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Preface
If you hold a craft in your hand, you can't go anywhere in the world.
This phrase is often mentioned as a mantra, but the reality is the opposite, often as soon as the graduation season comes, college students find a job has become a headache of social problems, and even more so they are unemployed after graduation.
The key reason for this is that the knowledge learned by college students cannot be quickly put into work, and the bosses think that the training cost is too high, so it becomes an employment problem without work experience.
However, according to the data, there are tens of millions of vacancies in domestic skilled jobs, which makes people wonder why people are not willing to choose skilled jobs.
The "stereotype" of mechanics
As we all know, our country has been a social system dominated by workers and peasants from the very beginning, and it has laid fruitful results for the victory of our revolution.
Both food production and industrial manufacturing are inseparable from them, and the efforts of these people have pushed our country to the path of rapid development.
However, with the continuous progress of society and the rapid spread of industrialization, the demand for skilled jobs is also increasing, but the proportion of skilled workers has reached 5% since 30 years ago, and it has not increased until now.
It can be said that we have been standing still in terms of mechanics, and we have even regressed, after all, neither Germany nor Japan is far superior to us.
The key reason is that the impression of this type of work is too poor, which has brought a great obstacle to our vocational education.
For example, more than half of the students in Germany choose to pursue vocational education, while very few decide to continue their studies at university.
On the one hand, the status of foreign technicians is not low, and in people's hearts technicians are no different from other industries, on the other hand, the wages are high and the treatment is good, and human resources are much more expensive than in our country.
Therefore, these conditions also attract many of our technicians to choose to work abroad, and many foreign countries are full of our technical talents.
However, the situation faced by technicians in our country is just the opposite, and everyone has the impression that the stains on their bodies cannot be washed off all year round, not only do they have heavy work to complete, but the salary is not as high as other jobs.
And once you choose a technician, it is equivalent to giving your career path to death, whether it is for future development or growth is very restrictive, and then it is nothing more than going directly to the factory.
This makes many young people reluctant to accept such an arrangement, and they resist this work at a glance.
Although the country has been vigorously developing vocational education in recent years, the results are not ideal, and according to statistics, it can be seen that until 2022, we are still very short of talents in skilled workers.
More than half of the 100 occupations with the most missing jobs are skilled trades, and this lack has not decreased, but has increased.
This has a lot to do with our educational concept, technical schools are often "bad children" in people's minds, and only if the grades are not up to the standard will they go to technical schools to learn a technology.
In the impression of many people, technical schools have become a place to enter the society early to be unemployed, and it is often the case that they do not learn and have no skills, and they are brave and ruthless.
This has led many parents to prefer that their children can continue their studies and be admitted to a good university.
But in fact, those who graduate from it can often learn a "craft", so as to get a suitable job, gain a foothold in society, and then improve their ability to develop better as they obtain a certificate.
Many companies have increased the salary because of the lack of technicians, but there are still many doors, on the other hand, even if the salary of some service posts is not high, there are a large number of college students to grab it.
It is difficult for college students to find employment
Although our country's technicians have encountered the situation of not being able to recruit people, it is very difficult for college students to find employment, and the gold content has fallen again and again.
In the past, everyone rushed to ask for college students and treated them as "treasures", and being admitted to college is a thing that the whole family should be happy about, and it is a big "teacher appreciation banquet".
I wish my relatives and friends knew that there was a high-achieving student who went to college in his family, and after graduation, he was scrambled by various industries, and there was no dilemma of not being able to find a job.
Now, with the expansion of enrollment in various colleges and universities, there are more and more students with university degrees, and university degrees have become the "standard" in the talent market, and everyone has them.
Not only have the requirements of colleges and universities for talents become lower, but many junior colleges and private colleges also want to be promoted to undergraduate and get a piece of the pie, and the most obvious change is that there are more and more colleges and universities, and the proportion of enrollment has been expanded.
As a result, some industries do not have high requirements for academic qualifications, but still raise the academic qualifications to undergraduate degrees.
According to the data, the number of college graduates last year exceeded 10 million, reaching as much as 11 million, and the employment of these graduates has not yet been implemented, and a new batch of graduates have poured into the market.
Compared with the previous number, the number has increased by more than 10 times, and the demand for talents in the market in a short period of time cannot digest so many people, and often a position is grabbed by several people.
Under such an "involution", it is also incomparably cheaper for college students, and the salary offered may not be able to recruit a migrant worker, but there are a large number of college students rushing to "send it to the door" just to get a job.
However, the education of talents in colleges and universities is now more theoretical than practical, and the knowledge taught is even more backward and outdated.
The minimum job requirements of many large enterprises are students and graduate students from key universities, which directly blocks most job seekers.
In such an environment, there is a situation in which it is difficult to find a job, and it happens every year.
Removing the "bad name" of mechanics
Graduates who could not find a job did not choose to become skilled workers because of their previous impressions and lack of relevant skills, but chose a service industry that does not limit the threshold.
Nowadays, you can always hear some people with the title of graduate and master's degree in the field of delivery and Didi drivers, which do not require much professional ability.
This also leads to many enterprises paying less and less attention to the cultivation of talents, and are unwilling to spend financial resources and time to bring "new people", but to develop the service industry.
However, in the long run, people will no longer pay attention to manufacturing and labor, and the real economy will only become more and more sluggish, which will have an impact on the country's economic construction.
Therefore, improving the shortage of skilled workers has become the top priority, and the most important thing is to eliminate people's "bad impression" of it, so that the skilled worker position is no longer an unwilling industry.
It is necessary not only to strengthen the concept of vocational education, but also to make adjustments in the treatment of technical personnel to attract more people to choose skilled jobs.
And we have a numerical advantage in numbers, and as we change, we will quickly solve these difficult problems.
epilogue
Nowadays, the social problem of lack of employment and skilled workers cannot be delayed, and the development of society is inseparable from everyone's hard work, so it is important to eliminate people's prejudice against the industry.
Only by attaching importance to the social status of vocational education and skilled workers and solving the problem of the shortage of skilled personnel from the root cause can we achieve healthy social development.
Main source: The original article was published in Guangming Daily on May 3, 2017 on "the shortage of senior technicians reaches 10 million: the mentality of disdain to be a mechanic must be broken".
The original article was published on Guangming.com on June 4, 2023 on "The shortage of senior technicians reaches 10 million:" The gap reaches 80%!
The original article was published in Xinhua News Agency on November 2, 2022 on the report of "Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security: The shortage of workers in the manufacturing industry continues, and the shortage of skilled jobs is prominent".