Fresh graduates with no work experience should do this during the interview!

The interview tests not only the applicant’s adaptability, language expression ability and personality charm, but also the professional ability to create wealth and value for the enterprise that has been accumulated and continuously improved in life. How can you prepare for your first interview if you have no internship experience?

Different choices, different lives.

We are both fresh graduates with no work experience. Different choices, but different lives.

Many fresh graduates will complain that I have been studying for four years, but your company tells me to have work experience. Isn’t that contradictory?

In fact, for companies, if they decide to go to schools to promote recruitment, they will pay zero attention to the so-called work experience in your mouth. Because they know that if they want a fresh graduate to have work experience, isn’t that the same as calling a mute?

Work experience is the standard for measuring a social worker, so what is the standard for measuring fresh graduates? It’s your ability to grow. So stop complaining, companies will not compare you with people in society, they will only compare you with the classmates around you! As a fresh graduate with no work experience, why do you have an advantage over other students in getting an offer from a company?

Even though everyone thinks the employment situation is bad, many students still got offers. Why are you not among these members?

So, we should think about how we can be a fresh graduate who can get offers from companies even if we have no work experience, instead of complaining about why companies don’t use us fresh graduates.

What preparations should be made before the interview?

Confidant

The first thing to do is to explore your own personal experience and abilities. All interviews without exception will ask everyone to introduce themselves, and two things will be examined: whether the applicant has a clear career plan and positioning of their own advantages.

By sorting out past experiences to find your own core competitiveness, it is recommended that you use the assessment dimensions of "P&G's Eight Questions" to classify your "personal events". It can be based on goal setting and execution ability, problem analysis and decision-making ability, task processing and energy allocation, teamwork and communication ability, opinion explanation and persuasion ability, innovation awareness and practical ability, independent learning and research ability, etc. Find the most supporting events for each ability dimension.

Make a reasonable plan for your career. You can tell the interviewer what you want to achieve within 3 years and tell the interviewer that joining will bring value to the company. At the same time, you also hope to gain stable professional capabilities on this platform. promote. Of course, the most important thing is to reflect the stability of your career development in your plan and not give up your job responsibilities easily.

Self-introduction or answers to personal questions should be short, powerful, and well-founded. Generally, self-introductions should be prepared for 30 seconds, 1 minute, or 5 minutes to deal with group meetings, many-to-one, and Different interview situations for one-to-one in-depth communication.

Know the enemy

The next thing you must do is to deeply understand the position you are applying for, the company you are applying for, and the industry you are applying for, so that your answers can be more specific and practical.

First of all, you must understand what the position you are applying for is like, what your usual work content is, and what qualities of talents are needed for the position; at the same time, more importantly, you must put yourself Put yourself in this position, set up a scenario or situation, and see how you would handle the problems you will encounter in the specific position. For example, a student who is interviewing for interaction design is likely to be asked, "Choose a project of your own and introduce your team role from beginning to end, the overall project process and the difficulties encountered", "This year's Spring Festival red envelope" Wechat has done a very good job. If you were to design Alibaba’s red envelope activity, what would you do?”

At the same time, before the interview, you must first understand the company you are applying for, and obtain company information from the company profile, corporate culture, main business, team training, salary and benefits, etc. Inadvertently mentioning certain situations in the company during the interview may make the interviewer feel that you have prepared carefully.

Finally, you need to have a general understanding of the industry you want to go to to see if you really like this industry or what the development prospects of this industry are.

How to prepare interview equipment?

Resume

Before going to the interview, check your resume again. Make sure your resume is highly targeted and has a certain degree of experience polishing for the specific position; At the same time, when describing specific matters, use more numbers and verbs to make the experience more vivid and highlight your abilities and qualities; the resume must also undergo repeated layout modifications to make the way the resume is presented more prominent.

Clothing

Regardless of whether you are a boy or a girl, you should choose a formal suit that fits your figure or even has a waist-cinching effect during the interview, making you look more energetic. The color is preferably black, and avoid choosing colors with dark patterns and stripes. Generally, single-breasted suits are more common among boys. For college students, be sure not to wear casual suits or ask classmates to borrow suits that don't fit right. In fact, many chain brands now sell affordable suits, which can be purchased for less than 500 yuan.

Details

Bring a folder with a better texture to place your resume and information obtained from the interview unit to avoid the embarrassing scene of resumes flying around in the interview venue. Bring a concise and easy-to-write signature pen for filling in information or recording key points on site.

What to fill with “no work experience”?

For fresh graduates, to fill the vacancies without work experience, I have the following suggestions:

01 Use club activities or social practice to make up for it

Club activities It is the cheapest but most effective way to provide students with exercise. Therefore, at the beginning of our freshman year, we must regularly participate in some club activities in a planned way. If you can't participate in club activities, then go out into the society more often. Social practice is the best way for students to enter society. There are many social practice activities, such as part-time jobs, tutoring, etc.

02 Use project experience to make up for it

When I was in college, there were many competitions. For example, there are speech contests, career planning contests, debate contests, entrepreneurship contests, and design contests. We must learn to participate in more such contests based on our own strengths and opportunities. These are good for training our abilities and for our future development. Bonus points for job hunting play a big role. I know a friend whose academic performance is average, but he has participated in some design competitions and has some relatively good results in these competitions. With this, he got an offer from a Fortune 500 company.

　03 Make your own career plan in advance

Many fresh graduates sent me emails to complain, saying that we don’t even know what a career is, and we don’t even have a chance to try. What will we do in the future? No one knows how to talk about career planning. In fact, many people have many misunderstandings about career planning. Career planning does not require you to set a definite direction for yourself when you are in college, but allows you to find yourself in the vast sea of ??people. It is precisely because the world is changing so fast that we need career planning more. Otherwise, you will simply not be able to adapt to the changes. Career planning is an ability that allows you to change careers at any time.

A person who has no sense of career planning at all. He knows nothing about the workplace. He has no systematic understanding of what he likes to do, what he is good at, and what kind of person he wants to be. Career planning is more important to help you understand your strengths and shortcomings, so that you can use your strengths and avoid weaknesses, stimulate your potential, and find the direction of your true efforts.

Career planning, the sooner you do it, the better, the later you do it, the more passive you will be!

　04 Learn your own speech eloquence

The speech eloquence here does not require you to talk and speak well, but you must at least do it. If you dare to speak in public, you can learn it. By listening, you can express your point of view clearly to others.

Many college students hide in their dormitories every day during their four years of college, never interact with others, and never speak more than one sentence a day. As a result, when they are looking for a job in their senior year, even if they have a chance to get into Interview, but if you can't express yourself well, you still can't pass the interview.

In the past school recruitment, we often encountered students like this: In leaderless group discussions, they did not say a word. Even if they did say it, it was only a few simple sentences. If this is the case, no matter how strong your professional ability is, We have no way of knowing. Because communication expression and impromptu speech have become indispensable abilities for team collaboration.

So if you have poor speech or eloquence skills, you must consciously improve your ability in this area. You can read more, or even organize friends to give speeches outdoors. If necessary, you can also participate in eloquence classes. training.

Learning eloquence can not only improve your communication and expression skills, but also help you pass the interview. More importantly, it can shape your good professional image and improve your self-confidence, which will be of great help for you to enter the workplace and develop smoothly in the future.

How to avoid interview minefields?

Minefield 1: Inappropriate examples of self-introduction

During the self-introduction at the beginning of the interview, many children have stepped on the thunder and died. A common phenomenon is to give inappropriate examples in self-introduction. Examples that prove your abilities are contrary to the requirements of the position you are applying for. For example, they mistake award-winning experiences and test scores as golden evidence of self-introduction, and often "succeed in the CET-4 and CET-6 exams through continuous efforts" and "I can adapt to this job because I have won the title of 'Outstanding Student' many times in school." ", "I failed in the Java exam, but in the end I learned from the failure and overcame the difficulties and succeeded in the exam", "I am good at studying because I used my spare time to pass the advanced interpretation test", but a piece of paper results and certificates cannot show you Unique personality, personality traits and abilities should be highlighted in the introduction to avoid falling into stereotypes. The examples in your self-introduction should be true, specific, and insightful. Start with the ins and outs of the incident, express your deepest insights, and let the interviewer see the truest version of you.

Minefield 2: Pretending to understand when you encounter difficult problems

It is very common for fresh graduates to meet industry experts during interviews and be unable to answer some professional questions. phenomenon. At this time, if you don’t know how to pretend to understand and act recklessly, you will definitely leave a bad impression on the interviewer. If you encounter your professional blind spots, don't panic. It's best to tell the other party frankly and ask for advice humbly, leaving an honest impression on the interviewer. If the interviewer answers the question, you can simply share your own understanding based on the explanation. Do not simply nod in agreement; if the interviewer does not answer, you should resolve the embarrassment in time, initially analyze the core of the problem, and explain what further steps may be taken in the future. study.

Minefield 3: Pretentiousness and deliberate pandering

There are also "social butterflies" who are smart enough to meet the interviewer. As an interviewer, you hope to have a comprehensive understanding of all aspects of the applicant during the selection process. Applicants should present their truest selves and maintain a respectful and equal attitude when communicating with the interviewer. Do not deliberately cater to the interviewer, be too close, Even build relationships. Outstanding problem-solving skills, good psychological quality, excellent learning background, etc. are the best signs that make the interviewer happy.

Minefield 4: Submissive and shy to express

Contrary to the previous situation, some interviewees always remained excessively modest during the interview. "I don't have any work experience, does it matter to you, interviewer?", "I want to ask about my leadership skills. In fact, I have never been a leader since I was a child.", "Hello, teacher, I'm a little nervous..." Such an expression will not make the interviewer think you are modest and prudent, but it will greatly reduce your personal impression. It not only shows that you do not have enough confidence, but also reflects your understanding of the relevant work that you have participated in in the past. There is also no good sense of summary and reflection in the activities. In the workplace, you need to dare to speak out about your strengths. Even if your strengths are not outstanding within a certain range and time, you should summarize them through specific examples.

Minefield 5: Ask for extravagant salary at the first opening

Faced with salary issues, you should make a reasonable evaluation and avoid "talking about money as soon as you open the door." The key to a successful interview is to present yourself. If you blindly raise your own status without outstanding performance, the interviewer will be offended.