Employment of college graduates and social transformation now are the two focuses in China.This paper uses the historical analysis method to analyze the relationship between employment changes and social transformation of college graudates through a case study on employment changes of graduates in England between 1560 and 1660.The result shows that employment changes of college graduates are the inevitable results of social transformation and the employment of college graduates has deeply affected the social tranformation to a certain extent.Therefore,this paper puts forward the inspirations on how to ease difficulty in employment of college graduates in the period of social transformation in China,including adjusting industrial structure to provide more jobs for college graduates,reforming teaching contents in accordance with social development need in colleges and universities,properly controlling enrollment scale,and restricting the scale of some disciplines faced with high employment pressure.