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The “High-quality Employment” of the 2024 Annual Awards Ceremony hosted by Education Online (EOL) was held on January 13. Guangzhou City University of Technology (GCUT) was awarded the “The Best University in Innovation and Practice Concerning its High-quality Employment in 2024” regarding its achievements in the field. The activity aims to recognize universities and colleges with outstanding performances in promoting high-quality employment, thus improving GCUT’s quality and level of employment services. In this way, it could advance the integration between higher education and social demands.

Emphasizing career planning and career guidance boosts students’ quality employment

GCUT always considers its students as the priority. It fully understands the significance of career planning and career guidance in improving students’ employability and employment. Therefore, it advances students’ employment through innovative methods. For example, it has established deep cooperation with various quality enterprises in jointly building internship and training bases, which provide abundant opportunities for its students, helping them to accumulate work experience and enhance their overall capabilities for their career. Moreover, GCUT will also organize large-scale on-campus job fairs, school-enterprise matchmaking meetings and specialized employment programs on a regular basis, providing a stage where its students could interact with employers directly, thus ensuring that they could find jobs that are consistent with their majors and interests more easily.

Building a system of an entire period of career development to promote the standardization of employment services

GCUT plays an active part in exploring to build a system of an entire period of career development, which covers a whole process including “enlightenment in freshman year, exploration in sophomore year, practice in junior year and sprint in senior year” through providing courses on career guidance as well as holding lectures on occupational competences and simulation training that help to comprehensively enhance its students’ employment competitiveness. Furthermore, it pays attention to advance learning through competitions by organizing students to participate in various kinds of career planning competitions. In this way, it helps to improve its students’ practical abilities and occupational competences while providing a stage where students can shine themselves.

Deepening cooperation between colleges and businesses to broaden career paths for students

Promoting cooperation between colleges and businesses serves as another approach to GCUT’s employment services. GCUT improves the accuracy and consistency of talent cultivation through carrying out project research, technological practices with enterprises as well as exploring new ways of integration between industry and education. In recent years, GCUT’s graduates have won appreciations from their employers with their professional competences and innovation abilities.

Looking into the future: creating a new landscape of high-quality employment

Being awarded “The Best University in Innovation and Practice Concerning its High-quality Employment in 2024” shows the recognition of GCUT’s employment services. GCUT will further optimize its career guidance services in the future through actively exploring more resources of job market and enhancing interactions with enterprises and society so as to provide more quality employment opportunities for its students.