An Empirical Study on the Improvement of College Students’ Employability Based on University Factors

Abstract

With the popularization of higher education and the promotion of college enrollment expansion, the number of college graduates increases sharply. At the same time, the continuous transformation and upgrading of the industrial structure put forward higher requirements on the employability of college students, which leads to the imbalance between supply and demand in the labor market. The key to dealing with employment difficulties lie in the improvement of college students’ employability. Therefore, we make a regression analysis of 263 valid samples from universities in Anhui Province and extract the factors that influence the improvement of college students’ employability in the process of talent cultivation in university. The result shows that there is a positive correlation between course setting, course teaching, club activities, and college students’ employability, among which the course teaching and club activities are the most critical factors which may influence college students’ employability. In addition, from the viewpoint of individual college students, the overall grades of college students and the time of participating in the internship are also closely related to their employability, i.e., college students with good overall grades and long internship time should also have stronger employability. © © 2022 Zhang, Zhang, Xiong, Liu and Zhai.

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course teaching employment guidance club activities college students’ employability course setting

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Author Affiliations

School of Business, Anhui Xinhua University, Hefei, Anhui, China, School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Department of Public Administration, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China

Department of Mathematics and Physics, Anhui Jianzhu University, Hefei, Anhui, China

School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China, School of Department of Electronic Commerce, Hefei Information Technology University, Hefei, Anhui, China

School of Business, Anhui Xinhua University, Hefei, Anhui, China

Funding & Acknowledgements

Grant: IFQE202003

This study was funded by Research on the Construction and Path Exploration of Cooperative Governance Model for Multi-subject Emergency Response to Major Public Health Emergencies (2021zr001) and the Research on Cultivating College Students’ Innovation Ability Under the Background of Digital Economy (IFQE202003), and Research on the Cultivation of Innovative Ability of Local Application-oriented College Students Based on the “Second Class Transcript” (SK2019A0750).

Grant: SK2019A0750

This study was funded by Research on the Construction and Path Exploration of Cooperative Governance Model for Multi-subject Emergency Response to Major Public Health Emergencies (2021zr001) and the Research on Cultivating College Students’ Innovation Ability Under the Background of Digital Economy (IFQE202003), and Research on the Cultivation of Innovative Ability of Local Application-oriented College Students Based on the “Second Class Transcript” (SK2019A0750).

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An Empirical Study on the Improvement of College Students’ Employability Based on University Factors

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