Why do today’s youth have to promote themselves?

How college students can successfully promote themselves to the market, find their own sky, and find a stage where they can show their skills is an urgent problem faced by many students. The author of this article, Mr. Tang, has rich theoretical and practical experience in human resources. He has interviewed countless college students. While sharing with college students how to introduce yourself first, he also discussed with everyone the techniques to improve the hit rate of online applications. As graduation approaches, I see that many of my classmates are getting offers, and some of them can't sit still: "I can't wait until everyone has found a good buyer while I'm still waiting to be married." However, schools and society are very concerned about the current situation. For some students, it’s like two different worlds. How to push yourself to the market, meet challenges, and embrace a better tomorrow has become the top priority for the 2008 graduates. In my long-term human resources work, the author has encountered various job seekers, but their problems are highly similar. I am going to share them here and discuss them with everyone. Use personal connections to open up the situation. When it’s time to find a job, many students are confused whether to make a resume first or find a company first and then make a resume based on the company’s needs. In fact, the most important thing to do first is to make a career plan for yourself. But at present, few students know what career planning is. Career planning is actually a question of what kind of path you will take in the future, what kind of person you will be, and what kind of life you will have. Secondly, it is a question of how to optimally achieve your goals. People with career plans usually know their strengths and weaknesses and their resources. Don’t worry if you don’t have a career plan, it’s still not too late to start now. My advice to you is: 1. After you understand your interests, what should you do? Why is it so difficult to choose a person's position planning? It's because the path that each person takes may take into account many factors, such as family, children, and even the distance between the workplace and home may also be an important influencing factor. If you can’t make judgments and choices, how can you expect others to make a judgment? This is when the role of career counselors comes into play. If you don’t have a professional career counselor, you can also find friends with more experience around you to help analyze. For example, if you want to develop into a new industry, you need to find someone who is familiar with this industry to help you analyze the pros and cons of entering this industry. If you go for a high salary, it may be accompanied by very strong work pressure; if you go for development opportunities, Yes, you may need to keep charging to get a pass to enter. These are things that non-industry people cannot see. Having people from the industry or even the company help you analyze and answer them will allow you to think clearly about the pros and cons. Even if you choose to enter, these early analyzes can help you understand the problems you encounter. If difficulties are anticipated in advance, they will not have a big impact. This stage is very important and indispensable, and this stage may take you a long time, but it is worth it in the end because it can help you figure out a lot of things. 2. Pay attention to accumulating some personal connections and make more experienced friends, or people you admire very much and have accumulated a lot in life. You can take the initiative to interact with them, as long as you have a sincere heart. In fact, it is not difficult to make new friends. Even your parents, relatives and friends may give you good advice, because they know you best and understand your personality, hobbies, and specialties. Through communication with them, it is easier to make new friends. You discover your own points of interest; 3. Due to the generation gap, many issues cannot be discussed and understood with parents. You need to constantly find someone to communicate with. This communication process is painful and confusing, but it is necessary. Because you must make all decisions yourself and bear the consequences yourself. Chat with everyone you can think of. Maybe only 1 out of 10 people can give you useful advice, but that doesn’t mean the other 9 people’s advice is useless, because even if you don’t adopt it, you can understand it from multiple angles. What others think, and how others see you. There are various channels to expand your communication, but the key is to ensure that you can constantly interact with people from different industries and professions. You can find friends to communicate with through class reunions and various activities, and read a lot of various Read books to learn about new things, and constantly subvert some of your views on the world. Over time, you will find that you maintain an interest in the world, are curious and sensitive to new things, and can chat with people from various industries. If you have your own opinions (whether the opinions are summarized by yourself or heard), the career path will be revealed. Therefore, what I have always emphasized is that instead of talking about career planning, it is better to start "training people" first to hone your own personality and abilities, and career opportunities will come.

There are secrets in self-introduction. A good start is half the battle. Precisely because the beginning is so important, many students are worried. When they have to introduce themselves at the beginning of the interview, they don’t know what to say, or they don’t know how to say it to attract the examiner’s attention. There is a well-known "primacy effect" in psychology, that is, the first impression will be formed in the other party's mind and affect subsequent communication behaviors. During an interview, sometimes a self-introduction can determine the success or failure of the entire interview. To introduce yourself well in an interview, preparation before the introduction is very important.

Job seekers are usually required to find all the information on the recruiter they can find, and carefully study the recruiter's products, company background and job requirements. Even if they are just temporary, they must make relevant preparations based on the job requirements. The success of an interview is affected by many factors, and there is no foolproof self-introduction template. Generally speaking, just pay attention to the following points: 1. The self-introduction should not be too short, let alone too long, the key points should be highlighted, and there should be a central idea. That is to say, before the interview, you should have a certain understanding of the culture, products, and skills required for the position of the company you are applying for. It is best to make a judgment on the examiner's tendency based on your own experience when meeting with the interviewer, and then organize your own Language, in the introduction, creates the impression of yourself in the minds of others through description. For example, when applying for a clerkship, you need to judge that the position requires carefulness, enthusiasm, strong writing skills, etc., and you need to mainly introduce it in your self-introduction. Regarding your abilities and achievements in this area, don't think that one introduction covers everything from elementary school to college graduation. 2. At the end of the introduction, you need to summarize, emphasizing your suitability for this position. For example, "I think I have strong writing skills, relevant experience and good results. I am very suitable for your position requirements." This not only continues to remind the examiner of your abilities in this area, but also expresses your very good confidence and interest in joining the company. 3. After preparing the interview introduction, it is best to practice it with someone you are familiar with. Practicing it a few more times will not only reduce your nervousness, but also get some suggestions. For example, during the MBA interview, I knew in advance that I needed to introduce myself within 3 minutes. I made a draft in advance, but it was very fluent when written on paper, but it was not smooth when I introduced myself, so I practiced it 10 times. Constantly revise and reduce some minor descriptions to ensure that it can leave a better impression within 3 minutes. 4. Don’t answer every sentence in your introduction. Some interviewers cherish words like gold and will only answer one sentence after another. The examiner will lose interest soon after the interview. However, do not talk endlessly. This will give people the impression that you have problems with your understanding and are unrealistic and impetuous. Improve resume hit rate A major feature of online delivery is that it reduces a lot of workload for recruiters, allowing them to calmly check and search resumes in the office; the benefits to job seekers are also the same, eliminating the need to travel everywhere to deliver. cost and effort. But on the other hand, recruiters have more and wider choices, and the hit rate for job seekers is also lower. If you are pursuing a popular career, the hit rate will be even lower. So from this perspective, the most fundamental way to improve the hit rate of your resume is to consider the following aspects: 1. Keep thinking about your career direction and submit your resume in a targeted manner instead of aimlessly; 2. After determining your own direction, you should maintain your sensitivity to career development (even if you currently have a good career). The simplest way is to always pay attention to some recruitment information in the same industry and similar positions, compare it with your current situation one by one, and simulate it in your mind. If you apply for the job, will you be able to meet the requirements? If you feel a little weak, look for the gap and "make up lessons" in advance, such as through some training and coaching to supplement the knowledge structure; for example, consciously strive for some opportunities in daily work, exercise your skills in other aspects, and prepare for future resumes Add an experience; such as cultivating some of your own interpersonal circles. Recruitment is a serious social activity with targets and goals. Without relevant experience, it’s best not to waste each other’s time. Take the recruitment of account managers as an example. Account managers are a frequently recruited position in many industries. Many people may think it is very simple. I have also seen many people who do not meet the qualifications submit their resumes. Why? In most industries, account managers need relatively broad and deep local interpersonal relationships, such as insurance account managers and vehicle sales account managers. During recruitment, they will require more than three years of local work experience, and during the selection process, they must have been engaged in external work. Those who work in back office, internal administration and other jobs will be less likely to get an interview opportunity. Depending on the industry, some industries may require more experience. For example, a high-end property developed by a real estate company is looking for account managers. Because the consumer target group is a group that can afford a house worth more than 10 million yuan, they recruit account managers. , the original background mostly comes from people engaged in the same business in finance, banks, and other real estate companies, because only they have a certain accumulation of customers and relationships. Therefore, it is necessary to carefully analyze the career you want to do in the future and then prepare. Opportunities are only given to those who are prepared. 3. The next step is to prepare your resume and place it in a targeted manner. I firmly believe that various recruitment platforms in the future will increasingly provide various services instead of being a simple information exchange platform.

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