Abstract: The document of the Employment Work of the Ministry of Education and the main ideas in 2021 work of the Ministry of Education both point out that the employment work of colleges and universities should widen the channels of employment at the grassroots level, organize and recruit grass-roots projects, and guide graduates to find jobs and start businesses around the needs of various services in urban and rural grass-roots communities. This paper explored a health vocational college in Beijing from 2016 to 2020, took rural orient ed graduates as research object. Through questionnaire research methods, a survey was conducted on the employment status, wage treatment, employment satisfaction, curriculum and employment guidance of graduates. The results showed that rural oriented graduates have the opportunity to enter stable employment workplaces, the salary level is higher than the regional average level, and the overall job satisfaction is higher. The results also reflect students need to strengthen vocational skills training, professional courses, and employment guidance. Finally, this paper puts forward some countermeasures and suggestions, including optimizing the curriculum, guiding graduates’ targeted employment, changing graduates’ employment concept, and actively guiding graduates’ grass-roots employment.

Key words: vocational education, rural oriented graduates, employment