Research On The Training Mode Of Elderly Service And Management Talents

As the number of elderly people rapidly increases and the empty nest phenomenon gets increasingly intensified in China,it has become more and more difficult for the society to provide for the aged,with the burden of social supporting becoming increasingly heavier.As the aging problem becomes more and more serious,the elderly services and management industry is bound to become a blue ocean industry featuring rapid development.However,services provided by the nursing institutions for the aged in China are currently low-quality,employees in these institutions lack professional technical skills,and the customer satisfaction is relatively low,all of which are indisputable facts.Therefore,it is imperative to improve the quality of the industry.As a cooperation mechanism believing that “cooperation brings win-win results which promote development” with providing services as the purpose,employment as the orientation and cultivating high-skilled technical talents as the objective,school-enterprise cooperation gives full play to the respective advantages of both universities and enterprises.School-enterprise cooperation aims to establish long-term and close school-enterprise cooperation relationships in relevant fields,highlight the cultivation of students’ practical ability,and strengthen the ability of universities in serving local and regional economies as well as social development.Therefore,to satisfy the industry needs,higher vocational colleges began to set up majors relating to elderly services and management.By cooperating with elderly services and management in the local place,higher vocational colleges can improve the core competitiveness of their majors and cultivate the talents really needed by the pension industry.As for school-enterprise cooperation with regard to such majors,schools can utilize health care and nursing homes as the training bases for students.Enterprises can also improve their professional services with the help of professional teachers and students in schools.Schools reserve excellent professional and technical personnel for enterprises and provide vocational training for enterprise employees.Moreover,schools and enterprises can work together to develop scientific research projects and improve the quality of research topics.Since majors relating to elderly services and management are new and scarce majors,there are many problems remaining to be urgently explored and solved.For instance,there is no regulation to abide by if any dispute occurs during the process of talent cultivation;the talents trained fail to meet the job requirements;the internship training projects jointly organized by schools and enterprises fail to achieve the expected results;the quality of professional talents is difficult to monitor.Optimizing the talent training mode and improving the quality of industrial services admit of no delay.To promote the development of such majors,professional development,the elderly services and management industry seeks solutions in many ways.By establishing a school-enterprise cooperation regulation and control mechanism,strengthening the integration of schools and enterprises in the connotation of training elderly services and management talents,jointly developing scientific research projects,standardizing the training mode of professional talents and constructing an effective evaluation index system,the original talent training mode of the major has been effectively optimized.Furthermore,both schools and enterprises are also exploring new methods of cultivating talents such as the modern apprenticeship and alternation of working and learning.The optimization of the original talent training mode and the exploration of new methods of cultivating talents have achieved satisfactory results in alleviating the imbalance between supply and demand of elderly services and management talents in the local place.In this study,research methods such as literature research,empirical analysis and comparative analysis were used to deeply analysis and explore the development trend of the elderly services and management industry,the current situation about enterprises’ demand for professional talents in this field and the gap between the supply and demand of talents.Adhering to the development characteristics of China’s higher vocational education,the paper fully learns the successful experience of foreign countries in school-enterprise cooperation in talents training,e.g.the German mode of “dual system”,the UK mode featuring “alternation of working and learning” and the US mode of “cooperative education”.Based on the main measures taken by K Company in cooperating with schools in training talents and the results achieved during recent years,the paper explores the development prospect of the talent training mode achieved by the elderly services and management major through optimization and innovation,concluding that the school-enterprise cooperation talent training mode is an effective approach to cultivate skilled talents engaged in elderly services and management and to adapt to the rapid development of the elderly services and management industry in China.