Can you really adapt to the "fast era"?, Slow employment for college graduates. Ye Zi | Development | Era
Recently, "slow employment" seems to have become a phenomenon of employment.
What is slow employment? Several graduates have expressed that slow employment refers to the choice of college students who do not intend to immediately seek employment or continue their studies after graduation, but temporarily choose to study abroad, teach, accompany their parents at home, conduct entrepreneurial research, or take a break, slowly considering their life path.
On one hand, many first and second year college students have collectively interned at large factories, while on the other hand, many graduates have actively or passively chosen "slow employment".
In the increasingly fast-paced era, what are the considerations behind job seekers seeking slow employment? Is it cost-effective to actively delay graduation in exchange for fresh student status? How to choose a career when entering the workplace?
Choosing slow employment is a natural trend
Tong Zhigang, a career planning agent on the CDA data analyst platform, told Guoshi Zhiche that slow employment is not just about emphasizing "slow", but job seekers need to accumulate experience through social practice during the period of slow employment, in addition to accumulating essential vocational skills. This is the core of slow employment.
Several graduates interviewed by Guoshi Direct Bus stated that choosing slow employment is mainly to "follow the trend".
Graduate Gao Gao said that since the autumn recruitment was launched in October last year, he has been searching for positions on one hand, preparing for the Warring States and provincial exams on the other hand, and has also spent time and energy preparing for the postgraduate entrance examination.
"At that time, I was very confused and didn't want to make do with continuing my job search, so I chose slow employment and planned to observe the job market for a period of time," said Gao Gao.
But recently, Gao Gao has changed his primary goal and resolutely decided to seek employment in Beijing. He joined his desired company in July of this year.
Despite the process being somewhat tumultuous, Gao Gao's parents still support every decision he makes, believing that children learn to think and plan their lives more independently.
Ye Zi from Shanghai doesn't think slow employment is a particularly embarrassing thing. "If someone asks about my situation, I will be very honest and reply that I am unemployed." After completing his junior year, Ye Zi was recommended by the school to intern at a company and successfully became a full-time employee after graduation.
However, after working for a period of time, she still chose to enter a two-year slow employment state.
Ye Zi explained that the reason why he chose this way was, on the one hand, that he couldn't bear the "spiritual internal friction" in his work, which accumulated anxiety and depression; On the other hand, he was not very optimistic about the professional development of his finance major and his counterpart, but rather wanted to move to the Internet industry.
In the days of slow employment, pressure from family, friends, and the economy once chased after Ye Zi, but she firmly believed that this hurdle would eventually be overcome. During the long journey, Yezi tried his best to relieve emotional conflicts and obtained certificates as an intermediate economist and psychological counselor, paving the way for his desire to switch industries in the future.
"Full time children" Xiaonan said that he is preparing to find a job in Chengdu through the direct train to China. After nearly half a year of slow employment, she admitted that being unemployed at home makes her very anxious.
For Xiaonan, the difficulty lies in finding a satisfactory job, working from 9 to 5 instead of 996, having weekends off every week instead of big or small weeks, and being able to pay five insurances and one fund normally.
In addition, Xiaonan reported that many companies have been publicly criticized by netizens, making it difficult for her to distinguish the reliability of recruitment information.
Xiaonan has also attempted to post resumes on various job search channels and communicated with over a hundred positions, but she is very troubled by the behavior of most company personnel on recruitment software that cannot be read back.
Replacing Freshman Identity with Graduation Extension
Is it cost-effective?
British master's student Li Dan applied for an extension of graduation from the school in August and September last year. She recalled that the country was a direct train, and at that time, in addition to wanting to improve the paper to make up for the regret, she also considered the difficulty of employment. The pace, intensity, and rewards of work in both China and the UK have their own strengths, and her decision to stay or leave after graduation has caused her great distress.
Therefore, despite strong opposition from his mentor, Lidan still insisted on voluntarily postponing his graduation.
Assuming standing at the fork of graduation again, Lidan stated that she will not actively delay her graduation with the aim of retaining her status as a fresh graduate, but will plan in advance the volunteer activities and internships she will participate in during the extension period, in order to clarify her work, study, life rhythm, and settle in the city.
A HR representative from a Fortune Global 500 foreign company believes that fresh graduates are not considered "special identities". Those who join their company within three years of graduation are considered new employees and will receive unified training. He bluntly stated, "I value more the growth that job seekers gain during the slow employment period.".
While considering whether the technology is excellent, he repeatedly mentioned his "honest and upright personality" in an interview with Guoshi Direct. "Some fresh graduates have rich project experience, so their experience is not inferior to that of employees recruited by the society," he explained.
Compared to the past "forced" postponement of graduation, in recent years, batches of students have even obtained the qualification for postponement of graduation through "voluntarily failing courses" and other means in order to continue to utilize the relatively low cost of living and convenient study space on campus, and enjoy the identity resources of fresh graduates.
Career planning agent Tong Zhigang stated that college students should make a trade-off between actual needs and corresponding costs, balancing whether the two can be equated.
He bluntly stated that although the method of postponing graduation has helped students who take the civil service and civil service exams extend the period of enjoying their status as fresh graduates, when the same group of students with fresh student status apply for the same entry-level positions in society after postponing graduation, they are at a disadvantage in terms of age.
Industry insiders: Money making ability
Still a bargaining chip for salary
The industry research leader of a certain human resources supplier told Guoshi Direct that many candidates were surprised by their salary positioning, with high expectations but low skills or unclear self-awareness. They have encountered situations ranging from 3000 yuan to 20000 yuan.
In his view, salary is the ability to make money, which is linked to the ability to solve company business problems. For those who have just graduated and need 20k or 15k, this is 3 to 5 times higher than the overall market salary.
According to Bu Silin, the headhunting director of Beijing Haiwoke Human Resources Co., Ltd., there is still a significant shortage of technical talents, especially basic technical talents, in China due to the current tightening of corporate recruitment.
Therefore, in the process of slow employment, Buslin suggests that job seekers should not only be mentally prepared for the employment environment, but also weaken their attachment to company positions as much as possible, in order to broaden their career choices and "do whatever is needed".
According to career planning agent Tong Zhigang, the recommended interval for slow employment is about six months. After job seekers clarify their positioning, they can collect job dynamic information in advance to grasp the pulse of skill demand. This helps job seekers end the slow employment cycle and enter the "fast lane" of career development.
He believes that with the increasingly abundant economic and material conditions of the country, society has reserved ample time and space for graduates to think and choose employment. Slow employment can reduce the discomfort of job seekers after employment, leading to short-term disengagement, and thus avoid the unstable impression left by fresh graduates on the job market.
