Research on the Path of Cultivating Career Development and Employability of Vocational School Students under the School-Enterprise Collaboration Model

With the rapid development of vocational education and industry-academia-research cooperation in China, the school-enterprise collaboration model plays an increasingly important role in cultivating vocational school students' professional abilities and enhancing their employability. However, existing research mainly focuses on the higher education level, and systematic research on the career development paths and employability cultivation of vocational school students under the school-enterprise collaboration model remains relatively limited. To fill this research gap, this study takes vocational schools as the research object and uses a semi-structured interview method to collect practical experiences from teachers, enterprise mentors, and students. It also combines materials such as school-enterprise cooperation plans, curriculum design documents, enterprise practice guidelines, and student internship records to analyze the current status, problems, and optimization paths of career development and employability cultivation under the school-enterprise collaboration model. The results show that school-enterprise cooperation can effectively improve students' professional skills, practical abilities, and employment competitiveness, but there are still some shortcomings in areas such as the connection between curriculum and practice, the implementation of the dual-mentor system, the clarity of enterprise practice project goals and systematic evaluation mechanisms, and the integration of school and enterprise resources. Based on this, this study proposes a systematic career development and employability cultivation path, including optimizing the curriculum system, implementing the dual-mentor system, clarifying enterprise practice goals and evaluation mechanisms, integrating school and enterprise resources, and designing progressive and diversified development paths for abilities. This training pathway organically combines theoretical learning with practical skills, promoting students' multi-dimensional development both inside and outside the school. It also provides actionable strategies and practical guidance for vocational schools to improve the quality of talent cultivation and strengthen school-enterprise cooperation. The research findings not only enrich the theoretical framework of vocational education and school-enterprise cooperation but also provide important reference for vocational schools to construct systematic talent cultivation programs under an application-oriented education model.