Analysis of Influencing Factors for High-Quality Employment of Vocational Bachelor Graduates Based on ISM-MICMAC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.62517/jhve.202516405

Author(s)

Zhiyong Liu, Lin Geng*, Yunsu Wei

Affiliation(s)

School of Artificial Intelligence, Hebei Vocational University of Industry and Technology, Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China *Corresponding Author

Abstract

Driven by industrial upgrading and the “Vocational Education 20 Measures,” vocational bachelor education has become a new pathway for cultivating high-level technical and skilled talents. However, the employment quality of its graduates still exhibits the dilemma of “quantity increases while quality lags.” Taking vocational bachelor graduates as the research object, this paper comprehensively employs bibliometrics, the Delphi method, and the Interpretive Structural Model (ISM) to identify and structure 14 key influencing factors, and uses the MICMAC method to test robustness. The findings reveal that the university-enterprise collaboration mechanism and government policy support constitute deep-rooted drivers; the proportion of practical teaching and vocational qualification certification play intermediary roles; salary and benefits and job satisfaction are direct surface-level outcomes. By applying the ISM-MICMAC combination to the study of vocational bachelor employment quality, this paper proposes countermeasures from four dimensions-government, university, enterprise, and student-offering a theoretical basis for governments and institutions to improve the employment quality of vocational bachelor graduates.

Keywords

Vocational Bachelor Students; High-Quality Employment; ISM; MICMAC Method; Influencing Factors

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