On February 23rd, the final of the second National College Student Career Planning Competition in Hebei Province ended successfully at Hebei Agricultural University. An Ran, a student from College of Future Information Technology of our university, performed outstandingly and won the fourth place of undergraduate students in the Employment Track of the Higher Education Group, securing the gold medal. This marked a historic breakthrough for our university, securing a gold medal in its first-ever participation in the competition’s finals. Meanwhile, our university was awarded the Outstanding Organization Award with excellent organizational work, demonstrating the fruitful results of collaborative innovation between teachers and students.

With the theme of “Building dreams and youth for great aspirations, planning career for setting sail for the future”, the competition has attracted 944,500 students from 128 universities across the province since its launch in October 2024, with an overall participation rate of 46%. After the fierce competition of school-level competition and provincial rematch, 124 players finally qualified for the final. The competition is set up a dual track of growth and employment, through the road show, judges’ questions and other links, to investigate the professional quality and planning ability of the players. With a clear career orientation, solid professional accumulation and rich practical experience, the student An Ran stood out in the final and won high praise from the judges.

To help students showcase their best performance in the career planning competition, our school has built a preparation system of “full participation, full guidance and full energization”. Since the launch of the competition in 2024, the school has provided precise guidance on key links such as career goal positioning and practice path design for participating students by holding special lectures on career planning and inviting experts to carry out the “double round project polishing plan”. In the stage of the school-level competition, a total of 15,165 students of the school have participated in it, with a participation rate of 84.99%, setting a new record in the competition, fully demonstrating the popularity and effectiveness of vocational planning education in our school.

In the next step, the Student Affairs Office will take this gold medal event as the driving force to further deepen the mechanism of “promoting education by competition, promoting employment by competition”, strengthen the construction of career planning courses, continue to enhance the quality, promote the development of career planning education in depth, help more students find the coordinates of life in the tide of the times, record a splendid youth, and integrate the career ideal into the overall situation of national development.

(Contributed by: Student Affairs Office; Contributor: Wei Jinpu)