More than 270 companies are recruiting people collectively! This type of talent is urgently needed →
In the first half of this year, the country’s gross marine product value was 5.5 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%. The marine economy continues to accelerate, and jobs in emerging industries such as offshore wind power, offshore engineering equipment, and marine robots continue to be released. The industry is running ahead, how can the talent supply keep up?
Marine industry accelerates
Comprehensive talents are in urgent need
Recently, the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security held a talent matching event for high-quality development of the marine economy in Qingdao, Shandong. More than 270 companies have released about 4,000 jobs at once. The reporter saw at the scene that new tracks such as marine artificial intelligence, marine robots, and deep-sea equipment are the most popular in this recruitment.
The accelerated development of deep sea has driven the development of offshore wind power, offshore photovoltaic, seawater desalination, high-end offshore equipment and other industries. Kunming Marine Equipment Group, which is located in the inland, keeps a close eye on the trend of intelligence in the industry, raises the recruitment threshold, and actively competes for high-quality talents from "double first-class" universities.
The current demand for marine talents is due to the expansion of emerging industries and the upgrading of traditional industries. There is an urgent need for innovative talents in new fields, and traditional industries such as shipbuilding and marine infrastructure are undergoing digital transformation, releasing a number of high-quality technical positions.
Zhou Xia, deputy director of the Talent Development Department of the Human Resources Department of CCCC, said that they need a large number of complex talents with interdisciplinary understanding.
"Make-up courses" in colleges and universities
Disciplines chase industry
At the matchmaking meeting, many companies were troubled by their inability to recruit "interdisciplinary and compound" talents. But those trained in schools are often only familiar with one direction and one set of processes. On the one hand, people are waiting for jobs, and on the other hand, people are not on job. How to solve the problem of mismatch between supply and demand?
With the integration and development of the marine industry, interdisciplinary and compound talents have become an urgent need for enterprises and have also become the main direction of teaching and education in colleges and universities.
Ocean University of China has launched four new majors this year: future robotics, artificial intelligence, biological breeding, and biopharmaceuticals. The four newly established majors and the talent gap in the marine seed industry have always been a pain point in industrial development. On the basis of reducing the scale of traditional aquaculture, Ocean University of China has established a new major in biological breeding science, allowing breeding to intersect with big data and artificial intelligence, directly filling the talent gap in the marine seed industry.
How to cultivate the compound talents that enterprises need? In the Intelligent Equipment Laboratory of Ocean University of China, three second-year students majoring in Sino-foreign cooperative education are debugging the main control system of an underwater robot. They first laid a solid foundation in computer technology at home, and then went to Heriot-Watt University in the UK to specialize in robotics in their junior year, allowing algorithms and engineering to walk on two legs.
This dual-disciplinary, international education method no longer focuses on single-disciplinary training, specifically solving the problem of traditional talents who "understand algorithms but not sea conditions, and understand equipment but not scenes." This allows students to be able to write algorithms, adjust hardware, and understand ocean scenes as soon as they leave school.
In order to be able to develop high-end offshore engineering equipment on its own, Ocean University of China has integrated resources from several disciplines such as computers, electronics, physics, and marine technology to build a common education platform so that multi-disciplinary knowledge can truly intersect.
Once the disciplines intersect, scientific research will see results. Relying on the new cross-education system, the school's teacher-student team has overcome the technical difficulties of underwater three-dimensional reconstruction and made domestically produced substitutes for relevant equipment, linking "education, scientific research, and industry" in one line.
Deeply cultivate “classroom at sea”
Schools and enterprises work together to cultivate practical talents
Subjects have caught up, but offshore work requires practical experience. How to make up for the hands-on lesson?
At the Ocean University of China, the reporter noticed that the school implements a dual-tutoring system between schools and enterprises, encouraging masters and Ph.D.s to get involved in major offshore engineering projects and hone their skills in front-line engineering scenarios. Wang Zhaoyue, a PhD student, plunged into the offshore wind power structure design project through the joint training between the school and China Huadian Group. The theories in books are "falling" into the sea step by step.
The combination of classroom theory and practical engineering results in immediate results. The large-scale photovoltaic modules designed by Wang Zhaoyue are not only safer, but also cheaper.
It is not enough that students are willing to drill. The reporter learned that Ocean University of China has also set up a teaching staff that is "led by academicians, empowered by chief engineers, and assisted by overseas scholars", and has joined forces with seven major central enterprises to "cultivate great talents through major projects", inviting experts from the enterprises into the classroom and sending students in the classroom into the projects.
The mismatch between supply and demand for marine talents is not only a gap in the number of talents, but also a structural contradiction. The disciplines must keep up with industry iterations, and the classroom must be able to catch up with actual combat at sea. From cross-disciplinary reforms in colleges and universities to scenario-based practical training, school-enterprise collaboration is shortening the distance between textbooks and the ocean, creating multi-level practical talents for the high-quality development of the ocean.
