博士生英语作文

博士生英语作文

Graduates Face Many Barriers in Job

Hunting

It is graduation time again. Whether joining the social workforce or pu rsuing advanced studies, about four million Chinese graduates will soon turn a new page in their lives. St ill, no matter what, campus life wi ll remain deeply etched on the mind s of China's former students. What lies ahead for the country's graduat es?

Statistics released by relevant depar tments of China show that in 2006, graduates from all Chinese colleges and universities numbered 4.13 mill ion, up 750,000 from 2005 with a g rowth rate of roughly 22%. Hence, t he employment tension further intensi fies. Meanwhile, various intangible b arriers exist in social relations, r

egional restriction, permanent residen cy and university's reputation have made the graduates' job-hunting proce ss tougher.

Some analyze that against the backdr op of intensified employment tension for university graduates, needy stu dents from rural and urban areas us ually find themselves in relatively inferior positions.

Some graduates realize that in order to get a job, they have to sign some "unfair treaties" that promise not to take the postgraduate exam or leave the company within severa l years, or they have to pay 5,000 Yuan for breaching the contract. S ome recruiters even declare openly t hat they only need students from fa mous universities, so graduates from other schools are not even entitle d to apply.

Currently the contradiction in China' s higher education has transferred f rom entering to leaving a university and from the difficulty in enrollm ent to employment after graduation. It has become a common phenomenon t hat "graduates become jobless". Shoul d this problem not be tackled right ly, the employment issue would turn into a new factor that causes soc ial instability.

College—A New Experience

Living at college, first of all, gi ves me a sense of responsibility, o f being on my own. My parents aren ’t around to say, ―No, you’re not going out tonight‖or ―Did you finish your homework?‖Ever ything I do has to be my decision, and that gives me the responsibili ty of handling my own life. During the second week I was at college, I had to go out and look for a bank where I could open an accoun t. Before that I looked in the pho ne book since I had no clue about any banks around here or where th ey were located. I went to the ban

k and made decisions for myself—whe ther to have a checking or savings account and whether or not to get a MASTER card.

Friendly people: that’s another aspect I like about college. On m y first day (and even now) people were nice to me. I came to Marymou nt University here in Virginia from New York and –even though I’d been here before—I was a bit con fused about where I was going. My mother and I drove in, not knowing the building we were supposed to go to, and the guard was especially nice: with a smile, he told us w hat building we were looking for an

d wher

e we could park our car. Som

e upperclassmen saw me and asked,

―Are you a new student?‖When the y found out I was looking for my dormitory, one said, ―