One minute on stage, ten years off stage? The interview is like the ultimate embodiment of this sentence. Just a few minutes reflects more than ten years of hard work and determines your future destiny. It sounds cruel, but from another angle, shouldn't you also be grateful? Because opportunities always belong to those who are prepared. As long as you prepare well in all aspects before the interview and learn to speak with strength, you can successfully find the starting point and direction of career development.
Planning: The sooner the better.
Anyone who has been to the workplace knows that the students who can stand out in the interview are not only their pleasing transcripts, or the positive actions of various activities inside and outside the school, but they start to do everything for their job interviews from the first day they enter colleges and universities, four years later, or even earlier.
Zhang Yunhui, an undergraduate majoring in accounting at Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, started her senior year less than two months ago, June 5438+065438+ 10/9. While others are still busy with job interviews, Boston Consulting Group has quietly sent him an invitation.
Good luck only patronizes those who are prepared. Many people will think about what industry is the starting point of their career development, which companies are the best candidates for job hunting, and whether their abilities are suitable for enterprises, but Zhang Yunhui's thinking is four years ahead of schedule. In his freshman semester, he decided to enter a consulting company as the starting point of his future career. Sophomore began to practice in China Construction Bank and Bain Consulting Company. After I had Bain's internship background, I stopped internship, because Bain's experience can help me find a top consulting company. ? Next, Zhang Yunhui put more energy into the activities of international exchange programs, and his already top-notch English became more and more handy. As for which companies in the consulting industry are top5 companies, what are their characteristics, how to submit resumes, how to prepare for interviews, and what problems should be paid attention to in case interviews, Zhang Yunhui has accumulated a lot of tips and experiences in the BBS of Peking University Tsinghua and chatting with his brothers and sisters.
Such specific career planning is more prominent among MBA students, and many business schools offer targeted career planning courses every semester. Xiang Li, an MBA student from Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management, told the author that once she entered the school, the MBA Career Development Center helped her understand her personality and interests through evaluation tools, and set her career goals in marketing. Therefore, whenever Tsinghua alumni send the recruitment information and career development materials of marketing positions, the Career Development Center will always forward them to Xiang Li at the first time. During the summer vacation, Danaher Marketing Department, a top 500 enterprise, recruited interns, and the center recommended Xiang Li. In the past two years, Xiang Li has successfully entered the marketing department of Schneider Electric by virtue of his working background in the IT industry, and has approached his dream step by step.
Background: The more money, the better.
Although enterprises don't expect students who haven't left school to have rich work experience, graduates don't think so either. They always try their best to enrich their resumes: excellent academic performance, president of the student union, head of the press corps, head of the club, students in international exchange programs, internship and part-time experience in famous foreign companies.
The book 10 What the boss wants you to learn in college points out that a good average score reflects to what extent you understand what the professor wants you to learn and show it. To some extent, meeting the standards of a professor is similar to pleasing your boss. Excellent academic performance not only means a solid professional foundation and exemplary performance during school, but also reflects whether you are smart enough, know how to adapt to the rules of the game and play well.
Ricky, master of Beijing Institute of Technology, was known as North China Industrial Company when he entered the university. The largest arms dealer in Asia? When he was in a state-owned enterprise, he not only had the experience of being the president of the student union, but also represented the school in debates in colleges and universities, helped him get excellent scholarship results and published professional papers, including academic performance such as applying for copyright in a national defense scientific research project, which also brought him the appreciation of many enterprises. If you can't even do your familiar major well, how can enterprises believe that you will make great achievements in other unfamiliar fields? ?
In addition, a rich background can also help you win more time to communicate with the interviewer. Jin Ling, an accounting major in Peking University, once served as the vice-chairman of the College Student Union, founded the school press corps, and worked part-time as an intern in Deloitte, Microsoft, BCG, Beijing Hyundai and other companies. These experiences are often mentioned in interviews. Because of her diverse background, she got five offer from GE Sales Department, Johnson & Johnson Marketing Department, Planning and Finance Department of Ministry of Commerce, Bibo Consulting Company and Minsheng Bank when she graduated, which has more development opportunities than others.
Preparation: The finer the better.
Graduates are becoming more and more aware of what they want to prepare for the interview. Among all the preparations, the most important thing is to prepare the answers to the interviewer's questions. The first is to recite a resume. Self-introduction is a compulsory course for almost all interviews, but there are only a few major events in the four-year college entrance examination. Just sort out every detail of them in your mind and speak them fluently. ? Reciting a resume is nothing to Jin Ling, laughing that the real interview preparation of Peking University students has gone through Procter & Gamble? Interview training? .
Almost every year, P&G is the first multinational company to recruit in colleges and universities. All students will regard it as a mobile phone practice meeting and be familiar with the interview process. First, resume screening, online personality test, then written math and English, then standardized oral test, and finally two rounds of interviews; P&G has 89 interview questions, which are open to all students in advance. Covering all aspects of college students' life, preparing for P&G is equivalent to preparing for interviews in other enterprises. ?
Procter & Gamble interviewers are famous for being as meticulous as possible. Jin Ling recalled the scene that day and said: It is simply torture! He can grab anything on your resume and ask questions endlessly. For example, he asked me to tell an example of showing leadership. I talked about the experience of forming a press corps. Next, he will ask, under what circumstances, why, what difficulties were encountered in this process, how did you convince your teacher, what support did you get, what was the official support, what was the unofficial support, how many people participated and what was the effect? For ordinary candidates, no matter how well prepared you are, I'm afraid you can only prepare for the first two levels. ?
Cai Yiqing, HR manager of Suntory Merrill Lynch, said that she often deliberately disturbed the candidates' prepared thoughts and asked some impromptu questions during interviews. For example, when interviewing a marketing clerk, she asked the other person: Have you ever heard of Suntory's drinks? What do you like to drink? If the company stipulates that you must drink the company's drinks within three years, will you? How to spend your spare time? Right? "Da? What do you think of the movie The Finch Code? ? These questions are impromptu, and there is no standard evaluation answer, just for a deeper understanding of the candidates. At the same time, the job of the marketing department requires candidates to be sensitive to the latest information and things and keep up with fashion trends. ? At this time, I am afraid that it is not only the question itself that needs to be prepared, but the interviewer's assessment ideas.
The thinking ability of candidates is the focus of interviews for consulting companies and investment companies. Zhang Yunhui, who wanted to enter the consulting company, spent five months learning about the company characteristics, business operation, internal situation, culture, employment concept and so on. ? Different consulting companies are very different? Preparing for the interview is more complicated. Even if it is a 5-minute routine, Zhang Yunhui will repeatedly speculate and simulate with friends. Without MBA training, he spent 50% of his time on the practice of case analysis.
Hua Bing, a consultant of Hanergy Investment Company, had five years' background in IT system integration, Internet and e-commerce before studying for a master's degree in business administration in Tsinghua University. His goal is to enter an investment company. A year ago, after he received an email from Hanergy Investment Company recruiting interns, he went online to Google all the information of this investment company. Including the company's website, related major projects, public speeches, speeches by the chairman, etc. It is particularly good that Hanergy's company website has detailed information, education, work experience, projects and so on of each senior consultant. ? So-called? Know yourself and know yourself, and fight every battle? Long-term attention to investment companies and the ability to analyze MBA cases made Hua Bing know the interview like the back of his hand, especially after he knew the background of the interviewer like the back of his hand. Basically, in a few words, I already know who is sitting in front of me. The last round is the chairman's interview. He talked a lot about his personal ideas about industry development and enterprise strategy, which I have seen in his lecture materials. ?
This year, Hua Bing is in charge of recruiting a new round of interns. In the MBA I interviewed, few people were particularly familiar with the company. Among many younger brothers in Tsinghua who know that I work here, only two have called to know about Hanergy. ?
Regarding dress etiquette during the interview, Dong Ping, a career consultant at the Career Development Center of Tsinghua University University of Economics and Management, pointed out that MBA vocational training usually advises students to find an opportunity to visit the enterprise before the interview to learn about the employees' dress style, speaking habits and cultural atmosphere. And try to act like an internal employee in the interview. If this is the career you aspire to, you can't be too prepared. ?
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