Study On The Development Of Undergraduates’ Job Selection Intention And Its Influencing Factors

On the influence of university enrollment expansion and financial crisis, the problem about undergraduates’employment difficulty becomes increasingly prominent, which is the focus of the community. The reason of undergraduates’employment difficulty includes two aspects. One is social development and related policy, the other is undergraduates" lack of job selection cognition. Lack of self-cognition, occupation understanding, and less-knowing their own pursuit and ability, and the specific situation in all walks of life, undergraduates inevitably follow others blindly and cannot choose the suitable job. Facing this situation, universities should give timely and effective guidance. However, the object of our university employment guidance work is only graduate students, not all students from Grade1to Grade4. So the guidance is not continuous. We could find that lack of undergraduates’self-cognition and university employment guidance are the important factors which lead to undergraduates’blindness on job selection, and also the two difficult problems which should be solved. The study explores the development of undergraduates’job selection intention and cognition, and analysis the influence of learning experience on the development. Based on the research of these aspects, the study tries to analysis the problems which existed in undergraduates’job selection intention’s development and its reasons, and then gives some suggestions for university employment guidance.The study chooses undergraduates of Nanjing University as object, and does research by questionnaire and interview these two methods to know the development of students’job selection intention and cognitive in four years. At the same time, the study analyzes the influence of learning experience, career decision making self-efficacy, occupation expectation and career interest on undergraduates’job selection intention. Through discussing the influence of both environment and self-cognition, the study analyzes problems which existed in undergraduates’job selection intention’s development and its reasons. The result shows problems in undergraduates’job selection intention’s development are in six aspects. First, students in Grade1are blindly optimistic about career prospect. Second, the conflicts between major and interest make their occupation interest unclear. Third, lack of self-cognition, makes students’self-evaluate affected by environment easily. Fourth, occupation planning is started late. Fifth, students do not have the awareness of collecting occupation information. Sixth, students are lack of the consciousness of communicating with others on job selection. By further analysis on learning experience which influences undergraduates’job selection intention, we could know that the causes of these problems are lack of occupation ability, school education, time distribution management, sense of social support and contact with the outside.Based on the conclusion, the study gives some suggestions for university employment guidance. First, by improving employment guidance curriculum to promote undergraduates’ occupation planning awareness and ability. Second, through creating and optimizing practice bases to enhance undergraduates’ occupation ability. Third, by optimizing the teacher group to ensure that education keeps pace with time. Forth, by encouraging teachers to connect theory with practice, to make the teaching quality improved. Fifth, through building the communication platform, to make undergraduates’sense of social support enhanced. Last but not least, by establishing inter-school activities alliance to broaden the students contact surface.