Economic Wisdom to Apply in Your Twenties

Chapter 52

Chapter 6, Section 8 Create "scarce" competitiveness and deal with the "employment cold wave"

In the 20s, it was said: "First-rate students go abroad, second-rate students take postgraduate entrance examinations, and third-rate students look for jobs." Now it is replaced by "first-rate students look for jobs, second-rate students go abroad, and third-rate students take postgraduate entrance examinations." In the new era, "returnees" may also become "Kelp (to be)", and being able to seek a good job in today's employment situation is the best recognition for a young man.

According to the latest statistics from the Ministry of Labor and Social Security, the employment situation in recent years is far from ideal.In recent years, there has been a large increase in the number of college graduates and great pressure, and the overall situation of job demand in the entire job market has become relatively tight.In the analysis of the employment situation of college students released by China Graduate Network, the "cold current of employment" is used to describe the employment situation of college students.

At present, the unemployment phenomenon of college students in our country is relatively serious, but from an economic point of view, we can also recognize the positive side of the unemployment phenomenon of college students.From the perspective of human resource allocation, unemployment is the result of the free flow of human resources. In turn, it also removes obstacles for the free flow of human resources and creates more sufficient conditions. At the same time, it also has a certain role in talent reserves.In this sense, the unemployment of college students is not entirely a waste of human resources.On the contrary, it can promote the optimal allocation of human resources to some extent.

Of course, as far as the current situation is concerned, the negative impact of college students' unemployment on society is important, and it needs the joint efforts of the whole society to solve it.For unemployed college students, the following points should be recognized:
1. Believe in yourself and dare to meet challenges.Psychologically, we must be prepared to face all kinds of difficulties, not lose confidence in the face of difficulties, learn to deal with setbacks correctly, consciously face up to social reality, change ideas, and be prepared to participate in competition or even fail.

2. Change roles in time.For most young people, college life is a simple and secure life, with regular study, life, and communication. There is a certain distance between this way of life and the real society.At the end of college life, before setting foot on the job, the most important thing is to be able to quickly complete the role change and be mentally prepared for employment.

3. Have a clear understanding of yourself.How to choose a career before employment should be decided according to one's own personality characteristics.When college students are faced with huge employment pressure, they are often rarely able to fully understand themselves.But in fact, a comprehensive understanding of one's own psychological characteristics is an important prerequisite for choosing a career.A full understanding of ourselves is the basis and premise for every job seeker to position himself in the workplace. Before employment, we need to calmly think about our own strengths and weaknesses, as well as our employment intentions and interests.

4. Respond to challenges with a normal mind.College students are no longer "the favored ones of heaven". We should also abandon our sense of superiority as college students, lower our exorbitant job hunting expectations to a reasonable level comparable to our own abilities, and avoid places where the competition for talents is the most intense.Have a down-to-earth and pragmatic attitude, do not wait for opportunities and luck to come, but take the initiative, do not give up the opportunity to start from the grassroots and experience experience because of fear of hardship and fatigue, and be indifferent to the temporary success or failure in the job hunting process.

Although the employment situation of college students is severe, there is no need to worry, because the society will not eliminate capable people. As long as you study hard, work hard to increase your talents, and make yourself a "scarce" resource in the workplace, no matter what the employment situation is, you Still able to find their own jobs.

Wisdom Trivia: Unemployment Makes a Difference
1. Frictional unemployment: Refers to the unemployment phenomenon when people are looking for a job or switching jobs.For example, young people often change jobs several times before finding a job they are satisfied with and committing to it for a long time; or they change jobs because of a change of place of residence.

2. Structural unemployment: Refers to the unemployment caused by the mismatch between the supply and demand of labor force.It is characterized by both unemployment and vacancies, and the unemployed cannot fill the vacancies because they do not have the right skills or do not live in the right place.Structural unemployment tends to last longer than frictional unemployment because it often means that people need to retrain or migrate to find jobs.

3. Seasonal unemployment: refers to the unemployment caused by seasonal fluctuations in production demand for labor force due to the influence of climate conditions, social customs or purchasing habits on the production conditions or products of certain industries.For example, an ice cream factory lays off employees during the off-season, resulting in seasonal unemployment of the labor force.

4.Cyclical unemployment: When the economic development is in a cyclical recession, the total social demand is insufficient, so the production scale of manufacturers is also reduced, resulting in a more common unemployment phenomenon.

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