I believe that we all see a common reality that today's college graduates are really getting less and less valuable. From the arrogance of heaven in the former "ivory tower" to the current situation of college students' employment difficulties, we really have to sigh, 30 years of Hedong, 30 years of Hexi.
If you put it 30 years ago after a college student graduated, it is basically equal to the life of this life, and you will have no worries about food and clothing. Whether it is work or housing, including social status, it is definitely a status symbol that everyone envies. However, after graduating from college, salary income is generally in a lower position in society. Friends will even joke that a monthly salary of 3,000 yuan may not be able to recruit a "migrant worker", but it will definitely be able to recruit a college graduate. But how many college graduates have been growing all year round since 1978? We'll start in 2000.
Before 2000, our country mainly relied on the domestic economy to operate, so the demand for high-level intellectuals was not particularly large, and at that time, our domestic university graduates were only about 1 million people per year. However, after China joined the WTO world trade organization in 2000, China's door was officially opened to the world, and at this time, culture, commodities, science and technology, tourism, etc. from various countries, all kinds of things were integrated into the country's door, and our Chinese culture and products must also go to the world. This also means that we need a large number of high-quality talents to do these things.
As universities continue to expand rapidly, the number of university graduates has also exploded, from nearly 1 million college graduates per year in 2000 to more than 9 million college graduates in 2021. The advantage is the improvement of the quality of education for all in our country, there are a large number of college students in all walks of life to participate, and highly educated talents will unconsciously optimize the operating standards of various industries in society in the work. However, the expansion of university enrollment means that the gold content of college graduates has plummeted. Moreover, it has been expanding enrollment for decades, and only the top students in each region can be admitted to college. Up to now, the second batch of college lines that are easiest to enter, the college entrance examination score line with a full score of 750, only need to take more than 200 points to go to college.
Going to college has gone from the former strict entry and exit, to the later strict entry and exit, and then to the current wide entry and exit. As a result, many ordinary college students will find it difficult to find employment after graduation. Civil servants and state-owned enterprises are becoming more and more difficult to test, after all, there are more highly educated talents, employment positions are also limited, and competition is naturally greater. Especially in recent years, there are millions of college graduates every year, if not graduated from a prestigious university, it is actually very difficult to find a stable and well-paid job with an ordinary college or undergraduate degree. It is also because of the difficulty of employment, the difficulty of starting a business, and the difficulty of taking public examinations, so it has spawned more and more examination students.
I believe that the purpose of most people going to college is mainly to find employment, work can be found better, and then talk about dedication. For society, for bosses, college students are naturally the more the better, because college graduates are not allocated in the country. Therefore, the vast majority of college graduates, the first job will often go to work in the private sector. Employers are naturally happy, after all, spending the same money for a college graduate is more cost-effective than middle and high school students. Even the couriers who run errands to deliver takeaways and food delivery, a considerable number of people have academic qualifications above the college level.
However, things are scarce and expensive, and there are too many college students, and wages naturally cannot rise. So is there any problem with our college entrance examination system? In the past, it was always said that the college entrance examination was a single wooden bridge for thousands of troops, and as long as the examination was passed, it would be able to solve the problem of employment and eating in the second half of life. Now, after graduating from college, the employment rate is miserable, and it is still necessary to go to college. So what is the point of going to college? Is it necessary for us to insist on letting our children study hard and go to university in the future? Now is indeed the time to reflect on it.
After all, the situation of each family is different, first talk about life planning after college, probably divided into several useful ways. The first is to take the exam, to be honest, in the past twenty or thirty years, our domestic civil servants do not need to take separate examinations, including teachers, state-owned enterprises, there are many popular occupations now, once as long as it was a college graduate, it was easy to be assigned. However, with the increasing number of university graduates, the assigned work has gradually changed to the examination recruitment system. However, there is a prerequisite requirement that only university graduates be eligible to take the examination for civil servants, teachers and state-owned enterprises. Therefore, an important way out of college is not to look for a job after graduation and concentrate on taking the exam.
The second point is to enter the university and enter the graduate school. After all, it is still caused by the expansion of university enrollment, and the employment competition of college graduates is too serious. A better unit, a better position, will not go to ordinary schools to recruit, which is a very realistic reason, so only if you go to a famous school, or even get a graduate degree, it is possible to be better. Therefore, there are too many college graduates in today's society, and now the 985 and 211 colleges and universities have graduated, much like the ordinary college graduates 30 years ago.
The third point is to go with the flow, this reason is indeed very realistic, after all, today's society is not to say that it is a public unit, even if it is a private enterprise, in addition to most of the recruitment requirements for sales positions, will fill in the college degree or above. This means that people who have graduated from junior high school and high school, after entering society, basically have no right to choose work except to run errands in factories and sell.
Without a college diploma, it is very difficult to find a job in the city, and it is not necessarily a chance to go with the flow. At this time, there was a very embarrassing scene, on the one hand, it was difficult to find employment after graduating from college, and on the other hand, it was the college entrance examination fever. We really need to have a certain plan, think about how to go after entering the university? What do you plan to do after graduation? Do you plan to start a business? Be sure to be mentally prepared in advance. After all, the tuition fee of going to college plus living expenses and accommodation costs together also cost a lot of money.
If you just use going to college as a face or talking point, the cost performance is too low. As long as our domestic population cannot be reduced for the time being, it is difficult to effectively solve the problem of difficulty in obtaining employment after graduating from college. Perhaps this is also a drawback of the rapid expansion of universities, after all, it is better to let young people go to college to receive a better education than to imitate the exercise of going to the mountains and going to the countryside.