A graduate student’s cross-professional job search path: Networking is very important

A graduate student’s cross-professional job search network is very important

? I received an email from my teacher asking me to talk about my two-year career plan and job search process as a graduate student. I felt a little uneasy. Know how to better write authentically about yourself. However, just think of it as a way to inspire others, and I hope it can inspire my fellow juniors and fellow students, especially those of us who plan to find jobs across majors.

First of all, I would like to share some experiences with you:

Looking for hope from despair, life will eventually be brilliant, never wait for opportunities, only take the initiative Create opportunities.

A good future comes from planning, and a good future comes from a long-term vision.

Team, always have a team in mind.

Put yourself in the other person’s shoes. I am a layman, so I have a lot of confusion and a lot of fear, which is part of my life's growth.

A. First semester of graduate school

I am a mediocre and pretentious person, a very confident, low self-esteem and sensitive person. I have been in Huake for the past two years. I have benefited a lot from my study life. I have made a lot of progress in thinking, learning, especially in the accumulation of contacts. My classmates gave me the nickname "Social Butterfly". These two years have given me a better understanding of myself and a more objective career plan. Speaking of my career plan, it is necessary to recall that my first choice failed in the college entrance examination and I could not go to a prestigious school. I became a mathematics major in an ordinary college. My life for four years was very depressed and depressing. Although in the eyes of my classmates, my four-year college life was so exciting and exquisite, and I became a "blue chip stock" in the hearts of my classmates. In this kind of depression, I kept looking for my own interests, and finally got admitted to the Mathematics Department of Huake (I am afraid that I am suffering from postgraduate entrance examination blindness). Continuing my arduous journey of study, my postgraduate life has not even begun yet, and I have begun to frown and become distressed. I don’t know where my future lies. I heard from my seniors that after graduating from our majors, we basically go to colleges and universities to become teachers. This is not my interest.

As a teacher, I believe that I am not good at it and I am not happy. In fact, after I finished my postgraduate entrance examination, I found a good job in PetroChina Jiangxi Branch. I had some hesitation, but finally chose to go to graduate school. From the first day I came to Huake, I felt no joy from others and felt very heavy. I had to make a living on my own, and I didn’t see my professional future. At this time, I wanted to find something to enrich myself and join some student groups in the school. I am very worried about my employment in two years. There is a huge gap between the expectations of people around me and the reality, which is unbearable. Everyone said that our only direction was to be a college teacher, and our tutor told us so. We were unwilling to give up. We thought about passing the exams and studying for a double master's degree, but it didn't work out. So I spent a few months collecting some employment information (regardless of major, or companies recruiting in our major). At that time, I didn’t have any high expectations. I just hoped that a company would hire me in the future, so I wouldn’t have to do math anymore. La. After looking at a hundred or two hundred companies, I gradually felt a little confident. Then we summarized the company’s requirements for job candidates. Perfect yourself according to that requirement. The first semester of graduate school has already begun, and I went to attend some seminars to get into the mood in advance. The first semester was spent in such depression and struggle. In despair, I finally saw a little hope and wanted to grab it desperately.

B. Study for a semester

After a semester of exploration, I gradually have an outline of my future career plan. I look forward to entering the financial industry, so I have a lot of plans for myself this semester. For finance courses, I have also begun to look for summer internship opportunities. I first make a resume and look for an internship. Without internship experience, finding a good job is just a dream. I am doing several things at the same time, which is very hectic. At this time, I hope to find a way to manage my time well. So, I started to come into contact with the subject of time management, learned to manage my own time, and made myself happier and more fulfilled through time management. We often pay attention to urgent and important things, but we don’t know that in fact, non-urgent but important things are crucial to a person’s development. A good time management system gives me more time to do more non-urgent but important things.

Another thing that will be of great help to me in my future job hunting is that I have a relatively good interpersonal maintenance system. Every time I meet new friends, I come back and make some simple notes so that I can remember them, prepare for better communication next time, and keep in touch from time to time to break the ice. A very important task at this stage is to find a summer internship. After searching for a long time, people who have been rejected have become numb. However, I have taken this rejection as a matter of course. I have been fully mentally prepared and can withstand the pressure. . In the process of submitting your resume, if you use email, you will pay more attention to the time of sending the email. Generally, it is after 11 pm or before 8 am. Many office workers are accustomed to checking their mailbox first in the morning when they go to work. This way your resume can often appear in their sights the fastest. At the same time, at this time, the career planning competition held by the school's career development research association gave me a lot of help.

During the competition, I participated in a lot of very useful training, which helped me understand myself better, and I made many good friends through this platform. Make yourself more confident and self-aware. Hard work paid off, and after being despised thousands of times, two consulting companies finally took care of me and gave me a chance. I started interning at a human resources management consulting company in mid-June. During these few months in the company, I made a qualitative leap for myself. I learned a lot and my way of thinking also changed significantly. In the past, I paid more attention to my own thoughts and often felt that others thought the same way. Now I will think more from the other person's perspective.

To sum up, I feel that the company has taught me:

Pay more attention to what the other party thinks.

What you think is right does not mean it is right; what you think others are wrong does not mean it is wrong.

The aroma of wine is also afraid of the deep alley. No matter how good you are, you still need to package it.

The team is not a slogan, it must be practiced, and together every one achieves more!

The communication process is no longer about what you said, but should focus more on what you said. In the environment, the information you convey through the medium is what the other party receives.

During the internship, there were about ten of us in a batch. Maybe I did the most and became the leader of our team. I always put Set yourself low, work more, and participate more. I feel that during the internship process, you should not take yourself too seriously and work diligently. The rule of thumb for doing things for yourself is: a loss is a blessing!

C. Graduate II: Job hunting in progress

The recruitment for 20xx came a bit early. The school just started in September and there were quite a few. The company began to post recruitment information online, so we started preparing for job hunting relatively early. In September, I formed a team with a few friends. Let’s work together. We revised each other’s resumes and invested online together. I have revised my resume many times before and I already think it is perfect. The brothers and sisters in the team still put mine The resume review process was useless, and a lot of flaws were found, which played a huge role in my later job search. After I submitted my resume, few better companies eliminated me at the resume review stage. Our team meets every day for discussions, group discussions, and brainstorming. Practice speaking and conduct mock interviews. It turns out that we practice speaking at 6:30 in the morning and have group discussions together in the evening. After persisting for a while, I felt that the intensity was too great. Later, we arranged the two activities together in the evening. We also opened a blog and QQ group to communicate information in a timely manner. We often do some brainstorming, discuss some interview questions, and simulate interviews. In our team, it is very important that we can share information in a timely manner and help each other submit resumes.

When it comes to submitting resumes, when there are general information sessions at other schools (such as Wuhan University and University of Finance and Economics), I basically don’t have to attend. I can ask friends from their own school to help me submit my resume, so I can accumulate a lot of contacts. It makes me more handy. Recruitment information from various universities in Wuhan can often be obtained at the first time. Moreover, timely communication between friends can allow us to share many of the troubles in job hunting with each other. In the Let's Come Together team, through everyone's joint efforts, every partner has found a job that he is satisfied with. In the process of looking for a job, everyone talks about the issue of positioning. I think when you first start looking for a job, you will definitely have a preliminary positioning based on your own strengths and weaknesses, your own value judgments, and your interests and hobbies. At the same time, I kept making adjustments while looking for a job. At first, I felt that I was very suitable for the market, and I was looking forward to working as a management trainee. Later, I wanted to go to a foreign company, but I applied online to a few foreign companies and interviewed a few foreign companies. , I was completely desperate for my English. I guess only God could understand my spoken English, so later on, except for foreign-funded consulting companies, I basically didn’t invest in foreign companies (I didn’t exclude foreign-funded consulting companies because I had a relatively rich knowledge of consulting companies). Internship experience, I believe my advantages are still obvious). Throughout the job search process, my mentality kept changing. In September and October, I was full of confidence and expectations, but arrogant. Most of the partners in our team are legendary so-called talents in their own departments. In such a team, it is easy for oneself to feel that he is a genius (as for whether he is a genius, he still has to withstand the test of the market) ). In the early stage, I submitted my resume to practice interviewing. I applied for many positions in many companies overseas, and interviewed for sales positions, marketing positions, data analysis positions, human resources positions, and strategic planning positions. My partner said that I could start a company by myself and do all the positions by myself. However, I have accumulated a lot of experience, but it also consumed too much energy. The method has merits, but it is a bit extreme. In the early days, consulting and banking were considered the second and third options respectively. Basically, I did not submit resumes for this area and focused all my energy on the first option (the company's marketing and sales position). By November, my positioning gradually changed. Banking and consulting became my first and second options respectively. I began to pay attention to the recruitment information of these two industries. The pass rate of resumes is very high. The pass rate of resumes in these two industries is close to 100%. At the beginning, I didn’t care much about consultation, so I gave up on some written tests and interviews. It was only later that it attracted attention.

My attention to banks was also accidental. I never knew much about banks and always thought they were very lifeless and dull. In fact, later I found out that it was not what I originally thought. In the field of consulting companies, like Far Table, I was rejected in the first round of interviews, and the consulting company I got was the Singapore-based Kerui Consulting Company (KRC). Let’s talk about KRC. By the end of November, it had already attached great importance to consulting and banking. KRC held a briefing session at Wuhan University and conducted a personality test on site. At 11 o'clock in the evening, I received a phone call informing me of an interview at Shuaifu Hotel the next afternoon. I was also told that an email would be sent to me that night. I would make a PPT based on the topic given in the email and give a speech the next day. The school shut down the internet at twelve o'clock and couldn't get online, so I had to go to bed early. I still had half a day to prepare the next morning. The second time I read the email, I was asked to analyze how China's tobacco industry will reform through the country's reforms in monopoly industries such as electricity, petroleum, and telecommunications, and to make a five-minute presentation using a PPT. We interviewed a group of ten people. When giving speeches, our usual accumulation played a very important role. My speech seemed more professional, and my speech ability was put into very good use. I could clearly feel that I was the best at what I did. Then we were given a new task and conducted a group discussion to examine our comprehensive abilities. The number that passes through this side should be about one-tenth. Then I received a notice to attend the second interview, which took place in a cafe. Three interviewers interviewed me alone. I have seen this situation many times, so it was very relaxed. The three interviewers took turns bombarding me, leaving little time to think. Fortunately, I am quite good at instant communication. The two parties had a very pleasant chat. I believe they can feel that my communication skills, way of thinking, and way of doing things all have great potential for consulting. So after waiting for a while, I successfully received the offer. Their professionalism and humanity also left a very good impression on me. At that time, I was determined to go to KRC. However, in the end, the iron heart melted. KRC was not chosen. Went to Shenzhen Construction Bank. Bank recruitment was very hot in December. I invested in many banks and got offers from some banks. Be careful that your personality is not suitable for state-owned enterprises. After much consideration, I chose the bank. The main one is the prospects of the financial industry in an environment where China's capital market is further improved. The other is that the financial industry will bring great convenience to my future financial management and can better improve my quality of life. During the process of submitting resumes and interviews, I may pay more attention not to what I want to say to them, but to what they pay more attention to. So the interview process overall went relatively smoothly.

During the job search process, my personal connections played a very important role in my job search. Every time I submit my resume on site, there will be many familiar friends. Everyone is waiting to submit their resume and chatting about their job hunting experience and information together. I can meet dozens of acquaintances at each presentation. I feel that this presentation is for the friends around me. Open and very friendly. The same is true for interviews. Basically in every interview, you can meet many acquaintances. Sometimes there is a group discussion, and all the interviewers are familiar with each other before, so it will be natural to use them. Everyone sometimes makes jokes and stuff. Therefore, the arduous job search process does not seem so tiring, and I am always very happy. If you feel like giving up and can't hold on anymore, maybe if you try harder and swim another three to five meters, you'll reach the other side of victory. December is my harvest season and I received a lot of offers. After I got a suitable offer, I considered it for a few days and then signed up with Shenzhen Construction Bank. I am worried about gains and losses and have difficulty making a choice. Our parents expected to have the opportunity to choose, but they did not. Given the opportunity to choose, I often don’t have the courage to choose, and I don’t know whether the current choice is correct. After that, although I received many offers and many interview opportunities one after another, I didn't even go. I had already signed, so why block other students' job search opportunities.

I have always wanted to write an article to recall this ordinary but not peaceful day, and I hope to share something with my friends. My writing skills are so bad that when I read it back, it is worse than a foot wrap. I used to say that I was young and still had many opportunities, but recently I felt that I had no passion, maybe because I was too tired. When I'm free, I feel lonely and lonely. I’m really tired and it’s not easy. Looking back on the past two years, I feel very heavy, and I want to avoid it, because it feels really good to be happy now. I have experienced so much that I have become numb and my emotions have become rough. I am no longer willing to appreciate the journey I have traveled. It is very tiring.

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