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Discussion on the Methods of Improving Employability of Graduates under the Current of the University Enrollment ExpansionChen JingjingClass 92- 21109216Problem– Solution EssayAcademic Writing – Spring 2012Instructor: Chris DieckmannSince the university enrollment expansion in 1998, the number of university graduates has been increasing on a large scale yearly. The statistics of the Ministry of Education show that there are 2.8 million university graduates in 2004 and 3.38 million in 2005, 4.13 million in 2006, 4.95 million in 2007, 5.59 million in 2009, 6.3 million in 2010 and in 2011 the number went to 6.6 million. Among those graduates, nearly 1 million are in the status of job-waiting and they have of course been accumulated in the next year. [2] Faced with the difficult situation of university graduates employment, many methods are come up with on improving the employment of graduates under the current of the university enrollment expansion. However, the key element in improving the employment of university graduates is to help them possess the employability, meet the need of the rapidly development of the economic society.Actually, the policy of expansion enrollment is not the only reason causing the difficult situation of university graduates employment. The reasons involve both objective and subjective aspects. In the objective aspect, the need of the employment market increase in a rather rate while the amount of university graduates has been increasing rapidly. In addition, majors in some universities are unreasonable and market positioning of the training mode is inaccurate. [2][3] Under this circumstance, many graduates fail to connect their majors with the need of job market. In the subjective aspect, the university graduates are universally lacking in employability which include professional ability, research ability, innovation and practice ability, etc.China has been aimed at going into the stage that higher education popularized and graduates got taught by mass education instead of elite education. Through the expansion enrollment policy, mass education level has been improved, so the policy itself is not wrong. What we are expected to do is not to change the policy but to improve the subjective aspect.Faced with the difficult situation of graduates’ employment, many graduates choose to respond to the call of government to start their own business instead of finding a job after graduation. Certainly, college students’ self-employment is more challenging and interesting than working for others and role-shifting from a graduate to a manager makes our career more meaningful. Above all, self-employment can solve the difficult situation of employment to a certain extent. However,self-employment is too risky, especially for graduates who have no enough financial support and social experience. In addition, self-employment requires a perfect innovation and practice ability, adaption ability, and professional ability, etc, which need acquire in university, while the real situation is that most graduates in China are lacking in core competitiveness and employment skills. So the self-employment is just an employment approach rather than a solution. The most effective and fundamental solution is to improve the employability of university students. Employability means that university graduates achieve their personal career objectives, meet the needs of the society and show their own values in the society after gaining knowledge and developing comprehensive qualities in the university. To achieve this goal, both university students and universities should go into action.Firstly, university graduates had better make career plan in the first year of the university to forward the starting line of career. When doing career planning, university students can give a comprehensive understanding and analysis on themselves and based on their own background and social circumstance make an overall objective for the university time. Secondly, career guidance should go through the whole period o f students’ university time. It is also necessary to change the career guidance from only providing employment information to guidance of adaptability and growth which have to include guidance on career planning , quality and ability, value on employment, career ideas, job choosing, adaption of the social position and the ideas of graduates. Thirdly, universities improve the “order-orientated cultivation of talents” mode for universities and companies cooperation. The nature of the order-orientated training is to help students “get employed as soon as they graduate”. In the talent-training aspect, students can learn some knowledge or skills of the position they are going to in advance and after they graduate, they can just get the job as soon as possible. Fourthly, universities encourage and train students to carry out research studies to improve practical and innovation abilities. Universities are expected to encourage students to take part in various kinds of competition and technological events to improve professional practical ability of them. Lastly, universities give students professional and personalized career guidance. The university needs to build up consulting room for career guidance and provide face to face and one-for-one guidance for students to resolve confused thoughts of them in finding jobs. [1] [2] [4] [5]Above I analyze the serious employment situation of university graduates under the expansion enrollment policy and provide detailed explanation and representation which will definitely help resolve the employability problem of university graduates. Hope this paper can give universities and university students some tips to help them change the difficult situation.References[1] Huang Y an & Zhong Xiaochuan. On the Changing of College Students’ Idea AboutObtaining Employment Under Expansion of Colleges’Enrollment [J].Nanning: Journal of Nanning Teachers College, 2005, 22(1):61-63.[2] Wen Nuan. Discussing on the Methods and Experiences for ImprovingEmployability of University Graduates in China. [J]. Changchun: Cross-Cultural Communication, 2011, 7(4): 86-90.[3] Wan Yinmei. Expansion of Chinese Higher Education since 1998: Its Causes andOutcomes [J]. Asia Pacific Education Review, 2006, 7(1): 19-31.[4] Liu Y ao-wu, Zhang Qian. 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