The COVID-19 epidemic has repeatedly delayed the start of colleges and universities all over China, which is undoubtedly an unexpected test for 8.74 million college graduates who should have finished their graduation projects, found jobs or studied abroad nonstop since February.
In the face of the employment season disrupted by the epidemic, the Ministry of Education issued a notice calling for innovation to promote online employment services and encourage online interviews to sign contracts; The school guides students to adjust their graduation design plan in time to help them successfully complete their papers and topics; Some students have the opportunity to visit a variety of academic resources for free during the epidemic period to improve their own research; Some people take part in various video interviews while preparing for Selected Graduates and civil servants. Everyone tried their best to break through in this fierce battle against the epidemic.
The epidemic situation highlights the importance of public health-related majors.
Xiao Chen, a third-year boy majoring in pharmacy in a medical college in Shanghai, originally planned to complete the graduation project experiment in March and graduate in June. Because he could not return to school to do the experiment as scheduled, he was facing a series of troubles, such as delayed graduation, difficult employment and difficult settlement.
The school recently issued a notice, allowing graduate students to apply for degrees in two batches in June and August. Xiao Chen estimated that if school starts at the end of March, he and most of his classmates will graduate in August. "According to the usual practice, the Shanghai College Graduates Employment Guidance Center will issue a notice every May, requiring undergraduate and master graduates to submit (settle down) relevant materials in June. This year, the guidance center has not given a pre-warning for the epidemic, and I have no bottom in my heart." Xiao Chen said.
On the other hand, Xiao Chenxian feels that the uncertainty of medical students’ job hunting has become greater recently. Xiao Chen said that the recruitment methods of hospitals are not as flexible as those of enterprises, and most of them take offline interviews. Recently, most hospitals are busy fighting the epidemic, and foreign students have not returned to Shanghai, which has put the recruitment plan on hold. He and many students around him are still in the stage of submitting resumes and waiting for news. "If you delay for half a year and become a graduate of 2021, the employment competition may be more intense." Xiao Chen said.
The epidemic also caused some medical students to be blocked from collecting research data when writing their graduation thesis. In order to solve the practical difficulties encountered by students, the School of Public Health of Lanzhou University fully understands students’ demands through questionnaire survey. In view of the concern that a few students can’t carry out experiments and research, it is suggested that the instructor should complete the graduation project in the form of a summary or based on the contents of the COVID-19 epidemic, and report it to the academic affairs office of the school.
Wang Junling, vice president in charge of college teaching, said that the epidemic situation has, to a certain extent, highlighted the importance of public health in promoting the construction of a big health system in the new era, enhanced the professional awareness of students at school, and determined the future career planning of graduates or graduates this year.
Yao Min, who studied preventive medicine in Suzhou University and now works in the infection management department of a comprehensive 3A hospital in Suzhou, participated in the epidemic prevention work. In the view of this post-90s public health doctor, the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic has exposed many problems in the public health service system, such as epidemic prevention and control, medical and health resources, and emergency handling of public health emergencies. Accordingly, it will provide ideas for constructing the concept of "great health" and "great health" in the future and the construction of infectious disease epidemic prevention and control system.
She predicted that after the epidemic, from the top, a change was about to take place. The disease control department and relevant departments of the hospital will increase the introduction of talents and promote the improvement of staff skills. "Only by bridging the gap between public health and clinic can society and individuals pay attention to health together and participate in ‘ Healthy China ’ In the process. " Yao Min said.
In this regard, she suggested that schoolmates should cultivate their practical ability in their daily study; In particular, graduates who are preparing for job hunting should cherish internship opportunities, change their employment concepts, and experience and grow in places that really need them. Employers, when selecting talents, should remove some administrative issues as much as possible and pay attention to business assessment.
During the epidemic, you can visit a variety of academic resources for free and explore how to turn crisis into opportunity.
Like medical majors, the papers of graduates from engineering and agronomy also encountered difficulties such as being unable to carry out experiments, visiting and investigating due to the epidemic situation. During the interview, students from some universities in Shanghai, Beijing, Wuhan, Lanzhou and other places said that the college allowed graduates to replace the original topics with literature review or simulation experiments after consulting with the instructors.
Chen Yue (pseudonym), a senior girl in the School of Chemical Engineering of a science and engineering university in Shanghai, told the reporter that in mid-February, the college informed that the graduation project of undergraduates could not be experimented. As a result, more than 400 students’ papers were all changed to simulation experiments.
But the real operation of the simulation experiment is not as smooth as imagined.
Chen Yue’s topic is the study of hydrogenation effect of bimetallic hydrogenation catalyst, which has changed from experimental project to molecular simulation calculation. The teacher has no time to guide, so she has to figure it out by herself, and it takes at least two or three months to learn software, which makes her unable to start at the moment.
Liberal arts students have not been spared. Years ago, Yan Fucheng, a senior male student in College of Humanities, Gansu Agricultural University, decided on the direction of his thesis — — A field survey on the relocation work in Huan County, Gansu Province. However, after the outbreak, it is unrealistic to go to the investigation point nearly 40 minutes away from home. In order to finish the thesis on time, Yan Fucheng used telephone interview. After several attempts, he found that the effect "can only reach the expected 30% at most". Now, he intends to consolidate the summary part under the remote guidance of the teacher. When the epidemic is over, he will invite a "guide" who is familiar with the local area to accompany him to the scene for an interview.
Limited by objective conditions, it takes more energy to complete graduation thesis. However, some people used the opportunity of free access to a variety of academic resources during the epidemic to consult a large number of documents and improve their own research. Niu Jingye, a graduate student majoring in chemistry at Lanzhou University, submitted a chapter in his graduation thesis to a journal in the form of a small paper during the isolation period, and now it has entered the review process. In Niu Jingye’s view, self-discipline is a good medicine to relieve anxiety.
"The premise is to determine your research direction earlier after entering the school, and strive to complete most of the experimental work and get the core data in the first half of the third semester." Niu Jingye said that he would not be disturbed by unexpected situations before graduation. On the contrary, I can use my free time to settle down and make a reasonable plan for my life.
More preparation on the road to employment will give you more hope.
The employment problem is a hurdle facing the 2020 graduates. According to the data released by the Ministry of Education, there will be 8.74 million fresh graduates this year, a record high. Affected by the epidemic, those college students who have sent their love for spring and originally planned to go abroad for further study have also encountered various unexpected situations.
Due to the cancellation of the IELTS test in February and March and the lock-in of the test position in April, Li Manning, a senior girl from the Business School of East China University of Science and Technology, temporarily suspended her study abroad plan. After turning to job hunting, she observed that the number of business jobs was small this spring, and she was more inclined to science and engineering with programming ability. For example, banks needed more IT jobs for back-office system maintenance. A variety of factors are superimposed, resulting in very few students getting an offer.
Some students who have found jobs are also worried. A master student majoring in biochemistry at Huazhong Agricultural University told the reporter that he was admitted to a public institution. At the beginning, he was required to get a diploma and a degree certificate at the end of July, but now he has not finished the experiment, and he may face a delay in graduation, which may affect the political review of the unit and make it impossible to enter the job smoothly. There are also students around him who have signed a biology company. They originally agreed to submit the materials for review in April, but they are worried that they will not be able to return to school then.
With the positive progress in epidemic prevention and control, the pace of returning to work in various places has accelerated, and the job market has recently begun to warm up.
According to the "2020 Spring Recruitment Employment Market Tracking Report" recently released by BOSS, the first rapid growth point of talent demand appeared in the employment market on February 24th. The job demand of small and micro enterprises has recovered. The scale of talent demand for large enterprises with a scale of more than 1,000 people has recovered to 90% in the same period of 2019. Among them, 30% of the new jobs in the Internet industry are technical, opening a new round of grabbing people. The demand for jobs in the transportation/logistics industry has returned to the same level as last year.
The Ministry of Education even "named" clinical medicine, public health, integrated circuits, artificial intelligence, preventive medicine, emergency management, aged care service management, e-commerce and other majors, saying that after investigation, the social demand for talents in these disciplines will be relatively strong in the future. "This is obviously a good momentum. The key point lies in whether enterprises see this and the guidance and support of the government." Professor Yang Luming from the Department of E-commerce, School of Business Administration and Tourism Management, Yunnan University, said that as far as this major is concerned, the effective cooperation between logistics and e-commerce will create greater economic benefits.
Thanks to the "double election in the air" organized by the school, Liu Dan, a girl from Henan who missed the autumn entrance examination for postgraduate entrance examination, was invited to join an educational institution. According to the requirements of the other company, I completed a written test paper and recorded a trial video for more than 10 minutes.
Liu Dan admits that online recruitment has not reduced the difficulty from the assessment methods to the assessment contents, and still adheres to the principle of "selecting the best". She made a lot of efforts to get through customs smoothly. Especially in the recording session of the trial lecture with a submission time limit of less than 3 days, she first spent an afternoon preparing the lesson plan, then practiced it repeatedly and recorded it for more than 10 times before choosing a more satisfactory version.
In this regard, she suggested that graduates who want to make some gains in the spring recruitment should identify their job hunting goals, pay attention to the recruitment information pushed by teachers and class cadres, and actively participate in online interviews that suit them. "The most important thing is to seize every opportunity and prepare more with one hand, and they will have more hope."
Chen Guo, who works as a human resource manager in an advertising company in Beijing, has participated in school recruitment for many years. Recently, his company has admitted a recent graduate from capital university of economics and business. Under the epidemic situation, she suggested that students who are looking for a job should be clear about their career direction and look at the development prospects of the position and the company; Recognize your own ability and value at this stage; Do a good job in psychological construction of tight wallet in the first two years of the workplace. At the same time, pay attention to details and be prepared.
Zhu Junfan, the person in charge of the online recruitment platform for educational institutions, told reporters that due to the sharp increase in the demand for online education during the epidemic, the number of online education institutions has increased rapidly. "For example, the online counseling agency headquartered in Hangzhou ‘ Mingshitang ’ Within two months, the recruitment demand rose from 200 to 2000; Online educational institutions ‘ Ape counseling ’ A few days ago, a push was released to recruit 10,000 people; Online education institution in Beijing ‘ Learn from whom ’ I plan to recruit 3,500 tutors in the near future, and their HR told me that I can receive thousands of resumes every day in these two days. "
In Zhu Junfan’s view, some college students who find it difficult to find jobs are not without access, because they ignore the needs of the industry. In fact, most of the students recruited by these educational institutions are fresh graduates and are not limited to majors. As far as he knows, many fresh graduates have already got an offer through online recruitment, and some have signed a tripartite agreement online.
Zhongqingbao Zhongqingwang Trainee Reporter Wei Qimeng Harper Source: China Youth Daily
