This topic, some time ago, was particularly popular, on several hot searches, the comment area exploded at every turn, even the official media came out to shout. The heat has finally come down these days, and I can finally talk about this topic rationally and calmly.
As usual, let's start with the conclusion, we are currently in a century of unprecedented changes, from today's perspective, we can indeed list the so-called "top ten high-paying majors", which is very eye-catching, but this answer is not suitable for all children.
It is not that it is difficult to find a job, but that society is constantly progressing, the requirements for people are increasing, and the relationship between education and employment is no longer simple.
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A month ago, I saw an article in Caijing magazine "Top 10 Industries for Increasing and Reducing Employees in 2022".
Many people must be as interested in the top 10 industries as I am.
1. Lithium battery (38.4%)
2. Passenger cars (37.1%)
3. Semiconductor equipment (33.6%)
4. PV industry (27.5%)
5. Laser processing equipment (17.7%)
6. Basic software (13.9%)
7. Biomedicine (13.1%)
8. Testing and Inspection Services (12.8%)
9. Semiconductor materials (12.3%)
10. Medical devices (10%)
In other words, how many of these industries were highlighted by volunteer filing agencies a few years ago? The Internet has a memory, I looked it up, in 2017-2019, the profession that was highlighted was
1. Clinical Medicine
2. Accounting
3. Financial management
4. Civil Engineering
5. Software automation
6. Computer Science and Technology
7. Foreign language
8. Electrical engineering and its automation
9. International Economics and Trade
10. Jurisprudence
You can also search for videos of Zhang Xuefeng's lectures in various universities in those years, which have professional recommendations. Looking back, the employment situation of these popular majors in those years was not ideal, whether it was a bachelor's degree or a master's degree.
Why?
As of 2023, there are 771 undergraduate majors. First of all, the same major, different universities have different emphases, and the faculty is also different, so it is wrong to simply and rudely think that if the major is chosen correctly, it is good for employment.
Secondly, times are changing, especially in recent years. "30 years of Hedong, 30 years of Hexi", it is normal for any industry (within a certain period of time) to achieve "hot and cold" conversion or rise and fall conversion. Today's "hot" may be "unpopular" tomorrow, many majors can be popular, just because they catch up with the dividends of the times, do you want me to give an example? Civil engineering is not typical, and many institutions recommended teacher training last year.
Therefore, "good professional" is always a false proposition.
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What are the root causes of employment difficulties?
Many people throw pots at "poor professionals", I don't think so.
For the average family, the purpose of getting a child to college is to get a good job. The question arises, is this university read out, or mixed up?
Many high school teachers say that "it is easy to get into college." Under the inner roll, many children in elementary and junior high school too early, high school is already a little tired, once admitted to college, feel that they have entered the safe, said lie down.
In addition to 985 and some 211 key universities, the learning environment of many schools is too relaxed, and "strict entry and wide exit" is the fundamental reason. In the eyes of many students, as long as they have passed level 4 English, graduation is appropriate.
In the past, the number of college students was small, and academic qualifications could be a stepping stone. Now the world is full of college students, unless key universities, the gold content of academic qualifications has been negligible, employers look at ability, how much value can be brought to the enterprise, they have become realistic.
Many computer science and technology majors also have to sign up for a training course to learn JavaWeb, otherwise only learn JavaSE, the market does not recognize it. Many accounting graduates, but also have to sign up for a training course or find a teacher to take along, why? Because I haven't used Kingdee UF SAP.
One effort, one return, many people say that good units only value 985 students, which is unfair and artificially sets a threshold for graduates of non-key universities.
I want to say that there is nothing unfair, opportunities will always be left to those who are prepared, and many undergraduates around me have found jobs on their own, because of the four years of independent study, certification, and constantly looking for internship opportunities.
College, an intense and implicit challenge, I don't know how many children understand this.
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Many readers are curious to know about promising professions in the coming years.
According to the "2023 College Entrance Examination Volunteer Report" released by Quark, the top 5 majors with the highest attention in 2023 are computer science and technology, law, clinical medicine, artificial intelligence, electrical engineering and its automation.
It is indeed good, and the prospects are good, but the scores are higher than the other.
What I want to say is that first you have to figure out whether you want to graduate from undergraduate or work, which is more important.
If you go directly to work and make money, it can indeed be more utilitarian and realistic, if the score is ideal, give priority to majors, choose majors with strong practicality, and give priority to cities if they are not ideal, go to big cities, especially computer-related majors.
If you go to graduate school, when choosing a major, you can be biased towards basic disciplines, don't draw conclusions for yourself too early, and slowly find a major that suits you, because what you are best at, it is easy to learn the ultimate and become one of the best. This is the real "heat", which can be "hot" for a lifetime. Now, even after graduating from graduate school, if you don't love this major enough, don't have the spirit of independent research, and maintain an interest in continuous learning, even if you find a job, it will be difficult to deepen your career in a certain industry.
For readers of our number, I would like to emphasize that it is best to choose a major around the advantages of the family, without much explanation.
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The reason why in the end, I didn't make a list like other self-media, is because for different families and different children, the suitable majors are completely different, thousands of people.
We are in the midst of a major change unseen in a century, and I said this at the beginning of this sentence. Have you noticed that society is changing much faster every day than in previous years, and the requirements for talents are also changing dramatically, and illustrators were a very popular industry a year ago, but now they are redundant positions.
A few days ago, I had a meal with an imaging doctor and talked about AI reading films, and he said that now new technology is used to allow machines to read films, nodules below 3-5mm can be written into the report, more accurate than they can see with the naked eye, and for a while almost everyone liked to mention lung nodules. On the one hand, work efficiency is improved, small hospitals can also be equipped with machines, on the other hand, some doctors have to change departments.
As a parent, even if you are professional in a certain industry, you have limited imagination of the big picture. So when making a professional choice for your children, as long as you avoid minefields, you can still listen to your child's inner voice.
Nowadays, do not have the idea that the college entrance examination determines a lifetime, the future work and the university major is not the norm, a lifetime of work is impossible, lifelong learning is the only way to stand on the world, the so-called "life is unpredictable like a chess game, everything is like chess everything new".
The four years of college really cannot be wasted, and these are the decisive four years.
At present, it is the summer vacation, some children go to work, some children travel to special forces, some children lie at home, some children find internships, some children participate in special training summer camps organized by schools, and some children go to study. Four years later, on the day of graduation, everyone's path was completely different.
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