CHINA, SOCIETY, Opinion: Facing the Unemployment Problem of College Graduates
By Jenny Dan
In an employment market in Guangzhou in late January, a college graduate burst into tears when she learned the employment market had closed ahead of schedule. The girl came all the way from Shanxi Province to Guangzhou to take part in the employment market in the hope of getting a job, and was now faced with the unemployment pressure again.
Among college students, especially seniors, "graduation equals unemployment" is a very popular saying. According to recent statistics, 750,000 college graduates in China are now faced with the same problem as the girl I mentioned, which sets people to thinking much more carefully and seriously about the unemployment problem of college graduates in China nowadays.
The Chinese government adopted the policy of enlarging the enrollment of universities 5 years ago. Apart from the growing opportunity for high school students to get a college education, we should also realize that this burdened the unemployment problem as well. The growth of our country's available positions does not match that of new college graduates, which results in a serious social problem.
For us students, it is very important and necessary to seize every opportunity to promote ourselves when we are in college. Whether we treasure and make full use of the four years' time in college is crucial for a promising career. Besides, when graduates are looking for a job, they should drop the notion of "finding a job just to earn money." They should regard the job as a kind of life experience and contribution to the society. Only by this outlook can they accept the job which has a comparatively lower pay but a more promising future.
And for the government, they also ought to realize the serious problem and take serious actions to help solve it. Many employers now require candidates to have certain kinds of working experience before offering them a job, which means that social practice is now playing an increasingly important part in students' college life. The government should provide college students with more opportunities for them to make contacts with society, to get trained in their professions, and to gain the necessary working experience.
For instance, newspapers and TV stations should accept college students majoring in journalism as interns during summer holidays and winter vacations; the law offices should encourage students majoring in law to come and learn from them. The unemployment problem is so complicated that a totally satisfactory solution can never come about; what needs to be done regardless is for everybody in society to face the problem and contribute what they can to solving it.
In an employment market in Guangzhou in late January, a college graduate burst into tears when she learned the employment market had closed ahead of schedule. The girl came all the way from Shanxi Province to Guangzhou to take part in the employment market in the hope of getting a job, and was now faced with the unemployment pressure again.
Among college students, especially seniors, "graduation equals unemployment" is a very popular saying. According to recent statistics, 750,000 college graduates in China are now faced with the same problem as the girl I mentioned, which sets people to thinking much more carefully and seriously about the unemployment problem of college graduates in China nowadays.
The Chinese government adopted the policy of enlarging the enrollment of universities 5 years ago. Apart from the growing opportunity for high school students to get a college education, we should also realize that this burdened the unemployment problem as well. The growth of our country's available positions does not match that of new college graduates, which results in a serious social problem.
For us students, it is very important and necessary to seize every opportunity to promote ourselves when we are in college. Whether we treasure and make full use of the four years' time in college is crucial for a promising career. Besides, when graduates are looking for a job, they should drop the notion of "finding a job just to earn money." They should regard the job as a kind of life experience and contribution to the society. Only by this outlook can they accept the job which has a comparatively lower pay but a more promising future.
And for the government, they also ought to realize the serious problem and take serious actions to help solve it. Many employers now require candidates to have certain kinds of working experience before offering them a job, which means that social practice is now playing an increasingly important part in students' college life. The government should provide college students with more opportunities for them to make contacts with society, to get trained in their professions, and to gain the necessary working experience.
For instance, newspapers and TV stations should accept college students majoring in journalism as interns during summer holidays and winter vacations; the law offices should encourage students majoring in law to come and learn from them. The unemployment problem is so complicated that a totally satisfactory solution can never come about; what needs to be done regardless is for everybody in society to face the problem and contribute what they can to solving it.
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