Later, when I entered high school, I often heard teachers and parents persuade me: "Hold on a little longer, and it will be easy to be admitted to university." β
Once you step into college and enter the workforce with your diploma, many people begin to realize that they have been misled. Therefore, this sentence is also jokingly called the second biggest lie by many adults after "the New Year's money is kept for you".
For college students who lack career planning, the path to graduation can be very tortuous.
Truth be told, we are in the era of "heroes based on merit", and students have been influenced by cramming education from 9 years of compulsory education to high school to university.
Therefore, although students know how to respond flexibly to the types of questions and adjust their Xi status, they rarely have time to really think about their strengths and future career directions.
Because of this, many candidates will choose a major that they are not sure whether they are suitable for in the future without a clue, and then spend four years in college.
As the four years passed, the graduates took their transcripts and porked over the job requirements on major recruitment apps, and found that the high-quality positions were out of reach for them, and finally had to compromise and work in sales and administrative positions that did not require a high degree of professional and academic qualifications.
Do you realize?Employment anxiety is not only troubling students, but even parents.
A poignant example from the countryside: a parent invested 150,000 yuan in their child's college education, but the child's monthly salary after graduation was only 3,000 yuan.
Despite the desire of parents to send their children to a good education, there are very few parents who have extensive social connections and the ability to integrate educational resources, and most ordinary families do not actually provide students with sound advice.
In particular, some parents from rural areas who have been dealing with land, fruits and vegetables for a long time find it difficult to provide constructive advice on students' employment planning and choices due to their lack of workplace experience.
Therefore, when parents see that their children fail to get the desired salary after graduating from undergraduate, they will inevitably feel lost, and even think that their investment in education is in vain, just like the experience of Sister Zhao's family. Sister Zhao and her husband are pure rural people, mainly relying on growing soybeans and corn to support their families.
In the college entrance examination stage, Sister Zhao's son showed abnormality, and his score was only 28 points higher than the undergraduate file line, and he could only choose to apply for a computer major in the first class.
As we all know, the tuition fee is expensive, and the tuition and accommodation fees for one year together reach 250,000 yuan and 2,400 yuan, which is already an annoying number for the average family, not to mention the need to provide living expenses for children on a regular basis, these trivial expenses add up to at least about 150,000 yuan.
Just when Sister Zhao was looking forward to her son being able to earn "money back" for herself after graduation, the reality gave the couple a heavy blow.
Due to the poor reputation of the school he graduated from, coupled with the fact that the level of professional knowledge is not up to standard, Sister Zhao's son has not been able to find his dream job. Even if he later switched to a sales position, his monthly salary was only 3,000 yuan.
Faced with the investment but not getting the corresponding return, Sister Zhao, a rural parent, felt extremely bitter. Whenever she sees the success of "other people's children", she can't help but sigh: "I spent 150,000 yuan for my son to go to college, and now the monthly salary is only 3,000 yuan. β
As a college student, facing the tuition fee of 150,000 yuan, looking back and seeing that he only has a salary of 3,000 yuan per month, this disproportionate gap is actually something that all college students are unwilling to face. However, in reality, the dilemma of "difficult employment" is directly placed in front of everyone.
According to the 2022 National Bureau of Statistics, 10.76 million fresh graduates walked out of campus this year, an increase of 184%, an all-time high. The corresponding number of jobs increased only slightly by 11%, which can be approximated to zero.
What is even more frustrating is that small and medium-sized enterprises, which were originally the "main force" of employment, began to reduce the scale of recruitment at this time, and the number of jobs fell by 116%γTo make matters worse, they are also starting to release talent from the outside, which is simply worse for recent graduates.
As a result, this group of post-00s newcomers in the workplace can be said to have encountered the most severe "employment difficulty" season in the past four years.
In the face of such a severe employment situation, can fresh graduates adopt the strategy of "slow employment"?According to the relevant survey of Zhilian in 2022, more than 159% of graduates chose "slow employment". In short, they do not enter the workforce immediately after graduation, but postpone the time to choose a job, giving themselves enough opportunities to think and observe the market.
There is no doubt that this choice can indeed help students make more favorable judgments. However, a long period of "staying at home" may also lead to fresh graduates resisting society, and eventually evolve from "slow employment" to "new type of gnawing at the old".
Therefore, I am more inclined to suggest that students set a time frame that they must step out of their "comfort zone" before choosing "slow employment". After all, the employment problem has always existed, and there is no practical point in avoiding it.