HIT Career Center is a university department responsible for helping students chart their career path as well as providing employment guidance, services, and management. Its main responsibilities include implementing national employment guidelines and policies along with relevant directives from the university’s Party Committee; formulating institutional documents related to graduate employment; and providing comprehensive services and support for students and employers in areas such as government–university–industry collaborative talent cultivation, the development of the campus job market, employment courses and faculty development, career guidance and counseling, and graduate employment procedures.
HIT Career Center has long upheld a student-centered philosophy and has built a globally oriented talent placement strategy that seeks to secure employment for graduates in sectors and industries of key national interest. It cultivates an international outlook among graduates while boosting their job competitiveness, helping them cultivate employment values that emphasize contributing to key national sectors. The rate of graduate employment has consistently remained above 99%. The center has continuously enhanced the career development and employment guidance curriculum, with a total of 15 undergraduate courses developed. Among them, 3 have been recognized as national first-class courses and 6 as provincial first-class courses, with nearly 20 awards received at the national and provincial levels. It has also introduced a series of innovative initiatives, refining its “Career Guidance Right by Your Side” model and creating unique career education spaces such as the “Pocket Employment Museum” and the “Career Reflection Room”. These hallmark initiatives have been featured on the front pages of leading national media outlets for four consecutive years, with over 10 reports annually from media such as People’s Daily, Guangming Daily, and Xinhua News Agency. Students and faculty have achieved outstanding results in two national finals of the College Student Career Planning Competition, winning 3 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal. The university continues to promote the construction of a “government–university–industry community of shared future” that contributes to career education for students. It has jointly established 195 career education practice bases and 48 government internship bases. Each year, more than 200 student career exploration teams at the university and school levels make on-site visits to over 500 key domestic and international organizations and grassroots institutions. More than 550 collaborative projects have been launched with leading enterprises under the Ministry of Education’s supply-demand alignment initiative in career education. The proportion of graduates employed in key sectors has consistently remained above 80 percent.