I don't know when the term intellectual property came into our sight and became a hot major in colleges and universities. So ... what is the demand for intellectual property professionals? What knowledge and ability do intellectual property graduates need to master? What are the employment directions of intellectual property majors? Bian Xiao, a talent from Linde, Jiangxi Province, will go with you to learn about the employment prospects of intellectual property professionals.
Demand for intellectual property professionals
After years of hard work, China has basically formed a relatively systematic and complete system of intellectual property laws and regulations in line with international common rules, and its achievements in protecting intellectual property rights have been recognized by the international community. But at the same time, developed countries such as the United States, Japan and Europe, as well as South Korea and Singapore, have formulated and implemented their own or local intellectual property strategies. Intellectual property strategy is related to national economic security, and its significance is no less than food security and energy reserve. To change China's passivity and weakness on this issue, it is time to formulate and promote the overall national strategy. The report of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward "perfecting the intellectual property protection system", and the report of the 17th National Congress put forward "implementing the intellectual property strategy" for the first time. This marks a new leap from "protection" to "strategy" in China's intellectual property work, which is of far-reaching significance. From a macro point of view, whether the intellectual property strategy is formulated and implemented successfully will determine the final trend of social development in China in the 2 1 century. From the microscopic point of view, intellectual property strategy, as an overall strategy with the protection of rights as an important content, is not only a legal issue, but also a public policy choice related to national science and technology policy, industrial policy, cultural policy and education policy.
The 20-year Forum of China Intellectual Property Higher Education, which opened in Beijing at the end of 2007, revealed that with the rapid economic development, China urgently needs a large number of high-quality intellectual property professionals. Experts predict that by 20 10, the total demand for intellectual property professionals in China will be 55,000 to 60,000. Due to the late start of discipline construction and the long training period, about 3,000 qualified intellectual property professionals have been sent from universities to the society in the past decade, which is far from meeting the demand.
Knowledge and ability of graduates majoring in intellectual property.
1. Have the basic theories and knowledge of various disciplines of intellectual property rights, and at the same time have the basic theories and knowledge of various disciplines of general law;
2, master the professional knowledge and skills of intellectual property rights, and at the same time have the general analysis methods and skills of law;
3. Understand the frontier and trend of intellectual property development;
4, familiar with China's intellectual property legal system and related policy system and general legal system and policy;
5, the ability to use intellectual property knowledge to solve and deal with intellectual property litigation and management problems;
6, master the skills and methods of patent and trademark retrieval, information query, with the basic methods of general literature retrieval and information query, can solve the problem of literature retrieval and information query as soon as possible.
Experts pointed out that intellectual property professionals must be interdisciplinary and compound in knowledge structure, and they need to be proficient in English, have both professional and technical background and know about international and domestic intellectual property laws and practices, and be proficient in writing patent documents, especially in writing patent documents and drafting related documents in English, and communicate with R&D departments, overseas headquarters and overseas customers in fluent English. At present, many multinational companies and law firms are "hunting" such talents through various channels. If you can meet the above requirements through study, there will naturally be rare goods to live in.
Employment direction of intellectual property professionals: law
Typical career path: paralegal → lawyer → partner of the firm.
Professional status: As a socially recognized high-income class, lawyers are a symbol of identity and status. After joining WTO, lawyers are one of the biggest beneficiaries. The career prospects of lawyers who know English and international law are very promising. However, due to the oversupply of domestic law undergraduates, the social recognition of the quality of law undergraduates has declined, and the employment situation is not very good, but the demand for outstanding graduates, especially graduate students, is still relatively large.
Salary level: The lawyer's income can be calculated in two ways. One way is to get paid, the firm pays, and the lawyer is responsible for the lawsuit. According to the ability, those with high annual salary can get 300 thousand yuan or even millions of yuan, while those with low annual salary are only 6.5438+0 million yuan. The other is that lawyers don't get paid, but they are affiliated with law firms, and lawyers have to find their own clients. According to the business commission, it generally ranges from 30% to 70%. Moreover, according to the special differences in economic law, labor law and intellectual property rights, the income will be different. Generally speaking, a young trainee lawyer costs about 1000 yuan a month. With the accumulation of experience and the increase of case sources, income is directly linked to personal ability. After a few years, it is normal to be different.
Expert advice: The work experience of law graduates is very important. It is suggested that students can use their spare time to do part-time jobs (internships) in the legal departments of some law firms and foreign companies, which is of great help to find jobs after graduation. If they do well, they are likely to stay there after graduation.
Finally, if you don't pass the judicial examination when you graduate, you still have a chance. The position of paralegal does not have to have a qualification certificate. You may still have a chance to fight for it.
Employment Direction of Intellectual Property Professionals 2: Finance/Insurance/Investment
Career profile: The job content is extensive, the salary gap is large, and the income is mostly linked to performance.
Salary level: the salary gap between positions is very large, and the basic salary of many positions is very low, because the salary is completely based on performance, and you can get a commission for every business you do. For those whose pay is based on performance, the pressure is enormous. But at the same time, the rewards are huge.
Expert advice: You should have good professional knowledge, enterprising spirit, persistent attitude and good communication skills.
Employment Direction of Intellectual Property Professionals: Finance/Auditing
Career introduction: In view of the current business environment, the financial requirements of enterprises have changed from the original supervision to the current service and supervision.
Salary level: different positions have different salaries, and the general financial salary ranges from 2000 to 4000 yuan.
Experts suggest that the enterprise's informatization construction is not in place, but its management consciousness is advanced, and it requires high financial data and lacks standardization, while budget management requires the financial system to strictly perform the supervision function, which will inevitably lead to the conflict between service and supervision function, especially in the case of unsatisfactory enterprise benefits, and various contradictions will break out with the financial and management departments. Enterprises that pursue the maximization of value will inevitably take the management department as the center, and the management's views on the financial system will inevitably affect the management's understanding of the financial system, and the financial system can't be as calm as water in such an embarrassing environment without incentives. Improving one's own technical level and management level can't see favorable factors in a short time, so how to solve the problems of the financial system itself and the disharmonious factors in the business chain of enterprises has become an urgent problem for modern enterprises to change.
Employment direction of intellectual property professionals 4: consulting/consulting
Career introduction: With the development of modern economy, consulting enterprises with knowledge and talents as capital are gradually flourishing, and their innovative ability, creative spirit and ability to understand and solve problems are playing an increasingly important role in market competition. At present, domestic consulting practitioners, especially high-end talents, are increasingly sought after, such as some senior marketing, planning and project management personnel. In the course of development in recent years, the grass-roots team of consulting industry has been expanding, but it is still difficult to find spires. It is not surprising that some enterprises even offer a monthly salary of 30 thousand yuan to obtain senior project management managers. It can be seen that the consulting industry has become a symbol of high salary. Generally speaking, its employees have a good "Qian Jing", among which consulting managers and professional consultants have entered the ranks of "golden collar".
Salary level: the salary of different positions will also change. The average salary of general consulting industry is 3500 yuan/month.
Experts suggest that if job seekers want to join the consulting industry, they might as well start from the bottom, such as consultants, sometimes called "consulting assistants", whose responsibility is to take charge of some auxiliary work next to professional consultants, such as research and analysis reports. Although these things seem trivial, being a consultant should be the only starting point if you want to be a real consultant.
If a job seeker wants to become a well-paid person in the consulting industry, he should generally have more than three years of consulting work experience, experience in independent management, planning and operation of consulting projects, and experience in management team; Excellent oral and written expression skills, keen market insight and market development ability.
Employment Direction of Intellectual Property Professionals 5: Education/Training
Occupation: Education and training is undoubtedly the most attractive cake in today's market. When other traditional industries gradually enter the era of low profit, education and training attract more and more people with the huge profit model of "low input and high output".
Salary status: the salary of teachers is relatively fixed, but the salary of trainers changes greatly with the course time and other factors.
Expert advice: In recent years, the domestic training industry has made rapid progress, increasing by 30% every year. As an industry, training has begun to take shape, but China lacks a large number of excellent trainers from local enterprises.
Salary index of graduates majoring in intellectual property:
1. Graduate Salary Index 1 year: 7 1% of intellectual property majors have a salary below 2,000 yuan 1 year, and 13% have a salary above 3,000 yuan. On a scale of ten, the salary index of intellectual property major 1 year after graduation is 3.44, which is medium compared with other majors.
2. Salary index for two years after graduation: 57% of the graduates majoring in intellectual property earned less than 2,000 yuan, and 19% earned more than 3,000 yuan. According to the ten-point system, the salary index of intellectual property major after graduation for two years is 3.40, which is medium compared with other majors.
3. Salary index for three years after graduation: 52% of students majoring in intellectual property have a salary of less than 2,000 yuan after graduation for three years, and 17% has a salary of more than 3,000 yuan. According to the ten-point system, the salary index of intellectual property major after graduation for three years is 3. 18, which is lower than the average salary compared with other majors.
Index of new employment rate of intellectual property professionals:
Among the graduates majoring in intellectual property, 77% found jobs before or just after graduation, and 23% found jobs after graduation 1 year. According to the score of 10, the fresh employment rate index of this major is 7.70, which is in the middle level compared with other majors.
Development prospect index of intellectual property professionals;
The proportion of graduates majoring in intellectual property who think that the development prospect of this major is very good and relatively good is 23%, and 39% of graduates think that the development prospect of this major is "not very good" or "very poor". According to the score of 10, the development prospect index of this major is 5.60, which is lower than the average level compared with other majors.
Work comfort index of intellectual property professionals;
4 1% of intellectual property graduates consider their jobs "very comfortable" or "relatively comfortable". 8% graduates think that work is not very comfortable or very uncomfortable. On a scale of ten, the comfort index is 6.82, which is above average compared with other majors.
Second, economic law.
The basic nature of economic law is administrative law in the field of economic management. In the field of economic and social life, a considerable number of civil and economic disputes need to have knowledge of both civil and commercial law and economic law to be resolved. The most important state organ-the most important function of the government. It is difficult to find a job in this major at present. The main employers are courts, law firms and civil servants.
Third, civil and commercial law.
Although there are many exams, there are many people recruited and there is a great social demand. State organs, universities, and scientific research institutions can all go, and there are vast fields of economic and social life waiting for them. Most civil economic disputes need to be solved with knowledge of civil and commercial law. The civil court is the most important and huge institution of the court, and lawyers in civil and commercial law firms are hot. Many enterprises are in urgent need of a large number of talents in civil and commercial law, but they can do it themselves if they really can't. Civil and commercial law is a major with the highest social status, professional prestige and income in law. Civil and commercial law is directly related to courts, law firms and enterprises.