Is it appropriate to propose changing departments for internship after one month of internship in the company?

In the context of finding a job difficult, college students’ job search procedures have been repeatedly advanced, and the purpose of internships has shifted from professional practice in the past to directly pointing to employment. Judging from the situation in the past few years, a large proportion of college students finally find jobs through internships. For example, a professional position will have restrictions on professional experience and background in talent recruitment, but if you enter the company through internships, you can work in various departments. Through internal rotation training, you will finally find a department that suits you, and the so-called shackles of work experience will be broken. This is why college students are currently keen to intern at companies, especially foreign companies, during the winter and summer vacations.

However, due to the increasing number of college students in recent years, the number of internship positions that companies can provide seems to be very limited. Many college students lament that finding internship opportunities, especially internship opportunities with foreign companies and well-known companies, is like looking for a job. Disaster.

So, how should college students take the “internship path” of foreign companies during the summer vacation? To this end, the reporter interviewed relevant workplace experts, corporate HR, successful applicants and other professionals. It is hoped that this article can provide "young" college students with "heavy weapons" and "private secrets" that they can learn from, and prepare for the upcoming semester. Summer internships have a greater chance of winning!

One of the weapons "Peacock Feather": Cover Letter

There is no hidden weapon in the world that is more powerful than the Peacock Feather, and there is no weapon that is more beautiful than the Peacock Feather. , Peacock Ling's petite body hides huge power, and the cover letter is short and concise, but as beautiful and unfathomable as Peacock Ling.

A cover letter is a quick sketch of your own strengths and is the first step to obtain summer internship opportunities in a company. Its main purpose is to attract the attention of the recruiter and win the opportunity for an internship interview. Generally speaking, HRs read the cover letter first and then the resume. Whether they can impress and capture the HR's "eyeballs" and reading interest in the shortest possible time depends entirely on the writing skills of the cover letter. First of all, you should prepare both Chinese and English materials, because the process of writing a cover letter can more truly reflect your English level, so you should try your best to standardize the language and comply with English grammar, and reduce grammar, typos or missing words; Secondly, the content of the cover letter should be targeted and hierarchical. It should state the personal situation and internship expectations in the shortest possible language. The structure can be composed of an introduction, a main body and an end. For the internship position applied for, To emphasize the match between major and position, it is recommended to use a separate paragraph to describe it; thirdly, in the cover letter, you must reflect your confidence and "highlight" your strengths, strengths, awards, honors, and skills, etc. Make the other party feel that your experience and materials are consistent with the requirements of the internship position you are applying for; finally, regarding the length of the cover letter, we believe that it should be kept within one page as much as possible to ensure that HR understands your application Personal information is "all viewed on one page". In terms of layout, we recommend using size 5 or small 4 fonts to avoid inconvenience to HR reading caused by too small text or crowded paragraphs.

From a job search strategy point of view, a cover letter is a self-portrait and description that belongs to the "Here I am, who am I" stage. It is written for a specific individual, and this is essentially the same as a resume. Differently, the writing of a resume is aimed at a specific job position. In this sense, the cover letter can be said to be a supplement and overview of the resume.

Weapon No. 2 "Overlord's Spear": Personal Resume

The Overlord is the most powerful and powerful gun in the world. The gun is the ancestor of hundreds of soldiers, and the Overlord's Spear is the most domineering in the world. One of the weapons, and the personal resume is like a king's gun. It faces HR directly and points directly to the position you are applying for. Whether you are applying for a local company or a foreign company, it is an indispensable tool, and it must be shown at all times. The confidence and domineering that you should have.

Compared with the cover letter, the information provided on the resume is more to better describe "I am the person you want" and "I am great". The detailed and fullness of the resume will Decide directly whether to proceed to the next recruitment process.

Ilana, who works in human resources at a foreign company, told reporters, “In the process of recruiting interns, we first check whether the content of the resume meets the job requirements. The information we must read includes basic personal information, educational background, social practice, application Internship position, vocational training received, personal strengths and hobbies", "More often, we judge the growth potential of applicants based on the information obtained from the resume, so resumes with highlights and characteristics are more likely to be approved. , For example, for some international internship positions in our company, we will give priority to those with excellent TOEIC test scores. After all, these internship positions involving international business have higher requirements for applicants’ actual English application ability.” "As for the evaluation of college students' social practice, we care more about what college students have done and how they did it, rather than pale social titles and empty adjective descriptions. Therefore, this type of key information is more prominent. We will give priority to your resume."

From the perspective of application strategies, personal resumes belong to the autobiographical description stage of "I am great" and "I am what you want". Regarding the layout and writing skills of resumes, career expert LiTian The advice is, "The position you are applying for is clear and clear, the basic data is correct and valid, the photo should not be blank, the expertise and interests show the characteristics, the education and experience are presented in flashbacks, the professional skills are honest, the language skills are correct and valid, and finally, these points are summarized in three paragraphs of the autobiography. The presentation is divided into three parts: growth background, professional expertise, and wishes and expectations for systematic interpretation."

Weapon No. 3 "Parting Hook": Corporate School Recruitment

The parting hook is a weapon that can cause parting no matter how it hooks any part of a person, but the original intention of using it is not It’s about being able to be together with the people you love. Corporate campus recruitment is an emerging recruitment method. Its emergence allows more outstanding students to have the opportunity to directly contact and communicate with enterprises, and fully demonstrate their various abilities through the precious campus recruitment period.

In the eyes of many global companies, the campus intern recruitment plan is an effective means to make up for the shortcomings of the traditional recruitment system. It is also an effective way to strengthen the training and echelon construction of corporate reserve talents, such as Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard , Siemens, Nokia, IBM and other Fortune 500 companies will start recruiting on-campus interns around September or October every year. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for school students who have obvious advantages in professional skills and English proficiency. By participating in the event, they will get internship opportunities in well-known companies in a faster and more efficient way.

Recently, reporters have also noticed that in order to recruit qualified international talents, some companies will also cooperate with third-party language assessment agencies, such as the recent "TOEIC Occupational English Challenge" organized by ETS. "Contest", well-known companies such as Lenovo, Ford (China), Citi Software, China Southern Airlines, etc. participated, and the recruitment, inspection, campus intern and other places provided by these companies were used as prizes for the winners of the competition. In terms of application strategies, students' active participation in such activities is a form of proactiveness, which not only provides them with the most effective warm-up opportunities in the workplace before employment, but also opens up opportunities for internships, observations, or employment opportunities in well-known companies. Channel, directly avoiding the traditional and cumbersome online application and recruitment process for interns, achieving multiple goals with one stone!

Weapon No. 4 "Jasper Knife": Foreign Language Level

The knife is the easiest weapon to use and the most widely used weapon, and foreign languages, especially English, are just as important as the knife in the workplace of foreign companies. It is also used frequently. All official documents and work reports that are usually exchanged must be written in English. Meetings, trainings, and phone calls are basically all in English. Therefore, if you are not good at English, it will be difficult to be qualified for internships in foreign companies.

In the process of recruiting interns, foreign companies often use the following methods to screen applicants for their actual English proficiency. In the first step, online internship applications and job descriptions are mostly presented in English to screen out Eliminate job seekers with poor English skills; in the second step, re-evaluate the English cover letters and resumes submitted by the applicants. First, screen out those who only submit Chinese resumes, and secondly, screen out those with poor English writing skills. The English qualification certificate will also play an important role in the intern's resume. Those with excellent scores in CET-4 or CET-6, TOEIC, TOEFL, GRE, IELTS, etc. will often be given priority for admission; Three steps: Target the target based on the selected resume and schedule an English interview by phone. The applicant's speaking level and practical English application ability will be examined face-to-face over the phone. The telephone English interview usually lasts about 15-30 minutes, which is a great test of the actual English level of college students. and on-site adaptability; in the fourth step, only college students who pass the telephone interview will have the opportunity to be invited to the company or headquarters to participate in interviews and written tests. At this stage, the applicants' English listening, speaking, reading, and Writing ability and professional skills.

It is not difficult to find that English is used everywhere from writing cover letters and resumes, applying for internship positions, telephone interviews, to on-site interviews/written examinations. From the perspective of personal English qualification certification strategies, it is difficult for the traditional CET-4 and CET-6 to make you stand out from the many applicants. College students need to be exposed to more professional English application content during school in order to adapt to the actual workplace environment more quickly. . Amber, who has been engaged in campus intern recruitment for foreign companies, told reporters, “We trust English score certificates issued by third-party language assessment agencies, and we are more optimistic about English communication proficiency certifications that are specially designed and developed for international professional work environments. Such as the TOEIC test, we feel that the vocational English test can better help us select talents with practical application capabilities.

Weapon No. 5 "Eternal Sword": Information Source

The Sword of Eternal Life is the sharpest sword in the world. The sword energy is powerful and continuous. Just like the database, it absorbs and changes the elephant into the invisible. The source of information is just like the Sword of Eternal Life, which also needs to be continuous and continuous. Only in this way can we strongly support college students to obtain internship opportunities in foreign companies. After all, the internship channels of foreign companies are crowded in reality. It is reported that when MOTO recruits interns from prestigious schools, it receives thousands of resumes in just three hours. The dilemma faced by college students when applying for internship opportunities in foreign companies.

Information determines success! Now let’s take a look at how Caedmon, a graduate student who has just obtained a summer internship opportunity in a foreign company, obtained internship information and resources in a foreign company. "At the beginning, I went to the blogs of previous years' winners, company websites, and well-known university BBSs (not limited to misty water and clouds, sun and moon brilliance, drinking water and thinking about the source will be better) to collect necessary information, such as which companies have begun to release summer vacation Intern recruitment plan, questions that may be asked by the company I want to apply for, corporate culture, reputation and evaluation of the company by successful people, etc." "I spent a lot of time between getting the phone interview notice and the formal interview. Time to prepare - go to the main BBS of our school and Fudan University and Jiaotong University to collect past interview experiences to get possible questions, recall various past experiences to cope with stressful interviews, perfect self-introduction... Facts have proved that these preparations It is still quite valuable.

In addition, in terms of information acquisition channels, the reporter would like to remind students that “you should pay attention to the diversity and accuracy of information acquisition channels”, such as Deloitte, NOKIA, Samsung , Korea Development Bank, IBM and other internationally renowned companies, in the recently launched "2008 Summer Internship Opportunities for College Students" online application process, TOEIC scores are used as one of the main criteria to measure applicants' English ability. Highlights from resumes. In terms of the principle of focus and key point matching, students must closely grasp the specific needs of the company and prepare the content of their resume based on the needs of the company.

From the perspective of application strategy, the source of information is to solve the problem of "where do I want to go?" "Go" and "How can I exert my strength?" stage, and the diversification and accuracy of information sources will directly affect the winning of internship opportunities in foreign companies and famous companies. On the other hand, careful preparation before the interview also relies on a large number of It is in this sense that information determines success or failure.

The "Sentimental Ring" of Seven Weapons: People's Bankbook

The Passionate Ring is a unique weapon. No matter what is caught, it will be tightly entangled immediately and never Will let go again, just like a passionate lover, and the "network passbook" is like a sentimental ring, tightly tying up many internship opportunities. The concept of "network passbook" is not just for veterans in the workplace. College students who are new to the workplace can also have their own "network passbook" and use it when obtaining internship opportunities in foreign companies.

“Thirty percent of a person’s success depends on ability and 70% on connections.” Naariah, who has just participated in the KPMG summer intern interview, has a deep understanding of this, “Earlier , I have been applying online for intern positions in internationally renowned companies such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Unilever, Standard Chartered Bank, etc., but I always get no feedback," "Later I heard that KPMG has internally recommended interns. As usual, I remembered that I had a senior fellow who worked at KPMG in the last term, and I contacted him. He helped me correct the deficiencies in my resume, and then recommended my resume to the human resources department. It didn’t take long for me to I was invited to participate in KPMG’s written examination in Hangzhou with the students who applied online.”

It is very effective to contact senior brothers and sisters and classmates who are already working to seek their help. Naariah told reporters, "In the process of seeking help, the senior brothers of KPMG and the senior sisters of P&G not only gave recommendations in terms of I received a lot of selfless help and gave me a lot of pertinent advice on resume revision and career development. I felt particularly warm and touched at the time. If I can’t find a good internship opportunity again, I really feel sorry for this group of people. Selfless brothers and sisters."

From the perspective of job application strategy, the application of "Connection Passbook" itself is a stage for accurately locking job opportunities. It is also the most commonly used means in the job search process for college students. From the perspective of job search efficiency, internally recommended The hit rate is much higher than applying online, so we suggest that college students should pay attention to the senior brothers and sisters around them, keep in touch, accumulate necessary "network bankbooks", and humbly ask them for advice or help. You will often receive unexpected Effect.

The "Fist" of Seven Weapons: Interview Skills

The fist is also a weapon, and it is an irreplaceable weapon. When the scattered five fingers are clenched into a fist, its power becomes stronger. Isn't it just five times the original amount? Mastering good interview skills is like the "fist" among the seven weapons, which is direct and fatal. On-site interviews are all about fists. Whether you can win an internship opportunity depends on your on-the-spot performance during the on-site interview process and the overall impression you leave on the examiners!

According to a survey, more than 70% of HR directors use “on-the-spot reactions to interviews as the main basis for selecting new employees.” For this reason, workplace expert Karl repeatedly warned college students, “First of all, before participating in the interview, you should Make detailed preparations, such as company profile, corporate culture, appearance and attire, printing of personal works, responsibilities of the position you are applying for, etc.; Secondly, listen carefully during the interview process and do not rush to answer or rush to answer. Due to the interview time, are limited, so when answering, you should pay attention to the content being concise and consistent with the main points. At the same time, for the common open-ended questions of foreign companies, avoid answering random questions, but start looking for answers from around you; again, at the end of the interview, whether it is as you expected or not, the interview was successful. Admission or just get an ambiguous answer, such as 'We will further consider you and other candidates. If there is news, we will notify you in time.' We should pay attention to treat each other with a normal attitude, especially when leaving or going out. Don’t forget etiquette; finally, after the interview, you should carefully recall, organize, and record all the details of the entire interview process, because the success of the interview is not the most important thing. The most important thing is to analyze the gains and losses from the last interview, and summarize the experience. Improve and perfect your own interview skills and interview psychological quality." In addition, a thank-you letter after applying for a job is also very important. Many candidates with the same qualifications rely on a thank-you letter to let HR see their professionalism and sincerity towards the job, and are finally admitted.

From the perspective of application strategies, interview skills belong to the climax stage of self-promotion and winning internship opportunities. It is the total explosion of personal comprehensive advantages in a specific environment. Mastering more interview skills will help candidates Stand out from the crowd!

Conclusion: No matter how terrible the weapon is, it cannot compare with the confidence of students. Therefore, the most powerful weapon for college students in the workplace is their own confidence - "Believe in yourself and be the best version of yourself." , you will succeed." Use your confidence and strength to create a unique and dynamic summer vacation!