As a result of the choice of job market, it is difficult for female graduate students to find jobs, and it is more and more obvious for graduate students majoring in literature, history and philosophy to find jobs. Even the first academic background of graduate students has become a threshold for many units to select talents.
Second, the response of the postgraduate training system to the job market signal is obviously lagging behind. The market economy has gradually played a fundamental role in the graduate employment market, but the reform of the domestic postgraduate training system has failed to adapt to market changes quickly. For a long time, the training of graduate students in China has been mainly based on basic research, and the enrollment scale of some majors with insufficient employment needs has also increased in the process of enrollment expansion, which further leads to the contradiction of graduate employment professional structure.
In recent years, the training of applied professional masters has been gradually expanded in quantity and professional scope. However, due to the long-term emphasis on degree-based master education, this reform has not fully met the market demand. Whether some emerging professional master's degrees can be recognized by the market needs further testing. Many graduate students at school and after graduation think that the current curriculum system and teaching arrangement are similar to those of academic masters, which are not practical and few courses reflect the characteristics of professional degrees.
Third, the postgraduate career planning education is weak and the employment concept is irrational. Career planning education for domestic college students started late, especially for graduate students. There are few related career planning education, so far few colleges and universities specialize in postgraduate career planning education.
In addition, for a long time, graduate education has been oriented towards cultivating senior professionals. From schools to research groups, from tutors to graduate students themselves, insufficient attention has been paid to the improvement of job-seeking ability. In the face of fierce employment competition, graduate students' job-hunting skills are often stretched, resulting in a huge waste of high-level professionals and the irregular development of graduate employment market.