HR from famous companies such as Lenovo offers suggestions for job-seeking college students

HR from Lenovo and other famous companies offer suggestions for job-seeking college students

Recently, at the Sino-British College Student Employment Education and Guidance Forum held at Beihang University, representatives from many well-known companies HR talked freely about the current employment guidance work in colleges and universities and suggestions for the employment of college students.

Employment guidance should shorten the distance between students’ ideals and reality

Yu Ning, Director of the Human Resources Department of Aerospace Science and Technology Group Corporation, said that the unit is mainly engaged in aerospace The development of instruments has certain requirements on students' practical abilities and skills. In particular, the training plan for high-end talents urgently requires students to strengthen their engineering practice capabilities. The unit strengthens exchanges with universities through various methods: subsidizing students to enhance their recognition; establishing R&D and innovation projects with universities; cultivating talents on an order basis; strengthening exchanges between experts from both parties, etc. In short, companies have implemented and called for the establishment of more channels and schools. The key is information exchange with students. Yu Ning even suggested that colleges and universities should strengthen communication with employers in the later course content of college students.

Career guidance is to build a bridge between students and employers, narrowing the distance between students’ ideals and reality. There is a structural contradiction among graduates, that is, the value-oriented needs of universities and employers are different. ?Sometimes colleges and universities should clarify what the value orientation of their training is. They should not only guide college students in the face of reality, but also give due consideration to how to combine employment and talent training goals in the short term in terms of subject settings. Students should change their ideas and stop thinking that doctoral students will definitely be able to find a job. ?

Employers hope to know the comprehensive situation of graduates in a short period of time

Deputy Director Wang Jian, as the head of the Human Resources Department of China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, introduced the company’s annual Accepting 2,000 to 2,500 graduates, the unit’s pursuit of talents is endless. The company has traditionally established a good cooperative relationship with Beihang University. To use a metaphor, it can be said to be a long-term and high-quality customer of universities. This is also a thinking that many universities need to change. For college students, the employer is the employer and the school teachers are the parents. One of the difficulties faced by college students now is that they have a short time to find a job and recruit employers, but employers also hope to understand each graduate's situation as comprehensively as possible in a short period of time. Students' resumes sometimes mislead employers when selecting candidates. At this time, there is a call for a system that can understand all students' processes, including information on all aspects of their lives and studies. True records of students are the premise and basis for employer evaluations. Wang Jian mentioned that there is currently a lack of tools for employers to fully understand students in the short term. Universities with more cooperation can understand students through teachers, while those with less cooperation lack communication in this regard.

Lower expectations and delay gratification

Chen Qi from the Human Resources Department of ZTE Corporation pointed out that efforts should be made to find the convergence of the information needs of both employers and students. Many students pay too much attention to skills in job hunting. Employers do not need to "interview fried dough sticks". Overemphasis on skills is also detrimental to college students' job hunting. It is recommended to encourage college students to practice more and increase their chances of understanding the employer. At the same time, college students should psychologically lower their expectations and delay gratification. For the employment of returned overseas personnel, the unit attaches great importance to students with work experience or domestic study experience.

Calling for the establishment of a comprehensive evaluation mechanism for college students

Yang Linshen, the recruitment director of the Human Resources Department of Lenovo Group Co., Ltd., said: The current strategic focus of the unit is the cultivation of fresh graduates, and recruitment is ongoing every year. There are 60 R&D personnel who are fresh graduates, and many leaders of the unit are also former graduates. College students lack communication with their employers. They can go to the workplace to interact more often, or senior leaders from the workplace can come to campus to communicate with college students.

Manager Yang, who once studied in the UK, also analyzed and compared the differences between the two countries: the UK focuses on students’ spontaneous thinking, while Chinese students need guidance from teachers.

Encourage college students to participate in more practice. Even if they make mistakes, they must discover the process by themselves. After all, 70% of knowledge comes from exploration in practice. The unit focuses on students' internship experience when selecting, and observing whether they can adapt is a way for the unit to fully understand the students. Supervisor Yang also called for the establishment of a comprehensive assessment mechanism for college students to have a comprehensive grasp of students' interests and abilities.

Employers should avoid borrowing doctrine and giving college students a transition period

Wen Ze, as a third party independent of universities and employers, talked about some current suggestions for employment surveys. In the selection of "Best Employers for Chinese College Students" conducted by the China Talent Network, the current employment perspectives of college students were obtained through a survey of 182,000 students in 676 colleges and universities. The best employer model includes: career development, brand strength, salary and benefits, and company culture. These are also the four dimensions that college students value most during the application process. At present, the pressure of many college students comes from competition, experience and their own positioning. They expect employment guidance to provide writing, interview skills, career planning and demand analysis.

From the perspective of enterprises, the demand for college students mainly focuses on professional foundation and practical ability; sense of cooperation and plasticity; resistance to loneliness and rigorous work style. But Shu Liwen also advised employers to avoid "use-ism" and give college students a transition period to adapt to work. Don't blindly expect college students to use it after graduation and be more tolerant.

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UK: One-on-one skills training for students

Mrs. Diane Hay, Director of the Career Guidance Center of the University of Bath, UK, mentioned that as the UK’s No. Among the seven universities, the University of Bath attaches great importance to the employment destination of students. With the goal of improving students' employability and establishing connections with employers, the school uses a traditional one-to-one approach to provide students with skills training. These are based on student voluntariness, including internship and trainee positions for graduates and current students, and the Employers' Representative Committee, as a fixed organization, will make recommendations for them.

Mr. Carey Widdows, director of the Career Guidance Center at the University of Reading in the UK, said that career management courses for students are a must-select for students, and career guidance courses are included in the student credit system. ;