Is it hard to find a job?
It depends on who you ask.
If it is an uncle who is about sixty years old, then he may feel that at this age, he can still accept what kind of job he is looking for, why can he accept it?
This is because when he gets older, his physical strength, cognition and skills are of course insufficient in all aspects, and naturally his expectations for finding a job will not be so high.
But on the flip side, if you ask a young person, is it difficult to find a job?
There's a good chance he'll answer you, it's hard.
Because for young people, finding a job is not as simple as finding a dishwasher, young people have heavier pressures and more burdens, and naturally have higher expectations for work, young people not only want a decent job, but even hope that the future growth of this job is high.
Different young people have different expectations of work, depending on their educational background, educational background, and self-positioning.
It is of course easy for young people to get a job, but it is not just about getting a job, and even though today's jobs are not to the level of "changing the world", there is still a desire for a job that is recognized.
After all, today's young people are no longer as able to "endure hardship" as their parents to a certain extent, and we cannot ask today's young people to work as hard as their parents did, especially when we don't talk about security and income.
In my opinion, this is the progress of the times, young people are unwilling to endure hardship, not that young people are unable to endure hardship, but they have higher expectations for the main body of society, and the prerequisite for suffering is to see the rewards after suffering.
As China's macro economy enters high-quality development and the growth slows down, employment opportunities are naturally facing more serious involution.
According to the survey, the young Generation Z is the most pessimistic about the future of all age groups in our country, and these young people born between 1995 and 2010 have about 2800 million people.
This 2800 million people, ranging from entering the society to campus, some have experienced the cruelty of social competition in advance, and some have vaguely felt that the employment situation in recent years is "not optimistic".
Xiao Jing was born in 2003, is a proper post-00s, is currently studying undergraduate, and ordinary people directly undergraduate, Xiao Jing is the first to read a junior college, and then go to the undergraduate, at present Xiao Jing also plans to further graduate school in the future.
When it comes to the future, Xiao Jing said frankly that today's employment situation is grim, so she also hopes to enhance her competitiveness through the postgraduate entrance examination, and for the expected income in the future, Xiao Jing said that she will be satisfied with 6,000 yuan per month in the future.
Can a graduate English major get a salary of 6,000 yuan in the job market? This varies from person to person, but it doesn't seem like a high goal.
Ten years ago, a graduate student majoring in English would at least be in demand in the job market, but today, under the weaker than expected recovery of consumption, more and more young people are caught in the confusion and fear of employment.
The fear of employment has led many college students to turn to more conservative and safe employment channels, such as taking public entrance examinations, or simply staying in school to take postgraduate examinations, and try to delay the time to enter the society.
But behind this, it is also possible to do it with the financial support of a family.
In June 2023, our youth unemployment rate rose to a record 213%, although the follow-up data has fallen, but it also objectively shows that the employment pressure of young people is highlighted.
If ten years ago, young people were able to raise their arms in the workplace and call out against 996, today, young people can only shout in the workplace, please give me a job.
The changes in the job market environment sometimes exceed our expectations.
In the past, the Internet, which undertook the ideal employment of college students, has also fallen into pain in the past year.
According to the financial report, Alibaba's employees will decrease by nearly 20,000 in 2023, which is almost one-tenth of the total number of employees, which means that one out of every ten employees will leave Alibaba and graduate with honor.
After graduating from a large company like Alibaba, there can be a higher springboard, which from today's perspective, is almost none.
Larger companies often mean more room for promotion and promotion opportunities, as well as a better and more comprehensive salary and welfare system, but the general contraction of large companies has been vividly reflected in the past year.
Before 2021, because of the existence of the new crown, online education and training was given a huge opportunity, and a large amount of funds poured into this track, which also gave young job seekers a good career stage to a certain extent.
However, the double reduction in 2021 has made the education and training industry almost overnight, losing the possibility of commercialization and marketization, not counting the provision of new employment opportunities.
The loss of opportunities, or the disappearance of an industry, will only exacerbate one phenomenon for the entire employment ecological chain, that is, involution.
Some people escape under the involution, and some people lie flat directly under the involution.
Especially for those young people who have no academic qualifications and no specific skills, such an era naturally seems more difficult and difficult.
Friend Ah Kun, who played for almost half a year last year, ate his own old book, and asked Ah Kun why he took a break for half a year, but in fact, the working environment and atmosphere were getting worse and worse, which made Ah Kun unbearable.
In the past, there were many options for entering factories, but since last year, even factories like Foxconn have hardly had any high salaries, and even dispatch workers have low hourly wages, so Ah Kun can only choose to go to some smaller factories.
But the working environment in such a factory is harsh, and the work content is more heavy and boring, after thinking about it several times, Ah Kun simply rests at home, planning to wait for the Spring Festival to look for new opportunities.
In the past year, a large number of unemployed people have poured into the ride-hailing and take-out circuits, which has led many cities to issue notices warning of capacity saturation, and some cities have even banned the issuance and application of new ride-hailing licenses.
Behind this, it is because of the influx of a large number of new players, and behind the abundant capacity is the slow-growing demand for taxis, which has also led many online car-hailing drivers to report that the unit price is getting lower and lower, and does the platform itself have any good strategies?
Actually, no.
In the past year, the first war has been launched on the entire supply side, from automobiles to food to coffee and milk tea, and even industries such as online car-hailing have lowered the average price of the overall industry because of the addition of more and more drivers.
This is the result of an imbalance between supply and demand.
In recent years, the rise of freelancing is not so much a wave as a last resort, except for a few freelancers who can earn a lot of money, most of the freelancers, whether it is online car-hailing or the Internet, the income is not much higher than the original full-time, and even declined.
So why are there so many freelancers?
The answer may be simple, because finding a job may not be so easy right now.
For young people, the jobs they want must be within or even higher than the standard, with room for growth, decency, better salaries, and a more comprehensive welfare system.
Young people are of course reluctant to engage in migrant workers, construction workers, and even some low-end repetitive jobs in the past, because in the face of pressure such as getting married and buying a house, these jobs cannot support their ideal life for the future.
What's more, our optimism about the economic narrative in the past has also made young people have higher expectations for jobs and more optimistic about their future to a certain extent, but in the face of a macroeconomic slowdown, all the high expectations will eventually turn into disappointment.
The greater the expectations, the greater the disappointment.
How to solve the employment problem of young people is not only related to economic stability and consumer confidence, but also related to young people's higher and higher expectations of social subjects.
In order to increase employment, more investment is needed in essence, whether it is foreign capital or private investment, only when the cake is big and the market is bigger, the employment opportunities will be large.
Young people want more than just a job, but also a guarantee for a better life in the future.
And this is precisely what should be given to young people.
end.Author: Luo sir, the workplace reference of the new youth. Concerned about the logic behind the development of things, optimistic pessimists. Follow me and grind the knowledge to you.
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