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Strengthening the construction of career education and employment guidance disciplines

2026-03-18   

This year's Government Work Report emphasizes the promotion of high-quality and full employment. College graduates are the focus of employment work, and career education and employment guidance play an important role in stimulating students' intrinsic motivation, reducing blind job selection and inefficient employment, improving the fit between talents and positions, and optimizing the overall allocation of human resources in the country. Against the backdrop of comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong education country, two key challenges need to be taken seriously: on the one hand, although China has built the world's largest higher education system, there is still a structural mismatch between talent cultivation and industrial demand, and the employment of college graduates faces the problem of "total pressure" and "structural contradictions" coexisting, and the effective connection between supply and demand is not yet sufficient; On the other hand, the new college entrance examination reform gives students more choices, but due to the lack of scientific self-awareness and career planning, many students have blindness in choosing subjects and majors, which affects the reasonable planning of their subsequent academic development and career paths. To solve the above problems, it is urgent to accelerate the construction of career education and employment guidance disciplines in China, focus on building a professional and stable team of career education and employment guidance teachers, systematically improve the theoretical research level and practical service ability in this field, and provide solid support for the high-quality development of education and the strategy of building a strong country with talents. The difficulties faced by career education and employment guidance: China's research and practice in career education started relatively late and gradually began around 2000. Overall, there are three major challenges in career education and employment guidance in China: weak theoretical foundation, lack of subject carriers, and insufficient supply of professional teachers. Weak theoretical foundation and lack of localized discourse system. For a period of time, research and practice on career education and employment guidance in China have mostly drawn on Western career development theoretical frameworks, with insufficient localization research. Although Western theories and practical guidance have played a certain positive role, there are significant differences between China's social and cultural traditions, workplace environment, etc. and the West, and Chinese people's professional psychology and behavior also have their own characteristics. In existing research, there are not many original studies based on local historical and cultural contexts, which are difficult to meet the practical needs of career education and employment guidance in China. Lack of disciplinary carriers and scattered management and research forces. At present, China's career education and employment guidance have not yet formed a systematic disciplinary system, lacking clear disciplinary affiliation and professional support. Career education and employment guidance have interdisciplinary characteristics, and their researchers have diverse disciplinary backgrounds. Although different disciplinary perspectives have enriched research, there is also a phenomenon of different research institutions and scholars acting independently, lacking effective collaborative mechanisms, and making it difficult to form a research paradigm and method that can effectively solve the problems of career education and employment guidance. In addition, career education and employment guidance research lacks special research institutions and authoritative academic platforms, and research achievements are mostly scattered in psychology, management, education and other journals as "supporting role", which can not effectively promote theoretical contention, and it is difficult to condense into a professional and high-level research team. The supply of professional teachers is insufficient, and there is a high turnover of personnel. In terms of personnel allocation, in primary and secondary schools, homeroom teachers or psychological teachers often work part-time; In universities, it is often done by counselors or personnel from the employment and entrepreneurship department. This kind of non specialized teacher allocation not only weakens the professionalism of career education and employment guidance work, but also causes the problem of high team mobility. The path to promoting the construction of career education and employment guidance disciplines is to solve the above difficulties, and the systematic promotion of career education and employment guidance discipline construction is the only way. The Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of a High Quality Employment Service System for Graduates of Ordinary Higher Education Institutions, previously issued by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, clearly stated that universities should be encouraged to establish career education and employment guidance disciplines and strengthen the training of professional talents at the graduate level. Establish career education degree programs and build a specialized talent training system. The establishment of degree programs provides a standardized knowledge system, standardized training process, and legitimate qualification certification for talent cultivation, which can effectively solve the pain points of mixed professional backgrounds and insufficient theoretical literacy of practitioners. At the level of cultivation, a specialized talent cultivation system should be established that covers different types of professional and academic degrees, as well as different levels of master's and doctoral degrees. Among them, the master's level aims to cultivate applied high-level talents who master solid knowledge and skills; The doctoral level focuses on academic research and is committed to cultivating teaching and research talents who lead theoretical innovation. In terms of disciplinary affiliation, given its distinct interdisciplinary nature, it is recommended to establish career education and educational guidance as a secondary discipline or interdisciplinary direction under the category of education, while deeply integrating knowledge from disciplines such as psychology, management, and economics. Establish qualification standards for employment and facilitate the career development path of practitioners. The professionalism of career education and employment guidance work is extremely strong. Relevant departments should develop professional qualification standards that cover multiple dimensions such as professional ethics, professional knowledge, and practical skills, to ensure that practitioners have a solid professional foundation and rich practical experience. In order to facilitate career development, career education and employment guidance should be included in the professional title evaluation of university teachers, and the evaluation criteria should take into account both theoretical research level and practical ability to serve students. Accelerate the establishment of professional associations and promote the construction of an academic community for practitioners. Accurately positioning the core mission, building a fully covered member network of "industry university research application", and widely attracting scholars from universities, frontline teachers, human resources experts from enterprises, and leaders of career education institutions. Establish an academic exchange platform, regularly hold national academic conferences, organize major research projects on career education and employment guidance, focus on theoretical localization, innovative teaching evaluation systems, and promote the transformation of empirical results into teaching practice. Establish a teaching guidance committee to carry out top-level design and policy implementation. To conduct theoretical and practical research on important issues related to the reform and development of career education at all levels and types of schools, provide consulting opinions and suggestions for education administrative departments and schools, and guide the construction of career education courses, textbooks, and teaching reforms at all levels and types of schools. At the same time, we should actively promote information communication, experience exchange, and research results promotion, and fully serve the career education and teaching construction and reform of schools at all levels and types. Create specialized academic journals to promote the production and dissemination of disciplinary knowledge. Academic journals are the "catalysts" and "normative fields" for knowledge production, providing a stable and professional platform for scholars engaged in career education and employment guidance research to publish their achievements. They can gather dispersed individual research into a continuous collective dialogue. Meanwhile, academic journals serve as the "glue" and "verifier" for the construction of disciplinary communities. Around academic journals, a community naturally forms consisting of authors, reviewers, editors, and readers. Through submission, review, reading, and citation, scholars can strengthen their identity recognition, establish academic networks, jointly abide by and maintain disciplinary ethics and norms, and promote the sustainable and healthy development of career education and employment guidance disciplines. (New Society)

Edit:Momo Responsible editor:Chen zhaozhao

Source:Guangming Net - Guangming Daily

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