"Talent Paradox" Phenomenon Of College Graduates Employment In Western Minority Areas

For a long time, the socio-economic development of the western minority areas in China lags far behind other areas. Many reasons result in this phenomenon, apart from unpleasant geography and climate, one crucial factor cannot be neglected is the shortage of talents. To solve this problem, China has stepped up efforts to cultivate talents in minority areas by way of expanding college enrollment and ethnic preferential policies for minority areas in recent years. Through these measures, China has cultivated a large number of high-quality, highly educated local talents for these areas. However, there is a puzzling phenomenon in minority areas:on the one hand, the problem of lack of talents has not yet been satisfactorily resolved, on the other hand, college graduates face serious problem in finding jobs and the administrative departments are overcrowding. Therefore it is of great significance for us to conduct a research on the "talent paradox" phenomenon in minority areas.This article is composed of five chapters, trying to explain the social causes of the talent paradox phenomenon. We use relevant sociological theories to analyze the college graduates’rational choice in the midst of employment, the social and economic structure of minority areas, the game between the employment groups and government in the course of employment, the role of social networks and social consciousness in the course of employment. Based on these analyses, we come to the conclusion that the causes of "talent paradox" phenomenon include:1. It is a rational choice for most graduates to find jobs in hometown;2. The imbalance of social industrial structure lead to the contradictions in employment;3. Majors of some colleges cannot meet the market needs;4.The game in the employment process leads to both sides making a choice in the sub-optimal levels;5. The traditional social consciousness, corrected influence graduates. At the same time, the backward social economic conditions of the lag of produce talent policy to make the national regions local government back of the heavy burden. The author found that national area talent has formed a vicious circle of the situation, in the final analysis, the social economic development behind in race region is the profound reason. It is the whole society’s responsibility to take effective measures to solve this problem.This study makes both pessimistic and optimistic prediction on the "talent paradox" phenomenon of minority areas. It seems a paradoxical prediction, but it represents a logical inference made based on today’s development trends.We sincerely hope that this study can make some contribution to the development of talents in minority areas and provide some help for the further researches on this problem.