I am a working technical secondary school student. How can I improve my competitiveness in society in the future?

Every May and June is the peak period for job hunting for graduates, and the student employment offices of many universities are extremely busy. The reporter made a special trip to visit several vocational and technical colleges and universities to learn more about how these schools improve the employment competitiveness of graduates.

Nanjing Technician College: Solidly cultivate students’ practical ability

Nanjing Technician College in Jiangsu Province is located in Xianlin University Town in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing. It is a state-owned public institution that cultivates intermediate and advanced students. A comprehensive senior vocational and technical school featuring skilled talents, it is affiliated to the Nanjing Municipal Labor and Social Security Bureau.

The college has provided nearly 20,000 qualified intermediate and high-level skilled talents for Nanjing’s economic development. In recent years, the college has closely focused on the theme of cultivating high-skilled talents, explored the training model of compound skilled workers, and embarked on a new path that is different from ordinary higher vocational education: it not only meets the masses' requirements for higher educational levels, but also The new way of running a school with its own characteristics has been recognized by parents of students and praised by the whole society. The college adheres to the school-running model of integrating theory and practice, cultivates students' practical ability in a down-to-earth manner, highlights the characteristics of skill training, starts from reforming the teaching plan and syllabus, strengthens the construction of practical training courses, and ensures that there is a large proportion of students' experiments, practical training courses and theoretical courses. at 50%.

In order to adapt to the market demand for highly skilled talents, the college promptly adjusts and adds majors in cultivating highly skilled talents to ensure a seamless connection between major settings and market demand. After years of exploration, the college has formed a new professional curriculum system that combines long-term majors with short-term majors, brand majors with general majors, and emerging majors with traditional majors. The majors offered cover nearly 40 majors in six major disciplines: advanced manufacturing technology, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic information engineering, computer technology, and modern services; the professional content covers modern high-tech fields such as secondary industry and tertiary industry. Among them, the school-running capabilities of high-tech majors such as digital manufacturing technology, mold design and manufacturing, electronic information technology, and computer network technology all meet the school-running requirements for cultivating technicians.

Jinken College: Focus on students’ vocational skills

In 2007, 1,437 of the 1,466 fresh graduates from Jinken Vocational and Technical College (hereinafter referred to as "Jinken College") were employed. The rate is as high as 98.02%. "In 2008, many units came to the school to recruit our graduates, and the employment situation was very good." Bao Liping, chairman of Jinken College, told reporters.

Jinken College is "service-oriented and employment-oriented", follows the development path of integrating work and study, cultivates highly skilled talents for the front-line needs of production, construction, management and service, and initially builds a " A pattern of "focusing on engineering, featuring machinery and automobiles, and coordinated development of multiple majors." The college has 5 departments and 31 majors including Mechanical and Automotive Engineering, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Computer and Communication Engineering, Economics and Management Engineering, and Humanities and Social Sciences. The construction of automobile and mechanical majors will be strengthened as key majors. Automobile inspection and maintenance technology, architectural design technology, and tourism management are the featured majors, while construction engineering technology, machinery manufacturing and automation, e-commerce, and international economics and trade are the key construction majors of the college.

Chairman Bao Liping said that the teaching instruments and equipment of Jinken College alone are worth 31.7 million yuan, and the college has invested more than 20 million yuan to build an automobile, machinery and other training center with tens of thousands of square meters. There is a 5-story practical training building; nearly 6 million yuan was invested in a new automobile inspection line... "These equipments allow students to practice while studying and learn in practice. Therefore, the students of Jinken College have relatively strong vocational skills and abilities." , our graduates are very popular with employers.”

Nanjing Industrial Vocational and Technical College: 98% of graduates have already found jobs

On the afternoon of June 30, reporters walked into Nanjing Industrial Vocational and Technical College and found that the school’s students were employed The office seemed a bit "deserted". It turns out that most of the school's graduates have been snapped up by major employers half a year in advance. It is understood that 98% of the 2008 graduates of the institute have found jobs, and most of them have been hired by large companies such as Nanjing Automobile Group, Foxconn Group, Ericsson, and Panasonic. Why have graduates from Nanjing Industrial Vocational and Technical College become “hot cakes”? What is the secret of the college’s high employment rate?

It turns out that the school’s guiding ideology is to be guided by market and social needs and to improve students’ employment competitiveness at home and abroad.

The college innovates the talent training model and adopts various forms such as "work-study alternation", "post-job internship" and "order-based". It trains in schools and employers respectively, and carries out teaching reforms according to the needs of employers, realizing the integration of schools and enterprises. The strong cooperation of individual entities. This method of linking production and marketing enables students to enter the workforce quickly upon graduation.

In order to improve students’ employment and entrepreneurship capabilities, the college has built college student entrepreneurship and innovation practice centers in the construction of experimental training rooms for various majors; the college’s off-campus internship bases are divided into three categories: The first is a large-scale professional internship base, which mainly provides students with cognitive internships and professional course internships. The second is a close industry-university cooperative teaching base. The cooperative enterprise assumes the teaching tasks of certain teaching links in the talent training process. In this type of teaching base, students can participate in actual production labor and even work as internships with the class. The third is a strategic partnership-type industry-university-research base. Schools and enterprises have formed a strategic partnership that relies on each other and comprehensively cooperates. The enterprises provide students with internship sites with real engineering backgrounds and participate in the school's teaching links.

After being employed, the majority of graduates from the college quickly entered important front-line positions in production, construction, management, and service, becoming the backbone of the enterprise. For example, the financial director of Jiangyin Huaxi Group, the financial director of Shanghai Youth Media Co., Ltd., as well as the technical and management backbones of Nanjing Ericsson, Nanjing Automobile Group, Nanjing Light Industry Group and other enterprises are graduates of the institute. A number of self-employed small and medium-sized enterprises have also emerged among the graduates, such as Xia Zhijie, a graduate of the mechanical and electrical major. After graduation, he went to the United States to study and received a doctorate. After returning to China, he founded the Sino-US joint venture Orient Network Information Co., Ltd. to conduct research on radio and television systems. Effective management has played a great role in promoting