The employment agreement of college graduates (tripartite agreement) is generally prepared by the national employment department. It is a written form to clarify the rights and obligations of graduates and employers in graduate employment, and it is also the basis for schools to prepare employment plans and dispatch.

According to Article 2 of the Labor Contract Law of People's Republic of China (PRC), this law is applicable to enterprises, individual economic organizations, private non-enterprise units and other organizations (hereinafter referred to as employers) in People's Republic of China (PRC) to establish labor relations with workers and conclude, perform, modify, dissolve or terminate labor contracts. According to the provisions of this article, it applies to workers. Before graduation, graduates are still students and cannot sign labor contracts as workers.