quality.

How to improve the employability of college students

College graduates are important talent resources in today's society and have become an important new force in the talent market. With the large-scale enrollment expansion of colleges and universities year after year, the number of college students has increased sharply, and the number of graduates has also increased. According to statistics, from 2000 to 2006, the number of college graduates in China was 107,15, 145, 2 12, 280, 338 and 41respectively. More than 6 million graduates by 2009. With the increasing number of graduates, people pay more and more attention to the employment of college students. How to improve their employability is the key to solve the employment difficulties of college students.

Career planning: the basis of improving employability

For many graduates, it is not so much "employment difficulty" as "employment confusion", and they don't know what kind of work they should be engaged in. Many students hold the mentality of "it's never too late to relax when they are freshmen and sophomores, and it's never too late to work hard when they are juniors and seniors", and they lack scientific planning for their future development, which often becomes an important reason why they are at a loss when facing employment pressure. A survey of 205 students in Beijing's key universities of humanities and economics shows that 62.2% of them have no plans for their future development and careers, 32.8% are not clear, and only 4.9% have clear designs.

As the first stop of college students' career planning, universities play a vital role. First of all, we must establish a correct career ideal. Once college students have determined their ideal career, they will plan their study and practice according to their career goals and actively prepare for their ideal career. Secondly, correct self-analysis and career analysis. Self-analysis is a comprehensive analysis of one's interests, temperament, personality and ability through scientific cognitive methods and means, so as to know one's advantages and disadvantages. Career analysis refers to fully considering the characteristics of the region, industry and post, such as the current situation and development prospects of the industry in which the profession is located, and the requirements of the professional post on the quality and ability of job seekers. Third, build a reasonable knowledge structure. According to the specific requirements of professional and social development, the existing knowledge should be scientifically reorganized, and a reasonable knowledge structure should be constructed to maximize the overall efficiency of knowledge. Fourth, what is needed to cultivate a career is ability. In addition to building a reasonable knowledge structure, it is also necessary to have the basic ability and professional ability to engage in posts in this industry. Only when college students agree with reasonable knowledge structure and various abilities suitable for social needs can they be in an invincible position.

From the specific implementation point of view, career planning should adopt different action plans at different stages from freshman year according to their long-term goals. For example, the first grade is a probation period, during which you need to have a preliminary understanding of your career, especially your future career or your major. However, due to the heavy learning task, it is not appropriate to participate in too many practical activities; The second grade is the orientation period. You should exercise your practical working ability by participating in various social activities. It is best to seek a job or major related to your future career for social practice in your spare time to test your knowledge and skills, and modify and adjust your career plan and design according to your personal interests and abilities. The third grade is the sprint period. While strengthening professional study, looking for a job and preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination, we should aim at all kinds of information related to achieving our goals. The fourth grade is a period of differentiation, and most students have clear goals for their own way out. At this time, we can make a summary of the preparation work in the first three years: check whether the determined career goals are clear, whether the preparation is sufficient, and make necessary repairs to the existing problems.

Social adaptability: the key to improving employment ability

There is a gap between school and society, and its operating rules are very different from society. The isolation of this environment often makes the college students' views on society in the "ivory tower" tend to be simplified, one-sided and idealized. Some enterprises are indifferent to fresh graduates. One of the important reasons is that recent graduates lack work experience and life experience, and their roles change slowly and the adaptation process is long. When hiring college graduates, under the same conditions, they often give priority to those graduates who have participated in social practice and have certain organizational and management skills. This requires college students to pay attention to cultivating their ability to adapt to and integrate into society before employment.

With the help of social practice platform, improve college students' organizational management ability, psychological endurance, interpersonal communication ability and adaptability. In addition, it can help them understand the employment environment, policies and situation, and help them find jobs that match their knowledge level, personality characteristics and abilities.

Survival of the fittest, survival is for development. Adaptation to society and environment should be active, not passive waiting and shrinking. Only when college students have strong social adaptability can they shorten the adaptation period and give full play to their intelligence. Therefore, it is an effective way to improve college students' employability and adapt to society as soon as possible without affecting their professional knowledge learning.

Good psychological quality: the basis of improving employment ability

In recent years, some incredible things often happen to our college students: Ma Jiajue hacked to death his roommate in a rage because of such a trivial matter as playing cards. Several disputes, a misunderstanding, staged a vicious homicide that shocked the whole country; Suicide and cruelty to animals among college students also occur from time to time. This has to arouse our vigilance: the mental health of college students needs attention! In real life, faced with the pressure of entering a higher school and parents' expectations, countless students are under great psychological pressure, but they have not been paid attention to by the society, so there has been a "Ma Jiajue" and a large number of people with high scores and low abilities have emerged. College students not only shoulder the heavy responsibility of building the motherland, but also are the mainstay of society. Their quality reflects the overall quality of a society. However, contemporary college students only pay attention to professional knowledge and ignore psychological quality in the learning process, which makes some people always look at a loss when facing confusion or adversity, which affects their career choices. Especially in the process of job hunting, once some students fail, they can never recover, which is one of the reasons why it is difficult for college students to find a job. Therefore, college students should pay attention to improving their psychological quality in the learning process, especially to exercise their perseverance in daily life; In job hunting, fully understand the employment information, calmly deal with the difficulties encountered, and remove obstacles on the road to success with a positive attitude until you reach the other side of victory.

Correct job-hunting mentality: the guarantee of improving employment ability

In the Annual Survey Report on the Employment Situation and Development of College Students in 2006, the choice of graduates and enterprises is completely different in the understanding of "the solution to the current employment difficulties of college students". Graduates pay more attention to improving themselves from the knowledge level and think that "improving skills" and "improving professional quality" are the most important; In the eyes of enterprises, the first is "students adjust their employment mentality", followed by "students improve their professional quality" and "improve their skills". Therefore, to improve the employment rate of college students, it is necessary to cultivate a good job-hunting mentality and establish a modern employment concept that is compatible with the market economy.

First of all, we should actively apply for a job, not passively "wait, rely on, and want." Many graduates pin their hopes on social relations resources, and there is a phenomenon of "family mobilization" in job hunting; Some graduates expect to rely on schools to solve the employment problem. In fact, under the condition of market economy, China has realized the two-way choice of employment system. It is an important way for college students to actively "sell" themselves, because whether they are competent for the job depends on their own ability.

Secondly, we should break the traditional concept of employment and realize diversified employment. When choosing a job, college students often bear the pressure of traditional ideas and traditional psychology from society and family. They still regard staying in big cities as the "iron rice bowl" as their first choice. Many college students tend to choose higher-paying jobs such as foreign companies and joint ventures, but few people choose the western region and grassroots, which makes employment a "single-plank bridge". In fact, many positions still need college students. For example, in recent years, a number of new occupations have emerged to adapt to informal employment, and freelance jobs such as freelance artists, software developers, translators, art designers and freelance writers have become popular in society, which has played a positive role in alleviating the employment pressure of college students. It can be seen that it is not difficult for college students to find a job that can give full play to their specialties as long as they can change their concepts and face reality.

Third, avoid blind pursuit and know yourself correctly. Higher education in China is in the transition period from "elite education" to "mass education". Some contemporary college students lack a sense of crisis, are "low-minded", blindly pursue high-level employment and high salary, and appear "clusters" in the types and fields of career choice, which leads to the disconnection between supply and demand, which is also one of the reasons for the difficulty of college students' employment. According to the survey, in 2009, due to the impact of the financial crisis, the demand for college students in China dropped sharply. In 2009, more than 6 million college graduates poured into the job market. This increase and decrease has become an important reason for college students' employment difficulties. In this case, only by changing the previous concept of "elite employment" and establishing a "popular" employment concept of "matching people with posts" can college graduates achieve employment.