Why are central enterprises competing for front-line workers?

Dignified central enterprises are actually competing for higher vocational students. What are the deep-seated reasons behind this phenomenon?

The number of front-line technical positions has not been open to college students for a long time, and vocational school students cannot enter

According to the relevant person in charge of Jinling Petrochemical, this group of employees was summoned by the company for training before the Spring Festival in 2019. And training continues after the Spring Festival. On the one hand, this kind of training is to improve their business capabilities and allow them to adapt to work in advance. On the other hand, it is also to prevent the loss of this hard-won talent.

As a subsidiary of Sinopec, Jinling Petrochemical has many undergraduates and even masters and doctoral students trying to get in. Why do they pay so much attention to dozens of higher vocational students? A person in charge of the company told a reporter from the Workers' Daily that the company is currently in urgent need of a group of skilled workers, and the purpose of recruiting these vocational students is to fill front-line operating positions.

As a traditional petroleum refining and chemical company, front-line workers are the main force of the company and play an indispensable role in production. However, in the past two years, the company has been transforming and upgrading, and has set up some tough bars in recruitment, such as at least a bachelor's degree. The company has not recruited vocational college students for two or three years.

The development of enterprises is naturally indispensable for highly educated management and scientific research talents, but it is also indispensable for front-line technical workers. In fact, as a traditional enterprise with a history of several decades, the enterprise has indeed encountered new contradictions in the position of technical workers. The front-line technical workers are older, many are in their forties and fifties, and there is a shortage of workers in the workforce. sign.

According to the relevant person in charge of the company, there are currently some positions that cannot be filled by newcomers after old workers retire, and in the end one person has to fill two positions. This is only a stop-gap measure. In order not to delay production, some jobs have to be outsourced. However, the oil refining and petrochemical industry is a dangerous industry, and there are also considerable risks in outsourcing work. Enterprises bear great risks. responsibility.

On the other hand, college students recruited by companies cannot stay in these front-line operating positions for a long time, and brain drain has also begun to occur.

“So after the headquarters gave these college students places in 2018, we cherished them very much and hurriedly went to several corresponding higher vocational colleges and quickly selected 39 people after written examinations and interviews.” A person in charge of the company People say that these talents will be enriched into front-line technical positions.

It is understood that these talents have just been recruited. Although they will have to wait half a year to graduate, they have been targeted by various engineering companies under the company, and they all want to get a few more "treasures."