On the morning of May 28th, the 2020 Employment Promotion Meeting of the Business School was held in Conference Room 506 of the School. Huang Zhiqiang, Deputy Director of the USST Student Office and Director of the Employment Guidance Center; Li Qunhui, Deputy Director of the USST Employment Guidance Center; Zhao Laijun, Dean of the Business School, and Wang Wei, Secretary of the Party Committee of the Business School; Pu Yingying, Deputy secretary of the Party Committee of the Academy, first-level discipline leaders, department heads, branch secretaries, and representatives of the instructors of the undergraduate and graduate classes attended the meeting. The meeting was presided over by Wang Wei.
At the meeting, Pu Yingying introduced the basic employment situation and data of the college’s current undergraduate and graduate students. Huang Zhiqiang conveyed the spirit of this year’s Shanghai Employment Conference, introduced the city’s employment data and the current employment situation of schools, and analyzed several channels for improving the employment data of the Business School. Li Qunhui introduced the overall demand of employers in Shanghai and the employment situation of various industries. The leaders, department heads, branch secretaries, and counselor representatives of each first-level discipline conducted in-depth discussions and exchanges around the discipline, the employment situation of the graduates of the department, the existing puzzles and problems, and the expansion of employment channels.
Dean Zhao Laijun pointed out that employment is a very important job. He emphasized that first, it is necessary to change the concept of some full-time teachers, so that everyone realizes that employment is an important part of talent training, which requires the joint management of the party and government of the college and the participation and cooperation of all faculty and staff; second, it is necessary to change students’ concept to the employment, get a job first and then choose a job. Students can get to the society faster, understand the society, and better plan their future development path and professional direction by first getting a job. It is of great benefit whether they continue to study or choose a higher platform to choose a career; third, it is necessary to open up various employment channels, Especially alumni resources, to provide students with employment information and jobs; fourth, the college has taken measures to adjust the enrollment indicators for undergraduate majors with low employment rates, and adjust enrollment indicators for graduate majors with low employment rates. Link the enrollment indicators with the quality of graduate students and employment rate, and solve the difficulties encountered by the college in the annual employment work from the source; fifth, reform the undergraduate and graduate training programs, improve the quality of the training process, and enhance the competitiveness of the student employment market ; Sixth, it is necessary to adjust employment incentive policies, increase employment incentives and punishments, and increase teachers’ sense of responsibility and enthusiasm for participating in employment.
In the summary, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School, Wang Wei emphasized that firstly, students must understand the background and difficulties of the entire employment environment and have a sense of crisis; secondly, students must understand that active employment is also a contribution to the development of colleges and disciplines. The current graduates enjoy the development achievements created by the previous alumni of the college, so everyone has the obligation and responsibility to create conditions for the following students; third, it is necessary to improve and strengthen the communication and cooperation between the counselor and the full-time teacher in order to prevent the employment of graduates from getting out of touch; fourth, it is necessary to set up a special working group to help graduates with special employment difficulties.
