8. "Hot and Cold" in Career Choice: The Economics of Career Choice

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In the long run, talent will always be a scarce resource for the market. However, in the market, once there are too many graduates in a certain major, the supply of talents far exceeds the demand for talents in the market, and the employment of talents in the industry will be affected; On the contrary, if the supply is less than the demand, the talent in the industry will become a sought-after commodity.

In 2002, the children of Lao Wang and Lao Zhang were admitted to university, which was good news for Lao Wang's family and Lao Zhang's family. When filling in the voluntary report, Lao Wang and Lao Zhang both began to think about what major they should fill in for their children.

Lao Wang thought: "I heard that now is not the most popular computer, foreign language, and law?" So he asked his child to choose one of the three majors, and the child chose to apply for law. Lao Zhang also asked the child to choose one of the three popular ones, the child did not like these majors, and chose the unpopular major - philosophy, although Lao Zhang was very angry, but there was nothing to be done.

Seeing that the children are about to graduate from college, Lao Wang and Lao Zhang are beginning to worry about their children's future jobs. However, to Lao Wang's surprise, it is so difficult for children who study the popular major, law, to find a good job after graduation, either because the major is not right or the treatment is poor. This made Lao Wang wonder, isn't law very popular? But why can't his son find a good job?

When the neighbor's Lao Zhang's children had not yet graduated, several companies had already come to the school to recruit people, and the children of Lao Zhang's family signed a five-year contract with one of the companies and went to work directly after graduation. What made Lao Wang even more unexpected was that the treatment of the children of the Lao Zhang family was very good, not only to solve the household registration, but also to have "five insurances and one housing fund".

Now Lao Wang is a little puzzled, why did his children not find a job in the popular major, but the unpopular one reported by Lao Zhang's family found a job?

Not only Lao Wang can't figure it out, but there may be many readers who can't understand why graduates from popular majors are not as good as students who graduated from unpopular majors when looking for jobs?

In fact, the so-called "hot" and "unpopular" are determined by supply and demand. For example, the price of apples is now 10 yuan a catty. When the growers saw that the apples were very profitable, they rushed to plant apple trees. When it comes to the apple harvest season, the market is full of apples, there are too many apples, and people don't need so many at all, so the price of apples in the market has been reduced, and at the same time, the cultivation of apples has been reduced. As a result, when the next round of apples hit the market, the production was reduced and could not meet people's needs, so the price of apples increased again.

In the long run, talent will always be a scarce resource for the market. However, in the market, once there are too many graduates in a certain major, the supply of talents far exceeds the demand for talents in the market, and the employment of talents in the industry will be affected; On the contrary, if the supply is less than the demand, the talent in the industry will become a sought-after commodity.

Indeed, the law profession seems to be very popular. In the years of university reform, the increase in the number of students enrolled and the opening of law majors in various colleges and universities have contributed to the continuous growth of the law major. Under such a tide, several representative forces have been formed to cultivate law professionals: one is the traditional famous schools, the expansion of these institutions has enabled more students to devote themselves to the law major; On the other hand, there are some new law schools, many of which are representative of the law majors.

However, many law graduates are now struggling to find a satisfying job. Many people study law for the sake of fame, but they don't expect that law will eventually become the most difficult major to get a job for. This is because there is no shortage of general legal talents in the talent market, but what is lacking is top-notch, high-level professional elites. In addition, because of the popularity of legal talents in the past few years, people have flocked to choose this major, and the huge number of graduates has affected the employment situation of the entire industry, and the supply has been oversupplied.

In addition, according to the survey, almost all students majoring in agriculture, who were once considered to be unpopular in the past two years, have found jobs, and graduates of majors such as port and waterway engineering and marine geology are also finding jobs. Minor language majors, such as Korean, Japanese, German, etc., are also not enough for employers to compete for. Graduates majoring in chemical engineering, materials, civil engineering, machinery, and automation are also in a good employment situation. In July 2008, a new survey released by the School Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League and the Institute of Public Policy of Peking University showed that the employment level of agriculture majors was the highest, reaching 78.38%; Philosophy and history, which are considered unpopular majors, have employment rates of 40.35% and 51.85%, respectively. As the so-called "30 years in Hedong, 30 years in Hexi", the above-mentioned employment situation makes us feel that unpopular majors are no longer as coldly regarded as in the past; On the contrary, it is gradually heating up in its own right.

How to deal with the relationship between hot and unpopular, and find the most suitable and promising career for you? The market is changing rapidly, and the unpopular and popular ones are also constantly changing. If you want to pursue a popular career, the key is to be forward-looking and aim for a career with strong growth.

In the final analysis, there is no eternal unpopularity, nor is there an eternal popularity, and all professions change with the changes in the market. This requires people not to be too rigid and popular when choosing a major, and to choose what they are most interested in and what they want to do in the future, which is the best policy. Only in this way can a person delve deeper into the industry he is passionate about. You think, if you have solid theoretical knowledge, advanced business skills and skilled communication skills, then no matter what major you study or what industry you do, you will eventually achieve something.