Author(s)

Meihua Guo ¹, Yongyong Cui ¹, Mei Li ¹, Yiyu Chen ¹, Jiatong Zheng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Foreign Studies, Zhaoqing University, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China

Corresponding Author

Meihua Guo

ABSTRACT

Close to the end of 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world. China started strict epidemic prevention of protection policy from 2019. The job market changed for all undergraduate graduates in China, including English major graduates. In July of 2021, the Double Reduction policy was issued in China. This policy introduced some changes to the landscape of the job market for English majors. The closure of many after-school tutorial institutions made competition in the job market more fierce. English major graduates saw the challenges and new opportunities of this new era. In March of 2023, China eased the epidemic prevention and protection policy at the level. In the meantime, the principles of the Double Reduction policy have been put into more steady practice. The changes are still going on. The current research intended to find out how some undergraduate English majors perceived the changes and influences on the employment environment, and how some recent English major graduates had experienced the professional and societal changes. The research adopted a survey to collect data from the undergraduate English majors, and utilized a structured interview to collect thoughts and experience from some recent English major graduates. The research at the end extracted the main trains of thoughts from all the participants in this research, and proposed some suggestions to the undergraduate English majors. 

KEYWORDS

English majors, employment, pandemic, Double Reduction policy

CITE THIS PAPER

Meihua Guo, Yongyong Cui, Mei Li, Yiyu Chen, Jiatong Zheng, Study on undergraduate English majors' outlook on employment environment in the post-pandemic era: Take Guangdong Province as an example. Journal of Human Resource Development (2024) Vol. 6: 97-107. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jhrd.2024.060213.

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