There appear to be no victims in this dark web. College students pay for internships as a stressful response to competitive pressure; organizations and individuals find it profitable, and they end up joining forces to squeeze out more ordinary people
Li Li, a student at an ordinary university, is in her third year of college, and with graduation looming next year, this girl without any ready-made social resources is starting to get anxious about internships.
She was told by her older sisters that without a good internship, it is almost impossible to get a job in a famous company. A 985 computer science student was rejected by a large Internet company’s product manager post because she had no relevant internship experience. She heard more and more stories like this, and all of them finally came to one key point – without internship experience in a big company, it is impossible to find a good job.
Li Li’s mailbox is lying dozens of application resumes for internship positions, and occasionally some marginal positions of unknown companies write back to her, but this is not her goal, she hopes to apply to a large factory and head organization that is not inferior compared to her classmates, which seems to be more core positions. She had an obsession in her mind: without a good internship experience, it was impossible to get a successful job.
Through the guidance of various complicated and scattered information, Li Li finally found a channel to be able to go to a large company for internship, and also to choose any company and position, however, it cost her a sum of money, probably in tens of thousands of yuan.
There are indeed people around her who do this. Last year, Lu Fang bought an internship through a well-known study abroad agency, spending more than $20,000. The internship, however, looked unusual.
It was a remote internship with a well-known FMCG company. During the month-long internship, she neither visited the company nor met her mentor; she did not get a stamped internship certificate at the end of the internship. The agent told her that the mentor, whom she had never met, would give her proof that she had indeed interned there, if needed.
Lv later told the reporter that if she wanted to open an internship certificate, it wasn’t impossible, but she would have to pay a higher price, which was almost 40,000 yuan in total.
In the end, Lv did not raise the money. She chose to trust the agent and the “mentor” whom she had not met. After adding this internship experience to her resume, she said, “It was worth the money. “
Paying for an internship just to spruce up your resume – this dark network, which is clearly different from a normal internship, uses the signboard of a regular agency to reach out to anxious college students.
How exactly does this network work, and why does it offer almost all major Internet companies such as Tencent, Ali, Baidu, Jingdong, Byte Jump, Drip and Meituan “internship ” opportunities? How do they fit together? Who plays a major role in it?
At the end of November this year, the reporter spent more than 20,000 yuan to get a remote internship position as a programmer at Meituan through this dark web. on December 3, after the reporter asked the relevant person in charge of the company whether Meituan had jointly carried out paid remote internship programs with external organizations, Meituan issued an official statement saying: Meituan has never carried out the so-called “paid internship” with third-party organizations or individuals The company also has no paid internship program, so students are reminded to be careful not to be deceived.
Employment anxiety among college graduates is already present. Data from the National Survey Report on Employment of College Graduates shows that in 2019, the proportion of graduates who implemented employment in China was 80.1%, and this figure includes continuing education. In other words, 1 in 5 graduates cannot find a direction for the time being. According to data released by the Ministry of Education in February this year, master’s enrollment increased by 189,000 compared to last year.
Affected by the new crown epidemic, employment anxiety was further amplified, and many companies were unable to operate normally in the first half of the year. The “2020 Fresh Graduates Spring Job Search Report” released by the Hunting and Hiring Big Data Research Institute in April this year showed that the number of fresh graduates from colleges and universities reached 8.74 million this year, when more than 70% of fresh graduates had not yet signed a contract, but the scale of corporate recruitment demand for fresh graduates dropped 22% year-on-year.
By December, the total number of fresh graduates who had not yet found a job dropped, but there were still many people floating around. A fresh graduate from Tongji University, who finally signed an employment contract with a unit in November this year, told reporters, “I finally landed. “
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The internship offer of the package
Li Li told reporters that the initial contact with paid internships is a public tweet from a friend circle of classmates: paid internships in famous companies – consulting, Internet, finance, senior mentors in the industry to teach, quickly improve the background. This was the first time she heard of “paid internship”. She was told privately by her classmates that she could search for the keyword “internship insider” on Taobao.
The reporter searched Taobao for “internship induction” and found many stores. The comment section of a merchant claiming to be able to promote internships in major Internet companies was almost universally positive, and one of them said that he had successfully retained in a major Internet company through a paid internship. After a brief consultation, an agent named Carl sent an introduction to internship induction.
Karl said, if it is a general a degree, want to go to Tencent, Alibaba such a large factory site internship, the difficulty is very high, but some medium-sized Internet companies, such as drops and Netease, can be packaged. The price of an insider internship is usually 20,000-30,000 yuan, and promises a full refund if it doesn’t work out.
Carl told reporters that he has a first-hand internal resources that outsiders do not have, as long as the resume passes their review, can be handed directly to the company’s internal. He stressed that internal promotion can significantly reduce the difficulty of finding an internship: if the normal employer’s requirement for a resume is 90 points, through their internal promotion channel, a resume with 60 points can be covered.
Then, Karl showed a resume score sheet for internship promotion: 985 colleges have a basic score of 50 points, a normal college is 30 points, and a second college is only 10 points. In addition, there are a series of plus and minus points, such as science and technology male plus 10 points, finance professional female minus 10 points.
He repeatedly assured the reporter that their internal promotion and formal internship will go through the same personnel process, after paying the deposit will formally sign a contract.
Karl also sent several resumes, saying that these are benchmark cases that they have done. None of these resumes were filled out to the brim. Many of the students are from prestigious schools at home and abroad, with three or four top companies internship experience, a variety of software tools are proficient in the application. They are as good as “other people’s children”.
If you look for an internship on your own, you will never know how many gods are competing behind a spot, dozens, hundreds, and thousands are not exaggerated, while the only people competing internally are themselves. “Karl said.
A Chinese University of Hong Kong research student participated in this year’s fall recruitment, she told reporters that most of the students who attended the interview together have had multiple internships, and then the edge of the position, there are students whose internship experience can be matched with the precise.
The process provided by Carl is to review the matching positions first, confirm the positions, pay 30% deposit first, pay 30% again after receiving the interview, and finally pay the final payment after getting the offer.
Twelve hours later, Carl sent four drop-in internship positions, namely a strategy intern, a data analysis intern and two content operations intern positions.
The benchmark resumes provided by Carl were all cut out of the personal information section, and only one of the Fu students’ resumes, because it had the cell phone number written on the header, was retained.
The reporter reached out to Fu’s classmates for confirmation of the authenticity of the internship’s insider promotion, which made the seemingly simple paid internship bizarre.
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Who is the scammer?
He claimed that he had never spent a penny on the internship, let alone looking for this paid internship agency, and had no idea how his information was leaked out, and stressed to the reporter that he should never trust these paid internship agencies, and that he should find an internship in a practical way.
The reporter asked Carl about his story and said that he had been given a lot of information about his internship by the agency.
The reporter asked Carl about the payment student’s claim, and Carl retorted, “He definitely said he didn’t pay to promote himself internally, that he was a student himself, and that he was a second-rate dealer himself, selling internships backwards. “He also claimed to have screenshots of the details of payment transactions, but was not at liberty to provide them.
“He is in a well-known Internet company reputation are bad, more I do not want to explain, you go to him. “Then Karl deleted the reporter’s WeChat friends.
Pay students said he has been offered by Singapore’s Nanyang Polytechnic and a top British university, and now McKinsey internship, if there is a need for students, he can help find internship. “No money is charged. ” he stressed to reporters.
Fu said that there are many friends in the Internet majors, all from famous universities such as Peking University, Imperial College and Zhejiang University, who can do internal promotion. He just helped a classmate with a blank resume get an internship offer from Byte Jump.
But Fu turned to the money. He said that before the internship induction, interview coaching is needed, otherwise you can’t catch the induction opportunity if you have it. The cost of coaching is 250 yuan for a 1-1.5 hour session, and you usually have to take 4-5 classes before the interview. He stressed that compared to agencies, the price is very “affordable”. “Outside job search agencies cost 1200 a time”.
He said that the general internship to conduct three rounds of interviews, so each interview before the training will be conducted again. But a number of internship students told reporters, most companies a round of interviews is enough.
The same night, pay students really deleted that questioning Karl circle of friends.
When college students are looking for internships, corporate internal promotion is indeed a relatively efficient way to recruit. The candidate can enter the interview directly through the recommendation of internal staff, eliminating the need for a tedious written test and other aspects, and having a higher success rate. On Zhihu, a user named “Daxin V” answered a lot of questions related to paid internships, including the “guaranteed offer” promised to her by the agency. She was promised a “guaranteed offer”.
Daxin had worked in a study abroad agency for about a year and had cooperated with many job-seeking agencies. He told the reporter that generally the agency sells the most online remote internships, which are the cheapest, usually around 12,000 yuan, and the most expensive field internships going personnel, with prices around 20,000-30,000 yuan. The difficulty of internal promotion is directly proportional to the price of the internship, and the remote internship has the most positions and is the easiest to promote internally. Because the employees of large companies who keep in touch with him, a person can take 10 remote interns.
The process of internal promotion is also not as complicated as you might think. The first-hand resources that agencies use are usually the employees of the companies who can take interns. They get the resources in a variety of ways, from personal connections to proactive contact through channels such as Link and email. After the agency gets the money from the students, they go to make connections and call the people in charge.
They would advertise on idle fish and Zhihu, and write articles that were like small ads on telephone poles that students in need would notice. “It was supposed to be a mutual attraction thing, and students would take the initiative to ask the institution. “
Can the package pass, in essence, is a matter of probability. Daxin said that there are always successful cases in 1000 people, even if it is not successful refund, there is nothing to lose, success, is the benchmark case. If the intermediary can reach the more senior person in charge of the enterprise, you can “directly put people in”.
This is a gray or even black network.
Daxin met a student who paid for an internship with one of the Big Four (PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, KPMG, Ernst & Young), only to find out that the person who took him was not from the Big Four at all, but a brokerage firm in disguise, and was not at the project site, but only temporarily found some people and rented an office.
“Usually this situation will be refunded, because they also do not want to make a lawsuit. “Daxin said this has long formed an industry chain, and some big agencies have even had several rounds of financing.
The big agency he mentioned is Unicareer (Job You). This job search agency was established in 2014, has completed six rounds of financing, the New Oriental participated in three of the rounds of investment, investors in many well-known investment institutions, including the East Fuhai, Kunzhong Capital, etc., hunting network is also one of the shareholders. Headquartered in New York, we have offices in many cities including Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. The packaging from the publicity posters to the operation of the public number to the headshots of the consultants all look very professional and standardized, and all the publicity posters are labeled with the New Oriental.
The company claims to have helped 18,431 users complete their job search match, and to have worked with 1802 official recruiting partners of world-renowned companies, including Alibaba, Jingdong, Fosun Group, HNA Group, etc.
If agency Carl and pay students are small fish and shrimp in this interest net, Unicareer, which appears as a professional job search agency, is a big fish.
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Big fish surfaced
Through Unicareer’s official website, the reporter contacted a job search consultant, saying he wanted to find an internship. Compared to Carl, Unicareer consultants appear much more professional, Carl spent 12 hours looking for 4 internships, the consultant spent only 20 minutes to send 10 remote internship positions from large companies and in a variety of ways. Among them were 3 from Tencent, 1 each from Meituan Dianping, Sina Weibo, Unilever, Byte Jump, Drip, Alibaba, and Intel.
All of them are interview-free and packaged.
These remote internships are focused on 1 – 2 months, and as long as you intern for 5 – 6 hours a week, you can get proof of internship, letters of recommendation and support for background checks at a price of 20,000 RMB for 1 month and 30,000 RMB for 2 months. “That’s the lowest price, I’ve been working here for 6 years and I’ve never had such a cheap price. ” the consultant said.
However, several senior HR told reporters that usually the internship period of a college student will not be less than 3 months, because the initial period needs to be learned and broken in, and only after 3 months can be considered to start to get started.
The consultant of Unicareer kept emphasizing to the reporter that a lot can be learned in 1 month, and she sent a series of background information of the mentors and the assignments of the trainees. The mentors are all graduates of prestigious universities and work for top financial, Internet or consulting organizations.
They can also provide a “mosaic” service, promising not to disclose any personal information. When the reporter asked whether to go formal personnel, the consultant began to digress, “will open the internship certificate, the internship results we will also help you do, after the resume we will give you word by word optimization. “
When asked repeatedly, the consultant had to answer, “What does it matter if you go to personnel or not? Anyway, the internship certificate will be issued at the end. “
The consultant also stressed that the state regulations state that the internship period cannot exceed 3 months.
In fact, the state does not have such a provision, the Labor Law only stipulates that the length of the probationary period for regular employees cannot exceed 6 months, and the internship period is determined by negotiation between the employer and the intern. A well-known brokerage company employees told reporters that the company will not open the internship certificate if the internship period is less than 3 months.
A number of senior HR said that an internship period of less than 3 months is almost meaningless. One HR of a big Internet company mentioned that her experience is that if a fresh graduate’s resume does not have more than 3 months of internship, it is usually considered as “a resume to make up the number of “.
But then she added, “That’s a little better than a resume that doesn’t even make up the number. “
Over the next few days, Unicareer consultants kept calling, saying that there were only a limited number of positions available, so place your order quickly, and that “if you pay, you can keep the position for six months, but if you don’t pay, someone else will take it away “. She also reminded that if you are tight, you can pay by credit card installments.
The reporter found that the internship positions she offered are online remote internships, when asked if there are offline field internship positions, the consultant said that offline internships are not cost-effective, “now everyone wears a mask, and you can’t see each other’s faces, not as friendly as online video face-to-face “. And, the price is twice as expensive.
Why is it $20,000 more to switch from online to offline for a one-month internship? The consultant says it’s because it takes money to place you in a workstation. What position costs 20,000 dollars a month? The consultant explained again that it is difficult for an ordinary graduate to get into an offline internship, and then threw out the phrase: “You always have to pay for shortcuts. “
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Weird “internship”
Things get weirder and weirder as we officially enter the paid internship process.
The consultant says, “If you want to work for that company later, don’t do it now. “This is a bit strange, normally, there are many students who stay in the company and officially join because of good internship performance.
After the payment, the consultant offered the reporter an internship position with the American group, with the internship of the American group employees Zhang Huan Yu sent a welcome letter through the company email, a simple communication of the next internship direction, and then sent the first week of internship tasks.
Open the mail, is 3 Python introductory basic teaching materials, and the actual business is not directly related, Zhang Huan Yu even refused to disclose the specific department of the internship, “and so on the end of the internship you will know. “
By the second week, the work emails received were SQL basic tutorials, which are available on Baidu along with the materials. When asked if he could get the internship certificate, Zhang Huanyu replied, “I don’t know, you go to Unicareer, I am only responsible for sending work assignments and answering questions. “
This time, the Unicareer consultant changed her story. She clearly told the reporter that there would be no proof of internship, only letters of recommendation and supporting background checks. This answer corresponds to the advisor’s warning not to do an internship at the company you want to join in the future, because the “internship” is fake and if you put this internship in your resume, it will be If you write this internship in your resume, it will be considered as a fabricated resume.
The aforementioned senior HR told reporters that if the recruitment of only internship experience of fresh graduates, generally will not do background checks, because the cost of the back investigation, the investigation of internship experience is not cost-effective. “If you have interned in this company, HR has information in hand. “
Reporters asked Zhang Huan Yu with one such internship can get how much money, he said, “not much money, but also than a day of overtime, signed a confidentiality agreement so can not say the exact amount. “
In another job search agency, the reporter found the same “set”. The agency employees said that the cost of online internships distributed to mentors is a month a student 4,000 yuan, there is no room for bargaining. The reporter repeatedly asked the reason, the agency employees replied that many large companies employees in contact with them, “now remote tutors a little more”.
Zhang Huan Yu chose to work part-time with “internship” because he found his career path in the United States group is increasingly narrow. He leads a small team at Meituan. “In Internet companies, it’s hard to rise above the age of 30. ” he told reporters.
He didn’t seem to delve into whether the matter made sense. When asked why he chose Unicareer, he said it was because it was “a big organization” and his status was “Mentor”, with this experience, later can develop to the field of job search, training, consulting, etc..
When the reporter asked the official Meituan whether this matter is compliant, the person in charge of Meituan replied that an internal investigation needs to be conducted first before replying. Two days later, Meituan issued an official statement, saying that Meituan has never cooperated with third-party organizations or individuals for “paid internships”, and there is no internal internship program for a fee. All interns are required to pass a strict interview process. We have launched a further investigation into the incident, and if any employees are found to be involved, they will be severely punished once they are confirmed. “
On December 6, Zhang Huanyu told the reporter that he was questioned internally. unicareer interrupted the paid internship cooperation with the reporter and said it would return the 20,000 yuan fee.
The person in charge of Unicareer told the reporter that these employees from different companies are only “external mentors”, and there are currently more than 1,000 active mentors. Although it is not a formal internship, it has value. You can see those students from small cities who do not have good academic backgrounds, they need to improve their backgrounds and get to know big companies, and we just provide them with such opportunities. “
A willingness to fight, a willingness to take, it seems that no one was hurt.
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A well-run network
Wang Nan works for a head Internet company, and a few years ago, he was contacted by a job-seeking agency that wanted him to become a mentor. After several years of immersion in this circle, Wang Nan is very familiar with the set of job-seeking agencies to play. He told reporters that employees in the company only need to tell the job search agency about the position, and the agency will go through its own channels to disseminate the information. “There are always people who will come to the door, and finally just need to compare the prices given by different agencies, from which to choose the most cost-effective one. “
Not all internships are “fake”, but many are real ones. The demand for interns is real, and most paid internship agencies will state that if you can’t get an internship offer, you’ll get a full refund, and you’ll always be able to get 100 students, plus an inside push.
Wang Nan remembers that a job search agency once sold an internship position at a well-known investment bank, and the well-known investment bank sent a The famous investment bank sent a lawyer’s letter asking them to remove the internship, on the grounds that it interfered with the interests of the company, and if it did not remove it, it would sue. “But in fact, this investment bank has a fixed cooperation of job search agencies, will be from the cooperation to share the income. “
“This industry is too profitable, the profits are unimaginable to people outside. “At the end of the conversation, Wang Nan is no longer willing to go deeper into this topic. He was worried about a few things: more people would come in and disrupt the market, and he was also worried that regulation would emerge. He tries his best to keep his circle “clean”, he only lectures and doesn’t sell internships directly, but his students keep asking for money to buy internships, and he tells them He tells them who they should go to. “I’m not afraid to make that money. “
It’s a network like a body that coordinates with each other, and it can’t be done by one or two people in the business alone. Someone sells information, someone spreads anxiety, someone is responsible for “beautifying” resumes and training interview skills, and someone uses their insider privileges, even if they don’t The agency’s role is to bring these resources together.
The role of the agency is to unify the dispatch of these resources.
The phenomenon of paid job hunting first appeared in the international student community, in addition to institutions and merit points, many foreign institutions are also very interested in the candidates’ internship and research experience, some study abroad institutions began to provide paid internship programs to help students “enhance the background Some study abroad institutions have started to offer paid internship programs to help students “enhance their background. In recent years, domestic companies are increasingly looking for candidates’ internship experience when hiring, and more and more institutions are focusing on domestic universities.
When there are too many students to find internships, most of those who need them cannot. Some people claim to have the resources, and whether the resources are real or not, the chances of realizing them are high. Wang Nan thinks that this industry “plays on the information gap”. At first it was the institution that was selling, and then the students who had bought the internship could also transform “back to the capital”.
This information gap has also given rise to more and more scams. Some organizations even take students to do fake projects, from the mentor to the content of the project is the organization’s own manipulation, from the beginning to the end of the so-called “internship” at all. The interview was conducted by Wang Nan.
Before the interview, Wang Nan just received a private message from a girl who came back from studying in the UK and cried to him that she had been cheated out of £15,000 for paying for a job.
Compared with summer internships, companies have a greater demand for daily interns, the threshold is not high, and the corresponding procedures are more simplified. In some companies, as long as the hiring supervisor agrees, they can be hired directly. Companies incur certain costs in the recruitment process, so they prefer interns with longer internships, with 3 months or more being the most basic requirement.
A person in charge of recruiting for a BAT factory told reporters that HR does not need to intervene, and that interns can be recruited through many channels such as Boss Direct, alumni groups, etc. The big Internet companies often recruit a large number of interns for their business needs. The intern labor cost is lower, but also do not have to bear the five insurance and a gold, for employers, is “cheap labor”.
In some big Internet factories, each employee has a large number of internal promotion quota in their hands. HR, who has left a large factory, said that whether it is an internal promotion or their own resume, will first reach HR, the internal promotion of the resume will be given priority. If the resume is not up to par, even the candidates for internal promotion will be eliminated. If they enter the interview process, they can usually be recruited as long as the hiring supervisor agrees.
Xue Jun, vice dean of Peking University Law School, said the line of reference defining whether or not it is illegal is clear: whether the employee is profiting from it. If so, it is illegal to sell internship opportunities, which is “improper use of company interests for personal gain.
This year, many companies have made public statements that they have never authorized any third-party organizations or individuals to offer paid interviews or jobs to outsiders, nor have they offered any remote online internships or job programs.
Both Byte Jump and Tencent’s recruitment-related officials told reporters that the companies do not have any recruitment channels that require candidates to pay, and that all internship onboarding requires matching job requirements to the candidates’ backgrounds and a professional interview process before an offer is issued.
Most companies also make certain rules for internship recruitment. An employee of a well-known brokerage firm said he once sent an internship ad in his circle of friends, wrote the company’s name and was criticized by HR. Another brokerage firm’s employee told reporters that his company has strict rules in this area, and internship recruitment needs to be approved by HR.
Many employees at large companies can’t understand why anyone would pay for an internship, willing to work for free and pay backwards. A listed Internet company marketing director in an internship recruitment process felt this anomaly, “we will directly to the intern said is to come to play odd jobs, they are willing to come. “
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Anxiety fueled by the inward volume
Some time ago, Wang Ke, a senior student at a university in Shanghai, is interning in the company of a new intern, and other students in the group, this student’s academic background and internship experience are not dominant. She later learned that this intern was the “VIP” who bought the internship, and after the internship was over, the VIP deleted all the WeChat friends of the interns in the same group.
On the one hand, she was disgusted by the act of brushing up her resume and buying an internship, thinking that it was against the normal competitive fairness and made the in-rolling of internship positions more “in-rolling”. On the other hand, she understands that internship experience is a brick in the wall, and if you don’t even have a very watery internship on your resume, you basically can’t even pass the resume hurdle. “So some students would rather do some very watery internship and then take that experience to the next one. ” she told reporters.
The core positions of famous companies in high paying industries are the object of competition among students. Students are even willing to post their own money and time as long as they can learn something, or, simply make their resumes look good.
Dahim believes that the existence of paid internships is justified because the demand is getting stronger. “For students who graduated ten years ago, it was almost impossible for you to get them to spend a couple of thousand dollars on an internship, but now many post-00s families are better off. Buy a pair of shoes may be thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars, they are willing to use the advantage of money to make up for their lack of ability. “
Recruiter hand power, “if two students with similar background, one to pay, one not to pay, he wants to make some money from it is too normal. “Daxin said,” just like you pay for a relationship to hire someone to do something in the old country. “
Paid internships are a shortcut for those with the financial means to balance out some of the shortcomings with money. But for those whose ability level is just enough to cross the threshold, where once opportunities were available on their own merit, adding the dimension of money may squeeze them down.
These internship positions with long lines at the door also give the hiring agency certain privileges. Wang Ke remembers that a few years ago some brokerage firms would pay interns for their daily internships, but now they hardly pay them except for official summer interns.
But the reality is that the more you brush up on your internship experience, the better. A number of senior and mid-level business people interviewed by reporters said they were more concerned about how well candidates understood and participated in the internship program. At such times, it is almost useless to spend money to get points for internship work.
Wu Aihua, deputy director of the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education, recently said publicly that the employment situation of college graduates this year is severe, not only affected by the epidemic, but also by factors such as economic restructuring. Some of these factors are short-term and some are long-term.
He emphasized that according to the statistics of National Bureau of Statistics, as of September 1 this year, the employment situation of college graduates is better than last year. However, he also predicted that the number of college graduates will exceed 9 million for the first time in 2021, and the scale of growth is bound to make the employment situation more severe.
According to the forecast of the Ministry of Education, the number of college graduates will exceed 9 million for the first time in 2021, reaching 9.09 million, and the number of graduates will exceed 10 million in 2022.
There is a sentence in the 1998 revised edition of Xinhua Dictionary, Zhang Hua got into Beijing University; Li Ping entered a secondary technical school; I worked as a salesman in a department store: we all have a bright future. On social media, this sentence is now treated as a sneering joke.
In today’s age, college students are still the pride of the age. According to the Ministry of Education, as of 2019, there are only about 40 million college students out of China’s 1.4 billion population.
In order to obtain better employment opportunities, more and more undergraduate graduates choose to continue their education. While examinations can delay employment, they are also accumulating a new wave of floods and further aggravating the difficulty of employment for college students. the number of postgraduates in China has reached 3 million in 2020, and the number of people enrolled in examinations has exceeded 3 million for the first time in 2020, reaching 3.41 million.
The general trend is that the proportion of college students in the total population will continue to rise. Wu Aihua predicts that in ten years, there will be more than 300 million college students in China’s total population of more than 1.4 billion. How to allocate these talent resources, adjust the structure and improve the quality is an important issue.
A senior member of the education industry commented to reporters that, whether formal or not, paid internships are a visible manifestation of the internalization of college employment. The students pay for internships as a stressful response to competitive pressures; the organizations and individuals find it profitable, and they eventually join forces to squeeze out more ordinary college students.
“In the short term, there’s no better remedy than closing this loophole. “In the long run, he said, there is a need to tap more employment resources, expand employment space, and provide more opportunities for college students in all aspects from talent training to employment.
In early December, a professor from a key university told reporters that this year he was assigned an indicator to ensure the employment of 5-10 graduates with a minimum monthly income of 5,000 yuan before taxes and 6,000 yuan for graduate students, “and every teacher was apportioned the indicator.”
(In the text, Li Li, Wang Nan, Lv Fang, Zhang Huanyu, Wang can be a pseudonym)
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