The job search season is here! What industries do fresh graduates prefer? Top three produced
Entering August, fresh graduates enter the "centralized registration season". The 2023 Employment Data Report for College Graduates shows that the expected employment position in the manufacturing industry accounts for 8.1%, with the highest growth rate among 14 industry categories. Why are more and more graduates preferring the manufacturing industry? What about their employment situation now?
In Shenzhen, Guangdong, a new employee onboarding ceremony is being held, with nearly 900 fresh school admissions officially joining a technology manufacturing company. Prior to this, their group had already recruited 1900 students, with intelligent manufacturing related positions accounting for nearly 40%, the highest among all job categories.
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Wu Lan, Vice President of a certain technology group Co., Ltd.: The number of students applying for intelligent manufacturing positions in 2023 has significantly increased, with a total of 44000 resumes, an increase of about 30% compared to the previous year. In terms of base and proportion, the demand for talents in intelligent manufacturing positions has been continuously increasing, with a total of more than 2800 college graduates recruited this year.
In a smart factory in Hefei, Anhui Province, the automation production line is operating 24 hours a day without interruption. Liang Jianhang, a recent graduate, has been employed for a month. His main job is to conduct failure analysis in the laboratory to improve product quality and reliability, which has also broken his prejudice towards working in the manufacturing industry.
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Liang Jianhang, a recent graduate of Anhui Hefei General Vocational and Technical College: Before entering the manufacturing industry, my view was that traditional assembly lines are completely different from what I imagined. A whole line usually only requires a few manual workers to maintain equipment.
The 2023 Employment Data Report for College Graduates shows that among the top ten industries with the fastest growth in the number of new graduates, intelligent manufacturing, AIGC, and AI big models rank in the top three, with year-on-year growth of 303.12%, 297.27%, and 235.25%.
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Shi Kun, Director of the Regional Development Planning Research Institute of the China Academy of Comprehensive Development, said that the country is vigorously developing strategic emerging industries with advanced manufacturing as the main body from the central to local levels. The complexity and cutting-edge nature of this type of industry, on one hand, can provide more employment opportunities; On the other hand, the demand for students is becoming increasingly diversified, and high-end manufacturing will become the main battlefield for attracting employment for college graduates in the future.