Ten things you can do as a sophomore to find a job after graduation

Introduction: After experiencing the ignorance and freshness of your freshman year, what are you busy with as a sophomore? Busy earning credits? Busy taking exams for various certificates? Or busy flirting with girls/men and playing games? ?The following is an inspirational article I shared, welcome to read!

This semester, I have conducted in-depth course cooperation with a university in Beijing to teach career planning courses to students in the School of Mathematics. This is a class for sophomore students. It is a required course. I have made full preparations for the course and am full of confidence that I want to bring a new course experience to the students. However, to my surprise, as time went by, the attendance rate in the class gradually declined.

I was very depressed. I stopped several classmates after class to ask the reason, and the answer I got was that everyone felt that finding a job was still far away, and the pressure of mathematics majors was relatively high, so they skipped classes to do it. For things that I think are more important, such as studying for calculus, some local students in Beijing will go home on Friday and skip classes for the whole day.

This answer really made me dumbfounded. Although there is still a certain amount of time before I can find a job in my sophomore year, if I don’t start preparing now, I will wait until I am in my senior year to find a job, or blindly take the postgraduate entrance examination. More passive. There are many things that sophomores can do to find jobs after graduation. I will list 10 things here for your reference.

1. Study well to add points to your resume

Grades are still the hard currency for school students when they are looking for a job. You can choose to skip the required courses and skip the elective courses. "Escape" life, but you still have to be serious about your studies and let your grades increase your chances of winning on your resume. If your GPA is terrible, when you are looking for a job in your senior year, your resume will be handed over to HR as soon as possible. , the dog was taken to the trash can peacefully.

2. Participate in clubs and competitions of interest to cultivate teamwork skills

Not only will participating in these activities be physically and mentally enjoyable, but as far as I know, in some corporate clubs If you perform well in competitions and competitions, you can even get a job opportunity directly before graduation; more importantly, these activities are also one of the best ways to cultivate teamwork skills during college.

In early 2015, according to Xinmin.com, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) released a survey in which they asked hiring managers what skills they would prioritize when recruiting in 2015. , ranking first is "team collaboration ability", which shows how much companies attach great importance to this ability.

3. Chat with teachers and seniors to learn about the employment prospects of this major

You can talk to the head teacher, the teachers in charge of employment in the college and the school to learn about the employment situation of this major in recent years , such as the main employment destination, employer, etc. The teachers in the school are very busy, but they are still happy to provide help to students who take the initiative to ask for help.

You can also talk to your seniors who have graduated about 3 years ago and ask them about their work situation, what was the job search situation like at that time, how did they find a job, and what did they do to find a job during college. Prepare, this information will help you determine the direction of your job search and prepare in advance.

4. Write a resume and take stock of yourself

Download a resume template and try to write a resume according to the standard format. Some students may think that writing a resume on A4 paper is very simple. In my many years of recruitment and teaching work, I have found that many people cannot do such a simple thing well. Frankly speaking, several of the things I have received in class are Out of ten resumes, very few are qualified.

The most important purpose of writing a resume as a sophomore is to take stock of yourself with the mentality of looking for a job, to see what qualifications and abilities you have that can be used to attract the attention of HR, and at the same time, to see what you need. A place of improvement.

5. Attend a campus job fair and feel the job hunting atmosphere

The autumn semester is the peak season for campus recruitment. Sophomore students can also easily attend campus information sessions on campus. and job fairs. Of course, this is not a time to apply for a job. You can go to the site to see how companies recruit, see how the graduating seniors apply for jobs, feel the job-hunting atmosphere, and get a feel for it in advance.

6. Do an internship and learn about the real workplace

You can find an internship during the vacation of your sophomore year. The time can be long or short. The key is experience. I still remember my first internship when I was a sophomore in college. I asked a lot of naive questions to the manager who took me there. It’s funny to me now when I think about it. As sophomores, we are really far away from the workplace. If we want to know what the workplace is really like, the easiest way is to go and see it in person.

7. Find a classmate who has the same career goals as yours and grow together

If we complete the previous activities, we can have a rough idea of ??our future work. It is too lonely to walk alone, only we can go far together. For students who want to engage in work related to their major, it will be easy to find partners among their classmates; for students who want to find jobs across majors, they need to find partners in a wider range, and they can try to find partners online or offline. Interest/job search groups to find fellow travelers and encourage each other to move towards their goals.

8. Go home during the holidays and talk to your parents about your job search direction

Among the fresh graduates who came to me for consultation, many of them had issues with their parents about their job search direction. Inconsistency issues. Most parents hope that their children can stay close to home and find stable jobs within the system, while students want to work hard in big cities when they are young and find more challenging jobs. If you don’t want to be unhappy with your parents over these issues when you graduate, it’s better to communicate your thoughts with your parents earlier.

9. Try to take career planning classes

To be honest, this is not a course for Amway. The reason why I recommend everyone to take the class is because in the career planning class, the teacher will lead you to explore your personality, interests, abilities, values ??and needs more comprehensively, and introduce the professional world, employment prospects, employment policies, etc. "Everything will be successful if it is prepared in advance, and it will be ruined if it is not prepared in advance." Instead of waiting until your senior year to graduate, it is better to know these things that you need to know sooner or later.

10. Write a career planning book for yourself and sort out your career direction

In career planning classes, teachers often ask students to write career planning books. It is written only after you get credits and grades. What you need to remember is that this is your "own" career plan. No matter how many points the teacher gives you, you have to do the final work yourself. Writing a career plan can help everyone structure it. Thinking about your future career direction and arriving at more rational analysis results is the real goal of this assignment.