On the employment preparation of engineering college students in the new era Abstract: In the new era, engineering college students are facing a fierce and severe employment situation. This article understands and analyzes how engineering college students can be fully prepared for employment and get rid of misunderstandings in career selection. Keywords: college students; employment; preparation Science and technology are the primary productive forces. Since the implementation of the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, my country's engineering and technical talents have made great changes, injecting continuous vitality into the development of China's economy. As the cradle of training engineering and technical talents, there were only 286 general engineering colleges in my country in 1997, including 213 universities and colleges and 73 junior colleges. The scale of engineering education at that time was far from meeting social needs. With the deepening of economic system reform and intensified market competition, enterprises and institutions have experienced a situation where the supply of engineering graduates exceeds the demand. Many engineering graduates have numerous career options. For example, in 1992, the supply-demand ratio for Zhejiang University graduates was as high as 1:5.5 or more. After the National Education Work Conference in 1999, my country's colleges and universities began to implement a substantial expansion of enrollment. However, due to the inability to keep up with investment and the misunderstanding of college students' career choices, the expansion of college enrollment has also brought about a series of consequences and hidden dangers, creating new unemployed groups. In the new era, it is difficult for college students to find jobs after graduation. The so-called "postgraduate entrance examination fever" and "civil service fever" have emerged, and unemployment is not uncommon. College students, including those majoring in engineering, have encountered a veritable “employment cold wave.” Facing the fierce and severe employment situation, engineering college students must be fully prepared for employment to strive for and create opportunities. 1. The quality preparation of engineering college students for employment. "Quality" refers to "emphasis on the basic foundation of relatively stable physical and mental development developed by people on the basis of innate physiology, influenced by the acquired environment and education, and through the individual's own understanding and social practice. quality". The "Ninth Five-Year Plan for the National Economic and Social Development of the People's Republic of China and the Outline of Long-term Goals for 2010" points out: "Education must be oriented to modernization, the world, and the future, and be committed to improving the quality of the people and cultivating a group of cross-border talents in various fields. "Excellent Talents of the Century", "Reform the talent training model and transform from 'examination-oriented education' to comprehensive quality education." The competition in the 21st century is the competition for talents. Quality preparation is not only necessary for future careers, but also for the job search process. The quality preparation of engineering college students includes: 1. Possessing "comprehensive quality" Without the progress of science and technology, mankind will be in an era of ignorance and backwardness; but with only science and technology without cultural literacy, mankind will lose a spirit. Technology and culture are the two pillars of modern social civilization. Engineering college students should have comprehensive qualities that are in line with modern social civilization, that is, the dialectical unity of science and technology and humanistic qualities. At present, most engineering college students show that modern high-tech knowledge and humanities, social sciences and culture are not integrated, or have a superficial and naive understanding of modern high-tech, or a lack of understanding of humanities, social sciences and culture. Studying in school is exam-oriented, and it is difficult to apply the two to each other after work. In this way, it will be difficult to adapt to the rapid development of contemporary society and shoulder the heavy responsibility of developing high and new technologies in our country. Qian Xuesen once said that creative thinking often arises from the cross-penetration of knowledge and ways of thinking from different disciplines. He himself has been extensively involved in philosophy and art. Therefore, for engineering college students to develop in an all-round way, they must not only master modern scientific and technological knowledge, but also cultivate their own cultural accomplishment and noble qualities so that they can adapt to the development of the times. 2. Have a reasonable knowledge structure. Knowledge structure is one of the important features of talent training. The reasonable knowledge structure that engineering college students should have should include the following main contents: (1) Have broad and solid basic knowledge and broad professional basic knowledge. In addition to solid basic theoretical knowledge, an engineering technician with pioneering and innovative capabilities also needs to have basic knowledge in related fields. (2) Have knowledge of management, trade, economics, law and other social sciences. (3) Large capacity of new knowledge and information storage. Keep abreast of new technologies, new knowledge, and new theories in the development of today's science and technology, as well as relevant knowledge of this discipline and edge disciplines. To this end, higher engineering colleges and universities must train engineering talents based on the development needs of socialist modernization and changes in the future world, based on the overall quality requirements of talents, and strive to cultivate senior engineering scientific talents, senior engineering technical talents and senior engineering management talents. . Especially since many engineering projects have internal management problems, the transformation of technology into productivity is not just a technical issue, but also an economic and management issue. When graduates apply for jobs, understanding market economy and management is a great advantage. 3. Exercise strong scientific thinking and creative ability. Thinking ability is an important part of the overall quality of talents, and it is the most basic and most useful ability that science and engineering college students should possess. Engels famously said: "The most beautiful flower on earth is the thinking spirit." However, thinking activity is a kind of hard labor, which is not only based on knowledge and other intellectual factors, but also requires non-intellectual factors (interest, personality (, will, etc.) is a manifestation of comprehensive factors. Only by strengthening thinking training and tapping shallow thinking abilities can we cultivate scientific thinking methods among engineering college students. The thinking problems that engineering college students are prone to make during their studies include: incomplete thinking, inertial thinking, subjective thinking and one-time thinking. During study, we should think frequently about these issues, learn to grasp the essence, adapt to changes, and develop the habit of repeated and in-depth thinking.

Specific measures taken include proactive training