Empirical Study on Empowering the Employment Ability of Finance and Economics Graduates with Higher Education: Based on the Follow up Survey and Intervention Strategies of Guangdong University of Finance and Economics

This study is based on the Learning and Employability framework, and takes the graduates of Guangdong University of Finance and Economics from 2019 to 2023 as the research objects. The quantitative research method is used to systematically track their current employment development status and influencing factors, aiming to provide empirical evidence for the reform of higher education and teaching. Research has found that graduates self-evaluation in the dimensions of career development, work life balance, and academic knowledge and skills is at a "moderate" level, reflecting their neutral to conservative attitude towards the employment support system in universities. Among them, students have a high evaluation of their personal career planning ability and the practical opportunities provided by school enterprise cooperation projects, but their satisfaction with the relevance of course content to industry needs, the support of school environment for work life balance, and the guidance feedback from direct supervisors is relatively low. The problems of "disconnection between courses and industry needs" and "insufficient guidance from direct supervisors" are particularly prominent. Data analysis shows that demographic characteristics such as gender and graduation year do not show significant differences in the evaluation of graduates occupational status, indicating that the above problems are generally present in different groups. The employment satisfaction survey further reveals that graduates have a high level of satisfaction with the "employer" level, but limited satisfaction with "organizational design," "personal work characteristics," and "direct supervisors," presenting a structural contradiction of "decent practical support but weak management guidance.Based on research findings, this study proposes a systematic intervention strategy from an educational perspective: establishing a dynamic curriculum update mechanism and strengthening the connection with industry demand