As of 2023, more than 11 million college graduates will enter the job market
According to statistics, the number of college graduates in China will exceed 11.5 million in 2023, an increase of 740,000 compared with 10.76 million in 2022. This makes the employment pressure considerable. This pressure has already been reflected in the record number of applicants for graduate school in 2023, reaching 4.74 million, almost the same as the number of ordinary undergraduate enrollments. This means that almost every undergraduate student is thinking about further education. In addition, the number of applicants for the 2023 national examination is as high as 19480,000 people, and the number of people who took the exam was 15250,000 people, and the ratio of the number of people who take the test to the number of candidates who plan to be hired is about 41:1.
In recent years, the employment of college students has been a serious problem and has gradually become more difficult. There are several reasons for this dilemma. First, there is impulsive employment pressure. The number of college graduates is short, and everyone must find a job before graduation, and it is not easy to provide millions of jobs in a short period of time. As a result, in recent years, university students have tended to find employment more slowly, i.e. spend more time looking for work.
Second, the student's major does not match the needs of the job market. There are many reasons for this problem, one of which is that some popular majors, such as law, have been offered in various universities due to the low barrier to entry, resulting in the training of talents exceeding the needs of society. In addition, the courses of some majors are relatively outdated, such as some materials majors, and teachers are detached from practice and scientific research, which makes it difficult for students to apply them after learning. There are also some majors that change quickly, with new majors emerging every year, while employers do not change so quickly, resulting in some emerging majors not being able to be hired.
On the other hand, part of the blame lies with the students themselves. Many college students think they have a wealth of knowledge and knowledge of China's 5,000-year-old civilization, so they expect to find high-end jobs, but many of them are not as good as they want. Some people are reluctant to go to factories and construction sites, and prefer to stay at home because of low wages.
With the development of technology and society, many jobs have disappeared. For example, the decrease in demand in the education and training sector is policy-related;There is also a decrease in the demand for translation, which is related to artificial intelligence and increased levels of education. With the development of artificial intelligence, some professions such as accounting, art work, and even programming will decrease.
However, if we look at history, it will be difficult for graduates to find a job at any given time. China initially implemented a college student bag distribution system, and the number of university graduates at that time was very limited, and they were the real social elite. However, in the process of distribution, many people were assigned to remote areas. At that time, many factories and scientific research units were concentrated in third-tier cities, and the working conditions were very difficult.
Over time, self-employment became mainstream. In the early 90s, there weren't so many job opportunities. Liu Qiangdong chose to start his own business when he was in college because he studied sociology and realized that he might lose his job after graduation. Not long ago, an alumnus of the Department of Mechanical Engineering of Tsinghua University recalled the 30th anniversary of his graduation and said that mechanical engineering was a surplus industry at that time. This also explains why some Peking University Chinese students sell pork, and Tsinghua students work as security guards. There is not much difference from the current Peking University doctor going to be a chengguan.
The university has expanded its enrolment to 10 million graduates a year, which is a huge number, and even the total population of New Zealand is less than 5 million. No other country offers 10 million jobs for university graduates. As a result, people can only lower their expectations and accept jobs with poor employment conditions, or jobs that do not require high academic qualifications. The data is here, and although we feel helpless, we can only accept the reality.
In addition, society is changing rapidly, and with the development of technology, there have been many changes in the form of work, and flexible employment has become very common. When looking for a job, we should be mentally prepared and not afraid of being made redundant.
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