New Employment Choices for College Graduates, New Careers for the Party and Government | Issues | Occupations
The new profession has opened up new employment opportunities for college graduates.
A large number of promising new professions such as corpus annotators, robotics engineering technicians, and homestay butlers are becoming new employment choices for college graduates.
These new professions are the hottest
"Xiaoyou, Xiaoyou, turn on the air conditioning." Xiaowei is an AI corpus annotator for a large home appliance enterprise in Qingdao. Her daily work is to collaborate with AI algorithm engineers to train intelligent devices for deep learning through multiple languages, in order to control the entire house's smart home appliances and smart scenes, providing users with a more comfortable and convenient experience during use. At present, this company has recruited 8 AI corpus annotators.
The emergence of new professions stems from technological progress, industrial development, and the continuous refinement of social division of labor. Behind the emergence of new professions is the constant exploration of new experiences and consumer demands.
In September 2022, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security released the Occupational Classification Code of the People's Republic of China Occupational Classification Ceremony. Compared with the 2015 edition, the new edition has a net increase of 158 new occupations and 1639 occupations. In the category of professional and technical personnel, new professions such as password engineering technicians, carbon management engineering technicians, and financial technology engineers have been added, providing greater career development space for practitioners in emerging fields and professions.
The reporter from People's Daily "Strong Observation" noticed that in the new version of the dictionary, most of the new professions are included in categories such as digital and green.
"At present, the application of science and technology is constantly creating new supply and demand, reforming old service industry models, and new professions are constantly emerging with the birth of new products, new formats, and new models." Pan Helin, co director of the Digital Economy and Financial Innovation Research Center at the International Business School of Zhejiang University, said that currently, promoting green and low-carbon economic and social development is a key link to achieve high-quality development, digital innovation is an important breakthrough direction in the current economic transformation, and more personalized, diversified, and refined life services are inevitable requirements to meet the growing needs of the people for a better life. The popularity of new professions in the fields of digital, green, and lifestyle meets the needs of the development of the new economy. The constantly emerging new professions not only drive the rapid development of related industries, but also reflect the development trend of new technologies and new demands.
New professions expand employment increment
New technologies and formats have given rise to new professions. It is understood that at present, the number of new professional workers represented by online distributors, Internet marketers, online learning service providers has reached nearly 100 million, and the number continues to increase.
The new profession, as a "new track" for college graduates to find employment, is releasing massive employment opportunities and becoming a new platform for their careers.
"Employment needs to stabilize the stock and expand the increment. The emergence of many new formats and professions currently brings new opportunities for college students to choose employment. The emergence of new professions such as homestay butlers, online sales anchors, and Hanfu makeup makers not only leads the new trend of employment, but also opens up attempts at diversified employment, which is conducive to the realization of the goal of 'stable employment' in the whole society." said Xiong Bingqi, President of the 21st Century Education Research Institute.
College graduates have strong professional abilities and are naturally sensitive to new things. New professions representing new employment directions are highly sought after by them.
After graduating from university, Li Jun returned to his hometown of Xinji, Hebei, which is famous for leather products, and worked as an "Internet marketer" in a trading company. Li Jun applied his foreign language and internet knowledge to this new profession, helping the company expand its online marketing and win considerable online orders.
Meanwhile, Zhejiang girl Cai Tingting, who has just graduated, started her own business as a "organizer and organizer" in Hangzhou. With her knowledge in aesthetics, design, space, sociology, and other fields, she provides home decoration and storage solutions and services to customers. At present, she has a relatively stable customer base, with monthly income exceeding 10000 yuan.
"College students' preference for new professions stems from their hearts and the times." Wang Hongcai, a member of the Employment Expert Database of the Office of the State Council's Employment Work Leading Group and a professor at the Education Research Institute of Xiamen University, believes that new professions contain development opportunities in employment competition and salary treatment, providing college students with more choices. "On the other hand, college students are full of vitality, have an exploratory spirit, and have advantages in mastering digital technology compared to other groups in society. New formats and professions also require college students to join."
Relieve "worries"
Many college graduates are concerned about whether the new profession is standardized? Will there be no guarantee? Can one get a promotion in a new profession? The Party and the government attach great importance to these issues and take measures to address the concerns of new forms of employment.
In 2021, the Guiding Opinions on Safeguarding the Labor Security Rights and Interests of Workers in New Forms of Employment, the Guiding Opinions on Implementing the Responsibility of Online Catering Platforms and Effectively Safeguarding the Rights and Interests of Delivery Personnel, and the Opinions on Strengthening the Protection of the Rights and Interests of Employees in New Forms of Transportation were successively issued.
In 2022, the report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China pointed out: "Improve labor laws and regulations, improve the negotiation and coordination mechanism of labor relations, improve the system for safeguarding the rights and interests of workers, and strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment."
On April 27, 2023, Wang Xiaojun, the person in charge of the Vocational Capacity Building Department of the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, stated at the regular policy briefing of the State Council that we should adhere to demand orientation, closely follow the development of new formats such as the digital economy, accelerate the development of new vocational standards, promote new vocational training, and promote more workers to start their own businesses and flexible employment in the new vocational field.
"At the national level, normative documents have been successively issued, and useful explorations have been made in regulating new forms of platform employment models, laying the foundation for the protection of labor rights and interests of new occupational practitioners." Wang Hongcai suggested that in response to the problems of rapid adjustment of work content and uncertainty in development direction in new professions, the government and society should continue to provide relevant policy guidance, employment training and security support, and provide guidance for the formal development of new professions.
"It is very important to stabilize the employment confidence of the new occupational group. Relevant departments can explore the establishment of a professional title evaluation major in the new occupational field, provide professional title evaluation services, and include qualified personnel in the talent statistics scope, so that they can enjoy policies such as vocational training subsidies and vocational skill appraisal subsidies according to regulations." Jin Weigang, a member of the Employment Expert Database of the State Council Employment Work Leading Group Office and Vice President of the National System Research Institute of Zhejiang University, suggested that relevant departments can explore the establishment of a vocational information system in China, gradually expand and improve information related to job supply and demand, salary and benefits, provide comprehensive, timely, convenient and fast query services for new occupational practitioners, and build a more smooth career development channel for new occupational groups.
