HUTB Hosts Large-scale Autumn Supply and Demand Meeting for 2025 Graduates
2024-11-09
To promote high-quality and full employment for our graduates, effectively build an exchange platform between graduates and employers, actively provide companies with fresh talent and outstanding individuals, and achieve a precise match between talent cultivation and social demand, HUTB hosted a large-scale autumn supply and demand meeting for 2025 graduates on the afternoon of November 8. The event took place at the Feiyue Track and Field Stadium on the south campus.
The CPC HUTB Committee attaches great importance to employment and entrepreneurship. Recently, Chen Xiaohong, Secretary of the CPC HUTB Committee, Director of Xiangjiang Laboratory, and Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, made work requirements and arrangements for further promoting high-quality and full employment for graduates. Secretary Chen Xiaohong visited the site of the supply and demand meeting to provide guidance, extended greetings to the company representatives in attendance, learned about their employment needs, and had friendly conversations with the students seeking jobs. Vice President Yang Liangqi accompanied the visit.
The university carefully planned and actively organized this supply and demand meeting, setting up four main areas: the Recruitment Zone, Empowerment Zone, Exhibition Zone, and Service Zone. Through approaches such as promoting employment through positions, encouraging employment through education, fostering employment through competitions, and supporting employment through entrepreneurship, the university comprehensively facilitated both employment and entrepreneurship. The job fair invited nearly 400 companies, including state-owned enterprises, Fortune Global 500 companies, China’s top 500 companies, listed companies, "specialized, high-end and innovation-driven" enterprises, and higher education institutions, such as H3C, Hunan Salt Industry Group Co., Hunan No.5 Engineering Co., Ltd., Dahan Holding Group Co., Ltd., Wondershare Technology, Explosives Corporation Limited, TRS, and Sinopharm Group. These companies offered over 15,000 high-quality job positions. The employers participating in this supply and demand meeting came from over 40 cities across more than 10 provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions), including Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangdong. The job openings covered more than 20 industries, including manufacturing, information transmission, software and information technology services, scientific research and technical services, education, finance, construction, transportation, and more. This fully met the employment needs of graduates from various academic backgrounds at HUTB.
The atmosphere at the supply and demand meeting was lively and bustling, with a large crowd and orderly proceedings, resembling a grand event where talent and opportunities passionately collided. The graduates, holding their carefully prepared resumes, moved between various recruitment booths, actively engaging with company representatives. They inquired in detail about job responsibilities, skill requirements, career advancement opportunities, salary packages, and other relevant information, while also showcasing their academic achievements, professional skills, practical experience, and overall qualities to the employers. The university also provided a range of specialized services on-site for graduates, including AI resume assistance, resume diagnostics, resume printing, policy consultations, innovation exhibitions, military enlistment information, image design, campus cultural and creative products, and free tea beverages. These services were designed to support graduates in their job search and applications, while also actively promoting employment and entrepreneurship education for college students.
The students participating in the job fair all praised the university's thoughtful services. A graduate surnamed Mei from the School of Digital Media Engineering and Humanities, said, "The scale of this job fair, the high quality and large number of employers, clearly show how much the university cares about our career development after graduation." A junior surnamed Deng from the School of Business Administration, also attended the event. He said, "The job fair organized by the university allows us to gain an early understanding of the hiring needs of companies, helping us make adequate preparations for our career development."
The participating companies gave high praise to this supply and demand event. Manager Mao from H3C said, "The organization and services of this job fair were very well executed. During the communication and interactions with the students, we could clearly feel the outstanding overall qualities of the students from HUTB." Manager Huang from Wondershare Technology said, "The students who came to submit their resumes were very enthusiastic. Their professional competence and overall qualities were generally excellent, and they also possess interdisciplinary and integrative traits."
In recent years, the university has consistently prioritized employment and entrepreneurship as a "key project," placing it at the forefront of its work and continuously improving the system and mechanisms in place. The successful hosting of this large-scale supply and demand event not only provided graduates with high-quality employment opportunities but also built a closer platform for university-enterprise collaboration. The university will further advance employment and entrepreneurship initiatives, integrate resources, collaborate with various parties, implement the national employment-first policy, and continuously innovate talent cultivation models, in order to supply more high-quality, outstanding talents for the high-quality development of the economy and society.
A total of over 4,600 graduates from both inside and outside the university attended the large-scale supply and demand event for job interviews. Companies, both online and offline, received more than 20,000 resumes from graduates. As of now, the university has held eight large and medium-sized job fairs for the 2025 graduates, with over 750 participating companies offering more than 46,000 positions. Additionally, over 110 special recruitment seminars have been organized, providing more than 9,000 positions. More than 400 online recruiting companies have been contacted, offering over 12,500 positions. The number and quality of participating companies have significantly improved, providing strong support and guarantee for ensuring high-quality and full employment for our 2025 graduates.
(Written by Han Silang, Long Jiaxian and Zhang Gaoyang and photo by Tu Hu, Wu Ruiting and Liu Lijia)
