There is no doubt that resumes are needed in the process of job hunting; Resume is like a stepping stone, knocking on the door of the interviewer's office and giving you a chance to go in for an interview, but resume alone is obviously not enough. Whether you can win from many applicants depends on something other than your resume. What we want to discuss here is what preparations you should make besides your resume, and what you must have before you can be hired by the employer.
Introduction to job hunting
The process of my stepping onto the podium of New Oriental is roughly as follows: My fiancee (now my wife) returned to China 10 months earlier than me, worked in Beijing New Oriental for half a year, and has grown into one of the backbone teachers. When I returned to China, I was a stranger. My new friends are basically teachers of New Oriental, both her superiors and her colleagues. After work, everyone is a friend. I just stayed in this circle for a long time, with plenty of time, excess energy and no pressure. I started preparing lessons with everyone's encouragement and suggestion, and my mentality was completely that fans went to the sea and didn't take it seriously. I didn't even write my resume, and I didn't mention any salary conditions. At that time, I thought more about relaxing, tasting all the delicious food in China, and returning to the United States as soon as possible to continue my efforts.
In retrospect, I was able to join the company smoothly in those years because I had six necessary conditions for new entrants:
1, well-connected. The head of the department at that time was his fiancee's best friend (now called boudoir). In the process of their informal recommendation and guarantee, I saved a lot of trouble in self-recommendation, and even didn't write my resume.
2. Professional skills. I have just lived in the United States for ten years, and my occupation is a completely American English environment. Although I have no teaching experience and professional background in normal schools, I have wisely chosen to give full play to my strengths in understanding American culture and avoid my weaknesses in grammar rules. Adjust and set your own unique teaching methods to make yourself fully qualified for this job.
3. A preliminary understanding of the industry. I have attended almost all of these friends' classes. Although I always sit for a few minutes and leave, I have never listened to a class carefully, but these few minutes are enough to let me know how the teaching level of New Oriental is and the general level of New Oriental students.
4. The salary requirements are reasonable. To put it simply, I don't have any requirements. I don't care about the salary and bonus, the amount of class hours, and the place of class. Because I firmly believe that salary is always linked to the value I can create, there is no basis for talking about salary until I prove my ability and stability. I just need to firmly believe that New Oriental will treat me according to industry standards, which I can clearly understand through my fiancee.
5. Mature professional mentality. I will never bluff under the banner of "Chinese Americans" and "returnees", nor will I try my best to package myself as an industry expert, let alone argue with my peers on professional academic issues. Accept and complete any teaching task, even if it is the children's department that lets me substitute for two months. Recognize the position of newcomers in their own industry, respect the opinions and suggestions of industry experts, and improve their skills in learning.
6. Bring added value to the employer. I am an American airborne soldier who has just retired. This special identity can be used by New Oriental to conduct moderate commercial publicity and increase the competitiveness of the team. If there is little difference in working ability, I will undoubtedly attract students' attention more easily than other teachers and indirectly enhance the corporate image of the team. This is the most difficult thing for newcomers, which requires a lot of preliminary efforts and moderate exhibition opportunities.
The combination of the above six conditions makes me a teacher of New Oriental. I believe these six conditions are universal and applicable to all newly graduated college students.
What I have described above is my job-hunting experience as a newcomer in the industry, and the universality of these experiences can be reflected in the job-hunting process of the majority of recent college graduates.
Advanced job-hunting articles
What I want to discuss below is another aspect of job hunting, that is, I have become an expert in the industry, and I hope to get promotion opportunities within my major, or I hope to get a job search for a higher management position. In this case, the role of resume is even more diluted, and the conditions for deciding whether to be hired are almost all reflected outside the resume.
In 2006, because my wife was pregnant, we resigned from the teaching and middle management of Nanjing New Oriental School and returned to Beijing to join the labor. For about half a year, we didn't have a job at all, which was a fatal blow to our career development, but we didn't care so much and still focused on our children. At the age of 100, I decided to turn my focus back to career development. This time, my career goal is to become a senior teaching manager in New Oriental.
I haven't written my resume yet, mainly because it won't look good, and my work experience and education as a soldier won't be a plus item for me to find a job. I just started from the aspects other than my resume and summed up my advantages, so I wrote a cover letter to Mr. Zhang Ruguo, director of the human resources department of the head office at that time, stating my various conditions:
1, deeply understand the corporate culture. Not only do I know, but basically my words or introductions about me have appeared in the new oriental spirit magazine since 2005. To some extent, I am participating in creating the corporate culture of New Oriental, which is undoubtedly one of the necessary conditions for managers.
2. Familiar with the operation mode of the enterprise. I have been to about 20 first-class branches of New Oriental all over the country, and I have had extensive contacts with senior officials and middle-level leaders from all over the country, that is, I understand the operation mode of the teaching department of my unit and the situation of competitors. Advantages, disadvantages, opportunities and threats are not secrets to me.
3. Rich professional experience. I have taught many courses and classes, and I also have a lot of experience in middle management, so that I can stand on the level of middle management and look forward to higher position development space.
4. Accurately position your career development. I don't mean to "obey any distribution" in general, nor do I stubbornly target a specific post. Instead, according to the order of job-seeking tendency, I have roughly drawn up three ranges of job-seeking intentions, hoping to get a suitable position within the corresponding range.
5. Have an accurate grasp of the future development direction of the enterprise. During the interview with Mr. Zhang Ruguo, he kept asking me about the overall development of New Oriental, and simulated some situations to ask my views and attitudes. Although these affairs are open, it is not what full-time teachers are good at to analyze them from the perspective of leaders and draw reasonable conclusions. I think my answer at that time can satisfy teacher Zhang.
6, can improve their ability to adapt to the new job in time. Shortly after my interview with Mr. Yu, he arranged for me to have an interview with Mr. Yu. Teacher Yu simply asked me to speak the TOEFL course well first, and then arranged other jobs for me. Looking back now, Mr. Yu wanted me to reserve knowledge and ability for the next step.
On June 5438- 10, 2007, I was appointed by the group company as the director of the international high school project department and rushed to Yangzhou to work. I successfully completed a career transition from a full-time teacher to a teaching manager, which is exactly what I expected. The six conditions mentioned above are undoubtedly the key to the success of this job search.
I firmly believe that friends who have successfully gone further in the workplace will find themselves meeting the above six conditions more or less in retrospect.
I hope that the twelve conditions I have summarized will be helpful to readers at different stages of job hunting, and I wish all my friends at different stages of job hunting come true.
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