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Famous school students compete to hire street offices, cigarette factories, and housekeeping companies accordingly?Passing through the myth of college students’ employment choices

Employment is the foundation of people’s livelihood and it is exciting. The employment of college students is precisely the most tense string in people’s hearts.

In the unprecedented fierce competition in the job market, the online media that likes to curiosity continues to expose some prestigious college students with personalized choices that are very different from what people expect. A group of graduates from Peking University and Tsinghua University have chosen to settle in the grassroots such as the Sub-district Office of Yuhang District, Hangzhou. Department; 985 and 211 graduates actively apply for first-line production and operation positions in the workshops of 7 cigarette factories under China Tobacco Henan; a Shanghai government company disclosed that about 20% of the company’s domestic service staff graduated from world-renowned universities or obtained bachelor’s degree or above, mainly Working as a tutor or housekeeper…

What kind of signal does this series of job hunting trends send out? People sighed, surprised, questioned, this is high-energy low-employment, education mismatch, employment involuntary… noisy, the crowd is noisy, reflecting the huge contrast of social cognition. The barriers to free choice have also virtually pushed up the pressure of employment competition and aggravated social and psychological anxiety.

How to overcome the myths of college students’ employment choices?

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Looking at the new trends and challenges of employment from the general economic background and general trends

Since the reform and opening up, we have seen a wave of magnificent free movement: farmers enter the city to open the way for poverty alleviation; officials go to the sea to recreate a kind of life; independent entrepreneurship, struggle without forgetting the original aspiration… Every flow is a breakthrough. , Is also a transition.

Nowadays, the employment journey of many college graduates has allowed people to see another scene in social mobility——

One is to return to the system. Work is more stable, welfare is guaranteed, society has status, and the work advantages within the system have attracted countless college graduates to take the exam enthusiastically. Even the teachers’ posts, which had been kept away from them a few years ago, were suddenly turned over. Many graduates who are not teachers’ colleges have come to apply for the job.

The second is to sink the grassroots. Urban street office positions and rural college student village officials are quite optimistic; there are also more and more college students “new farmers” who are active in the fields. With ardent vision, they resolutely turned around from the bustling city, jumped back to the wide “farm gate”, and wrote their own stories in the revitalization of the countryside.

The third is flexible employment. One piece of data is particularly eye-catching: in 2020, among the 7 million takeaway kids in the country, more than 1% are masters and 3% are undergraduates. This means that nearly 300,000 graduates with undergraduate degrees and above are riding in the flow of people rushing to deliver food. .

Re-heating the “iron rice bowl”, returning to the “new front line”, choosing “informal”, the new orientation of college students’ employment, subverts people’s memory and imagination, and disrupts people’s cognition and evaluation.

All this stems from the profound changes in the relationship between supply and demand in the job market.

On the one hand, the economy has shifted: from high-speed growth to high-quality development; the driving force is already changing: from factor promotion to innovation-driven; industry is transforming: industrial upgrading is in full swing, new business forms and new models are thriving, and industrial transfer is also seen As a result, the restructuring of the supply chain value chain is accelerating. As a result, the trend of economic slowdown has become clear. On the other hand, China’s higher education has entered the stage of popularization. University graduates have evolved from “the proud son of heaven” to today’s “Wan Ran Renren”. What followed was the squeeze of employment space and the intensification of market competition.

The rapid rise of the platform economy has extended to all aspects of social life. It not only creates a new industrial organization form, but also generates a new labor resource coordination model, and opens up more entrepreneurial opportunities and employment forms.

The sudden emergence of a risky society also strongly impacts the line of defense of employment security. People’s employment mentality and employment orientation naturally have to find new support and guidance in the ups and downs of various risks.

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Spirit and material, the future and the present, freedom and conformity, where is the fulcrum of the employment scale?

These college students who are moving into the society belong to the new generation of society with more group characteristics. The life experience of China’s economic advancement, the growth environment of the Internet social information cocoon, the emotional heart of the only child, the infinite expectation of the parents of the chicken baby, the infinite expectation of the parents of the chicken, the over-limit investment of the social involution and the flow, all are in their green A deep mark has been left over the years. They are brave and fragile, persistent and self-confident and at a loss.

Is it utilitarianism or multiple values?

In the eyes of today’s college students, an ideal job must not only bring necessary and decent economic returns, but also obtain certain social recognition, as well as personal pursuit of value recognition. But in the increasingly severe employment situation, survival and development are after all the first thing. For many ordinary college students who have great family expectations and the burden of life, the priority is naturally the stability of the job and the economic return. Some people accuse their choice of exquisite utilitarianism, which is unnecessary. Many of them have not given up the pursuit of value, so they feel more intensely the collective distress of typical social moods such as anxiety, loneliness and depression. It’s just that the values ​​pursued by their generation are diverse. Perhaps there are few noble confessions and ethereal declarations, which are more or less secular.

Is it a dimensionality reduction or a rational career choice?

Difficult employment choices have forced some graduates of prestigious schools to lower their profile, lower their prices, and join the ranks of huge ordinary school graduates in job hunting, compete with them on the same stage, and start doing housekeeping, delivering food, and opening online appointments. The low-level work in people’s eyes such as the car has caused an uproar in the public, accusing it of unreasonable “dimension reduction” and “talent waste.”

Hanchuang studies hard, and once leap forward, who doesn’t expect to have a higher level? However, time has changed and the world has changed. Starting at the bottom does not mean being mediocre. For many years, haven’t we all been encouraging college students to grow up at the grassroots level and to temper themselves in the entrepreneurial market? Ordinary positions can also be hot and shiny. Just like the housekeeping industry, it also needs talents to join. Listen to the confession of the master’s nanny Liu Shuangshang to reporters: The housekeeping industry is currently an art that is waiting to be explored. I choose to engage in this industry out of personal interest and preference, and it is also based on a long-term career plan.

We should be sober. The students of prestigious schools no longer have such a shining aura, and high academic qualifications are no longer proof of unimpededness. How does each person’s career position and his freedom of choice, and where is the “dimension reduction blow”? Many postgraduates and doctoral students pursue their studies more because of the rising barriers to employment, rather than because of excellent academic research endowment or the ambitious ambition of being willing to devote their lives to scientific research. Why is “talent waste”?

Is it professional contempt, or personality appeal?

In recent years, small and medium-sized enterprises have been troubled by recruitment in the talent market, and university graduates have less enthusiasm to apply for employment. This is not unrelated to the social and professional contempt encountered by small and medium-sized enterprises. However, we should still make a clear distinction. Today’s college students have experienced the awakening of self-consciousness, the baptism of consumerism, and the influence of star culture. They are uncomfortable with the status quo and do not cling to stereotypes. They are less bound by the chain of social contempt and pursue their own. Personality and spiritual freedom. Otherwise, some new professions that the older generations have never heard of, such as video UP owners, pet photographers, and home receptionists, can not all be linked to tallness. Why do they win some young people to enjoy it?

Today’s new generations are no longer willing to simply repeat the stories of the previous generation. They are not reconciled to years of 996 overtime and mechanically monotonous assembly line operations. They are unwilling to accept rough company supervision and unfamiliar interpersonal relationships. They cannot agree. Pursue a cronyism workplace ecology and a vulgar culture that pays attention to human affection and sophistication. They would rather choose the “gig economy”, after all, there is the interest and freedom they want. They prefer “big factories” for employment, where there are more complete and standardized salary conditions, a more stable training and development system, and more diverse career development prospects.

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Rushing through the inwardly rolling net, spreading the wings of youth, soaring towards the sky of the future

“Involution” is like an infinite web, covering people’s social activities. We urgently need to break the traditional way of thinking and path dependence. In the process of system reform, development transformation, liberation of concepts, and choice of race tracks, we must take advantage of the uncertainty of life to open up more new possibilities for development. , Struggling to overcome the involuted net of employment.

——Create a new path and have a blue ocean of entrepreneurship.

Starting a business on their own and holding their destiny firmly in their own hands has become a conscious choice of many young college students. The popularization of social media and smart phones has also built a broader platform for the development of sideline businesses for “digital homeless people”. A variety of work styles can not only improve their economic security, but also bring them ample life value.

At the same time, the disruptive innovation of digital technology, the high-quality development of transforming enterprises, and the people’s growing demand for a better life are all giving birth to new professions and jobs one after another. There is a huge demand for employment here, and the talents and interests of young people have been more fully released and promoted here.

—— Establishing learning first, accumulating abundant human capital.

Looking at the current situation, an innovative society has come in great strides, setting different standards for the abilities and literacy of employees. The World Economic Forum put forward the top 10 job skills in the “Future of Work” report: problem-solving skills, critical thinking, creativity, organizational management, teamwork, emotional intelligence, judgment and decision-making, service awareness, interpersonal communication , Cognitive upgrade. How can the students molded from the traditional exam-oriented education scrolls and those “small town makers” who are immersed in the vast sea of ​​questions, follow the trend and follow up the demand for talents in the future?

“Study is the first to stand up.” Lifelong learning is a key to open the door to the future. Improving our cognitive ability, learning ability and adaptability to the labor market, and constantly iteratively updating our knowledge and skills, should be the only way out.

—— Constantly strive for self-improvement and always maintain the youthful background of struggle.

Involution is already a hard existence, and we cannot avoid it, nor should we be overly anxious. There is always pressure in competition, and pressure will give rise to motivation, and it will also sharpen the ability to compete and stimulate development opportunities. In the squeeze of involution, we should hold a rational choice, abandon the lying-flat thinking, bravely participate in the competition, and win the competition. This is the road.

Youth is a season of enthusiastic blooming and a long-distance race. We have no choice but to “struggle.” The real big test of life has just arrived at this time. To do a good job requires the integration of craftsmanship. Struggling for a kind of life also requires a long-term persistence. If so, you will see the stone-piercing effect in the accumulation of dripping water, and the majestic force of life bursting out.

Back to the scene of life, whether it was the counterattack of young white angels who gave up their lives during the epidemic, the frontline college student village officials led the villagers to fight against poverty, or the many slash youths carried the burden of their families. The hard work all the way has moved people’s hearts deeply. Their yearning for a better life is the drumbeat of social progress that never stops; the figure that they struggle for life is the most beautiful scenery in the world.

Source: “Ban Yue Tan Internal Edition” Issue 9 of 2021 Original title: “Through the Myths of College Students’ Employment Choices”

Author: Subei