College Students' Summer Social Practice Survey - "Working" and "Internship"

College Students' Summer Social Practice Survey: "Working" is Easy"
On July 20th, at the Shanxi Coal Management Cadre College, college student volunteers are ready to leave. On the same day, Shanxi Province launched the summer practice of “three rural areas” for college students in provincial colleges and universities. More than 50 volunteers from four Shanxi Provincial Direct Colleges, including Shanxi Coal Cadre Management College, went to Yangquan City to carry out a week-long social practice of “three rural areas” of culture, science and technology and health. Xinhua News Agency reporter Yan Yan photo

Xinhuanet Tianjin July 21st special issue: "Working" is easy "internship" is difficult - college summer social practice survey

Xinhua News Agency reporter Zhou Runjian, Song Changqing

On the one hand, it is difficult to find a counterpart internship unit, and on the other side, it is a short-term job, such as doing a tutor, and it is easy to earn a high income. This summer, Li Fei, a Chinese student at Lanzhou University, finally chose to join the classmates and other employers in the tutor market.

Li Fei’s situation represents a helplessness for college students internships during the holidays. As more and more employers use work experience and practical ability as important criteria for recruiting, many college students even plan their internship career from the beginning of their freshman year. However, subject to many factors, most of the college students can choose to work in the form of tutoring and odd jobs during the holidays. The “internship” eventually became “working”.

"Getting together"

At the entrance of the Tianjin Book Building, under the Balitai Overpass and at some road junctions, a college student with a “family education” sign is hung on the bicycle or in his hand. The reporter found that the students flooded into the tutor market, which led to the market being too saturated. It was difficult for a large number of students to work hard, and it took time and effort.

A university student who was waiting for the job at the entrance of Xinhua Bookstore told reporters that he had been waiting here since the holidays, but no one has been patronized. "There are too many students who teach tutors."

In the “Street Street Family”, Wang Xiaoxia of Nankai University School of Political Science and Law was lucky because she only found a tutoring job after standing for 2 days. She told reporters that she especially thought of internships in courts or law firms, but she had nothing to do with Tianjin, and it was difficult to find such units on her own. Although the income of tutoring can basically meet their daily expenses, it is difficult to accumulate social experience because of the limited effect of tutoring on their own exercise.

The reporters also saw in the publicity columns of universities such as Nankai University, Tianjin Normal University, and Lanzhou University that posters for part-time and part-time work in various holidays were overwhelming, but most of them were tutors. In addition, they mainly distributed leaflets, salesmen, waiters, etc. There are very few related and high-tech posts.

Helpless choice

The reporter learned from the Lanzhou University Employment Office and other departments that it is far from easy for college students to find a suitable plan for their professional and future development planning units. College students contact the internship unit on their own, facing two practical problems: First, it is difficult for college students to obtain information themselves; secondly, the cost of internship is difficult to bear. At present, many universities in China have branch schools. These branch schools are often students studying at the undergraduate level, and there is still a certain distance from the main city. The internship units selected by most students are in the urban area, and the resulting transportation expenses, accommodation expenses, etc., have placed a lot of burden on students who were not economically prosperous.

In some job fairs, many companies are willing to hire experienced people. In order to meet the needs of the company, Li Li, a junior at Lanzhou Business School, has to go to a part-time or internship unit for almost every holiday. It is to let yourself accumulate certain social experience and work experience before graduation. It can be a few holidays, the effect is not ideal.

Li Li told reporters: "If you want to find a part-time job or an internship with your professional counterpart, it doesn't matter if no one has no money. It's too difficult to rely on oneself alone."

Wan Yang, who graduated from the School of Politics and Law of Nankai University, admitted that no one in the university has been willing to do tutoring for four years. He hopes to find practical opportunities in the holidays that match his major. However, due to poor information channels, many talents have no choice but to do tutoring. .

Schools should take more responsibility

Wang Laihua, a professor at the Tianjin Academy of Social Sciences, pointed out that the school has the responsibility to participate in the social practice needs of summer students, and to organize the docking activities between social units and students to help students extend the platform of summer social practice activities. At the same time, a specialized service organization for students in the school is established. For the off-campus employer who needs the useful job, the school will come forward and verify the business license and employment information before recommending it to the students. In addition, students themselves should give full play to their subjective initiative, expand their interface with society, and explore opportunities to work with their professional expertise.

Some experts and heads of relevant departments of colleges and universities believe that schools can try to break through the following aspects: First, establish flexible and diverse internship mechanisms. Under the increasingly severe employment pressure, college students are more willing to master practical experience as early as possible, instead of waiting for the school to arrange internships. Therefore, the school needs to adapt to this change in demand, the unified graduation internship is a more flexible and diverse internship arrangement; the second is to use more social forces and platforms to achieve the connection between students and internship units. At present, some areas such as Zhejiang have begun to appear online recruitment fairs for college students. Student needs and business needs are connected through the network platform, and the effect is obvious.