Coming! The largest school recruitment in history, Alibaba HR will face a big exam

In the past two days, Alibaba has officially opened its school recruitment for the class of 2022.

Sources say that the scale of this school recruitment is unprecedented in Alibaba’s history. Not only are there many positions in demand, but the number of places to recruit is also very large.

I always feel that this kind of news appears once a year, and the next year seems to always expand enrollment based on the previous year, so every year is the so-called " "The largest school recruitment in history"...

No kidding, Ali's school recruitment this time is indeed different from the past.

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Hundreds of positions

Including cutting-edge Technical positions

The biggest difference is that Alibaba released 113 positions at one time.

Among them, there are 45 cutting-edge technology positions announced for the first time, such as technical standardization engineers, simulation design engineers, video encoding and decoding engineers, quantum computing scientists and other positions.

What you need to know is that these cutting-edge technical positions are usually difficult to appear in school recruitment. After all, we all know that the cost of cultivating a high-end technical talent in person may far exceed Recruit directly from outside.

Why did Ali do this?

This has to be said about a mysterious plan within Alibaba: "Alibaba Star".

The Alibaba Star Project originated in 2011. Its purpose is to attract the youngest and top technical talents.

Among the hundreds of thousands of engineering graduates every year, only a few people finally get the Alibaba Star Offer. Most of them have Ph.D. degrees, will go through more than ten rounds of interviews, are directly led by vice presidents, and have unlimited annual salaries...

Enter Alibaba with Alibaba Star Some of these people have become young scientists at the Damo Academy, and some have become engineers at the Database Group.

These one-in-a-million Alibaba stars, like Huawei’s talented teenagers, will become the backbone of Alibaba’s talent strategy in the future.

Over the years, fresh graduates have been an important source for Alibaba to absorb new forces and young backbones. Just as Tong Wenhong, chief human resources officer of Alibaba Group, said: "Every year, there are four energetic graduates. These young people are active in various business lines and have grown into the backbone of Alibaba.”

In short, Alibaba’s “Alibaba Star Plan”. ”, just like Huawei’s “Genius Program”, it is using top talents to invest in the future.

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Behind the expansion of school enrollment

HR will Ushering in a big test

School recruitment is also recruitment, but it is still the most tiring kind.

The expansion of recruitment may seem prosperous, but behind the scenes it is HR who is suffering.

Xiaohui has said before that there are two types of HR who work the hardest together, one is the HRBP of the business department, and the other is the HR responsible for school recruitment.

Imagine that for the company-wide school recruitment, the planning process alone involves determining the theme and direction, determining the university and major, determining the number of people and positions, determining test questions and interviews, and determining Materials and funds... These are enough to keep HR busy.

Not to mention that when you go to the university to implement it later, you won’t even have time to answer phone calls from students at night, and you won’t even have time to drink water.

After a job fair, you have to be busy for at least 7 or 8 hours. If the information meeting is held at night, you don’t even have time to sleep... . ..

HR people who have experienced school recruitment, needless to say, must have a deep understanding of it.

In addition to the pressure brought by the increase in school recruitment, recruitment itself is a very stressful thing. Generally speaking, there are three situations when a company expands its recruitment based on its original recruitment plan:

Business expansion, staff loss, and organizational upgrade.

These three situations are not independent of each other. They may exist simultaneously in every fast-growing enterprise, because they are inherently internal factors of the company.

However, most of the reasons for the expansion of enrollment come from outside.

Because the annual talent resources are like a piece of cake, it is only so big at a time. If you want to take one more bite, then I will take one less bite.

So, let’s just show off our cards directly and let each of them rely on their abilities. Whoever gets it will get it.

From this point of view, HR’s recruitment work is to help the company grab the cake, so the pressure should not be too great.

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School recruitment is accelerating

Dachang Competition for talent is fierce

It’s no secret that recruiting is becoming increasingly difficult.

Major companies continue to increase their recruitment efforts on campus, in fact, in order to attract more talents.

From a macro data perspective, it is becoming increasingly difficult to recruit people.

According to statistics, the total population of the post-90s generation has decreased by 44.2% compared with the post-80s generation, and the total population of the post-00s generation has decreased by 33.7% compared with the post-90s generation.

What concept?

For example, if the total population of those born in the 1980s is 100, then there are 56 people born in the 1990s and 37 people born in the 2000s.

Is it hard to believe? There is another set of data that is also somewhat unbelievable.

China’s population exceeded 1 billion in 1981. It exceeded 1.1 billion in 1988, an increase of 100 million in 7 years; it exceeded 1.2 billion in 1995, and still increased by 100 million in 7 years; It exceeded 1.3 billion in 2005, and this time it increased by 100 million in 10 years; at the end of 2019, China's population exceeded 1.4 billion, and it took 14 years to reach this 100 million!

For the same increase of 100 million, the time it took doubled from 7 years to 14 years. This directly represents not that there are fewer people, to be precise, but that There are fewer young people.

The most straightforward meaning when translated into HR is that there are fewer people to recruit.

There are more monks than porridge, and the expansion of recruitment is to try to use larger bowls so that more porridge can be filled.

Regarding recruitment, social recruitment is not as effective and rapid as school recruitment. As a result, large-scale school recruitment has basically become the keyword for annual recruitment in major factories.

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Write at the end

Recruitment is like a microcosm of changes in business structure.

More than ten years ago, the talented people in society were running around big factories that could afford high salaries. However, this situation is gradually being reversed. Those who hold the Big companies with high salaries began to run around talents.

From an HR perspective, talent will inevitably become increasingly scarce and recruitment will become increasingly difficult.

At the same time, this is also the only way to make an enterprise stronger and stronger, because the better the enterprise, the more willing it is to value the importance of talents.

Are you right?