My first job search experience

My first job search experience

I came back from Shanghai and wrote down my first job search experience.

According to the expected plan I came to Shanghai. On the first day, I found the address and bus route of Zhangjiang on the map. On the second day, I went to Zhangjiang Medicine Valley. After getting off the subway, I called the company and asked for the bus route. After getting on the bus, I discovered that the person who bought the ticket didn't know where the specific place was. He just asked me to get off at the nearest place. The road was very clean. There were all new businesses and there were very few residential areas. , it seems to be a newly developed place, and the greening is also good.

When we got off the bus, we got off with a middle-aged man from Shanghai. He was also looking for how to get there, so we opened the map. After taking a look, I first found where I was, and then decided how to go. Suddenly I found that I found the place much faster than him. I don’t know if it’s because I’m younger or something, but in short, I was much faster than him (let’s be proud first). We After finding their own directions, we set off separately.

I walked north for a while, but found that I had taken a road further north, so I had to go back the same way. Fortunately, the road was not long. The strange thing was that I found I searched and searched but couldn't find the road I was looking for. When I got back to where I got off the bus, I decided to walk forward to see where it was because there were many businesses there. When I walked into some, I Suddenly I found a stone tablet in front of me, which was engraved with Zhangjiang Medicine Valley. Isn't this the place I was looking for?

I walked around inside first. There were many buildings, and each building was like one. If you look at the fume hoods in every building of an enterprise, you will know without asking that they are all for the chemical industry. The greening and road construction throughout the place are well done and very clean, but there are very few people on the road. They all seem to be busy. I was working.

I first found a pharmaceutical company and got ready to go in. Except for the lady at the front desk and a man next to me who was waiting to see someone, there was no one else in the company. The lady and I After explaining the purpose of my visit, she politely told me that you can leave a resume here. If you think it is necessary, I will be notified for an interview. I spent a long time with the lady to see if she could help contact someone in the human resources department. I checked to see if I could have an interview. She told me that their interview schedule was very tight and it was impossible to interview people as soon as they came. I spent some time with her there, and she finally agreed to give me a call to ask about the situation first. But it's a pity that no one answered the phone, and I don't know if she really dialed the correct number. The lady was very busy and kept calling. At this time, an aunt came out from nowhere. She seemed to be fine. I chatted with her there. He might have seen me when I came, but I didn't notice her. She told me that if the lady let me in, I might be scolded. Sometimes they are also very embarrassed. Yes, so I had to do this. He also told me that there are such companies in that area, probably telling me that there are many opportunities. For the sake of this, I can't ask for anything from that lady. Besides, it would be embarrassing. Then I wrote the position I was applying for on my resume, told her that I would be in Shanghai these days, and asked her to tell the HR department if she could arrange an interview in advance, and then I left.

After this experience, I can probably guess that I can't get into other companies. Sure enough, when I went to another company, the lady gave the same answer. I left my resume and explained my situation and came out. , and then I took a few photos and went back feeling unsure.

The next day, I slept in and received an interview notice from Kitty, the human resources department of the latter company, in bed at around 10 o'clock in the morning. , I was very happy and felt that everyone was very energetic. After lunch, I came to the company as scheduled.

After explaining the situation to the lady at the front desk, she gave me 2 test papers, one of which was professional. , one was about personal performance in group cooperation. I came to the conference room and started to take the test paper. I am really ashamed to say that I did not study organically well when I was studying, and I did not take the organic exam after that. Although I was doing organically, After all, the interview was relatively small, so I forgot many things. I could only analyze the good questions slowly before doing them. What’s even more disgusting is that I couldn’t even remember some very simple questions. Fortunately, it was a compound question. It was very easy for me to find the peak position of the hydrogen spectrum. After about half an hour, Kitty from the acquaintance department came in.

I handed her the test paper: I'm really sorry, I forgot some.

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kitty: It doesn’t matter.

kitty: If we are satisfied with you

, when can you start working?

Me: I won’t graduate until next year, or next year at the latest, but my work is almost done. I’ll see if I can discuss it with my supervisor by then. I will work in advance and go back to complete the procedures when I graduate.

kitty: So you are looking for a job so early?

Me: Very early?

kitty: Yes, very early.

She thought about it and asked me to wait there.

After about a minute, two young people came in. , one was probably in his early 30s (temporarily called A), and the other was probably less than 30 (temporarily called B), dressed casually and ordinary, with a notebook and my resume in hand, I stood up, and they were very polite immediately. They asked me to sit down, and then they asked me to sit down opposite me and looked at my resume first. They also talked about my university. A and B said that they had a classmate who was a teacher there.

The interview was mainly hosted by A.

A: Could you please introduce yourself in a few words?

Me: OK. My name is Zhu Yongmin, from Anhui University.< /p>

A: Is Anhui University in Anhui?

Me: Hefei. (pause) I am from Tongzhou, Jiangsu. My main research direction is optoelectronic functional materials. In my I also did some organic synthesis at work, and the last one on my resume was the synthesis work I mainly did during my master’s degree.

They looked at the last page of my resume.

A: You do a lot of synthesis, are you doing it yourself?

Me: Most of it is, some of it was done by a doctor when I first entered the laboratory. .

A: Then how do you use these things to make the materials you want?

Me: I mainly use them as ligands to coordinate with metal ions.

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A: Is your major in inorganic or physical chemistry?

I: Inorganic.

A: How do you choose metal ions?

Me: Generally transition metals.

A: Pre-transition or post-transition?

I was stunned for a moment and suddenly forgot the definition of front and rear transition metals, so I had to Vague answer: We do them all, including rare earths.

A: Your research direction is very new. What kind of light do the ligands you synthesize emit?

Me: Solid In this case, the green light is around 400nm.

A: Can it be seen under sunlight?

Me: Yes, it is more obvious under ultraviolet light.

A: How is the solubility of the ligand you made?

Me: The first one was not good, so I changed some structures later and it got much better.

A: What do you have in your school? Testing instruments?

Me: We don’t have many instruments in our school, and some of them have too low a resolution to meet the requirements, so our structural characterization and property testing are mainly done at the University of Science and Technology of China, Nanjing University and Shandong University.< /p>

A: It seems that your supervisor has many connections outside.

Me: He is a Ph.D. graduate from Nanda University and a postdoctoral fellow at Shandong University.

A: What electronic resources does your school have?

Me: There are very few in our school. There is only one Elsevier. For things like wily, ACS, and RSC, we go to HKUST to check. Some of them are in paper form at our school. See After that, download the electronic version and come back and print it out before reading.

A: It seems that you are still very diligent.

Me: That’s an award. Our instructors have very high requirements. , he asked us to be able to check, read, and finally write the article.

A: Do you write all the articles yourself?

Me: Yes.

A: Have you used CA search?

Me: No.

B mentioned a few more, but I don’t know and didn’t write them down.

< p> Me: Never used it. What is it mainly used for?

A: What you just mentioned is literature. This involves specific synthesis. It is very useful for synthesis. Sometimes You can find the synthesis method on it. If you can make good use of this resource, it will be of great help to the synthesis.

B: If you join our company, the company will provide training, and you can learn this very quickly.

A nodded.

Me: I have a friend who is an organic student at the University of China Science and Technology. He once mentioned to me that I would go back to study.

A: Do you have any questions when you are working? Encountered an unsatisfactory situation?

Me: Yes.

A: How did you deal with it?

Me: Check the literature yourself and find others If you really can't do the synthesis method, give up.

A: What method do you usually use for separation and purification?

Me: Generally, it is recrystallization and passing through a column.

A: How much do you use to cross the pillars?

Me: A lot. Many of the ligands I synthesized came out through columns.

A: How do you characterize the things you make?

Me: NMR, mass spectrometry, and single crystal analysis.

A: NMR. What is the resolution?

Me: 300M

A: Have you ever used liquid-mass combination and gas-temperature combination?

Me: No

B: We often use this.

Home: You can take a look at the simple principles when you go back.

Me: Yes

A: What did you do during your master's degree? How many single crystals have been produced?

Me: 6

A: What methods do you generally use to grow single crystals?

Me: If there is solvent diffusion, use There are many, I mainly use the water heating method.

A: Have you ever used low-temperature freezing technology?

Me: No

A: What do you think about the current situation? What are the expectations of your company? Or what kind of environment do you want you to work in?

Me: I think I appreciate the working environment of unity and cooperation. Organic synthesis requires experience, and sharing experience with each other can It will save you a lot of detours.

A nodded: Yes. We are a team. If one person cannot do well, it is not your fault alone, but the fault of the whole group, so we all need cooperation and cooperation. Mutual help.

A: What is your expected salary?

Me: I just work, so I can’t have many requirements, but for you, a company like mine is There must be a lot.

A: Yes. Our company employs a lot of masters and doctors. The ratio of doctors to masters is now about 1:2

Me: It’s so high!< /p>

A: Yes. Do you have any questions that you would like to know through us?

Me: What would my main job be if I worked here? What I am most worried about now is I’ve got a job across majors, and it seems I’ll have to take a good look at the book when I go back.

A: Reading is one aspect, but more importantly, work experience. Nowadays, only organic synthesis talents with work experience are It is very lacking. Of course, it costs a lot to train a person in the company. When you first come in, someone will help you familiarize yourself with the place and get started slowly. From now on, you will do your own research and design your own synthesis route. Of course If you encounter any problems, we can discuss them and solve them. I have group meetings every week and everyone can solve them with you. In addition, we also have strong strength to provide guarantee. We have two postdocs who have returned from abroad. For more than 10 years, there are also 10 postdocs who have returned to China. Many of our service clients are also very powerful, many of which are among the top 500 companies in the world.

Me: Oh, they are very powerful. That’s pretty good. .

A asked B: Do you have anything else to ask?

B: No. It’s better.

A: What else do you want to ask? Did you learn about it through us?

Me: No. I would like to ask if I still need to participate in other interviews?

A: No. The HR department will usually give you one within a week Reply.

Me: OK, thank you.

I went to the human resources department and found Kitty and asked her if she had anything else to do. She said no, so what else did I ask her? There will be results soon, she said, in about a week, but considering your special situation, I will inform you as soon as possible, and tell me that the company will grow from 800 people to 1,000 people. People are needed, and campus recruitment will be started soon. It was about to start, and she welcomed me very much to work in the company.

After saying goodbye to Kitty, I went back directly. I really like this kind of interview method and communication form. It is friendly and equal, and I am not nervous at all. It's like when I was looking for a job after graduating from college. Overall, I feel pretty good about myself. The only thing I feel bad about is that I was a little embarrassed to do the test paper. I really want to know the results, but I don't really care. Because I was just going to have a look, and I didn’t want to make a decision so early. In fact, as a company, it is impossible for him to leave a position for me so easily. I was already mentally prepared.

Three days in the morning, I received a call from Kitty. She first praised me on the phone and said that the company was quite satisfied with me, but I still had one year to graduate. If I could make it in this year, I would be fine. This is an internship period. If you graduate and still want to come to our company, you can contact her directly. This number is

The code is her direct line number. Her surname is Li. You can call her directly in the future and keep in touch. A series of procedures such as an agreement can be completed at that time.

To be honest, I like this company very much and it is very efficient. Very high, and the management is also very user-friendly. They knew that I was leaving Shanghai and they gave me a reply so quickly. I thought I would have to wait for about 3 days.

Another thing is that I had confidence in my heart. , it is still easy to find a job in organic synthesis.