Why do automotive graduates leave the auto company

University graduate employment survey shows that as many as 96% of students believe that the employment situation this year is grim, but auto graduates obviously do not have to face such great pressure.

Professor Li, a graduate student counselor of Jilin University’s School of Engineering, told reporters: “The employment situation of this year's Jilin University of Vehicle Engineering is very good. At present, the employment rate is above 95%, and about 60% of the students have entered major auto companies. Technology-related work.” The data provided by the Beijing Institute of Technology Employment Guidance Center shows that the employment rate for professional vehicle engineering this year is as high as 100%. Of the 190 graduates, 53 chose to enter the auto industry and 54 chose to work with the automobile. Statistics on the employment statistics of the automotive departments of Tsinghua University, China Agricultural University and other colleges have not yet been announced, but “good” and “very good” are the words often used by the heads of the automotive industry’s employment professionals.

The newspaper organized a large number of interviews and investigations. As a result, it was found that the loss of automotive university graduates who were in automobile companies in the past two years was very serious. Why do automotive graduates leave the auto industry?

The working atmosphere is far from the idea

"I decided to leave here!"

At the end of June, He Shang, who was working at an automotive technology center in Anhui for nearly a year, finally made this decision and told his friends via SMS.

The reporter heard such information from the employees of many auto companies: Auto graduates left the auto company after working for less than one year. “Half of the graduates we came in together last year chose to leave.” He Shang told reporters.

He Shang is a 2006 graduate of a famous college of vehicle engineering in Beijing. In June last year, he was very successfully hired by a car company and signed a three-year labor contract.

In recent years, the rapid development of the domestic auto industry has led to a growing demand for automotive professionals. The employment situation of auto graduates has been rising year after year. Most of them have already signed contracts with companies in the first half of the year. However, after entering the automotive industry, they found that the working atmosphere was far from what they had imagined.

"Working in the technical department, the original idea is to do purely technical research and development. Whoever knows how to deal with too many errands for leadership arrangements, is busy with trivial matters all day and cannot really delve into technology." He Shang said. After a one-year trial period, the employee's labor contract period will be renewed to 5 years. "Imagine 5 years of youth may have been spent in such trivial matters. It might as well leave early." He said.

Xiao Yan, who works for a state-owned auto company, said: "The management system of state-owned enterprises is still relatively bureaucratic and interpersonal relationships are too complex. It is difficult for those of us who just graduated to pursue technical work."

Liu Liang, who works at an engine company in Shanghai, told reporters that the salary incentive system for state-owned enterprises is not perfect, and training promised during recruitment is not in place. “In fact, last year when the company came to our school to recruit, the seniors and sisters called and suggested we don’t go. Now it’s a regret!” he said.

Wang Le is also planning to resign. "We have learned the ideals of technology and have felt uncomfortable with the enterprise mechanism after we arrived at the enterprise." Wang Le said, "There is a problem of coordination between corporate administration and research and development in China. There are too many administrative leaders in the R & D process." Affecting the R&D process, restricting the engineers' thinking and pursuing quality, the relationship between R&D and the executive who is the master is not clear. This is far from the ideal of Wang Le's “making quality cars”.

Long overtime, low wages,

Remote areas are reasons for leaving

Li Feng, who graduated for three years, worked as a technical supporter in an overseas marketing department of a car company in Suzhou. He has already submitted his resignation application. "The work is too tired. It does not close on Saturdays, and it goes from 7 am to 7 pm. Overtime has become a daily phenomenon. People who take a long time can't stand it." It is said that the six-day working week is used by many auto companies. It is a common phenomenon. Li Feng is now even bored with the manufacturing industry. "Never again will it be manufacturing," he said.

Xiao Liu, who resigned from a Beijing-based auto company last year, talked about salary issues with outspokenness. He said: "I graduated from 2003 with a bachelor's degree and entered the research and development center of this company. At that time, I was paid 1,200 yuan a month and worked for more than two years. When I left the company, the monthly salary was 1,500 yuan, which was a good year for the automotive industry." Liu left the company and found a job that was completely unrelated to the auto industry: public toilet construction supervision. In the first month he received a salary of 3,000 yuan. When talking about this, Liu laughed helplessly.

The region is also one of the factors leading to the resignation of the graduates of the automotive profession.

Hao Xinyi, a girl working for a parts and components group in Guangxi, cried when she came to Yulin. "I didn't expect this to be a place where 'birds don't pull'." However, in the face of her first job, she was very cherished and repeatedly advised her to stand up to loneliness, insisting for 10 months there. This year, May 1st, Hao Xin finally submitted his resignation report. “The problem of life cannot be solved and the work will not last long,” she said.

Similar situations have also occurred in a new employee at Dongfeng Technology Center. He believes that the Shiyan district is too small to see the development prospects and decided to jump to a car company in Guangzhou. He quipped and said: "The Shiyan is very famous as a car city, but the boys are problematic." On June 24th, Shiyan City held a "10,000 people blind date meeting," and tens of thousands of people participated in the event, but the number of men and women was low. .

Nostalgia for the automotive industry

Development requires some patience

After graduating from the school, he first worked in a bus company in the south. After half a year, he moved to work in a joint venture.

“The first time we left was because this company had no future. We had even more wages during the internship than regular workers because our salary was fixed and they were linked to the company's profits.”

He told reporters that in joint ventures, undergraduates basically go to the workshop to do quality inspections and other work. After working for one year, many people left.

"I also thought of changing my job again, but an undergraduate has no better choice. To other companies, I also work on the production line." Colts said. After thinking about this point, Xiaoma calmed down and soon he had a harvest.

“Having stayed on the production line for a long time, I gradually discovered the problem of the production line – there are many unreasonable arrangements. I began to wonder how to improve.”

In 2004, with the increasingly fierce market competition, companies began to increase their efforts to reduce costs, which gave the pony an opportunity. He compiled the documented improvements and improvement methods of the production line that he had discovered in the past two years, turned it in as a rationalization proposal, aroused the attention of management, and his career has undergone fundamental changes.

“Like a car being improved little by little, we cannot be the backbone of the business immediately, but as long as we keep improving, there will always be a good car.”

An interview reporter found that although people complained that the wages given by auto companies were too low, they chose not to resign because of treatment issues. They expressed the same meaning with reporters: It is normal that the wages are low just after starting work. We all have such psychological preparations. The key is whether we can see the development prospects.

Lu Xin hopes to work on the job while studying at the postgraduate school. "But every year, the number of places in which companies arrange for schooling is too limited. Although the company agrees in principle to go out of school, it is actually not feasible. Long working hours make it difficult to perform on-the-job learning," he said. .

However, these people who have left the company seem to have a nostalgia for the automotive industry. He Shang and Hao Xin mentioned above are all candidates for postgraduate studies, hoping to improve through studies and switch to other car-related jobs such as sales.

Xiao Liu, who once worked as a project supervisor for public toilets, just called the reporter and said that he was admitted to a graduate student in the automotive department. His excited emotional reporter can also feel it through the phone. "I still want to be a car," he said.

(All names in the text are aliases)