Earnings Expectation and Graduate Employment:Evidence from Recent Chinese College Graduates

Chinese college graduates have faced increasing labor market com-petition since the expansion of tertiary education.Given rigid market demand,graduates with realistic earnings expectations may experience a more efficient job search.Using the 2008 MYCOS College Graduate Employment Survey,this study finds that a 1000 yuan reduction in a graduate’s reservation wage can significantly increase the probability of finding a job by 66%and increase the likelihood of being employed six months after graduation by 92%.In addition,the gap between the reservation wage and the market wage has a positive impact.By slightly adjusting earnings expectations,college graduates can significantly improve job search efficiency.Market wages should be seen as reference points when adjusting income expectations.

Changing Student Expectations and Graduate Employment:Case Studies from Xi’an,Shaanxi Province

This paper addresses the issue of students’employment expectations,considered a key factor in alleviating graduate unemployment in China.This empirical investigation surveyed students at two higher education institutions in Xi’an,Shaanxi Province,to analyze how expectations were changing.The results contrasted with earlier studies that reported unrealistically high expectations,discovering instead that most respondents were aware of the difficulties of finding work and were revising their expectations accordingly.The results also revealed important variations in attitude between higher vocational students and university undergraduates,and between urban and rural students.Overall,the paper contends that although students are becoming more realistic,the complexity of graduate unemployment will prevent this change in attitude from making a major improvement to the overall situation.

Challenges to Women University Graduates in Employment and Countermeasures

The essence of equal rights to employment on the part of women university and junior college graduates is the right to indiscrimination. It has become more and more difficult for university and junior college graduates to get jobs. It has

Research on the Employed Ideological Education of Graduates of College of Agriculture and Forestry

With the continuous development of social economy,the employed competition of college graduates is becoming more and more fierce,especially for the graduates of agricultural and forestry colleges and universities.Based on the characteristic needs of the professional fields of colleges and universities,their employed directions are mainly concentrated in rural areas.The regional distribution of industrial products has led to an increase in the complexity and instability of agricultural and forestry graduates’employment ideas.Under the social background of stable employment,it is imperative to strengthen employed ideological education for agricultural and forestry college graduates to enhance students’initiative for employment.Under the guidance of employed ideological education,agricultural and forestry college graduates can scientifically plan their own employment paths with employment in high quality.Regarding to it,this article analyzes the problems in the employment ideological education of agricultural and forestry college graduates under the current situation,and proposes some solutions to effectively improve the employment quality of agricultural and forestry college graduates.

Hidden Constructs on Graduate Employability Decisions: The Principal Component Factor

This study adopted the quantitative research design to unearth hidden factors which go into graduate employability decisions. Purposive sampling technique was used to select graduates, institutions and industries within Takoradi, Cape Coast, Kumasi and Accra metropolis all in Ghana. Three different questionnaires inter-spaced with interviews were designed and used to collect data from the field according to a pre-determined stratified scheme. A total of 200 informants including 68 industries, 120 graduates and 12 institutions were used. The data was coded and keyed into SPSS version 20. Tables and Charts were used to explore the data. Principal component (PC) analysis was employed to extract hidden factors industries consider in graduate employability decisions. The PC method identified and extracted six hidden factors: ability to set SMART goals and structure actions;ability to demonstrate a willingness to embrace new systems, processes, technology and ideas;a determined, committed, resilient, and focused person;a person with passion for driving profit;ability to deconstruct a problem or situation;and clear and unprompted ability to present information to a group. These six hidden factors could explain 68.8% of the variances in graduate employability decisions. We recommend that internships be properly planned and executed with the involvement of industry players, facilitators of learning, and the ministry of trade and industries. In addition, facilitators should inculcate into students’ important traits and attributes identified in this study.

Enhancing Overseas Chinese Graduate Employability:The Case of Chinese Graduates with Finnish Academic Qualifications

This paper explores ways to enhance overseas Chinese graduate employability by taking Finnish-educated Chinese students/graduates as an example.In so doing,it understands that graduate employability development is a joint effort of multiple stakeholders including students,graduates,academics,program coordinators,employers,and policymakers.Accordingly,it provides arguments and suggestions for how to enhance the employability of these graduates in terms of the labor market context,employers’beliefs and actions,the responsibilities of higher education institutions,and student/graduate commitment.It also points out two major challenges faced by overseas Chinese graduates as well as their educational providers,which are linked respectively to gaps between what graduates acquire in higher education and what is required in the labor market,as well as gaps from the employers’perspective:areas where employers need to understand more about universities and catch up with new ideas generated by them.