Abstract：In response to the depression of coal industry and the severe employment situation of mining majors nowadays, the present paper explores how to build a good employment-guidance mechanism for mining majors, firstly, the authors analyze the present situation of coal industry and point out that the excessive coal production capacity is the immediate cause and the imbalance between national macro-control and enterprise independent operation is the root cause of depressed coal market; the authors forecast the prospect of coal industry, i. e. the coal industry's dominant position will not change in the future and its development direction will be large scale, modernization and instrumentation; finally, the authors discuss the prospect of mining majors and build an employment-guidance system that can match with the future development of coal industry.

Keyword：excessive production capacity;supply exceeds demand;macro-control;market law;business cycle;instrumented construction;employment-guidance system;