A Peking University PhD graduate has become a civil servant planned to be hired by Jiuxianqiao Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing in 2022, and his position is an urban management and law enforcement post. In mid-April, a public list of people to be hired in Chaoyang District, Beijing, disclosed the above information. This public list of candidates to be recruited shows that most of the applicants have master's degrees from prestigious universities.
The above-mentioned urban management and law enforcement post in Jiuxianqiao Street, Chaoyang District, Beijing does not seem to be a "golden rice bowl". The position level is at the grassroots level of townships and streets, requiring a "bachelor's degree or above." The note also states that "a rotating work system is implemented, and field work at night is more difficult." many".
Ph.D. graduates from Peking University are working in urban management and law enforcement positions. This is a microcosm of the continued rise of the "public examination craze". It highlights the changes in the employment situation and is also related to the self-selection of some contemporary young people.
In 2021, Gu Fan (pseudonym), who graduated from a "double first-class" university with a master's degree, was hired as a grassroots civil servant in a county-level city in East China. In this unfamiliar city, he was mainly engaged in writing text materials, " The work is very regular.” For Gu Fan, the future seems to have a clear path, and he probably knows what to do in the future. But he also said that "there is a place you can't even see." In less than a year of working, he had rotated through multiple departments, and the future was "full of variables."
Zhang Ming (pseudonym), a master's student who also graduated from a "double first-class" university, gave up an offer (acceptance notice) from a financial institution in a big city and chose to be a selected student in the lower reaches of the Yellow River. The selected students belong to the civil service system and are a way to cultivate reserve cadres, but they require two years of experience at the grassroots level. Currently, Zhang Ming is working in towns and villages to help revitalize rural areas.
After graduating from prestigious schools, it seems that more and more young people choose to work as civil servants or transfer students in counties and townships.
Professor Yang Hua of the School of Social Sciences of Wuhan University, whose main research direction is county and township governance, previously had a topic about the work and life of young cadres at the grassroots level. In 2018 and 2019, Yang Hua visited many provinces for research.
Yang Hua said that in some economically developed areas, many graduate students have entered the ranks of grassroots cadres, and in the central and western regions and remote towns, there is also a shortage of graduate students. The current continuously optimized political ecology and the gap in the age structure of county and township cadres have made the flow and promotion path of young cadres at the grassroots level relatively clear.
Regarding the appeal of grassroots civil servant positions in developed areas, counties and cities to young people, Yang Hua explained that in these areas, civil servants have become professional, and grassroots civil servants can also complete the construction of professional identities. Even if they have limited opportunities for advancement, they can still gain a sense of career fulfillment, honor and the material conditions they need in life through their positions.
Master's students from prestigious universities go to counties and villages
Friends who work in big cities will curiously ask Zhang Ming, "When you are in the town, do you usually go to the fields and interact with the people all day long?" In fact, Zhang Ming's job is indeed In this way, she often needs to contact village leaders and villagers.
Zhang Ming told the reporter of " Finance " that during the grassroots work, the selected students need to have a detailed understanding of the basic situation of the village, the main industries in the village, etc., and then form a research report.
Zhang Ming, who was born in the city, has never lived in a rural area before. However, before applying for the exam, she understood the policy of selecting students for transfer, and at the same time had a preliminary understanding of the situation in the villages and towns through relatives and friends.
The arrival of young people like Zhang Ming is not surprising at the township level. Zhang Ming said that in the past few years, selected students have been working locally. "Selected students are young people who come to work. People will not say that you have a high degree of education or that you came from a big city, and others will look at you differently."
In Zhang Ming’s observation, local township cadres are relatively young, and many leaders are born in the 1980s and 1990s. Most of them have good academic qualifications. One of the main people in charge in the town also graduated from a prestigious school. “This may be It’s one of the new changes in these years.”
Gu Fan also found that more and more college graduates are entering local grassroots civil servants. He learned that there are also 22-year-old young people admitted this year.The induction training teacher told him that now it is obvious that the appeal of young people at the grassroots level is increasing, and the new recruits are becoming more and more energetic, which is different from the traditional image of civil servants before.
When Gu Fan entered the workplace for the first time, he felt quite fresh. He had already changed several departments and was exposed to different work contents. He went out for research and meetings with his superiors. "We always eat lunch together, two meat dishes and one vegetarian dish. No matter how old the leader is, this is the case." At work, the relationship between colleagues is also good. “Everyone treats me like a child.”
Regarding giving up the major he had studied for many years and engaging in comprehensive writing work, Gu Fan believes that "it is not particularly wasteful." What he gained most during his master's degree was not knowledge, but broadening his horizons, understanding of rules, Some thoughts on their own positioning and future development. "For me personally, the professional knowledge from my master's degree is not directly helpful (for work), but because the teachers I came into contact with when I was studying for my master's degree were all professors, even Yangtze River scholars and academicians, so what I heard and what I saw were different. "It's like standing on the shoulders of giants and looking at the world," Gu Fan said.
Ling Hao (pseudonym), who is also a transfer student in a county in eastern China, also said that there are more and more cases where graduates from prestigious schools go to work as civil servants at the grassroots level.
As early as 2005, the General Office of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the General Office of the State Council issued a notice called "Opinions on Guiding and Encouraging College Graduates to Find Employment at the Grassroots Level", requiring greater efforts to select outstanding college graduates to work at the grassroots level. . Enriched to grassroots units such as rural towns and urban streets. After college graduates work at the grassroots level for two to three years, some of the best will be selected and appointed to township and street leadership positions. In 2018, relevant departments once again issued requirements to further strengthen and improve the selection and transfer of students.
Ling Hao said that in the area where he works, the number of students selected and transferred by county and township agencies in recent years has been two or three times the number of students selected and transferred by provincial and municipal agencies. The recruitment standards are higher than those of ordinary civil servants. It is clearly required that be transferred to colleges and universities. It is one of dozens of “double first-class” universities in China and key universities in the province.
Ling Hao told the reporter of Caijing that in recent years, his county has also promoted the implementation of the strategy of strengthening the county with talents and recruits a number of master's and doctoral talents every year. According to his understanding, many of the newly recruited people this year graduated from prestigious schools at home and abroad, and most of them attended prestigious schools as undergraduates. Talents from prestigious schools and highly educated people are becoming more and more "common" in the local area. What is the appeal of the base layer of
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Everyone’s employment choice often combines personal, family and social factors.
Compared with his classmates who were civil servants in central ministries and commissions, Ling Hao occasionally felt a sense of disparity, but being a selected student in a county or township was his choice after repeated weighing.
Ling Hao graduated in the summer of 2021. At that time, the employment situation was severe. The total number of graduates from ordinary colleges and universities nationwide was 9.09 million, a year-on-year increase of 350,000. However, Ling Hao's career planning was relatively early. He had just enrolled as a graduate student two years ago. After learning about the employment destinations of his brothers and sisters, he began to feel a sense of crisis. Afterwards, he went to the teachers at the school’s employment guidance office to inquire about the employment situation of his major. "I was surprised to find that my professional employment prospects were relatively slim. At this time, I began to consider jobs within the system, because some positions in the system are not restricted to majors." Ling Hao said.
Ling Hao, who grew up in a northern city, has many relatives and friends who are civil servants. He feels pragmatic in his self-evaluation. Ling Hao had excellent grades in school and was a student union cadre. When he was about to graduate, he received multiple offers, including from state-owned enterprises, public institutions, and selected students. Ling Hao didn't hesitate too much and decided to become a transfer student in this eastern county.
The eastern county that Ling Hao chose is very close to surrounding cities such as Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Nanjing, and the transportation is extremely convenient. This is in line with his ideal work area - the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. Civil servants in these two regions The salary package is also good.
When choosing a job, salary and local housing prices are also factors that Ling Hao values. This is also the main reason why he decided to leave the megacity.Ling Hao said that if he engaged in a job related to his major, even if he found a position in a listed company in Beijing, the salary after tax would be about 9,000 yuan, and he would have to rely on himself and his parents to buy a house, which would still be stressful.
The outbreak of the new coronavirus pneumonia in January 2020 made Ling Hao feel more uncertain in life, and he further determined to choose to take the civil service examination. Ling Hao said that some people think that life is full of infinite possibilities and that working in a small place is a kind of failure. "You have to choose a particularly good (job) to be worthy of me." But in his opinion, young people should not Complaining about what you don't want to do, "but not doing what you can do."
Zhang Ming left the big city where she had studied for six years. During her first two years of work, she had to go to the towns and villages for training. Zhang Ming attributes his career choice to the fact that it is not only a personal choice, but also a family choice, and it is also related to future marriage and childbirth, parents' care for the elderly, and interpersonal relationships in the next few decades.
Zhang Ming initially believed that there were many development opportunities in big cities and that he might be able to gradually gain a foothold. But as the only child in the family, she has to consider buying a house and providing for her parents when looking for a job in 2021.
At that time, Zhang Ming also had an offer from a financial institution, and she had been struggling with which choice to make. She is worried that although working in a big city may seem "more glamorous", she may not have a fixed residence of her own for a long time in her life. After comprehensive consideration, she believes that working in her hometown is more in line with her current needs.
Zhang Ming said that in fact, she has also thought about why some young people are now willing to take the public examination examination (career examination) and go to the grassroots level? She believes that the outlook on career choices has changed. “In the past, people had some stereotypes about jobs within the system.” But now that the Internet is developed, some young people who work within the system will send texts or videos to let everyone understand the system intuitively. work and life within. "It turns out that this job is not what I imagined before. I even thought that if I also participated in the work within the system, would it (make society) better?"
Wang Li (pseudonym) is also a master's degree graduate from a "double first-class" university. ), passed the grassroots selection and recruitment of a province in central China in 2021, and went to work in towns and villages. Wang Li majored in science and engineering, which is relatively easy to find a job, but he had a clear goal before graduation, which was to take the civil service examination. Wang Li said that he has a "relatively stable personality" and is suitable for government work. In addition, he wants to return to his hometown for development. He needs to train at the grassroots level in the first two years before being transferred. This is not a problem for him who comes from a rural background.
Xiao Yi (pseudonym), who also has a steady personality, passed the civil service examination in 2021 and is currently working in a county-level city in an eastern province. Xiao Yi lived in several megacities when he was studying and interning. He believed that big cities were not suitable for him. Xiao Yi said that when he goes out in big cities, he is stuck in traffic jams and squeezing in the subway. It takes at least half an hour or even two hours to go out, which makes him feel very tired. Every time he walked from the subway entrance to the ground, he saw the crowds of people coming and going, which gave him a sense of pressure, "This kind of life is not in line with my personality."
Xiao Yi didn't think much about employment when he was an undergraduate. He chose to take the postgraduate entrance examination with the "psychology of avoiding employment". However, when he was about to graduate as a graduate student, he realized that it was not easy to find a job in the major he studied. Some of his classmates chose to work in sales, and some went to work in leading companies with related majors - "They really want to be on the front line of the pig farm, dealing with pigs in the pig shed." Xiao Yi once interned in a company, He felt that the job was unstable and stressful, which he disliked very much, so later on, his intention to apply for a job was to work in the public sector. "More than half of the classmates around him were taking the civil service examination."
Xiao Yi said that he received very little guidance on employment. "When we were in school, we were only told to study hard and find a good job in the future. How to find a job that suits us and how to plan are missing." Xiao Yi didn't know much about the civil servant profession before. No one in his family was a civil servant. Before applying for the exam, he gained knowledge about civil servants through the Internet. After working at
for nearly a year, Xiao Yi is quite satisfied. "I guess some people may think that staying at the grassroots level will be boring and boring. I don't have this kind of personality and don't like to swim against the current. I am more suitable for stability."He looked at the social updates posted by some of his former classmates. They were running back and forth in major cities. They were too busy to have time to eat, but they were full of energy and energy. He thought, "If I had been there, I would have been bored."
There are also people taking the public exam. After "coming to the shore", he chose to give up. Wu Fei (pseudonym) graduated from law school of a "985" university in Beijing, and his grades have always been at the top of his grade. In July 2020, Wu Fei joined the "Kao Gong". Dajun, after "passing the test", he got an interview opportunity for a grassroots court in Beijing and a selection position in a city (state) in Sichuan Province. At that time, he did not want to stay in Beijing because "the housing prices were too high", so he turned down the job at the grassroots court. He chose to go back to his hometown of Sichuan for an interview. However, he found that the job placement was not in his ideal judicial institution, but a job that seemed unrelated to his legal major. After some consideration, he decided to give up.
After taking exams, interviews, and giving up, Wu Fei struggled for nearly a year. In August 2021, Wu Fei returned to Beijing to start his career as a lawyer. In the law firm, Wu Fei often stayed up late to write legal analysis opinions, but he still failed. Being criticized, he feels a little tired and often wants to resign.
is relatively satisfied with the current situation.
At present, Gu Fan, Zhang Ming and others are relatively satisfied with their choices. They all said that they are currently thinking more about how to do a good job in the current situation. Work. Zhang Ming said that the young people who have moved to villages and towns include those who work in rural areas from cities and counties, some are transferred students, and there are also rural revitalization service teams sent by the province. They are all supporting rural development and helping to improve infrastructure and Developing rural industries, etc. After working at the grassroots level, Zhang Ming gradually realized that the population base living in towns and villages is still very large. “For further development in the future, rural areas are a very important part. But maybe many young people don't care about these things. "Zhang Ming said.
Gu Fan said that he will be firm in his choice and believes that promotion depends on personal ability. "If you work hard on this road, there will definitely be some opportunities in the future." Gu Fan's current income is about the local salary His class is upper-middle level, but not everyone envies him. "There are too many business owners here, and everyone would think that if they have any ability, they would go to the market to make money."
Ling Hao, who works in different places across provinces, said. Ling Hao has integrated into local life relatively quickly. He admits that grassroots work is trivial and busy. “It would be bragging to say that I can change anything or how many people I can help make people rich. It sounds like anyone can do grassroots work, but not everyone can do it well. "
After coming to work at the grassroots level, Ling Hao saw more of the lives of ordinary people, which gave him a more comprehensive understanding of society. Ling Hao said that when he was studying before, he often heard some voices, such as an annual salary of 300,000 yuan is a cabbage price. After working, he found that the lives of ordinary people at the grassroots level were not paid much attention to. For low-income people in rural areas, a few hundred yuan per month was very important, while in big cities it was just one or a few meals. Sometimes, being able to help some people at work is a sense of accomplishment for Ling Hao. The "ceiling" of grassroots work is relatively obvious. "Everyone has the idea of promotion. If it doesn't go well, just be an ordinary person." The staff are also very good."
Wang Li, who graduated from science and engineering, is currently mainly engaged in writing work in the township. He self-assessed that he has adapted well. He said that he has gained experience in grassroots work practice, and there are some things that cannot be learned by sitting in an office. He doesn't pay much attention to his monthly income. As for "life events" such as buying a house and finding a partner to get married, he has not considered it for the time being. "It will happen naturally."
Source: "Finance" Editor: Zheng Chu.
