Rational Thinking on the Employment Problem of China’s College Students from the Perspective of Diploma Screening

As a symbol of education, the higher education diploma is a signal indicating the labor ability of college graduates. Employers often use this signal identification to infer the suitability of job-seeking individuals and job positions. With the advent of the era of popularization of higher education, the employment problem of college students is becoming more and more serious, coupled with the partial "failure" of diploma screening signal, the relationship between the higher education diploma and the college students’ employment is again striking. The article analyses the screening assumption of the higher education diploma and its actual boundary, reveals the real problems such as abnormal subjective spirit, lack of sense of significance and physical and mental health, and rationally identifies the role of the higher education diploma in the employment of college students at the micro level, so as to provide decision-making reference to mitigate the employment problem of college students.