I am a fresh graduate.

Case analysis: How to break through the hurdle of "no work experience"

Lack of experience and "relevant experience" are considered as a major obstacle to choosing a job. A recent survey with the theme of "help job seekers urgently need" also showed that 35.96% job seekers were worried about "what to do without experience". Indeed, for inexperienced people, including fresh graduates, inexperience is often a fatal injury in job hunting. However, without a starting point, you can never accumulate experience. What should we do?

At that time, honesty and courage helped me.

Oral statement: Miss Ji is 26 years old and is in charge of public relations.

I studied computer in college. Because I don't like dealing with machines, I made up my mind before graduation that I would never look for a job in computer. Besides, to be honest, you can't learn well if you don't like it. My computer practical ability is almost zero. So, I have to change careers and find another job.

I am cheerful and like to deal with people. I am very popular. I am an active member of various cultural and sports activities in my class. I can sing and dance a little. I became a "junior official" in the student union and occasionally organized activities. When I submitted my resume at a job fair, I saw a company looking for a marketing person, who was mainly responsible for public relations affairs, without specifying any professional requirements. Although the job advertisement says "2 years relevant experience", I still want to give it a try.

After handing in the resume, the recruiter also wondered why the computer major should apply for public relations. So he asked me, what do you think are the advantages of applying for this position? I was a little confused at first, because I hadn't thought about it before. I thought for a while. I don't have the right major, relevant work experience and expertise. How can we impress each other?

I remember what I said at that time: "To be honest, I haven't done relevant work before, and I don't have a deep understanding of this profession." After a pause, I added, "But I am very interested in this job. I think my personality is also suitable. In addition, attitude is the most important. I am willing to learn, and I am willing to learn from scratch. Just give me a chance, I believe I will do well. "

Perhaps my frankness and courage helped me. The recruiter left my resume and called me for an interview. After passing the interview, I will enter a three-month probation period. Although the company gave me the opportunity, I knew in my heart that if the performance during the probation period could not meet the requirements, the result would still be a failure. So I work hard, learn from colleagues and books, and dare to try. Within a few months, I was able to undertake some small-scale public relations activities independently, and my work attitude and professionalism also satisfied my colleagues around me. Although this is a small-scale company, and the salary is very average at first, I like this job very much and soon entered a good working condition.

After working for 3 years, I transferred to my current public relations company. Now I am familiar with the public relations business, and I am already a junior "backbone" in the company. I also regard this career as my long-term development direction. Now I often find some professional books on public relations planning in my spare time of 8 hours, and learn while doing.

Case review-impress employers with comparative advantages

Career planner Grace:

Like most fresh graduates, Miss Ji is blind when applying for a job, with no clear direction and limited understanding of herself. Judging from the professional background and experience, Miss Ji obviously has no advantage in applying for the post of public relations. What helped her get a chance in the job application?

As Miss Ji summed up herself, her frankness, courage and proper self-evaluation got her an interview. After entering the probation period, her work attitude, professionalism, learning ability and working ability are the most fundamental "weapons" for her successful application, which helped her pass the final qualification "audit".

Although there are no detailed statistics, according to my observation, except for the campus recruitment period, more than 90% of the positions in the market are marked with experience requirements, and few positions "welcome fresh graduates". This explicit preference for employing people is only a superficial phenomenon. "Inexperience" often means not only a lack of working ability, but more importantly, a lack of understanding of yourself and the market, a lack of understanding of what you want, poor job stability, easy to aim too high and impetuous mentality; Experienced candidates are more popular, because experience often represents ability, work skills and professionalism.

If inexperienced people can realize this, they must do two things: the first is to avoid shortcomings. Some "shortcomings" are unavoidable, such as lack of experience and weak hands-on ability. However, some "shortness" must be avoided, including impetuousness, ambition, exorbitant prices, ignorance of market conditions, and lack of basic workplace etiquette and professionalism. The second is "development advantage". Without experience, what do I have? What can be done to impress recruiters? In the final analysis, there is no perfect person. In a short job interview, the key to success lies in whether you have enough competitive advantage to impress people and be good at showing it. Like Miss Ji, you conquer recruiters with frankness and courage, with personality characteristics and potential suitable for job requirements, and with the most practical attitude and professionalism.

Job-hunting Guidance —— A "Raider" to Break through the Threshold of Experience

There are two main groups who often encounter "difficulties" in job hunting: first, fresh graduates with almost zero full-time work experience, and second, on-the-job employees who have no relevant experience before and need to transfer to new businesses. For these two types of people, the angles of solving problems are different and the solutions are different.

Group 1: fresh college graduates

Breakthrough points: comprehensive quality, potential and reasonable self-evaluation.

Some fresh graduates have to come up with some countermeasures, such as "zero-wage employment" to reduce themselves. However, these measures need to be handled with caution, and it is difficult to impress most employers by this alone. Grace believes that the "selling points" for fresh graduates to break through the experience threshold can be summed up in three aspects, and they should be good at "showing" these selling points when preparing resumes, interviewing and probation:

Excellent comprehensive quality. Received a systematic and formal university education and has a high cultural literacy; Both foreign languages and computer skills are good, and my personality is also excellent.

Potential. Good professional knowledge, passion, strong learning ability and strong desire for success all give newcomers unlimited potential, and employers are often willing to recruit such "seed players" for training.

Reasonable self-evaluation. An objective understanding and reasonable evaluation of yourself will make you show good qualities such as humility, intelligence, understanding, etc., and also help you to establish appropriate expectations in job selection, and make the requirements for positions and salaries more rational.

The second group: novices who want to enter new industries.

Breakthrough points: professionalism, work skills, and career change preparation.

For such people, the so-called "inexperience" is just a lack of experience in the new business they are applying for. In the process of job hunting, this kind of inexperienced career change is often unacceptable to recruiters. The "selling points" of such personnel are different from those of fresh graduates, mainly including:

Good professional quality. Usually, employers are recruiting jobs.

People have high expectations for professionalism, which includes many details, except dress, etiquette and workplace rules. And it will be shown in bit by bit communication and other occasions. Good professional quality is often an important indicator to measure the maturity of a professional.

Strong working ability. Skills are the key factor for the position. Many job skills are universal in all walks of life and various positions. There are many aspects to show your work ability, including project experience, management ability, speech ability, ability to cope with crisis, etc. Be good at demonstrating your work skills through concrete examples.

It shows that you are ready to change careers. Highlight your long-term interest in the new position, your understanding, the professional knowledge and skills you have learned, and your understanding and ideas about the new job. In addition, don't forget to express your psychological preparation for career change and rational expectations for future work.

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