How about social work and employment?

In this context, the employment of social work majors will naturally not be a miracle. Moreover, relevant data show that the employment situation of social work is very consistent with the trend of college students' employment difficulties. As long as you open a search engine and enter the word social worker, you can search for related resources. It is not difficult to find that most of them are web pages of some colleges and universities, but when we look for related topics on the forum, there are few or no, and even students majoring in social work who have graduated or are about to graduate in China are complaining or even cursing this major. It is no exaggeration to quote some netizens' descriptions of the current employment situation of this major-the word "difficult" is no exaggeration! Pessimists "feel that the future is bleak", and the word "social worker" is hard to sigh, jokingly calling social workers "the least big deal in China"; Optimists can only comfort themselves in social work: "Spring will come eventually, but it will take time". As far as the employment situation of colleges and universities is concerned, the employment situation of social work is also very unsatisfactory. In Shanghai, where social work is the most developed in Chinese mainland, although it is a "noble family" like Fudan, its social worker employment rate is also the fourth lowest. Among the 68 undergraduate majors in Qingdao University, social work ranks 64th, and the employment rate and enrollment rate are 18.5% and 3.7% respectively, making a total of 22.2%. The employment rate of social work majors in Chongqing ranks fourth from the bottom for three consecutive years.

More worrying than the employment difficulty of social work graduates is the professional counterpart rate. Generally speaking, at present, the employment rate of social work graduates in China is between 10%-30%, and the brain drain of professionals is serious. Among the 8/kloc-0 undergraduates who graduated from the Department of Social Work of South China Agricultural University in 2003 and became the first batch of social work graduates in Guangzhou, less than 10% engaged in corresponding social work, and more than 70 people switched to jobs unrelated to their four-year social work study. In 2005, there were 34 social workers in the first session of Sun Yat-sen University. Although the employment rate was acceptable, only three of them were engaged in social work. This year, social work graduates from several universities in Sichuan 1, 5 1, of which less than 20% chose social workers. In Chengdu University of Information Science and Technology, among 49 social work graduates, only 4 are engaged in counterpart work. In Chongqing, there is a shortage of social workers. In the case that the Municipal Leading Group for Talent Work decided to rely on Chongqing universities to focus on training social workers, only three of the 54 social work graduates from Southwest University (formerly Southwest Agricultural University) were engaged in counterpart work this year, and the professional counterpart rate of some social work colleges was zero. Therefore, on the one hand, there is a shortage of professional social workers, on the other hand, there is a large loss of regular social workers and a serious waste of resources, which is probably the biggest problem facing the social work specialty and its education in China at present.