On the morning of April 13, the opening ceremony for the first Career Planning Competition of the School of Traffic and Transportation Engineering was held in Room 303, Building D, on the new campus. Attending the ceremony were Yuan Shiping, Secretary of the School Party Committee; Li Yuan, Deputy Secretary of the School Party Committee; Hu Yanbo, President of the New Oriental College Student Learning and Development (Changsha) Center; 2023-grade counselors Cai Mingxu and Wang Shangjun; and over 200 students from the school.

School Party Committee Secretary Yuan Shiping delivered the opening speech, expressing gratitude to the guests and teachers present for their guidance and encouragement to the students for their active participation. He emphasized that as a Double First-Class discipline within a Double First-Class university, the discipline of Traffic and Transportation Engineering possesses rich teaching resources and platform advantages. How to guide students’ growth and development based on the discipline’s characteristics and leverage employment advantages to help students realize their ideals is particularly important. Deputy School Party Committee Secretary Li Yuan introduced the competition schedule. This competition includes events such as resume writing and mock interviews, inviting human resources professionals from various enterprises and institutions to serve as judges. It aims to fully utilize the function of university-enterprise cooperation, effectively exercise students’ employment and career selection abilities, and broaden their horizons in career planning.

Subsequently, Hu Yanbo, President of the New Oriental College Student Learning and Development (Changsha) Center, gave a lecture on the theme of career planning. Starting from three aspects—“How to define a good job,” “How to choose a good job,” and “How to get a good job”—he guided students to enhance their understanding of the important value of career planning through dimensions such as market demand analysis, employment situation research, and personal ability improvement. He encouraged students to continuously participate and grow in this series of events, find their anchor points, clarify their direction, plan their personal career development reasonably and scientifically, and continuously approach their grand personal ideals.

At the meeting, student representatives presented flowers to President Hu Yanbo to express their gratitude and took a group photo.

First Review: Yiying Chen  Second Review: Shangjun Wang Third Review: Yuan Li