Be prepared for long-term job hunting in the cold winter

Make long-term preparations for job hunting in the cold winter season

Make long-term preparations for job hunting in the cold winter season. People apply for jobs every day. Everyone hopes to find a job that suits them. The process of job hunting We must maintain a good attitude and avoid being impulsive. The following shares how to prepare for a long-term job search in the cold winter. Make long-term preparations for job hunting in the cold winter 1

Insufficient ability + unclear plan: He has always been "drifting" in Beijing

Because the school's dormitories are insufficient, Gan Zixiang lived in Beijing when he was studying in Beijing In the job-hunting apartment near Xiaoyue River in Erli Village. After graduating from university, he naturally continued to rent a bed there and settled down, and began his life of "Beijing drifting".

A few months before graduation, Gan Zixiang found a company and started an internship.

His undergraduate major was computer science, but what he wanted to do was sales. According to him, "boys in science and engineering majors are dumb and not clever enough." When he first arrived, he couldn't even call customers and "didn't know how to speak."

Every day at work, Gan Zixiang just sits there, watching others on the phone, hoping to "learn some skills secretly", but half a month has passed, and he is still introverted and doesn't have many personal resources. Failure to "place an order" (in sales industry terms, placing an order means a successful sale).

A month later, Gan Zixiang was transferred to the advertising department. He felt that the technical design of the advertising department was relatively related to his major, so he stayed and continued his internship. There were four girls working with him, so "making tea, buying breakfast and lunch, I just ran errands for them every day."

He knew that if he could not perform well this month, he would have to leave during the internship period, let alone stay and work. Because of his poor expression skills, it is difficult for Gan Zixiang to express his opinions and suggestions in the team. After finally getting an opportunity to participate in advertising design, Gan Zixiang found that he was always led by other people's ideas and was unable to come up with his own unique ideas. "I didn't have much professional practice in college, and my hands-on ability was not very strong." Therefore, it was difficult for him to participate in advertising production, and he was completely ignored by his colleagues before long.

After this blow, Gan Zixiang discovered his shortcomings in ability and began to realize that his personality was not suitable for team work at all. So after more than two months of internship, Gan Zixiang left the company.

Later, he interned and worked in several companies, and finally found a computer maintenance job in a private trading company. Every day, Gan Zixiang has to take a bus for an hour and a half to get to his work, which is very tiring but very regular. In his free time, he reads some professional books on trade. "There is still room for development in the trading industry. I don't want to do computer maintenance all my life."

Gan Zixiang said that he hopes to open his own trading business company, but a while ago he heard from his colleagues in the company that he couldn't make much money in this industry, so he started to waver again and planned to try out at a securities company where his college classmates worked.

Gan Zixiang’s family is in rural Anhui, and his brother is also working hard in Beijing after finishing college. They are the only pair of college student brothers in the village, and now they both stay in Beijing to work. This has always been the pride of the family. "I don't want to go back, and I can't go back. If I go back, not only will I not be able to find a job that suits me, but where will our family's reputation go?"

It has been almost three years since I graduated from college. Gan Zixiang Still "drifting" in Beijing. Now his monthly salary is less than 3,000 yuan, so he has no choice but to continue to rent a cheap bed near Xiaoyue River. He uses the money he saves every month to send back as much as possible and goes home once a year during the Spring Festival.

Too ambitious + high-minded but low-handed: He did not seize the right opportunity

After graduating from Wuhan University with a master's degree in law, Deng Jun also experienced a period of "job hunting wandering" .

Graduated from a prestigious school with a solid diploma; studied law for 6 years at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, passed the judicial examination, and has solid professional knowledge; plus a CET-6 certificate and a driver's license, a rich resume Deng Jun chose to work hard in Shenzhen, where elites gathered.

In December 2005, Deng Jun took the civil service examination of the Shenzhen Intermediate People’s Court. In the following year, he took the civil service examinations of four agencies in Shenzhen City and Hunan Province, but failed in all of them. Looking back on the scene at that time, he concluded: "I have never seriously prepared for the civil service exam. It's just that all my classmates took the exam, so I followed suit."

"I have all the certificates I should take. After passing the exam and getting a master's degree from a prestigious school, I am certainly qualified to go to the best platform to train myself." While taking the civil service exam, Deng Jun applied for legal consultant positions in more than 30 well-known companies such as China Resources Land and Vanke. But the competition was more intense than he imagined. There were often hundreds of people competing for two or three positions in a company at the same time. He passed the written examinations of several companies, but because he was less than 1.7 meters tall, he was rejected in the first round of interviews. This made him feel deeply frustrated, having previously had high expectations for himself.

After staying in Shenzhen for almost half a year, Deng Jun has never found a job and is too embarrassed to go home during the Chinese New Year. In August 2006, one month after graduation, when he was preparing to return to his hometown of Changsha, he finally received a probation notice from a large law firm. He regained his confidence and hoped that he could make a difference.

As a trainee lawyer, what Deng Jun has to do every day is to sort out cases and assist other lawyers in their work. One day, the chief lawyer of the firm asked him to help draft an indictment, but he couldn't even write this most basic document. Only then did he realize that during the nearly six years of study, he had always been busy with courses, exams and certifications, and had never done any internship in any unit. "In the past, I only focused on theoretical study in school, but ignored basic practical operations."

In less than a month, Deng Jun also exposed that he was not good at talking and could not communicate effectively with the parties, etc. Due to a series of problems, the boss who emphasized efficiency did not give him any buffer time to adapt to his work, and kept talking about his "high vision but low hand" every day.

In Shenzhen, the monthly salary of 1,500 yuan during the probation period is only enough for him to pay for accommodation and transportation. Deng Jun was too embarrassed to ask for money from his family, so he only had two meals a day. In addition, when he commutes to and from get off work every day, he spends three hours on the road, which makes him feel extremely hard and exhausted. Before the probation period expired, Deng Jun chose to leave.

Looking back on the situation at that time two years later, Deng Jun said that his biggest problem was that he was too ambitious. "I'm used to being a student who reads books from sages, and I don't understand that the most important thing about law is dealing with people, not textbooks. So when the opportunity came, I failed to seize it."

Impatient Random job hunting + lack of preparation: She always "fetched nothing"

Like all newly graduated college students, Du Minli, who graduated in 2008, also suffered from job hunting due to lack of preparation.

When the recruitment season in the autumn and winter of 2007 was in full swing, Du Minli was concentrating on preparing to take the civil servant exam in her hometown tourism management area. With excellent grades and outstanding abilities, she never thought that she would fail. When she found out the result, it was already after the Spring Festival of 2008, and most of her classmates had their destinations, which made her very anxious.

According to the predetermined plan, Du Minli wanted to give priority to jobs related to her major - journalism. However, after the Spring Festival, there were very few media recruitments and there were many people competing for the job. She submitted a large number of jobs. Resumes rarely get much feedback.

During this period, more classmates found their job units one after another. She felt that there were fewer and fewer opportunities left for her, and she even had no choice at all. Eager to "marry" herself, Du Minli continued to submit resumes at various job fairs while waiting for the written test notice. She also applied with her friends to more than 20 companies including Bawang, Haoyitong, and Fiyta.

Du Minli had been focusing on the civil service examination before. Later, in order to apply for the media, she had some understanding of the recruitment procedures of the journalism industry, and she was quite familiar with it. But she suddenly went to the company for an interview and lacked sufficient preparation for relevant industry knowledge, market conditions and company operations. She was repeatedly rejected in the written examination.

Du Minli once applied for a commentator position in a well-known company, and the other party put forward very high requirements, such as being above 165cm tall, having second-level Mandarin, and being fluent in English. She felt that she met the requirements and these were her strengths, so she volunteered to give an English speech to welcome the Olympics during the interview, but the result was unsatisfactory - because she was not prepared in advance and was too nervous, she made a mistake.

The later I got, the more panicked I became. At that time, Du Minli basically went to various recruitment units in the talent market every day to distribute resumes. As long as there was on-site recruitment, she would rush forward directly. This "hurried job hunting" tactic made her "fetch water in a bamboo basket but in vain" every time.

After many failed corporate job hunts, she found that she lacked the corresponding job application skills and was not suitable for the company's recruitment standards, so she turned back and decided to specialize in media. At this time, she heard that a newspaper in a coastal city was recruiting people, so she started a new round of attempts.

Plan in advance, clarify your career direction as early as possible, and fight a protracted battle to be prepared for job search setbacks.

When the job search season comes every year, some people are happy and some are sad. Some students are very successful, and can get enviable offers in a few seconds, or even several; while some students, like Gan Zixiang in the article, have many difficulties in finding a job. Even jobs that are easy to find are difficult to do.

The reason why there is such a difference is not that the former are luckier and the latter are unlucky (although job hunting is indeed affected by luck), but that those who seem lucky have different opinions on job hunting on campus. , employment, and have made adequate preparations for going out of campus. But Gan Zixiang and others were not ready.

The first sign of not being prepared is that you have no idea about your future career direction. You don’t know what you want to do or what you are suitable for, so you can only throw out your resume and try for any type of position. luck. Everyone has their own characteristics, and it is impossible to be suitable for every position. This kind of "lucky" type of job search has a low success rate of course.

Even if you occasionally encounter one, it is probably because it is not suitable for you, and it will be painful to work and achieve nothing. Gan Zixiang switched from sales to advertising design to computer maintenance within a few months, which is a typical example of not knowing his career direction.

There is nothing wrong in Gan Zixiang's decision to leave a job that he is not suitable for, but the timing of his attempt was wrong - this should be a task that should be completed on campus. In college, we should find ways to find our career goals, because the cost of trying and exploring is minimal during this period.

By understanding your interests, personality and abilities, you can initially consider careers that may be suitable for you. If you are "stupid and not clever enough" but like to write programs and discover and solve problems, you may be suitable for research and development or technical support rather than a sales job that relies heavily on interpersonal skills. Of course, this preliminary understanding may not be correct. Career information needs to be collected from various channels and continuously revised based on personal circumstances.

Being unprepared is also reflected in having a relatively clear career direction, but not knowing how to make targeted preparations based on this direction. For example, Deng Jun, as a master of law, his future career will basically be related to law, and the two most basic ways out in this direction are civil servants and lawyers. The civil service examination is the only way to successfully apply for a civil service job, and writing documents is the basic work content of a lawyer. Both are important for a successful job search. Unfortunately, he had no serious understanding and preparation for any of them. If you go to apply for a job like this, your chances of winning are certainly not good.

Preparation for future careers should last throughout college.

University is the last buffer zone for students before entering society. Students should cherish and make good use of this time to shape themselves into a person who is suitable for future career development and meets the requirements of future employers. In addition to the accumulation of knowledge, what is more needed is the cultivation of abilities and the improvement of personal qualities, thereby forming the core competitiveness of job hunting.

Different professions have different requirements for personal qualities, so a clear career direction is the prerequisite for targeted preparation. If you really can't find a direction, just exercise your universal qualities and abilities.

For fresh graduates, the requirements of recruiting units are quite similar. For example, most of them include communication skills, team spirit, down-to-earth attitude, sense of responsibility, tolerance and adaptability to setbacks, etc. People always grow through experiences, so participating in more activities, such as student organizations, club activities, internships, part-time jobs, volunteer activities, etc. are all good ways to cultivate abilities.

Even if you have a reserve of knowledge and abilities for your career goals, it does not mean that everything is ready. Lack of preparation also manifests itself in one aspect, that is psychologically. Although most students know that it is difficult to find a job, they still do not know enough about the psychological impact of difficulty in finding a job. Job hunting is a protracted battle. From the first batch of companies entering the campus in October to July of the following year, recruitment has been ongoing, and only less than half of the people were able to sign contracts before the year.

This means that most people will be under great psychological pressure and suffering constant setbacks for more than half a year. Frustration will cause a series of negative emotions. If it cannot be adjusted effectively, it will inevitably affect the later job search.

When they first started to apply for jobs, many graduates had goals and plans like Du Minli. However, many unsuccessful experiences made them anxious and "seeked doctors in a hurry", and some even denied themselves because of this. , became depressed and stopped trying. Therefore, it is very necessary to be fully mentally prepared for the difficulties that may arise during job hunting. At the same time, you must learn to self-regulate, maintain a positive attitude, and do not get into trouble. The success rate of "overseas investment" without purpose is very low, which can only further aggravate your own anxiety and lack of confidence. Make long-term preparations for job hunting in the cold winter 2

1. We must learn to make correct attributions and correct our mentality.

Under the influence of this year’s epidemic, there are objective reasons. On the one hand, the number of companies and positions recruiting has decreased, on the other hand, the number of graduates has continued to increase, and new Internet technologies have impacted many industries. These objective reasons will lead to a reduction in the number of recruits and make it more difficult to find a job.

In addition, subjective reasons must also be analyzed. Are your expectations too high and should be lowered appropriately? After all, I have just graduated from college and have insufficient practical experience. Is it better to lower the standards and start from the grassroots level, get a job first and then choose a career? In addition, if your personal knowledge, skills and qualities are still lacking, then use Can you improve your skills as quickly as possible during your job search? Then analyze whether your resume is not eye-catching and sufficient enough, and then analyze whether you lack sufficient preparation for the interview. What aspects still need improvement? In addition, during the entire job search process, it is important to take the initiative and actively contact!

2. During the job search process, we must adjust our mentality.

In the face of setbacks, we must understand that we can have two attitudes. The first is a positive attitude, which can adjust the mentality and overcome setbacks. The other is a negative attitude, which is depression, submission, self-destruction, and frustration. It became a shadow in my heart.

How to be positive in the face of setbacks? This requires adjusting the psychological state of mind. The debugging method is as follows:

1. Attention shifting method

For example, listen to music, participate in sports activities, do something you like, and don’t let yourself sink into pessimism, disappointment, failure and frustration. middle.

2. Moderate venting method

Confess appropriately to your friends to relieve your mood. Of course, you must pay attention to the right amount of catharsis, and too much is never enough.

3. Self-motivation method

Keep motivating yourself. For example, you can tell yourself, "It was a blessing in disguise," and there are better opportunities waiting! If you fail to apply for a job due to your mistakes in some aspects, then tell yourself, "It's not too late to make up for it before it's too late", actively adjust your status, improve your skills, and make persistent efforts.

4. Emotional therapy

By changing cognition and attitude, use positive thinking to understand and explain setbacks and failures. This requires changing one's own cognition, views and thinking. It is recommended to communicate more with more positive people, read more inspirational books, or learn to look at setbacks objectively and calmly. When cognition changes, understanding and interpretation will change. , then the attitude will change accordingly.

Just like the previous "glass half full" story, some people will lament that there is only half a glass of water left. But some people will be pleasantly surprised and still have a half-full glass of water. This is the difference in perception caused by cognition. Ultimately different emotions develop.