随着经济社会的发展和教育水平的提高,在就业市场上,高校毕业生的竞争愈加激烈。对于高职学生来说,相对于本科以及更高水平的毕业生,处于劣势地位。实践证明,加强学生的思想政治教育,可以有效提高学生的竞争力,提高学生的求职成功率。文章主要对提高高职学生的思想政治为出发点,对政治教育与就业的关系、对高职学生提高竞争力和如何提高思想政治教育进行分析。 With the development of economy and society and the improvement of education level, the competition among college graduates is even more fierce in the employment market. For higher vocational students, relative to undergraduate and higher level graduates, at a disadvantage. Practice has proved that strengthening students’ ideological and political education can effectively enhance the competitiveness of students and improve the success rate of job hunting for students. The article mainly focuses on improving the ideological and political education of higher vocational students, the relationship between political education and employment, and the analysis of how higher vocational students improve their competitiveness and how to improve their ideological and political education.