An empirical study on employment requirements gaps among employers, teachers and undergraduate

Hiring qualified employees and finding suitable jobs are important for firms and college students, respectively. However, with the economy going down in recent years, the structural contradiction between recruitment and employment, which makes both firms and undergraduates hard to fulfill their needs, has becoming more and more serious and has drawn widespread attention both in academic and business circles in China. One of the reasons why this structural contradiction takes shape should be some gaps between employment requirements and undergraduate perceptions. This project will concern with firms and graduates from several universities in the province of Guangdong and thus obtain preliminary view of the present situation. The investigation will focus on different perception of needs for employees in firms from firm employers, undergraduates and teachers, then a model of cognitive gaps about perception of needs for employees will be drawn after systematic analysis. Finally, the model will be polished after the data analysis of questionnaires by using several techniques such as independent samples t-tests. At the end of the article, several conclusions will be made to show findings of the investigation and to provide suggestions for employers in firms, undergraduates and teachers in universities to help them regulate their perception of needs for employees. Since the project is an empirical research, we will not forswear the possibility of improvement in our methods of investigation and achievement of this project.