The increasing number of doctoral graduates year by year has brought new opportunities for the introduction of high-level talents in central provinces of China, and universities are the main units for introducing young PhDs. Taking 23 young PhDs who have joined universities in S province in central China in the past two years as research subjects, data was collected through interviews and the materials were analyzed based on the grounded theory research paradigm. It was found that the influencing factors of young PhDs' employment choices in universities in central China are mainly divided into four categories: direct attraction factors, professional development factors, individual factors, and organizational factors. The employment choices of young PhDs are influenced by the push and pull effects of individual willingness and university support, as well as the dual effects of maintenance factors and incentive factors, with individual factors having the greatest impact.