Calm response to the employment of college students under the influence of epidemic situation
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[educational perspective]
The epidemic has caused many inconveniences in finding jobs.
For most college students who will graduate in 2020, COVID-19, an unfamiliar word, will be engraved in their memories along with their tortuous job hunting experience. Because of the development of the epidemic in COVID-19, in order to protect students’ health and life safety and prevent the spread of the epidemic, the national education administrative departments and universities have taken emergency measures to limit the flow of personnel, and all kinds of campus recruitment activities have been suspended.
According to the practice of previous years, the coming March and April was originally the peak period for fresh college students to apply for jobs and sign contracts, but because of the epidemic, the employment and recruitment activities of college students were silent this spring.
The superposition of all these unfavorable factors undoubtedly affects the job selection of college graduates and the selection of talents by employers, which invisibly increases the pressure of college students’ employment.
For China’s economic development, the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic on the economy is bound to have a chain reaction, which will be transmitted and reflected in the employment sector — — Not only the temporary communication difficulties between graduates and enterprises and the inability to carry out recruitment activities, but also the demand for employers may be reduced. Of course, some industry sectors, such as medical and health care, environmental engineering, chemical technology and other employment needs are likely to increase.
The interview and employment pressure of job-seeking students has increased sharply. The silence in March and April, the peak of job hunting, dealt a heavy blow to college students’ employment signing. Because some students and employers have drawn up their initial intentions and need to go to the employer for an interview, but now the unit can’t operate normally, students can’t go out, and the recruitment and interview plans of some companies have also changed, and students are in a dilemma.
Stuck by the time limit, students who are pursuing further studies are in a dilemma. The postponement of the re-examination of the postgraduate entrance examination has a great influence on students. The uncertainty of whether they can pass the initial examination and whether they can be admitted after the re-examination makes most postgraduate students anxious, fearing that they may miss favorable employment opportunities after falling out of the list.
At the same time, taking into account epidemic prevention and employment, colleges and universities are facing multiple tests. Up to now, due to the pressure of economic adjustment, the employment rate of graduates who originally signed up to implement employment units is not optimistic. The arrival of the epidemic has made colleges and universities more pressure on epidemic prevention and teaching adjustment under the new situation than before, and the pressure on subsequent employment guidance has undoubtedly increased accordingly. The impact and impact of these pressures on local colleges and universities with the majority of local students will be less than those with scattered students’ origin and employment destination.
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Employment must be promoted by the government, universities, employment enterprises and units, giving full play to their respective advantages in resources, channels and experience. As for the universities directly facing the above employment pressure, how to deal with this year’s new situation?
Colleges and universities should not panic when they serve college students’ employment under pressure.At present, we can see that under the decisive and correct decision-making and leadership of the CPC Central Committee, the understanding of COVID-19 has gradually deepened, and the fight against the epidemic has achieved initial results. The confirmed cases and suspected cases in high-incidence areas have been running at a low level, and the epidemic situation in most areas has been effectively controlled. I believe that with the support and encouragement of various supporting policies of the state, all economic construction activities will be carried out in an orderly manner. This is the biggest good news for economic activities directly related to employment.
College students start job hunting and employment rationally and calmly.Then, after the epidemic is controlled, the employment activities of college students that have been temporarily suspended will be restarted, and the suppressed demand for employment will be released again. Therefore, for colleges and graduates, they should gradually become rational, sober and brave from the initial panic, anxiety and sorrow, and there is no need to panic at all. They should have full confidence and calmly and objectively carry out the employment work during the epidemic period according to the arrangement of the national education administrative department.
Enterprises should promptly strengthen the organization of online employment recruitment activities.Before the epidemic has been completely controlled, in order to prevent large-scale gathering of people, the on-site recruitment activities of various college graduates have been suspended. In this case, colleges and universities should vigorously promote the development of online employment activities, and guide more enterprises to organize more online recruitment activities in a planned way to provide graduates with job opportunities; Students can get job information and enjoy online employment services by browsing national and provincial employment platforms, university employment networks and social recruitment websites.
Multi-party cooperation to explore innovative employment channels.Colleges and universities should take the initiative to coordinate relevant parties and further organize and implement grassroots projects such as the special post teacher plan, the university student village official, the three supports and one support, and the university student volunteer service plan for the western region; Encourage college students to join the army and serve national defense; Further implement preferential policies such as tuition subsidy for grassroots employment and encourage graduates to work and start businesses at the grassroots level; Establish a docking platform for school-enterprise cooperation and strengthen the docking of talent supply and demand in key areas, major projects, major projects and important fields; Further explore the employment opportunities created by the deep integration of the Internet, big data, artificial intelligence and the real economy, and support graduates to achieve multi-channel employment; Call on employers to hold campus job fairs, take recruitment tests exams, receive graduates’ resumes and practice training through the Internet and other more flexible ways.
Focus on strengthening the focus on helping students from difficult families.Colleges and universities must actively design and provide one-on-one assistance to poor family graduates, physically disabled graduates and other groups, and carry out targeted job promotion. It is urgent to form a team of relevant university leaders, fully grasp the latest trends of students, regional economy and professional fields, open a hotline for employment consultation and help, and develop a number of online employment guidance courses to do a good job in promoting graduates’ employment, enterprise docking and psychological counseling.
The epidemic will eventually pass. As long as all parties face it confidently, calmly, optimistically and scientifically, with the overall victory in the fight against the epidemic, the employment situation of college graduates in 2020 will certainly improve and usher in "spring"!
(Author: Zong Cheng, a postdoctoral fellow at China Academy of Educational Sciences)