"What major has the best job prospects?".
It's hard to find a discussion on the Internet that is older and more concentrating on all kinds of prejudices than "liberal arts vs. science." Among the enthusiastic netizens, many people reached a consensus with the remarks of Xuefeng advocated by the self-**** blog: "If you can choose science, it's best not to choose liberal arts." There is even an exaggerated remark that "liberal arts are all service industries, and they can be summed up as licking".
Is the argument that liberal arts students graduate unemployed?Do liberal arts students need to major in repair engineering in order to get a job in the future?
Most college students have the opportunity to choose liberal arts and science twice in their lifetime.
One is the liberal arts and sciences major in high school, and the other is the "final choice" when applying for a major in college. The former determines the subjects of the university's examinations, while the latter is related to the direction of future employment.
News on the Internet about the employment of liberal arts students often seems to run counter to "worldly success".
211 Liberal Arts Male Master Spit Job Fair Monthly Salary of 5,000 Yuan;
985 MPhil was unemployed at the age of 38 and forced to deliver food;
211 girls graduated 5 years ago, with a deposit of only 5000;
Master of China Communication, did the cleaning of a hot pot restaurant;
Peking University's doctoral application for a liberal arts degree has been rejected many times.
"College + liberal arts = unemployment" seems to have become a formula that frames the life of a liberal arts student.
You can't make money studying liberal arts" "You're not good at science to study liberal arts, right?".”.These voices about liberal arts are endless, and every time I hear them, it is like pouring a basin of cold water on the heads of liberal arts students.
Is choosing liberal arts the original sin of liberal arts students?
In fact, liberal arts is a scientific discipline, not exactly something as simple as values, but many of our liberal arts education is still in the stage of stressing feelings and values, and rarely teaches students the "power" of words and the power of art, and rarely trains our students from a technical point of viewIn the face of the real employment environment, either they do not meet the skills required in the workplace, or they cannot compete for the right to speak from the perspective of words and art, and can only face the status quo of being sung and declined.
And the Western **, such as CNN, BBC, the New York Times, and the Economist's reporters and columnists, in fact, they use their own pens to construct a Western-dominated international order.
The humanities – which generally include English, philosophy, film studies, history and language – are the study of human culture, and students who Xi these disciplines often engage in a great deal of writing, critical thinking, close reading and discussion, which helps to develop strong research, writing and critical thinking skills that are useful later in the workforce.
Arizona State University has a program with very good employment data: more than 90% of undergraduates who Xi in the local area are employed after graduation. This major is not computer science or business, which everyone has always thought is easy to find a job, but an English major.
It can be seen that as long as you study liberal arts well, you can also have a good future. However, in domestic universities, when it comes to liberal arts, our first reaction is definitely literature, history, and philosophy, and similarly, when it comes to science, the first reaction is mathematics, science, and chemistry. in domestic universitiesLiberal arts students and science students seem to be species from different planets, and they are incompatible and naturally separate.
In American comprehensive universities, what we Chinese think of as liberal arts and sciences are arranged in the same college, called the School of Liberal Arts, and even the small and refined liberal arts college (liberal arts college) that focuses on undergraduate education. In the comprehensive universities of the United States, which do not distinguish between the arts and sciences, what corresponds to the liberal arts colleges?Law School, Engineering School, Business School, ** School, etc. It is easy to see that these are colleges with a strong emphasis on application and specialization.
Interestingly, in the vast majority of the better comprehensive universities, undergraduates cannot directly apply to applied colleges. At Harvard, for example, undergraduate education is not available. In other words, if your goal is to get into Harvard Business School, you must have a four-year undergraduate degree before you are eligible to apply.
At this point, you may be asking, why do American universities do this and what is the idea behind it?
In fact, American universities do not require you to have a professional major at the undergraduate level, but hope that you can dabble in a wide range of knowledge categories, and after 4 years of Xi accumulation, you will become a complete person with a mature mind and extensive knowledge, and then study and Xi in professional disciplines (law, medicine, business, etc.). In other words, Harvard deliberately doesn't allow you to become an expert at the undergraduate level.
Not only Harvard University, but also the top comprehensive universities and liberal arts colleges in the United States have pursued this educational philosophy - liberal education (or liberal arts education). This is what we often call liberal arts education or liberal education.
Such a student has mastered a solid concept of liberal arts education, and after entering the workplace or going to graduate school, he or she will learn Xi professional skills, and he will be a talent with both arts and sciences.
The concept of "difficulty in finding employment in liberal arts" in China is becoming more and more concrete as the graduation season approaches.
According to Zhaopin's "2022 College Student Employability Survey Report", the employment contract rates for science and engineering in 2022 are 295% and 173%, while the employment contract rate for humanities graduates is only 124%, less than half of the science students, and the salary level is also 1,000 yuan to 2,000 yuan lower than that of science students.
The report on the employment market of college graduates in the first quarter of 2022 shows that the recruitment demand for the Internet and the education and training industry, which has long been favored by college graduates, has shrunk, which means that there are fewer positions for liberal arts students to choose from.
Lack of professionalism and strong substitution is considered to be the biggest "hard flaw" in the employment of liberal arts students. Even among liberal arts students, there are many people who believe that the reason why they have difficulty finding employment is because they are not professional.
Chinese majors are known as 'golden oil', and news, editing, secretarial, and management can all be touched. However, each of these positions has its own specialization. In the process of finding a job, you can only compete with those classmates who are from professional classes, and the difficulty can be imagined.
In this context, a large number of liberal arts students have to find another way out and start a "way to save themselves" - cross-border finance, changing careers to become product or data analysts, self-learning programming from scratch, etc., and even setting off a "transcoding" boom for liberal arts students on the Internet. Netease Digital Reading's previous statistical reports show that among Douban's posts related to "transcoding", the subject category that appears the most is liberal arts.
However, transcoding is not without thresholds, HTML, J**A, CSS, JS courses all require systematic chemistry Xi. Moreover, liberal arts students are often limited in their choices when applying for a job, and they can only choose entry-level technical positions such as front-end, testing, and operation and maintenance that require relatively less difficult ones.
Study abroad transcoding is also all the rage. In the "One Acre and Three Points of Land" forum, which transcoders often go to, nearly 8,000 posts on the theme of transcoding, half of which mention studying abroad.
One of the most well-known cases comes from Sun Ling, a former female worker in a mobile phone battery factory who became a Google programmer in the United States through class registration, exams, and study abroad. Her experience has led a large number of people to believe that the road to transcoding is not difficult.
Transcoding through studying abroad may be a good way out.
However, it faces high costs and the impact of the environment. Employment is not as good as before, and it is more and more difficult, costly and risky to find employment through transcoding. Internet professional employment is also facing greater competition for employment, and the saturation of the "code farmer" market is also increasing. And, in essence, "liberal arts student transcoding" belongs to the category of "interprofessional Xi". Before choosing "transcoding", you need to be mentally prepared.
In fact, in today's popularization of higher education, no matter what kind of major, the advantages are relative and dynamically changing. It's not just liberal arts students who are difficult to find employment.
Therefore, liberal arts students need to think carefully when they rush to transcode.
*: "Sun Ling: From a female assembly line worker in Shenzhen to a high-paid engineer in New York, I am not a miracle".
Looking back at the humanities and social sciences major, in fact, it is more about exercising one's thinking, aesthetics, language and writing control ability, which happens to not be quickly replaced by artificial intelligence. If you are really interested in the humanities, there is no need to force yourself to study other majors in order Xi employment.
All in allWhether it is the "transcoding" of liberal arts students or the "conversion" of science students, they all belong to the exploration and attempts of contemporary young people in employment. Onlookers should be more energetic, rather than busy sticking labels such as "trend", "taking off a long shirt", "kneeling and licking".