What are the employment prospects of food science and engineering? Do you need to change your major?

The employment prospect of food science and engineering is not very good, and the salary is relatively low. Suggest changing majors.

You can download relevant tools, enter the school and major you want to go to, and you can see the graduation destinations of many alumni in the school (including the company and position where ta is located), and see if most people's graduation destinations are what they and their parents expect, so as to avoid the information asymmetry caused by not knowing the nature of the major to a great extent, thus avoiding the problem of finding a job after graduation or the mismatch between the major and the industry they want to go to.

In the problem description of this topic, I want to focus on five issues:

1, low threshold. Admittedly, the workers on the assembly line don't need much education, but at present I haven't heard of any seniors going out to work and working on the assembly line. It is true that small factories do not require high academic qualifications, but all walks of life are true and there is nothing to say.

Those who do technology have been developing in the food industry for a long time, and they are basically biased towards materialization and biochemistry. Of course, if you are more likely to come, or if you have outstanding leadership skills, it is also a good choice to transfer to a management position.

But it must be pointed out that the ceiling of the food industry is indeed relatively low. For example, it is normal for financial industry executives to earn millions a year, while 50w for food industry executives is not bad.

2. Low wages are indeed common. Graduate students are about to graduate and are looking for a job in Shenzhen. The starting salary is mostly 8- 13k. Unless they can enter the top 500 enterprises, such as Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Yihai Kerry, COFCO, Ziyi, Nestle and so on. Generally, the wages of private enterprises are really not considerable.

However, even the high salary of fast-moving big companies is relative to the industry average, and it is definitely much lower than the computer and financial industries.

It's still early to change careers! The specific operation is to participate in the relevant internship in the industry you want to go to during the undergraduate period, which is very useful. Otherwise, as a non-major student, I haven't done any relevant internship in this industry, and even have nothing to write on my resume. For example, if you invest in IT front-end development positions, and you write on your resume that you participated in a food contest, it is estimated that no one will read your resume.

3. In Jiangnan University, the proportion of going to China+overseas for further study is about 37%. If the goal is food research and development jobs, then it is best to have a postgraduate degree or above. But at present, the goals of various food companies are to try their best to reduce product costs, imitate mass products and pursue profits first. Not many companies are really willing to do product research and development.

Most foreign companies are willing to engage in research and development, which requires your foreign language level. Of course, the higher your English level, the greater your advantage. Generally speaking, master's degree: IELTS 6.0+/ TOEFL 95+ Bachelor's degree: IELTS 5.5+/ TOEFL 85+ is the entry requirement for large foreign companies (this achievement is written on the recruitment website of the enterprise, not what I expected).

When I go abroad, I will mainly talk about the situation in Japan. In Japan, a friar's degree is equivalent to a master's degree in China, while Japanese "graduate students" refer to students who are equivalent to preparing friars. If you want to become a monk, you need to take the entrance exam, and you can become a monk only after passing the exam.

First of all, you need to contact the tutor, right, not the school, but directly. The method is to look up the school official website on the wall and find the contact information of the tutor you want (official website has information about the research direction of the tutor, and you can also get the information of the Japanese tutor by asking the teacher of the undergraduate school. Personally suggest a combination of the two).

Send your resume and research plan (referring to what research and experiments you plan to do and what goals you expect to achieve during the monk's study) to your tutor by email, and the tutor will report it to the school for approval after the interview. Just be a graduate student and then take the monk exam. The whole process from graduate to becoming a monk and then to graduation is expected to be two and a half to three years.

But contacting the tutor is not a complicated step, because there must be teachers who have returned from studying in Japanese schools. You can get to know Japanese tutors through these teachers, which greatly increases your success rate in applying for Japanese tutors, and Japan still trusts the recommendation of this acquaintance.

What is more troublesome is actually language expression. According to the previous introduction, you should also find that gpa is not very important in Japan. The instructor thinks OK is good, unless you have to go to Tokyo University or Kyoto University. Therefore, language achievement is particularly important, and if it is not enough, it will be rejected directly. Studying in Japan requires TOEFL 90+ plus N2 (liberal arts N 1, engineering basic N2), that is, two language scores.

The figure below shows the ranking of world-class disciplines published by 202 1 Department of Soft Science.

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There are about six employment directions: research and development, procurement/supply chain, production/technology, quality inspection, sales, product and brand planning.

Undergraduate alumni employment direction:

(1) Food enterprises in Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta. Food companies doing well in China (such as Li Tao, Wahaha, Yili, Mengniu, etc.). ) as an application engineer (making food recipes or optimizing food processing technology) or developing flavors, some people do related work in biological, pharmaceutical and other enterprises.

New product research and development includes: market positioning, product category, product positioning, product formula, formula ratio, etc. And domestic or third-party product production pilot (work content: determination of product processing technology, material loss during processing, influence of temperature on products, adjustment of formula ratio, etc.). ) and product production trial (troubleshooting) until it is officially put into production.

(2) Third-party testing of food quality. For example, SGS and Huace tend to focus on food safety, and their daily work mainly focuses on food testing, which is boring and monotonous, and is more suitable for students who are afraid of society, because this job is either ignored by you all day, or the working atmosphere is very good (the machine is sampling and testing, and colleagues sit together and chat). According to the working experience of people around us, it is generally believed that the laboratory is the simplest department like the university campus.

(3) R&D essence and stabilizer enterprises. This may be the most profitable branch of the food field, because it belongs to the upstream industry and is generally unknown to the public. However, the attribute of its upstream industry has its own characteristics of high wages (the average level in the industry), and the older the perfumer is, the more popular he is (even if the smell becomes worse when he is old, the perfuming experience will still make you eat the old money). At present, Universities of Applied Sciences is the only famous specialty of spices in China, so there is a serious shortage of personnel in this industry, and many people majoring in food and chemical engineering will be recruited.

Employment direction of graduates:

(1) Fortune 500 food enterprises. For example, Unilever, Nestle and Mars' R&D department (the work is the same as above, so I won't repeat it).

(2) state-owned enterprises and institutions. For example, China Academy of Agricultural Sciences and testing institutes around the country (all provincial capital cities have their own research institutes, and even slightly larger cities have them).

(3) Do not return to work. Enter foreign food-related enterprises or enter international organizations such as the International Space Station.

Finally:

Graduation destination of the 20th13rd graduates majoring in food science and engineering in Jiangnan University (20th17th graduates).

The data comes from the 20th13rd graduation yearbook of Food College of Jiangnan University. The data source is mainly personal registration, and some data may not be true, for reference only.

346 people participated in the data survey, including 282 people in food science and engineering (hereinafter referred to as "food department") and 64 people in food quality and safety (hereinafter referred to as "food quality").

Staff of Food Department: 163, accounting for 57.8%.

Number of people taking the postgraduate entrance examination for food science: 9 1, accounting for 32.3%.

Number of people going abroad for food science: 24, accounting for 8.5%.

The remaining four people belong to special circumstances such as joining the army or returning overseas students.

Number of food workers: 44, accounting for 68.8%.

Number of people taking postgraduate entrance examination for food quality: 16, accounting for 25%.

Number of people going abroad for food quality: 4 people, accounting for 6.2%.

Overall, 59.8% work, 30.9% take the postgraduate entrance examination and 8. 1% go abroad.

Among the working population, 45 people in the food sector changed jobs, and 13 people in food quality changed jobs, accounting for 27.6% and 29.5% of the total working population respectively. Most people who change careers choose the education industry and the electronic information industry.

Among those who choose jobs, there are 17 people in the food department who choose civil service positions (including Selected Graduates), and 7 people in the food quality department.

Among those who took the postgraduate entrance examination, 49 people from the Department of Food chose the graduate students majoring in food in our school (namely Jiangnan University), and 9 people from the Department of Food Quality, accounting for 53.8% and 56.2% of the total number of students who took the postgraduate entrance examination respectively.

Among those who went abroad, 7 people from the Department of Food chose Vakhnin University in the Netherlands, and the food quality 1 (The requirements of the school for graduate students are: undergraduate majors should be related to food, and the GPA should be above 3.2 during the undergraduate period; IELTS 6.5 or above, oral English not less than 6.0, other items not less than 5.5).