Thesis "Personal Image Design and College Students' Job Search"

"Image" refers to a specific shape or gesture that can arouse thoughts or emotional activities. It reflects the overall impression of a country, a product, or an individual. "Self-image" is the mental image we have about ourselves anytime and anywhere. It is the way we see ourselves and the way we know and feel about ourselves. It refers to who we are on the inside, not necessarily how others see us from the outside. Our sense of self is an internal filter between us and the “outside world” through which we view and evaluate our lives and performance. It determines what we believe we do, say, and feel, involves our motivations, perceptions, and attitudes toward people and things, and affects and is affected by the things around us.

Mo Mingwei pointed out that the biggest discovery in psychological research this century is the discussion of self-image. It turns out that as people grow up, they gradually form a psychological image of themselves to define themselves, and they evaluate their own value, intelligence, personality, character, skills, appearance, etc. Once your self-image is established, it is not easy to change. I will live my life based on this image, and make all kinds of decisions based on this image, convinced that this is the only way. It can be seen that a good personal image is of great significance to personal growth and life development. College students are the pride of the times and the pillars of national construction. They represent vitality and youth. They are full of wisdom and strength. Their development is a banner for our entire society, and their image represents our future. Creating a good personal image will greatly promote the development of contemporary college students in all aspects. So how do we shape the self-image of college students? First, let’s take a look at the factors that affect college students’ self-image:

(1) Factors that affect college students’ self-image

1. Family. The family is full of love and boundless tolerance. They often encourage you, care about you, support you, and give you confidence, which is conducive to the shaping of a good self-image. Otherwise, it will have a negative impact on the shaping of the self-image. A harmonious, orderly and warm family will have a subtle and profound impact on the growth of college students, and in the process of individual growth, it is undoubtedly of great significance to the self-shaping of a good personal image.

2. Interpersonal communication. College students are deep in the ivory tower. Facing interactions with their teachers, classmates and friends, they tend to form different psychological impressions of themselves. This impression is based on success or failure in performance in daily interactions. If there is confusion or even failure in the relationship, you will lose confidence in your relationship, which will further affect your image and cast doubt on yourself. On the contrary, extensive contacts, happy communication, and successful performance will make you more powerful and confident, and establish a good personal image.

3. Appearance. In many cultures today, the most highly valued personal characteristic is physical attractiveness. Millions of dollars are spent on television ads every year trying to convince us to buy clothes and cosmetics to make ourselves attractive. This is sending a message: If a person looks good, he will feel good about himself. If a person looks good, he will feel good about himself. If he fails to meet such social standards, he will feel excluded. So how do we shape the self-image of college students?

(2) How to shape the self-image of college students

1. Pay attention to language. Language is the basic tool for human communication activities. People rely on language to communicate ideas, transmit information, and express feelings. Civilized language establishes a person's civilized image, eloquent language establishes a person's eloquent image, humorous language establishes a person's humorous image, and hypocritical language establishes a person's hypocritical image.

2. Pay attention to your demeanor. Style refers to a person's appearance, behavior and attitude, and it also refers to the outward expression of a person's spirit, temperament and character. Therefore, style actually includes mental state, appearance etiquette, behavioral attitude and speech. It actually reflects a person's morality, character, character, temperament, knowledge, and attitude towards life. Someone said, "Elegance is an unobstructed passport to the soul of a friend." This is a "passport" that every college student who desires to succeed in his career deserves to have.

3. Pay attention to the instrument. Appearance is an important aspect of college students' self-image. Appearance image mainly refers to a person's appearance and body shape.

It is an intuitive external image composed of individual physiological characteristics and clothing. The beauty of appearance is the natural beauty of human beings. People with beauty of appearance win themselves the first chance to succeed, because in modern society people are accustomed to using Appreciate people, evaluate people, and choose people based on the standard of beauty.

4. Pay attention to specific behaviors. When recruiting, the image of college students looking for work seems to be a subjective thing. It is the subjective impression of the recruiter. In fact, it is objective and is the effect of the behavior of college students. From a physiological point of view, behavior is the movements made by various parts of the body, including the face. These movements can be conscious or unconscious. People's gestures, every frown and smile will leave a lasting impression on people and produce unexpected effects. Behaviors and movements cannot be taken lightly.

A perfect image can enable people to fight forward in the rapids of society, and a healthy posture can allow you to soar in the vast sky. The times have given our college students a new mission, and the new mission requires new qualities, New image. Believe in yourself and overcome everything. Let us shape ourselves in perfection and create success in confidence. Faced with employment pressure, some college graduates lack psychological preparation for employment and have weak psychological quality, which leads to blurred and unbalanced value identification.

On the one hand, some graduates overestimate their comprehensive qualities and abilities in all aspects, and their psychological expectations are too high. They have higher evaluations of their sense of competition, achievement motivation, psychological endurance, employment confidence, etc., but their evaluations of their own dedication, hard work spirit, and innovation awareness are generally low, and they are particularly valued by today's employers. The self-identity of the spirit of unity and cooperation, professionalism, integrity and responsibility is even lower.

On the other hand, some graduates have inaccurate self-perceptions of employment. They do not know how to effectively combine their own advantages with career information and market environment to make correct self-judgments about their career orientation. Some graduates have relatively good family conditions and good market prospects in their majors, so their expectations for choosing a career are also very high.

In addition, there are also a small number of graduates who have a low evaluation of their own qualities and employment competitiveness due to insufficient preparation, gender and personality factors during the job search process, and have a dependence mentality or self-confidence in job hunting. Seriously inadequate, they dare not take the initiative to promote themselves to employers, dare not take the initiative to participate in employment competition, and feel powerless when they are slightly frustrated during the job search process, resulting in pessimism and anxiety.

Therefore, during the employment process, college students should correct their mentality, adjust their employment expectations according to the situation, focus on cultivating good psychological quality, improve their own abilities and qualities, and continuously enhance their employment competitiveness.

Clear the direction

Make a good career plan

"It will be useless if you do not rely on talent, but if you do not rely on ambition." Ambition, in the final analysis, is still a matter of attitude. And having a correct attitude is far more effective than doing one thing well. In today's increasingly severe employment situation, only by maintaining a good employment mentality can we not be overwhelmed by the "employment panic" and then blindly choose careers that are not suitable for us. Only by always maintaining a good attitude can we face all kinds of unsatisfactory situations calmly and take the first step in our career with courage and confidence.

"No direction will be the greatest failure." Clarifying the direction of career development is the first and most important step for a successful job search. For college graduates, the most critical thing is not "how to find a good job" but "what job I really need and am suitable for", just like doing things correctly Just like doing the right thing must be the premise, college students should calm down and ask themselves what kind of life they want, one year from now? Five years from now? Ten years from now? The process of thinking is the process of selection and the process of growth.

“Because our eyes are very close to us, we can’t always see ourselves clearly.” College students should prevent the “myopia effect” on self-perception and expand their perspective to reduce subjective cognitive errors. Objectively speaking, the current "job hunting panic" is mostly caused by job seekers' vague self-positioning and lack of direction. Therefore, it is necessary for college students to understand their own abilities and personality through various channels and channels (such as evaluations from teachers, classmates and friends), which will help them correct their shortcomings and actively face challenges and competition.

Correct mentality

Understand reality and strengthen self-improvement

Good job hunting habits and excellent professional qualities are the prerequisites for college students to succeed in job hunting.

It is not uncommon for some people to submit their resumes too casually, answer the phone without courtesy, and dress inappropriately during interviews. Some graduates have also lost job opportunities because of this. "The spirit is seen in the details." Recruitment examiners generally cannot grasp all the information about job applicants in a short period of time and can only examine the details. Therefore, before graduates officially enter the society, they need to understand relevant etiquette knowledge and personal image design knowledge to cultivate good job hunting habits, strive to be generous and appropriate in behavior, manners, speech expressions, etc., further improve their professional quality, and try their best to Weaken chemical energy and pedantic spirit.

For most college graduates, society is both familiar and unfamiliar, and opportunities and traps coexist. Graduates must adapt to the situation, adjust their mentality, and have a correct understanding of social reality. Nowadays, there are many units using the banner of recruitment to achieve illegal purposes. It is no longer news that graduates are deceived when they first apply for jobs. To this end, it is necessary for graduates to improve their awareness of prevention and risk, understand and learn relevant labor regulations (such as the deposit in the job application letter, the recurring probation period trap, the training fee trap, etc.), and these precautions are based on the understanding of relevant labor regulations by college students. Familiarity and understanding are the prerequisites.

In addition, it is also very important to take precautions in details, such as recruitment information without company name and address, information that directly lists unreasonably high monthly salaries, recruitment by phone and email, etc. Such phenomena are very common. Prevention relies on graduates to be vigilant. At the same time, graduates should be diligent in understanding social conditions through the Internet, teachers, and friends, and be aware of some common deception methods in society, and further enhance their awareness of prevention and rights protection.

Employment is an important turning point in the lives of college students and a critical period for them to enter society. During this period of time, they will run around, apply for jobs at many employers, come into contact with different people and things, and some will even suffer varying degrees of frustration and blows. Emotions such as anxiety, worry, excitement, and depression will appear. Followed. At this time, employment guidance teachers in colleges and universities must provide relevant psychological counseling and career consultation to help graduates adjust their mentality, cultivate good psychological qualities for job hunting, and enhance their employment competitiveness.