Why do many companies care about whether they have internship experience when recruiting employees?

"I saw in your resume that you had an internship in a company.

Talk about your internship experience. "

This question is the first question put forward by almost all interviewers in order to get to know the candidates quickly. It seems like a simple question, but when asked such a question, many students are devastated.

The resume is full of hype, "industry research", "data sorting" and "professional exchange" ... all kinds of tall names are listed above, but I know best in my heart that the seemingly powerful name "Ernst & Young Consulting Intern" is actually the most basic chores. How should I answer this?

The performance of many students in the eyes of the interviewer can be summarized in one word: embarrassed!

Internship is "handyman"?

This conversation is full of all kinds of summer internships. Is the handyman here really helping the office to "collect express tea"?

2 1 century, our express delivery and tea service are self-help. If the interviewer asks you during the interview, "What did you do during your internship? What have you learned? " Do you dare to answer "just three months"?

This is suicide in an interview. Some students actually do a lot of things in their internships, but they can't say, boast or package. I have a lot of knowledge about how to tell the interviewer clearly and methodically what I did during my internship.

How to treat short-term internship?

For an enterprise short-term intern, you won't be responsible for any important projects. More often, it is the collection and arrangement of materials and some simple and easy-to-learn document work. Although it sounds worse than going home to catch a scene, smart people naturally know how to use this opportunity to improve themselves.

Understand the post

In fact, most junior and senior students don't quite understand what they did in the internship. Do as the leader tells you. But I don't know why I did it, and what impact it has on a business of the company. After three months, I really did a lot of things and went to work as usual, but I felt I didn't do anything.

In fact, you can go back to the job description when you first recruited the internship, which clearly stated the company's most basic expectations for you. For example, I hope you can skillfully communicate with the team (have you learned to write office emails), for example, I hope you can skillfully use office software (have you used Excel well? )。

Through the understanding of the post, compare your own abilities and try to show and exercise in the internship.

Take every little thing seriously

It's not that the company doesn't give things to do, but they all look stupid and troublesome.

For example, sorting out information, memorizing information, making tables, and making PPT ... But if you can do these little things well and make colors, you will definitely leave a good impression on the leaders.

Basically, the company does not expect interns to create value, and more often it is an observation state for interns to observe their attitude, potential and development. And these are all reflected in small things.

Summary of internship work

Many times after the internship, I find myself doing nothing, and there is nothing to write on my resume after one year. Therefore, when doing internship, we must form the habit of recording.

Record what you do at work every day, what difficulties you encounter and how you solve them; Record which meetings you attended and what you learned from the big boss at the meeting (industry trends, enterprise development direction); Write down what you have learned. For example, when doing industry research, it is more efficient to start from leading companies than from shrimp companies. In the field of research, it is faster for scholars to write a book and get a long-term teaching position than for those who don't write research journals, because these notes will help you clear your mind quickly.

Take out your own internship summary during the interview. This is a book about your own case. Each case supports the answers of various structured interviews, such as how you overcame difficulties. You can answer how to teach yourself "from entry to mastery" when you are faced with a lot of data in the internship and can't use Excel software to sort out the data. Simple learning to do odd jobs with office software has also become high-end.

How to describe internship experience on your resume?

Maybe you really did a lot of things during your internship and wrote the so-called internship summary, but you forgot to digitize the results.

For example, Xiao Wang, a media intern, works as a WeChat operator of a magazine in a new media department. His job is to publish new articles every day and reply to fan messages in the background every day.

If the practical experience in your resume says "What is your internship responsibility?" Just say "Send WeChat and reply to fans", then this is definitely version 2.0 of Suicide 2.0.

But isn't that how most of our classmates write about practical experience, Ang?

Quantify project results

In order to quantify Xiao Wang's internship performance, the data can be provided as follows: how many WeChat followers (data) have been added to the official WeChat account under his maintenance for three months, how many fans (data) have been retained by her interaction with fans, does the company have an indicator to measure the performance of WeChat, what is this indicator (data), and how many times WeChat articles are praised every day (data).

This job, even for three months, can really cultivate a lot of skills and industry concepts: the choice of WeChat official account articles can show the idea of operation and how to understand the audience of this magazine; Even the typesetting of WeChat is a science, and it is also a skill to make WeChat articles more suitable for mobile phone reading!

Think about what you have done before writing your resume and write it down. It's best to recall these things, what your master taught you, and how you improved when you made mistakes. Often the process of "making mistakes-being scolded-modifying" is the process of your rapid growth.

key word

Simplify your major and learn to grasp keywords, which will be extracted from JD of the position you are applying for.

If you scan keywords, you will read your other experiences carefully. If there is no text related to the position, you will not read your resume carefully.

grow

Reflect your potential. If there are not so many project achievements, it can reflect what you learned during your internship and whether you can take the initiative to learn by yourself. Because enterprises also understand that the graduates recruited by this school can't have much value output, and what's more important is your potential.

Don't write "official position", write something. Many students equate student unions and societies with officialdom, and often focus on their position in these organizations. This is also a big misunderstanding. The work itself is almost meaningless, the key is what is done in it.

How to answer the ordinary position in the interview?

In fact, interviewers all know that interns do some very basic things. After all, they are all from interns. But why do they ask such questions when they know that interns will not be exposed to the core content of the company?

This involves the reason for setting up a behavioral interview: to understand the interviewer's past performance and predict his possible future performance.

In other words, interviewers have long known that you were just a transparent intern in your previous company, and your daily job was nothing more than handyman and help, but they prefer to know your characteristics from your internship experience and judge whether you are worth training.

If your internship is only the administrative work of an investment company, and your daily job is to send and receive documents, upload and distribute them, how should you say flowers in front of the interviewer?

Statement 1: "My job is actually to do odd jobs, help my boss do some trivial things every day, and send and receive many emails ..."

Statement 2: "I once worked as an intern in an investment company and was responsible for sending and receiving emails to partners. Every day, we need to solicit investment opinions from different partners for different projects. After working for a period of time, I found that partner A prefers to invest in projects with certain characteristics, while partner B focuses on certain fields. Then I analyzed the survival rate of various projects invested by the company, figured out which projects were concerned by partners, and set priorities for bosses, which improved my office efficiency. Moreover, in my previous work, I also contacted colleagues from different departments of the company. In the process of dealing with them, I found that the previous company actually had the following problems in workflow and organizational structure ... "

The above two answers are clearly judged. Some people can only talk about their daily chores in detail, while others can turn seemingly ordinary things into flowers. Of course, the interviewer likes the latter.

Of course, such an answer needs to be organized in advance and carefully observed during the internship. As long as you observe carefully and think more, you can play tricks in an ordinary position.