? Find yourself, find a job

According to the data of the Ministry of Education, in 2008, the number of graduates from China University reached a record 5.59 million. However, since there are still 700,000 to 800,000 college students who can't find jobs in 2007, there will be more than 6 million college students who actually need employment this year. Such a huge figure can only explain a serious problem: the employment situation of college students is not optimistic.

Compared with previous years, this year's employment situation has some particularity. This year is the first year after the implementation of the new labor contract law. The national macroeconomic policy is being adjusted, and the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is also facing great difficulties. During the Olympic Games, the large-scale job fair in China has been cancelled.

Is it difficult for college students to find jobs in 2008? OK or not? To this end, the reporter contacted three college students who graduated in June this year to talk about their job hunting stories. They graduated from different schools and majors and experienced difficulties in finding jobs, but finally found jobs by their own efforts. Their job-hunting experience may provide some reference for graduates who are still trying to find jobs and students who are ready to find jobs.

"University Student Village Official" Wang Xianmei: Returning to the countryside from the countryside

Recently, Wang Xianmei always drags her tired body back to her residence every night. During the Olympic Games, Beijing began to establish the rural old-age insurance system. As an assistant to the village director, Wang Xianmei is busy visiting and publicizing every household in the village.

In June this year, Wang Xianmei, who graduated from China Youth University for Politics with a major in ideological and political education, became a university student village official. Wang Xianmei is currently working in a village in Anding Town, Daxing District, Beijing as an assistant to the village director.

"I was a little uncomfortable when I first came, but I am much better now." The harsh environment and harsh conditions are far more than the hardships encountered in the university for the 24-year-old young village official, but this has not shaken Wang Xianmei's determination.

Wang Xianmei is no stranger to the countryside. He was born in a poor rural family in Hubei Province. Due to family difficulties, he decided to look for a job directly after graduation from the moment he stepped into the university gate, without staying in the city or even going to the west.

"I have lived in a poor mountain village since I was a child, and I can really appreciate the hard work of being a farmer." During college, unlike other college students running around in various activities, Wang Xianmei devoted all her time to the school library when she first entered college. His academic performance has been stable for four years.

Entering the senior year, because she studied an unpopular major, Wang Xianmei turned her attention to national civil servants from the beginning. Wang Xianmei was overjoyed when he successfully passed the written examination of national civil servants with a high score of 130. But after the interview results came out, he was eliminated.

This result made Wang Xianmei unacceptable for a while. After all, she struggled for so long and almost succeeded. At this time, the students in the class were either admitted to civil servants or graduate students, or found suitable jobs and even solved the Beijing hukou. However, Wang Xianmei was not depressed. "It is getting closer and closer to graduation, and there is a lot of pressure at home. I have no time to be sad. I can only grit my teeth and look for other opportunities. "

In the following days, Wang Xianmei re-prepared her resume and began to look for a job. At first, he wanted to go back to the talent recruitment market in his hometown of Hubei to look for opportunities, but this year's campus job fair was held late, which delayed his plan to return to his hometown. The campus job fair is not as ideal as he imagined. All the recruits are unknown small enterprises, and their majors are strictly limited. As a result, no employers recruit ideological and political education majors. Wang Xianmei's expectation for this campus job fair came to nothing.

Next, Wang Xianmei began to invest more than 20 resumes in various job fairs and recruitment websites, and even squeezed into a long job search team, expecting opportunities to come to him. However, from the talent market in Zhongguancun to the job fair in Peking University, employers either refused to recruit ideological and political education majors or asked for a Beijing hukou, and Wang Xianmei was hit again.

Civil service examination, campus recruitment, social recruitment ... almost all attempts ended in failure. Faced with these setbacks, Wang Xianmei later said: "I am not very talkative and have little experience. Maybe none of these attempts are the best for me. I should still do something I can really do. "

At the beginning of May this year, the school announced the enlightenment of running for Beijing village official on campus. At that time, Wang Xianmei had two places in the Marxist Academy. He began to have the idea of being a village official and got the support of his parents. There are 15 students enrolled in the college. After strict screening such as written interview, Wang Xianmei was finally selected.

Wang Xianmei's wish to serve the countryside was finally realized in the form of "university student village official". Looking back on the uneven road to job hunting, Wang Xianmei said: "Although the employment situation is getting worse every year, it is not so severe that college students can't find food. All the students in our class found jobs before graduation. I think college students should have enough confidence in finding a job. "

Although her salary is only 2000 yuan (RMB) per month, Wang Xianmei does not regret her original choice. Wang Xianmei's village official contract is signed for three years. Three years later, he will get a Beijing hukou, and at that time, he will give priority to taking the civil service examination. Just a month ago, a classmate who came to work in the countryside resigned, but Wang Xianmei still insisted.

Wei Liang, English editor of the website: Finding yourself in job hunting.

Although Wei Liang has only worked for two months, he generally feels good. "After all, professional counterparts and enough time to learn knowledge after work have great room for development for me." He said with a smile. In June this year, Wei Liang, whose hometown is in Shandong Province, graduated from the English Department of beijing language and culture university and became an English editor on the website of Soong Ching Ling Foundation.

Prior to this, Wei Liang wanted to enter a large foreign company, which was established when he first entered the university. When I was a freshman, at the exchange meeting of graduating seniors, Wei Liang envied the brothers and sisters who tried to enter the world's top enterprises. He found that many of them stayed in the student union. In this way, Wei Liang also entered the Department Student Union and worked for three years.

From the general officer to the president of the student union, the overall quality has been greatly improved, and they have done very well in writing, speaking and organizing activities. "The experience of being the president of the Student Union will definitely help me find a job in the future, at least it will make my resume more attractive." Wei Liang said.

After entering the senior year, when other students were already busy looking for jobs, Liang Weicai, who retired as the president of the Student Union, just started to write his resume, so that he missed many job fairs. Nowadays, the job market has higher and higher requirements for academic qualifications. When asked why he chose direct employment, Wei Liang replied with a smile: "The reason is very simple. I don't know the direction of postgraduate study, and employment in confusion is the best choice. "

At this time, Wei Liang was not worried, because he started later than others, and did not attend the major job fairs held regularly over the years. Instead, he submitted a lot of resumes online. During this period, although Wei Liang was employed by some companies, he did not settle down, and he still yearned for internationally renowned enterprises.

During this period, he accumulated a lot of interview experience. He concluded: "In an interview, showing yourself efficiently is an important step to win the favor of the interviewer. In other words, you must have the basic qualities of an excellent actor and be able to show yourself to the extreme in a limited time. "

Since then, Wei Liang has experienced fierce competition from many large foreign companies. His outstanding performance in college enabled him to successfully pass every online application, and the written test also played well. However, the interview always seems to be the threshold for him to realize his dream of a foreign company. From KPMG to Mars, and in Li Jie's final interview, he was not successfully hired, because his on-site performance still fell short of the requirements of foreign companies.

In this regard, Wei Liang said: "There are often many accidental factors in the interview. For my own reasons, I still can't better grasp each other's psychology and show what they want. " However, he believes that you can learn a lot from the process of preparing for the interview and learn about different companies and industries, which are valuable assets that are hard to get in school.

After several failures, it's already April, but Wei Liang still hasn't found an ideal job. Seeing that many students around me basically have homes at this time, he used to be the president of the student union and felt a little stressed. Therefore, he had to adjust his mentality and actively strive for any rare opportunity in the next round of online application, written test and interview.

At this time, Soong Ching Ling Foundation began to recruit. The news reached the English Department of beijing language and culture university International Studies University. After seeing the notice from the department, Wei Liang submitted her resume to Soong Ching Ling Foundation. After passing the written test, as usual, Wen Tao began to wait anxiously for the final result.

The process of waiting is painful. "At that time, we caught up with the Wenchuan earthquake, and the Soong Ching Ling Foundation was preparing for disaster relief, so the date of publishing the results was postponed one after another, and it took about half a month to get the notice," Wei Liang said. As a result, he stood out from many competitors with work experience-he was hired!

Looking back on the days of looking for a job, Wei Liang summed up two points: First, the mentality should be adjusted at any time, and you should not panic; In addition, be familiar with the job search process in advance and make arrangements in time. "In my opinion, everything I have experienced is worthwhile. The process of finding a job is a process of continuous learning and self-improvement, and it is also a process of knowing yourself and gradually tapping your own highlights. " Wei Liang said.

Liu Qing, IBM software engineer: Always ready.

"Prepare for the future, so that when the opportunity comes, you can have the ability to seize it. This is the case for college students to find a job, and so is the job. Only by studying more and storing more skills in peacetime can they cope with problems calmly. " Talking about his job experience, Liu Qing said easily.

Liu Qing, a native of Suzhou, Anhui Province, graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in June this year, majoring in electronic engineering and information science. As early as last May, he applied for the summer internship program of IBM's Beijing headquarters. After five months of internship, I successfully signed a contract with IBM and officially took up my job after graduation this year.

Compared with other people's job hunting methods, Liu Qing's job hunting goal is simple and clear, and the job hunting process is relatively smooth. When asked about the secret, he smiled and said, "Everything is established in advance, and it will be abolished if it is not predicted." In fact, in order to enter IBM, Liu Qing began to prepare for it very early.

From freshman to senior year, as a student majoring in science and engineering, Liu Qing's life is very simple, with great academic pressure, and almost all of them are spent in the cycle of class, review and examination. After trying different lifestyles, Liu Qing found that she still liked technical life best, so she decided to study technology in graduate school.

From university to postgraduate, Liu Qing has accumulated rich professional theoretical knowledge and technology research and development experience, especially in the postgraduate stage, which has exercised his ability to analyze and solve technical problems and engage in exploration and research. According to Liu Qing, "undergraduate course is the theoretical foundation, and graduate students should make this foundation truly serve for more magnificent buildings. This is called practice."

As soon as he entered the graduate school, Liu Qing began to pursue IBM's dream trip. In order to realize this dream as soon as possible, Liu Qing came to the tutor's company to do * * *. I have done many projects in one year and accumulated a lot of development experience, which has played the role of core technology and design in the later period. After that, Liu Qing turned to another big company to continue working. There, he learned more professional technical perspective, more advanced development technology and more standardized development process.

In the second semester of graduate students, a small company invited Liu Qing to be the technical manager of * * *, responsible for the technical guidance and project design of a certain department of the company. This work experience is unusual for Liu Qing. I used to be a technical developer, but as a technical manager, I have to be responsible for more specific project design and take on greater responsibilities.

Opportunities are always reserved for those who are prepared. One day in May, 2007, Liu Qing came across the recruitment poster of IBM summer interns at the entrance of the canteen, so she submitted her resume to one of the departments. Soon, IBM arranged several rounds of telephone interviews. After online written examination, telephone interview and final interview, Liu Qing, who performed well, was finally accepted as an intern.

Because there are a lot of interns in IBM, even interns who have been strictly screened at different levels may not be formally hired. "If you want to stay and work during the internship, you must do well. In fact, the most difficult thing in the whole process is not the heavy workload, but the psychological fatigue. "

Liu Qing said that IBM's offer is usually issued when the company starts to recruit, which is also the peak period for other companies to recruit. If you focus on finding other job opportunities at this stage, it may affect your internship at IBM; But if you don't find another way out, IBM's offer may not be available, and you will miss the golden recruitment opportunity.

Fortunately, after five months of internship, that is, the National Day in 2007, Liu Qing finally got the coveted offer. "At that time, there were three interns in our team, but in the end I was the only one left. I think IBM chose me because I am more qualified for this job and can meet the needs of the post. " Liu Qing said.

"Even if IBM didn't want me, I still had many other options. Many companies that I have worked in Hefei hope that I can work there. I think graduate employment still has advantages, and a lot of experience is also a magic weapon when applying for a job. "

After signing a contract with IBM, Liu Qing stayed in Beijing until the Spring Festival, and then went back to school to prepare her graduation thesis and enjoy her last campus time. "If you have any job-hunting experience to share, I want to say that you don't have to be afraid of big companies. As long as you prepare early, practice more and exercise your ability more, you may find that entering a world-class company like IBM may not be as difficult as you think. "