Studying abroad should not be just a background. As more and more "foreign diplomas" become easier to get, the gold content of the name "studying abroad" has also been discounted accordingly, resulting in a shrinking salary. Let's share the study abroad below. It should be more than just the background. Let's take a look.
Studying abroad should not be just a background 1 Nowadays, China students are becoming more and more rational to go abroad. This is not always reflected in "leaving the intermediary to study abroad", but when choosing a school or major, we must first care about the employment prospects after graduation. Once upon a time, studying abroad was called "gilding". With a "foreign diploma", you can pave a career path in China. However, now a "foreign diploma" may not bring a satisfactory job.
In response to the employment of returnees, returnees' entrepreneurship is highly valued. Not long ago, the "First China Overseas Returnees Investment and Entrepreneurship Forum" named the top ten "Returnees" entrepreneurs. At the "Science and Technology Fair" in May last year, the Beijing Municipal Government also named "Top Ten Outstanding Returned Entrepreneurs". However, it is not difficult to find that "returnees" seem to be more popular to return to China to start a business. On the one hand, it will not grab the already tight "rice bowl"; On the other hand, it can also provide more opportunities to "eat".
Can studying abroad achieve appreciation?
China Returnee Investment and Entrepreneurship Forum selected the top ten "Returnee" entrepreneurs. At the "Science and Technology Fair" in May last year, the Beijing Municipal Government also named "Top Ten Outstanding Returned Entrepreneurs". However, it is not difficult to find that "returnees" seem to be more welcome to return to China to start businesses. On the one hand, it will not grab the already tight "rice bowl"; On the other hand, it can also provide more opportunities to "eat".
The word "returnees" only appeared in the last two years. In May, 2000, the city issued "Several Provisions on Encouraging Overseas Students to Start Business in Beijing", and in October, 2006 54 38+0 65 438+0 10, the Regulations on Zhongguancun Science Park even contained many encouraging provisions, which were fixed in the form of local regulations. These safeguards not only include how to solve the problems of entry and exit visas, residence accounts and children's schooling for overseas students returning to China to start businesses, but also include that overseas students working in Zhongguancun Science Park can participate in social insurance according to the regulations of this Municipality ... "Returnees" have become a veritable hot candidate in the talent market.
Relevant information shows that in the past 20 years, 400,000 China people have studied abroad. So far, 6.5438+0.3 million foreign students have returned to China. At the same time, the number of returnees is still increasing at the rate of 13% per year. However, at job fairs and even job advertisements, it is difficult to see the conditions for studying abroad. Although overseas students once had the original intention of "gilding" employment, many people with study abroad background did not become the sought-after talents in the recruitment market as they expected. A student who just graduated from a university in England returned to China to look for opportunities. However, due to lack of work experience, a consulting company that hired him only offered a monthly salary of 4,000 yuan, and the position was also started from the bottom. This salary is naturally difficult to be directly proportional to his hundreds of thousands of "investment" in studying abroad.
Experts told reporters that at present, many international students go abroad to study because they have not found suitable schools in China. The purpose of this kind of international students studying abroad is not clear. After studying abroad for several years, I didn't learn advanced foreign knowledge, nor did I know the actual situation in China for several years. Such people are not as good as local talents. In fact, "returnees" is just a neutral word. Studying abroad can only show that you have studied abroad, and the company is interested in "returnees" with real talents and practical learning.
It is undeniable that "returnees" used to be synonymous with elites. In the early years, only by passing the G-test, TOEFL and applying for the exam can studying abroad become a patent for a few students. Now, with the increasingly fierce competition of foreign educational institutions for students, the threshold and tuition fees of some foreign universities have dropped again and again. Although the cost of studying in Europe and America is still high, if you go to Thailand, Malaysia and other countries to study, the annual tuition and living expenses add up to only 30,000 to 50,000 yuan. With this "foreign diploma" getting better and better, the gold content is naturally discounted accordingly. In families in big cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, more than 80% parents are willing to let their children study abroad at their own expense from the undergraduate stage in order to avoid the pressure of "college entrance examination". As for the value added after coming back, it depends on the test of the market.
In fact, this "quick and easy to save" learning mode makes it difficult for foreign students to master real talents and practical learning, and some people even have problems with basic English conversation after returning home. In recent years, the attitude of domestic enterprises towards returnees has been much more rational, and it is difficult to get the expected high salary when going out to get a foreign diploma.
Can the gold content of "returnees" be strong?
In sharp contrast to the return of "returnees", in some foreign talent markets, the word "those who have studied abroad are preferred" is disappearing from job advertisements, and some returnees no longer call themselves "returnees" when applying for jobs. It can be seen that "returnees" is no longer a concept that has been heated up in the talent market.
In fact, some enterprises in this city have expressed their views on hiring returnees. The human resources manager of an enterprise described "returnees" as "airborne troops" and thought that many "returnees" did not understand the situation of domestic enterprises, but copied foreign management concepts and methods. This idealized advanced practice has formed a huge contrast with reality, and even directly affected the teamwork within the enterprise. But what is certain is that after a period of time, "returnees" will eventually achieve a real "return." However, this requires a process.
In fact, from this point, it is not difficult to see the fundamental reason why the relevant state departments encourage "returnees" to start businesses. "Returnees" did bring back advanced ideas, advanced technology and funds. At the same time, "returnees" can build nests for more "returnees" after starting a business. Zhongguancun can be said to be the largest gathering place for returnees in China. According to the survey, the average age of overseas students who start businesses in Zhongguancun Science Park is 38 years old, among which the largest proportion is over 40 years old, reaching 58.05438+0%; Followed by 35 to 40 years old, accounting for 29.8%. By the end of August last year, among more than 8,900 enterprises in Zhongguancun High-tech Park, there were 1.357 enterprises founded by overseas students, accounting for 1.3% of the total number of high-tech enterprises in the park. There are nearly 4,000 international students employed in the park, four times that of 1999. But just looking at the figures, it is not difficult to find that the proportion of "returnees" in Zhongguancun is 1 4. In short, the high proportion of entrepreneurship can be seen. Wang Liping, director of the Human Resources Department of Zhongguancun Management Committee, said that in recent years, overseas students have started their careers in teams of three to five people, with a clear division of labor according to their own specialties.
However, Zhongguancun is, after all, an elite among returnees. The manager of a talent service company in this city said that there are more and more returnees now. Many domestic companies have also changed their concept of employing people. For the sake of saving expenses and paying attention to efficiency, many foreign companies entering China have accelerated the process of talent localization. At the same time, local talents have grown rapidly and are not inferior to returnees in technology. Moreover, universities in China are training more and more high-quality talents, and China also has the top 20 business schools in Asia. Many excellent students can get internationally recognized qualification certificates without going abroad. Therefore, in the face of increasingly fierce market competition and increasingly critical eyes, "returnees" should re-evaluate their own value and give themselves a suitable market positioning.
Hou, general manager of Ziming Cultural Exchange Co., Ltd. told reporters that the company had planned to recruit several overseas consultants, and as a result, 40 or 50 people applied, all with overseas study backgrounds, and the employment competition for "returnees" was equally fierce. A headhunter in Zhaopin.com also said that only those who have worked overseas for five years or more can return to China to find the ideal position. For those "returnees" who have no work experience or only two or three years of work experience, they can only expect to get a monthly salary of $600 to $725. What is certain is that in the face of the increasingly critical eyes of employers, "returnees" are likely to fail in the competition if they do not re-evaluate their own value and give themselves a suitable market positioning.
In fact, in the face of "returnees", we should also be "choosy", which is a sign that employers return to rationality. Adaptability and practical ability are replacing the background of studying abroad and becoming a new attraction in the talent market. Faced with this situation, it is more useful to have five or eight years of work experience in China than just to go out and study for a degree. Come back, don't rush to find a job. Understand the domestic situation first, then find your own position, start from scratch, start from small things, and become the advice of returnees experts.
Studying abroad should be targeted.
As more and more "foreign diplomas" become easier to get, the gold content of the name "returnees" has also been discounted accordingly, resulting in a shrinking salary. I'm afraid it depends on practice to test how outstanding the comprehensive quality of students who have only studied for one or two years abroad and have little work experience can be. Moreover, the English level of domestic students is not what it used to be, and the language advantage of foreign students may not be obvious. It is not so easy for "returnees" to stand out from the fierce talent competition in China by drinking foreign ink for a year or two.
Boone Pildier, director of the International Department of SussexDownsCollege in Britain, said that China students are blind in choosing their majors, and most of them plan to study business and computers. Judging from the future employment trend, China students have gone abroad to study business and computer, so they may not be very popular when they are employed. He suggested that students in China should choose their major according to their hobbies. For example, some universities in Britain have joint degrees. Take mathematics that China students are good at as an example. You can choose a joint degree in mathematics and business administration, mathematics and chemistry, or even mathematics and linguistics, spend two-thirds of your time studying mathematics, and then spend 1/3 of your time studying the application of mathematics in related fields. Finally, I can get such a joint degree.
Bi Zijie, China manager of TMP, a world-renowned talent consulting company, said that many "returnees" still have a misunderstanding that they will become international talents after going out to study for a period of time. In fact, as far as domestic multinational companies are concerned, what they need more is people who have accumulated rich experience in domestic enterprises before studying abroad and worked for a period of time after graduating from foreign universities. In this way, they are very familiar with the operation of domestic and foreign enterprises, and they are very familiar with both cultures, and they have not been out of the domestic environment for too long.
However, this does not mean that "returnees" are hard to find. Not long ago, an international student expressed his intention to return to China by email to the relevant departments. He has seven years' working experience in China, and worked as a department manager in a famous commercial bank after studying abroad. Once the news was released, many units expressed interest. A person from the human resources department of a company said that this kind of "returnees" are still very popular with the study experience of famous foreign schools and work experience at home and abroad, and still need some high-quality "returnees" to join.
Wang Xiaoping, general manager of Beijing Foreign Enterprise Service Group Human Resources Branch, analyzed that there are several different situations of "returnees". The first category is people with experience and academic background in China. When they go abroad for further study or have work experience abroad, they are really "gilded back". They are very popular with foreign companies, private enterprises and state-owned enterprises, and they are hired with high salaries. Their wages have risen the most, and it is normal to multiply them several times. The second type is "returnees" who have studied abroad and have no professional work experience. They have a better understanding of the culture, management and e-commerce in some developed countries, but their usual idea is that they want to recover the "cost" quickly as soon as they come back because of their large "investment" abroad, so their expectations for salary are relatively high, even the annual salary is 30,000 to 50,000 US dollars, but it is actually 6,543,800 to 20,000 US dollars. However, China has developed rapidly in recent years, and many college students have a good foreign language. If "returnees" can put themselves back to the same level in China, measure their value in the market, and lay a good foundation first, they can gain value quickly. The other is to mix abroad, including some high school students, who don't study very well and may not be the best among their peers. However, due to the better family economic situation, they have the opportunity to go abroad and come back with a foreign diploma, but as a result, some of them can't even speak a foreign language fluently, and their prospects are worrying.
Studying abroad should not be just a background. What are the skills for international students to find a job?
Make good use of campus recruitment and grasp the time difference
Campus recruitment is not only an excellent employment opportunity for domestic fresh graduates, but also for international students. It not only brings together the best employment resources every year, but also has better treatment and development prospects than social recruitment. For international students, because their graduation time and the time to get a degree certificate are different from those of domestic universities, they can generally participate in recruitment one year after graduation. However, the campus recruitment process is tedious and usually takes one to two months. Therefore, before graduation, we must deal with all matters of the school and the time difference of recruitment to avoid unnecessary long-distance running, otherwise we may miss many opportunities.
Conflict of professional convergence? Pay attention to showing relevant abilities.
Compared with domestic graduates, international students often encounter the problem of professional convergence conflict when looking for a job in China. This is because there is a certain gap between domestic and foreign universities in specialty setting, such as social studies, which is difficult to be specifically classified under a certain first-class discipline. In this case, first, try to obtain the qualification certificates of related majors at home and abroad to prove your ability. Second, if you have a final project or graduation thesis, you should choose a content related to your future employment direction for research and emphasize it on your resume. Third, because you can participate in the second year of campus recruitment, you can use this time to go to the enterprises that may work in the future or have been pre-admitted for a period of time to increase your competitiveness.
Make good use of international vision
With more and more people going abroad for further study, the advantages of international students are becoming less and less obvious, but having an international vision is the most distinctive advantage of international students. Because international students have experienced different cultures and modes of thinking, they are more willing to accept and embrace multiculturalism and new things, and many foreign-related jobs will also favor international students. Therefore, when applying for a job, international students should not only show their foreign language ability, but also show their own characteristics: they are more inclusive and dare to reinvent themselves.
For international students, the obstacle to job hunting lies not only in their unfamiliarity with the domestic job market and environment, but also in their ignorance of how to give full play to their advantages in the job hunting process and get recognition from job-seeking units. This requires you to master some tips for international students to find jobs. First, make good use of campus recruitment. Since international students can participate twice, it is necessary to grasp the time difference. Don't worry even if you encounter professional convergence conflicts. We can show our related abilities in many ways. Good luck to all of you!