Who went to college? Talk about how you spent four years in college.

Be sure to finish it from freshman to junior!

No matter how old you are now.

No matter how much you want to go to college.

No matter how much you dislike your major.

Anyway, please read this article carefully.

I can't guarantee how much you will get from it.

But I guarantee that every friend who reads it carefully will benefit from the whole college life.

He will teach you to take fewer detours and fewer detours. Compared with other confused students, you just took a shortcut.

No matter how impetuous you are now, settle down and finish reading him.

I guarantee that your college life will be completely new from now on.

All ideas should be put into action!

Only action can help you succeed!

Encourage each other.

From freshman to junior, do five major things well.

In fact, the resume of senior year is not written in words, but the action of freshman to junior year. An impressive resume comes from five important things that you have been busy with from freshman to junior: academics, skills, clubs, internships and textual research. This section focuses on these five major events.

1. Academic: What can prove your "learning ability"?

Well-known recruitment companies generally regard academic performance as an important screening criterion. The following questions are almost necessary questions in online application forms of well-known foreign companies:

Please indicate your academic status at each stage of education. Former 10% students? Top 25% students? The second half of the students? What is your academic ranking? Is the comprehensive ranking in the top 10%, 25% or below average? )

Why do employers value your grades so much? The reason for this is the following：

The score (1) proves your "learning ability". Learning ability, like leadership, creativity and other important qualities, is an employee quality that any big company attaches great importance to. The famous Siemens Company lists "learning ability" as the first of the nine workplace qualities that new graduates must possess (learning ability, communication ability, customer-oriented ability, result-oriented ability, strategic ability, ability to guide and help subordinates, environmental sensitivity, practical ability and team ability).

(2) The results prove your competitiveness. Students with excellent grades have higher quality and are correct at least 90% of the time.

(3) The results prove that you are "self-motivated". If you don't have the mentality of striving for the upper reaches in your studies, how can you strive for the upper reaches in the workplace?

(4) The result proves your sense of responsibility. The duty of students is to study. If you don't care about your study duties now, how can you care about your work duties in the future?

"I want to talk!" When I talk about this in class, students always raise their hands to interrupt, or angry, or helpless, or depressed:

Angry girl: I'm from South China University of Technology, majoring in polymer. I don't like my major. I hate it. How can I learn well? Don't foreign companies know the phenomenon of "high scores and low abilities"? Her logic is: I don't like polymers, so I didn't get a high score. It's not my fault! )

Helpless girl: I come from Sun Yat-sen University and my major is CGA accounting. My grades in my class are average, so naturally I can't get any scholarships ... Is there any hope for me to apply for the Big Four?

Disappointed boy: I am also a computer major at Sun Yat-sen University. I failed both courses because I fell in love in my freshman and sophomore year. I didn't know I had to make my report card look better until I was looking for a job in my junior year, so I studied hard and got the first scholarship. However, when China Construction Bank applied for the job the day before yesterday, the recruiter saw that I failed two courses and refused to accept my resume at all. What should I do? ...

The author commented:

To the Angry Girl: At least 50% of my students "hate" their majors. Because I don't like it, it's unreasonable to get bad grades! The question is: You haven't studied this major, so what is your "optional interest major"? Are you an "expert" in your field of interest? If you have a lot of experience and achievements in another field, it fully proves your very strong "learning ability", especially self-study ability! You said you like marketing, well, how to prove it? What courses have you taken? Have you ever participated in the "Golden Idea Creative Competition" organized by the Marketing Department of New Oriental School or other companies? Have you ever participated in the marketing promotion organized by enterprises on campus?

To the helpless girl: Who says you are not strong enough? Being admitted to Sun Yat-sen University proves that you have a strong "learning ability", and getting moderate grades in four favorite CGA (accounting major taught by chartered chief accountant in both Chinese and English) classes proves your "learning ability" again! Maintaining the middle level among the best talents has already represented a very strong "learning ability"!

Depressed boy: Actually, the recruiter doesn't care which subject you failed. People who can be admitted to Sun Yat-sen University can't have problems with their learning ability. The reason why the other party wants you to provide your report card is mainly to know whether you are a person who is very responsible for your study. There is a simple reason. You are smart, but you failed in some subjects, which only shows one problem: this person doesn't take his grades seriously, which means he is not very enterprising! This is fatal. Then what you can make up for now is to nail the certificate and transcript of the first-class scholarship together, and at the same time note beside the certificate: only 10% of the places can get the first-class scholarship of Sun Yat-sen University! Or provide a detailed explanation later, explaining why I failed in two subjects at that time.

If you are a freshman or a junior now, think about this question. What can prove your "learning ability"?

Second, skills: "tailored" for the workplace

Most college students learn all kinds of skills passively. Since the school requires me to pass CET-4 or CET-6, I naturally have to study hard to pass the exam. Since the school has arranged computer courses for me, I naturally have to learn how to use WORD, EXCEL and PPT…… ... ...

Passive learning may lead to your skills being derailed from the market or not being closely integrated with the market. For example, when you try your best to get the CET-4 certificate, you find that the recruiter requires "CET-4, fluent oral English"; When you think EXCEL is quite good, Watson's sales assistant actually lets you calculate with the data of two EXCEL tables, and then automatically generates a third table!

The requirements for skills in the workplace are always so clear:

* Guangdong Mobile Recruitment Operator: Typing speed is 30 words/minute.

* Citigroup needs a "credit card customer service specialist" who can speak Cantonese.

* China Mobile recruits human resources assistant interns: SPSS statistical method will be adopted.

If you study job advertisements from your freshman year, you have three and a half years to "tailor" the skills you need; If you start preparing from the third year of high school, you may only have one month or even one day to prepare!

Therefore, freshmen and juniors should learn recruitment notices from today, and then "tailor-made" to master various skills according to the requirements of recruitment notices!

Third, associations: strive to be "big and expert"

2 1 century college students are no longer satisfied with being a nerd, but pay attention to developing their own interests and publicizing their own personality. Stimulate youth and enjoy it! This has spawned countless societies and organizations on the university campus: love society, DIY studio, E-era dream studio, web page making enthusiasts, and young volunteers association; And various popular campus activities: environmental protection handicraft design competition, "PHS Cup" DV competition, going to the countryside, Avon campus agent, Nokia mobile phone roadshow. ...

Looking at the job resumes of new graduates, everyone listed a lot of club activities, which made people see things in a blur. So, what club activities do recruiters value?

1. Big is always the last word.

Since everyone can list a lot of club activities, employers' appetite is naturally growing. The interviewer will repeatedly ask you about the scale of the planned activity, the number of participants, the number of people and resources you mobilized, and the social impact. In contrast, interviewers are more inclined to hire candidates who have planned large-scale projects. In contrast, "inviting Indian experts from Beida Jade Bird to give lectures in our school" is certainly not as attractive to recruiters as "holding a fund-raising activity of" Lighting Love "in cooperation with Guangdong Development Bank".

2. Professional associations are better.

No matter what kind of club activities can exercise college students' leadership, communication and organization skills. But in the eyes of recruiters, the club you join often represents your personality, interests and even job hunting trends.

Here are two true stories. I hope you can be the protagonist of this kind of story in the future:

Success stories 1:

Lin Xue, who graduated from Sun Yat-sen University in 2006 with a master's degree in communication, was the vice chairman and lecturer of CUHK Cisco Network Technology Institute (a campus training institution). Mainly relying on this background, Lin Xue was hired by the ITS department of IBM as a representative trainee of system services. The following is an excerpt from his interview:

Recruiter: Have you ever taken on a bigger project? If so, what do you do?

Lin Xue: I have been working in Cisco Network Technology Institute, from teaching assistant to lecturer, and finally I ran for vice chairman.

Recruiter: Have you ever made any innovations in the project?

Lin Xue: Yes. I organized the "Cisco Eight Schools Tour Exhibition" for the first time, and the number of students who signed up for the training doubled. Prior to this, we only promoted it within CUHK, and did not take the initiative to promote it in other schools.

Recruiter: How do you organize your team?

Lin Xue: I have organized and recruited more than 60 student employees. Regarding the organization of a team, I think we should first set an example and ask team members to do what they want, even if it is such a small matter as not being late or leaving early. The second is to have technical authority, so as to win everyone's trust and respect. The third is communication and listening. Many of our team are top students in our class with high IQ, and they are willing to express their opinions. I must adopt the right approach, or he may quit! Undergraduate students are particularly young and energetic. If he is wrong, I must find evidence to convince him. ...

During the whole interview, Lin Xue basically told the interviewer about his activities in Cisco Network Technology College. As they all belong to the IT field, the interviewer agrees with his experience very much. Imagine if his main club was the "Sports Department", would the interviewer have the same sense of identity?

Success story 2:

Wang Zhigao graduated from South China Agricultural University majoring in software in 2007. The first time I saw him, I was filled with kindness at once. He is short, dark and thin. Like me at first sight, he must come from an unknown mountain village. When he doesn't speak, he will be mistaken for a migrant worker or a foreman. At the same time, I was immediately filled with frustration, because I couldn't imagine how I could help him find a good job. However, after he introduced himself, the whole class immediately began to look up at this 160cm boy:

"I come from Chaozhou, you may be a little surprised, because my appearance cheated you. I look like a native countryman. But I do have something to do with the countryside. I graduated from South China Agricultural University, and my greatest personality is simplicity, sureness and honesty, all of which are good qualities of farmers. In my class, my professional courses are in the top three. In social practice, I have worked in the school's work-study club' Bird Computer Service Center' for two years. Because I look honest and reliable, I have been responsible for the procurement of accessories. Therefore, I am very familiar with the knowledge of computer hardware and have established close contact with ASUS engineers and distributors. However, I personally prefer to engage in software development. I have been a major member of the Software Association since my freshman year. In my junior year, my teacher invited me to cooperate with several other members of the Software Association to develop an' Incubation Assistant System' for Shiwen Group, the largest breeding company in South China, which improved the efficiency of diagnosing bad guys (eggs and eggs) by 50%! I hope to be able to engage in software development and realize personal value after graduation. "

I still clearly remember that Chigo's dark face shone with handsome brilliance because of self-confidence, and there was a flash of love in the girl's eyes, which was fleeting but exciting. My worries about Chigo's future have been swept away: clear career orientation and several years of practical experience in professional associations have made him stand out among a group of boys with a height of 1 m 8!

College students should purposefully choose some professional associations related to their future jobs according to their future job hunting direction, such as:

Students majoring in secretarial science may consider joining:

(1) Public Relations Etiquette Association

(2) Radio stations

(3) Organize well-known enterprises to give lectures and training.

Students majoring in computer science can consider:

(1) website design or computer hardware maintenance association.

(2) Go to a professional IT company (no matter how small) and really participate in the development of a project.

Students majoring in marketing can consider:

(1) Speech Debate Association

(2) College Students' Entrepreneurship Action Association.

Students who want to be teachers can consider:

(1) Speech Society

(2) Debate group (New Oriental will never refuse a job seeker who used to be the main force of a speech group or a debate group, and he will at least get a chance to try out! )

Being a leader is better than being a member.

This is a typical written topic of foreign companies: how many times have you served as the chairman or leader of an organization, club, team or Committee during your university degree study? Please write down the name and year of each group below. Once? Twice? Three or more times?

Judging from the setting of this topic, the recruiter clearly indicated the recruitment intention: you said that you joined a certain club, so are you an ordinary member or a person in charge? How many student organizations have you been in charge of? In fact, the recruiter's heart is: if you are really a student cadre and really have leadership skills, then you should have served as chairman or vice chairman, principal, monitor, football captain and other positions more than once in your four-year college life.

Leadership and teamwork spirit are the focus of enterprise inspection. The key is that people with leadership are often very good at teamwork, both as leaders and as leaders. Moreover, such talents can often bring fresh impacts to enterprises and make outstanding contributions.

A student friend of mine, in order to be a "leader", quit the student union and set up a newly established IT club. As one of the three employees, she was naturally promoted to the position of chairman in her junior year. The curve strategy of saving the country has added a brilliant stroke to her resume.

College friends, if you are only four, P &；; G, IBM, these super enterprises, work hard from now on. Be more of a leader and make yourself one of the top 1% people on campus!

Fourth, internship: accumulate "strength" through internship.

What can college students get from internship?

(1) Realize the triple jump of "internship-graduation-job hunting". If your internship unit is quite good and your boss is very satisfied with your internship performance, you may get the offer directly and successfully realize the triple jump of "internship-graduation-job hunting".

(2) Get valuable guidance from the predecessors in the workplace. We often see new employees respectfully calling old employees "seniors" in Korean dramas, because the seniors who have worked for several years or even more than ten years know the secrets of employing people and long-term career development in this industry like the back of their hands, and have also accumulated valuable network resources. If you can get help from your predecessors, even if it is only some experience sharing and job-hunting guidance, you are likely to avoid detours for a year or two!

(3) accumulate experience! If the nature of your internship is consistent with your job-hunting goal, even a short week's internship can allow you to accumulate some experience.

However, there is always a gap between ideal and reality, and the real internship experience often disappoints college students. First of all, it is the college students' own reasons. They find an industry that has nothing to do with their major to practice. Secondly, employers know that interns are "flying pigeons", so they are often asked to do a little work that secretaries can't finish, and even let them pass the time with tea and newspapers. Although the seniors are polite to you, they are actually like a passer-by who comes and goes in a hurry, leaving you far away. Now, let's borrow some real cases to analyze the real meaning of internship.

Case 1:

Xiao Yang graduated from South China University in 2006, majoring in computer software. Worked as an intern in the sales department of Guangdong Jiahe Software Company. Xiao Yang was assigned to make a phone call every day and go door to door according to the Yellow Pages.

The company called to ask if the other party had any plans to access the software system. After only working for five days, Xiao Yang suddenly "disappeared" (never appeared again without saying hello). Xiao Yang wrote on his resume

I am a "responsible" good student with excellent academic performance.

Case 1 analysis:

Xiao Yang failed in this internship because he made the following mistakes:

(1) lofty but vulgar. Xiao Yang studies software, but he doesn't like to engage in software development, because dealing with machines doesn't show his good communication skills. So he wants to be a salesman.

, or bargaining, or scrambling, or crossing oceans, how challenging! However, the reality really disappointed him. As soon as he got to work, he opened the yellow pages and called every company:

"Hello, is this the computing center? Does your company have the idea of ERP? " This kind of behavior is not a waste of talent! Did I study in college for four years just to call you? ! Little Yang Dezhong.

This idea is very common among college students, that is, the so-called "eyes are superior but eyes are inferior", and they look down on simple and repetitive work. But which job doesn't duplicate? McDonald's bombed repeatedly.

French fries are like frying a gold bar for yourself. Jiahe company's annual turnover of tens of millions is not all made by a phone call.

(2) it has a taste. As long as Xiao Yang has patience and carefully observes the old salespeople around him, he will find that the life of the old salespeople is very close to Xiao Yang's ideal: making a phone call.

Fight, drink, pay the difference, ask for money. High-rise buildings have sprung up, and the initial work must be boring and repetitive, because you are just a screw on the train. Usually a business.

The bigger the career, the smaller the feeling. However, as long as you work hard, you will occupy an increasingly important position, and you will move from the tail of the train to the locomotive, which will affect the direction of the train.

Yes, your vision has broadened. You have seen the green Yuan Ye and the beautiful girl near Yuan Ye. This is a sense of accomplishment!

(3) Dare not communicate. If you are not satisfied with your job, you can talk to the general manager and talk about your confusion. The 38-year-old general manager whose hair is about to retire gloriously is in urgent need.

We should feel the vitality of life by educating the next generation. He will encourage you to say, "Didn't Gates also start from the garage?" Didn't I also brush the paste? Didn't my old man call every day ten years ago?

Really? Moreover, if you don't like to do sales, you can also consider Beijing headquarters to do development ... "In the face of difficulties, don't choose to escape, and dare to tell your boss about your confusion, no matter what.

You are an intern. If the boss doesn't even have the tolerance to complain, it's not too late for you to leave. There is a good proverb in English: When things make you depressed,

Don't hide, come and talk to your boss. That's why he is here. Case 2:

Xiao Zhang graduated from Guangdong University of Technology majoring in communication in 2007. Because the students all think that Xiao Zhang often has some new ideas and new thinking, he has always fantasized that he might become an excellent student.

A market developer became the brand manager of a big company, and he secretly targeted the "Procter & Gamble Marketing Department". At school, I also participated in the promotion activities held by some big companies on campus.

Sales activities, but always feel not enough. Looking for it in many ways, I came to the computer sales company opened by my classmate's father's friend in the summer vacation and entered the mysterious marketing department to do odd jobs. Summer vacation is electricity.

In the peak season of selling brains, Xiao Zhang was lucky enough to participate in all marketing activities: putting roadshows on the roadside, designing publicity activities, buying computers and sending printers, and even sending small advertisements.

After a summer internship, Xiao Zhang found that he liked this "exciting" job very much, so he firmly gave up the idea of communication engineering and devoted himself to success.

Professionals who are familiar with brand promotion and promotion planning!

Case 2 analysis:

Obviously, Xiao Zhang benefited a lot from his summer internship. At least, he changed from "wanting to change careers" to "resolutely changing careers" and determined his career development direction. From the internship, he learned about the city.

The substantive content of field work, found the combination of this job and my own interests, and enhanced my self-confidence. In this way, from the junior year, Xiao Zhang has begun to embark on his own "

The road to career development ",and many of his classmates are still sending resumes to various companies extensively, still deciding: go left? Go right?

Case 3:

Xiao Chen graduated from South China University of Technology in 2007, majoring in mechanical engineering, but decided to engage in sales, marketing or management. Internship in the office of the Party Committee of Huabiao Sub-district Office, responsible for serving tea and water,

Send a "chicken feather letter".

Case three analysis:

I like Xiao Chen very much, because he used the lever principle learned by the mechanics master to hold the hot tea and prevent it from spilling. I asked him angrily: "internship in the party Committee office? You will become

Party secretary? You are a Communist Youth League member! "Xiao Xie also angry:" can't find a suitable internship unit! Isn't it just making do with it? "Looking back at Xiao Chen's resume is fascinating.

: organization minister! Plan a basketball contest, a fan painting contest and a model contest! (yeah! ) The only chance to get your tentacles out of the university campus is internship. Xiao Xie chose the street to handle affairs.

Location. Xiao Xie's internship experience completely wasted his precious 25-year-old youth, which had little impact on his career development.

It has hardly played any role in promoting. Therefore, when looking for an internship unit, try to be professional, or at least the nature of the work is what you like.