Why is the employment rate for liberal arts students so low?

The reasons for the low employment rate of liberal arts students are.

One, the increasing number of liberal arts students, social supply and demand still exists, the traditional employment concept is y rooted.

In recent years, many schools across the country have opened liberal arts majors, to the rapid expansion of liberal arts majors, the number of students has risen sharply, to a certain extent, to solve the problem of difficult to go to school, but brought the difficult employment problems. The demand for social jobs is far lower than the increase in enrollment, and the contradiction between supply and demand is becoming more and more prominent. According to the survey, 80.66% of the college students think that it is more suitable to work in the party and governmental organs and institutions, 14.92% of them chose to work in enterprises, and 4.42% wanted to start their own business. There is also a part of college students think that after going to college and having a diploma, they should have a stable and well-paid job. It can be seen that some college graduates are seriously affected by the traditional concept of career choice, resulting in insufficient competitiveness in the labor market.

Liberal arts students

Two, liberal arts students are less specialized and more replaceable.

China's colleges and universities specializing in liberal arts setup is often more theoretical, the majority of students to learn the content of the knowledge is too general, resulting in liberal arts students in the study can only learn a more superficial knowledge, it is difficult to practice in reality, resulting in the search for a job when faced with a difficult employment situation. In addition, many professional and technical positions can not do liberal arts students, but liberal arts students can do positions such as secretarial, administrative and many science and engineering graduates can also do. With the expansion of colleges and universities, many of the lower cost of teaching liberal arts majors enrollment increase, thus intensifying the competition for jobs for liberal arts students.

Third, the gender ratio of liberal arts majors is seriously disproportionate.

Nationwide, liberal arts colleges and comprehensive universities in the liberal arts majors accounted for more than two-thirds of the total number of female students in the graduation to find a job, often face the problem of employment difficulties. Some employers said: female graduates due to later will face marriage and children, a long time can not work, job vacancies will cause a lot of inconvenience to the work of enterprises. To the author's college with the 2011 accounting graduates, for example, male *** there are 42 people, in addition to one graduate student, the rest of the students are through the campus seminars or job fairs to achieve employment, the employment rate of 97.62%. Throughout the job market and job demand, the need for male students is far greater than demand.

The main jobs suitable for liberal arts students are.

One, teachers.

Teachers do not need to say, one of the ten iron rice bowl work, the working environment is relatively simple, stable income, social status is relatively high, there are about 3 months of summer and winter vacation every year. Teachers this direction is very suitable for liberal arts students, as a people's teacher, as long as you can take the work seriously, basically can do until retirement.

Two, civil servants.

Like teachers, civil servants have a stable job, higher treatment and status, and are one of the top ten iron rice bowl jobs. A lot of the work of civil servants is related to the text, and in the civil service team, good writing is very popular.

Three. Tour guides.

The liberal arts students can talk, tour guides are mainly divided into Chinese tour guides and foreign language tour guides. Its main work content is to guide tourists to feel the beauty of the landscape, to solve the possible emergencies on the journey, and give tourists food, accommodation, transportation and other aspects of help. This job is also very suitable for liberal arts students.