Stabilizing Employment and Promoting Employment | Building Platforms, Expanding Positions, and Stabilizing Employment - Multiple Local Industry and Information Technology Departments Promoting Graduate Employment Services

Beijing, August 9th (Xinhua News Agency) - Building Platforms, Expanding Jobs, and Stabilizing Employment - Insights on Promoting Graduate Employment Services by Industry and Information Technology Departments in Multiple Regions

Xinhua News Agency reporters Feng Weijian, Xie Ying, Yang Na, and Li Shuangxi

Small and medium-sized enterprises are an important battlefield for absorbing employment. According to data, the number of college graduates in China reached 11.58 million in 2023. The industrial and information technology departments in various regions have implemented the policy of prioritizing employment, actively promoted the competent departments of enterprises at all levels, held special job fairs for small and medium-sized enterprises, specialized, refined, and new enterprises, tap into employment potential, and take multiple measures to build platforms, expand positions, and stabilize employment.

Building a platform

In March of this year, there was a large crowd of people at the Beijing Specialized and New Enterprise Recruitment Fair.

A recent graduate majoring in mechanical engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology is interested in a robotics company. According to him, there was no clear career positioning when I first started looking for a job. It was the school's multiple job fairs that allowed me to have in-depth communication with different companies and clarify my employment direction.

Graduates are applying for jobs at the 2023 Beijing High end Technical and Skilled Talents Comprehensive Training Program Special Double Selection Meeting.

Employment is the foundation of people's livelihood. Faced with difficulties in the employment situation, various regions actively build platforms for communication between enterprises and schools, and promote graduates and enterprises to travel in both directions.

In March of this year, a series of specialized recruitment activities for small and medium-sized enterprises in Hunan Province were launched at Hunan University, with 33 specialized and innovative enterprises reaching employment intentions with 238 job seekers. Simultaneously carry out online recruitment, live streaming job guidance, career guidance, talent training seminars and other activities, with over 38000 views of online live streaming.

To extend the service radius of recruitment activities, Hunan Province actively utilizes online docking platforms to organize online job fairs and promote the integration of industry and talent through "air services". The relevant person in charge of the Hunan Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology stated that local recruitment and job seeking information will be released free of charge and at any time in the 100 day recruitment activity section of the China Small and Medium sized Enterprise Information Network, providing a bridge for employment for small and medium-sized enterprises and university graduates.

Expand positions

Guo Xiaoqin, Director of the Development Promotion Center for Small and Medium sized Enterprises in Hebei Province, said that small and medium-sized enterprises have unique advantages in stabilizing and promoting employment. In order to further improve the success rate of docking between small and medium-sized enterprises and college graduates, Hebei Province has launched a 100 day recruitment live streaming job promotion activity. On the day of launch, 6 universities signed strategic agreements with 26 high-quality small and medium-sized enterprises to explore job opportunities for graduates through employment orders, school enterprise cooperation, and other means.

At the end of June, Sun Mingyang, a fresh graduate living in Qiaoxi District, Shijiazhuang City, found a job as a network engineer at a live streaming online lecture. "The recruitment activity has been moved online, and the interview and internship processes have also progressed smoothly," said Sun Mingyang.

Graduates consult on employment policies at the booth of Qiaoxi District Employment Service Center in Shijiazhuang City. Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Feng Weijian

While strengthening job opportunities and matching supply and demand, some regions continue to increase support for job expansion in industries and enterprises with strong employment capabilities, accelerating the release of policy dividends.

Jilin Province implements a one-time job expansion subsidy policy, which provides a one-time job expansion subsidy of 1500 yuan per person to enterprises that recruit ordinary college graduates who have not been employed in 2023 or within two years of leaving school. The Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology has issued the "Several Measures on Implementing the Top Ten Strong Enterprise Actions to Stimulate the Vitality of Specialized, Refined, Special and New Enterprises", which involves multiple policy guarantees such as talent introduction and housing subsidies, further strengthening the confidence of specialized, refined, special and new enterprises and their outstanding talents in the development of Beijing, and improving the efficiency of talent supply urgently needed by enterprises.

Stable employment

Recently, the 2023 Large scale Public Welfare Recruitment Fair for Small and Medium sized Enterprises was held in the talent market of Jilin Province, with more than 230 enterprises participating and providing over 3200 management and technical positions.

The reporter saw on site that these employers include equipment manufacturing industry, information and software industry, technology enterprises, as well as commercial retail and service industry enterprises. Job applicant Jiang Bo is a former college graduate who, after failing the postgraduate entrance examination twice, plans to find a job and review while working. On site, he spotted a sales position at a food company and, after preliminary interviews, reached an employment intention.

Online matchmaking, campus recruitment, enterprise visits and job development, and enterprise experience... This year's graduation season, a series of employment service activities have been launched in small and medium-sized enterprises and universities. Industry and information technology departments, universities, and enterprises across the country are working together to connect the last mile of employment for young people.

In order to do a good job in stabilizing employment, some regions also simultaneously carry out online career guidance and career planning guidance. At the special recruitment event held by Hunan University, Zhu Liya, a member of the Hunan Vocational Guidance Expert Group, gave a themed lecture on "Job Planning and Positioning", helping job seekers clarify their career paths and improve their job skills online. The live broadcast attracted over 40000 viewers.