College graduates are a key group for stabilizing and safeguarding employment. For graduates, finding a satisfactory job is an important marker of entering society and achieving independence. To better promote graduate employment, what issues do people hope the National People's Congress and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (the "Two Sessions") will focus on? Ahead of the Two Sessions, the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily, in collaboration with wenjuan.com, conducted a survey on expectations for the Two Sessions, with 2,002 participants. The survey shows that 53.1% of respondents hope to improve internship and practical training for students to enhance their job-seeking and career-choosing abilities, and 52.1% hope to provide travel and accommodation subsidies for graduates seeking jobs in other cities.

　　"I hope the delegates and members will pay more attention to the employment problems of college students."

　　Huang Yuwei, a post-2000 graduate of a university in Fujian, is graduating this year, and finding a job has become her most urgent matter. She said frankly that job competition is very fierce and finding a satisfactory job is not easy. "I submitted many resumes on recruitment apps and also participated in the autumn recruitment held by the school, but the response rate was not high, and I still haven't found a suitable job."

　　Huang Yuwei feels that information on recruitment apps is a mixed bag, with job postings that do not match the actual situation. As an advertising major, she hopes to find a job in new media operations or copywriting planning. When searching on websites, she found that some recruitment pages listed "operations specialist," but the detailed job description revealed a big difference from what she wanted. Some job postings said "9-to-6, two days off per week," but in actual communication it turned out to be one day off per week, and working hours were hard to guarantee. "Many job descriptions on recruitment apps contain 'traps' and require careful screening."

　　Xu Ying, a graduating master's student at a university in Anhui, encountered a "trap" during her job search. "I agreed with the other party on a recruitment app to interview at 2 p.m. the next day, but I waited all afternoon at the agreed location and no one showed up, and there was no reply to my messages. Only then did I realize I had been 'stood up,' and I found that the agreed location was inconsistent with the company address shown on the recruitment app. I suspect it may have been a fake recruitment."

　　Zhang Yuchen, a junior at a university in Beijing, said that classmates around him have encountered similar situations while looking for internships. He believes that recruitment platforms should strengthen information review and oversight to protect job seekers' rights. Zhang Yuchen hopes that at the Two Sessions, delegates and members can pay more attention to the employment problems of college students and put forward relevant motions and proposals to ease the employment pressure on college students.

　　53.1% of respondents hope to improve internship and practical training for students to enhance their job-seeking and career-choosing abilities

　　Xu Ying said the school provides employment guidance for graduates, such as inviting senior schoolmates to share job-seeking experience, but it is mainly about civil service exams, with little guidance on state-owned enterprises, public institutions, and further study. "I hope the school's employment guidance content can be richer and more diverse to meet students' different job-seeking needs, and that publicity of employment information should be strengthened so students can obtain relevant information in a timely manner."

　　Ma Xinyi, a post-2000 worker in Beijing who graduated in 2023, feels that school job-seeking guidance is very important for college students. "When I was looking for a job last year, I asked the school's employment guidance teacher to help revise my resume. College students lack experience in making resumes; teachers helping to improve resumes and highlight personal strengths can make resumes more impressive and attract more companies' attention."

　　The survey shows that to better promote graduate employment, 53.1% of respondents hope to improve internship and practical training for students to enhance their job-seeking and career-choosing abilities, and 52.1% hope to provide travel and accommodation subsidies for graduates seeking jobs in other cities.

　　"When I went to Shanghai to look for a job before, I stayed at a relative's home. If going to a city where I know no one, I would need to stay in a hotel, which is quite costly for graduates." Xu Ying noted that some cities now provide short-term accommodation for graduates seeking jobs in other cities, but many people are not familiar with the relevant information and application methods, and more publicity is needed, for example, posting relevant videos on short-video platforms to introduce the accommodation application process in an easy-to-understand way so that more graduates can benefit. "I hope this can be promoted and popularized in more cities; this is also a plus when graduates choose a city."

　　In the survey, 48.9% of respondents hope to strengthen school-enterprise cooperation and broaden job-seeking channels, and 45.0% hope universities will dynamically adjust major offerings according to social development. Other responses include: provide more positions for fresh graduates (37.0%), schools provide written test and interview guidance for graduates (36.9%), popularize knowledge about labor contracts and social insurance (35.6%), and develop internship positions for college graduates who have not been employed within two years of leaving school (30.7%).

　　Facing insufficient job competitiveness, Huang Yuwei hopes to first find an internship to accumulate work experience. But she found that many companies require interns to have internship experience. However, the very reason people look for internships is to enrich their work experience, which creates a contradiction and makes finding an internship relatively difficult. "Perhaps one should look for internships in sophomore or junior year, preferably ones aligned with job-seeking goals. In addition, I hope schools will move employment guidance courses earlier, for example to junior year, and offer as many employment courses close to actual work as possible."

　　Zhang Yuchen hopes the school can provide guidance to students on signing contracts, teach students to identify "traps" in contracts, and help students avoid as many detours as possible.

　　Among the respondents to this survey, 0.8% had education at junior high school or below, 5.6% at high school, vocational high school, or secondary technical school, 17.1% at junior college or higher vocational college, 67.7% at undergraduate level, 7.9% at master's level, and 0.9% at doctoral level.