Survey report: How much does it cost to graduate from college?

The per capita job search fee for graduate students is 457 yuan. Among the various expenses for job hunting, the highest rate of data printing fees, 97% of job-seeking students have paid for copying personal resumes, ID cards and other information. In terms of quantity, transportation expenses are the most, and the average transportation expenses per student is 124 yuan.

This is the conclusion of a survey conducted by the Ningbo City City Team of Zhejiang Province recently titled “The Employment Status of College Graduates in 2004”. The survey randomly selected 300 fresh graduates from three universities in Ningbo as survey subjects, and also learned about the employment guidance service departments of the three schools.

In 2004, it was the second year of graduate employment after the expansion of colleges and universities nationwide. “College employment” once again became a hot topic of social concern. Among them, the "employment cost" is increasingly becoming a problem that has caused widespread concern because of the increase in the amount of expenditure items and expenditures.

In this survey, we found that the “public relations fee” and “payment of liquidated damages and other fees” have the lowest incidence rate – 43 students have paid “public relations fees”, accounting for 15 students. %; 22 students have paid “liquidated damages and other fees”, accounting for 8% of the number of job-seeking students – but the per capita expenditure is as high as 668 yuan and 345 yuan respectively. This deserves the attention and attention of all parties.

If the efforts made by the school and the expenses incurred by the students for job hunting are collectively referred to as “employment costs” during the job search process, when analyzing the “employment costs” in the survey, the researchers pointed out that during the employment process, the school’s Help has a significant impact on whether a student can find a job; and the student’s job search costs have no significant effect on this. In addition, the survey also found that the more the school's employment services are done, the less money the graduates will spend on finding a job.

Another issue worthy of attention is that “national institutions” account for only 5% of the “employed units that have been found”, while the proportion of “expected employment units” is 29%. That is to say, for the employment situation of “state organs”, the difference between reality and hope is as high as 24 percentage points.

According to the survey, 185 of the university graduates who participated in the survey “have found jobs”, accounting for 62%, and 32% of “still looking for work”. Another 7% chose "postgraduate" and "self-employment". Expert analysis believes that 62% of the signing rate is generally low, and the employment situation is not optimistic. At the same time, the survey also showed that 41% of students think that finding a job is “difficult” than expected, and only 23% think it is “easy”.

In the survey, we found that “joining the job fair” became the most important job search method, which was recognized by 79% of job-seeking graduates. While “online job search” is also the main way for 44% of students to obtain employment information, it is only seen by 34% of people as “the most developed job search method in the future”. At the same time, we also found that only 11% of the 185 students who succeeded in job hunting found jobs through “news media and the Internet”.