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Source: Times Finance Author: Comprehensive

Recently, several provinces issued documents to adjust the identification standards for fresh graduates. The news caused heated discussions and was once on the hot search list.

This year, the human resources and social security departments of Shandong, Hunan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other provinces have issued documents clarifying that in the recruitment of public institutions within the province, they will no longer review whether the candidates have work experience and have paid social security.

In July this year, Shandong Province issued a document clarifying that various types of public institutions can specify "fresh college graduates of that year" when releasing recruitment plans, and will no longer review whether they have work experience or social security payment status.

In July, Guizhou Province also issued a document clarifying that college graduates who apply for civil servants, public institutions, and state-owned enterprises in Guizhou Province can apply as college graduates of that year regardless of whether they have signed an employment agreement, labor contract, paid social security, etc. during their graduation year (the specific date is based on the date of the graduation certificate).

Guangxi, Hunan and other provinces have also released their own data, but the recognition of graduation time is more relaxed, at 2-3 years.

The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region issued a document in July to clarify that "college graduates" include graduates within the past two years and who have not yet secured a job within the establishment (that is, within two years of the year in which the graduation certificate was signed, including the year of graduation). There is no restriction on whether they have signed an employment agreement, have work experience, or paid social security.

Hunan Province has a more relaxed standard for the recognition of fresh graduates, which is within three years of graduation. In June this year, Hunan Province issued a document to clarify that when all types of institutions at all levels in the province release recruitment plans, they clearly define "college graduates" as graduates who have graduated within the past three years and have not found a job in the recruitment process (that is, within three years of the year the graduation certificate was signed, including the year of graduation), regardless of whether they have work experience or have paid social security.

It can be seen that various provinces have a tendency to gradually relax the requirements for recent graduates, but the above policies are only limited to the province and do not yet include the national examination.

This year, some Internet giants have also relaxed their graduation requirements for recent graduates. For example, Tencent's 2025 campus recruitment has relaxed the graduation time for campus recruits to between January 2024 and December 2025; Alibaba's Taotian Group's 2025 campus recruitment has also relaxed the requirements to graduates between November 2023 and October 2025.

Why are the criteria for identifying “fresh graduates” attracting so much attention?

For a long time, the recruitment of positions for national and local civil servants, state-owned enterprises and public institutions has been tilted towards fresh graduates. For example, the 2024 national civil service examination plans to recruit 39,600 people, and fresh graduates account for 65%. The same is true for provincial examinations. Take Zhejiang as an example. In the past three years, more than half of the recruitment positions in the provincial examinations have been specifically for college graduates.

Similarly, fresh graduates are more favored by companies. Whether it is a state-owned enterprise, a Fortune 500 company or a large Internet company, basically there is campus recruitment, and it is only for fresh graduates. For fresh graduates looking for jobs, participating in campus recruitment is the best choice and an efficient way to enter some famous companies.

Generally speaking, after a fresh graduate signs a labor contract with an employer and pays social security, the social security payment record proves that he or she has secured a job, and his or her files and organizational relationship will change accordingly. Therefore, some positions have unwritten rules such as "if you have paid social security, you are not considered a fresh graduate."

As fresh graduates are considered “valuable”, some students are cautious about finding employment. As the popularity of civil service examinations heats up, many fresh graduates would rather delay finding employment and apply for positions specially set up for fresh graduates, or even choose to postpone graduation.

According to the "College Student Employment Survey Report" released by Zhilian Recruitment in 2024, the proportion of fresh graduates who are slow to find employment has reached 19.1%; a survey conducted by the Social Survey Center of China Youth Daily showed that 42.8% of the college students interviewed felt that delaying graduation was in the hope of retaining their status as fresh graduates.

(Wang Yingling of Times Finance compiled from Chaozhou News, Hunan Daily, Guangxi Human Resources and Social Security WeChat public account, Guizhou Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security, Hunan Provincial Department of Human Resources and Social Security)