What is the difficulty of college students' employment?

In addition to the contradiction between total supply and demand caused by the impact of COVID-19 epidemic, the structural mismatch between the job demand of employers and the ability and expectation of college students is the main reason for the current employment difficulties of college students.

The structural mismatch of college students' employment is mainly reflected in six aspects: mismatch between regional opportunities and mobility intention, mismatch between academic requirements and academic structure, mismatch between ability requirements and professional background, mismatch between enterprise nature and employment preference, mismatch between industry demand and job hunting enthusiasm, mismatch between job gap and career choice.

from the perspective of regional opportunities and mobility intention, the eastern region currently provides 51.3% of the employment demand for graduates, while the proportion of college students sending resumes to the eastern region in June reached 57.%, 5.7 percentage points higher than the former. The central region provided 22.6% of college students' job demand, but only 18.% of college students sent their resumes to the central region.

There are great differences in employment preferences for different enterprises, which is the biggest mismatch between supply and demand in the employment market for college students. At present, private enterprises provide 65.8% job demand for college graduates, but only 27.8% of college students' resumes were submitted to private enterprises in June.

on the contrary, state-owned enterprises, foreign enterprises and listed companies only provided 5.4%, 5.2% and 6.8% of the job requirements for college students, but the resumes of college students delivered to these three types of enterprises accounted for 13.8%, 16.3% and 11.3% respectively.

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Female college students are more difficult to find jobs than male college students:

Among the fresh college students who were still applying for jobs on the platform of Zhilian in June, the proportion of female college students (58.5%) was 17 percentage points higher than that of male college students (41.5%). As of June, 27.7% of the fresh college students who submitted their resumes in Zhilian in the past year are still in the state of job hunting, and their employment difficulty coefficient is 2.2 percentage points higher than that of male college students (25.5%).

Although the employment difficulty coefficient of female college students with higher academic qualifications will be smaller, the employment difficulty coefficient of female masters (18.86%) is 6.6 percentage points higher than that of male masters (12.23%), showing the biggest gender difference among all kinds of academic qualifications.

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