The 2nd Career Planning Competition for University Students in Liaoning Province was rounded off. Liaoning University was awarded the ‘Excellent Organization Award’ with two Silver Awards and two Excellence Awards in Growth Track, one Gold Award, two Silver Awards, one Bronze Award, three Excellence Awards in Employment Track, and one teacher was awarded with the title ‘Outstanding Instructor’.
From March 5 to March 9, the Growth Track and Employment Track of the 2nd Career Planning Competition for University Students in Liaoning Province were successfully held at Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and Shenyang University of Technology respectively. The competition aimed at guiding university students to establish a correct outlook on employment and improving their career planning ability and employment competitiveness. More than 628 thousand students from 104 colleges and universities across the province participated in this competition.
Since the launch of the competition in November 2024, it has gone through fierce selection and competition at the school-level, university-level and provincial-level competitions. The CPC committee of Liaoning University attached great importance to the competition and relevant departments provided strong support. An organizing committee was set up with the university leaders on employment in charge of the work. Member departments included the Student Employment Guidance Center, Academic Affairs Office, Personnel Office, Student Affairs Office, Graduate School, Innovation and Entrepreneurship College, Discipline Inspection Commission, Youth League Committee and other departments. Each college established corresponding organizational institutions to be responsible for the organization and implementation of the school-level competitions. The competition was divided into the Employment Track and the Growth Track and adopted a three-level competition system consisting of school-level competitions, university-level semi-finals and university-level finals. With the extensive mobilization and orderly organization of each department within the university, a total of 8,985 undergraduate, master and Ph.D students participated in the competition.
At the same time, six lectures and training sessions, campus recruitment activities and more than 20 university-enterprise events were held. 189 enterprises joined the activities by offering 6,527 job vacancies. Well-known experts, corporate personnel and outstanding alumni from Liaoning Province and beyond were invited to present a slew of online and offline training and seminars, greatly enhancing the comprehensive practical ability of the contestants. During the period, a large number of high-quality career planning works, outstanding planning and design contestants and excellent instructors with superb teaching skills emerged.
The competition successfully established an important platform to strengthen career education, effectively promoted the match of talent supply and demand, actively served the graduate employment market and truly achieved the purpose of promoting learning, teaching, and employment through the competition. It further promoted the development of career planning education at colleges and universities and provided strong support for the career development of students.
By taking the competition as an opportunity, Liaoning University will further guide its students to establish a correct outlook on employment and career planning. It will help students plan their academic and career development in a scientific manner, foster an awareness of career planning at an early date and continuously strengthen the belief for students to integrate their personal ideals into national development. Liaoning University will also encourage students to embrace the employment concept that one can make contributions and start a career in any field of work, enabling them to demonstrate greater responsibility and make more contributions in the new breakthrough of the all-round revitalization of Liaoning Province.
