First ask yourself these questions:
1, do you have any strengths that you can "bring"?
Looking back on my college life, the only advantage that I can "get my hands on" is that I can talk: I performed poetry recitation at the party, won the first prize in the speech contest, won the last place in the debate contest, and competed for the post of host (because my face is not as good as my mouth). All kinds of experiences together, fate naturally pushed me to the position of "eating with my mouth": translation-sales-teacher-job search consultation.
Please look at this case: a girl from Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, with good English, medium appearance, average study and no experience in a club. Her greatest advantage is that she has been a member of life for six years from high school to college. She is enthusiastic and careful, and she is a full-fledged big sister. This girl joined Intel for customer service and sales. Her greatest advantage is that she is sensible.
2. If you don't have a certain advantage, what advantage do you have over others?
When I was in college, I was a little stronger in character than others, and I was a little better at writing articles than many people. After graduation, I did a strong sales job. Later, I became a teacher and published my masterpiece Nobody told you the truth. These are all related to the ability to "be a little better than others" in college.
My college sister is a little better than me in dress and two points better than me in photography. After graduation, relying on these two advantages over others, she entered the marketing department of a company (the employees in the marketing department need to be beautiful)
Sense, natives absolutely can't get in). Over the past ten years, she has gone from assistant brand manager to assistant brand manager, then to brand manager, and then to the marketing director of multinational companies.
So, classmates, in what ways are you "better" than others? Natural selection, you must be better than others somewhere. Maybe you don't have the super "handy" advantage, at least you should have several decent "better than others" advantages.
3. Are you "active"?
When I was in college, our department shuttlecock team was short of a female player (the school stipulated that there must be at least one female player), and everyone was unwilling to participate (because no one could play). So, I signed up, and at least I can play shuttlecock.
Ball (kick it); Secondly, I always take the initiative (since others don't participate, I will). Therefore, in the shuttlecock arena, you will see a strange phenomenon. As soon as the shuttlecock flies over, everyone will yell at me:
"Get out of the way!"
I have always been a very active person: the press corps recruits, and I will apply; Because of the lack of programs, the monitor asked me to read aloud, and I readily agreed ... Later, when I was interviewed by Nike and Kodak, the interviewer asked me what kind of person I was, and I would say, "I am a very active person. For example, in those days, we were on the shuttlecock team ... "
4. Do you have a goal? How to establish career goals?
I'm sorry to say that I was a guy with no goals at all when I was in college (there was no famous teacher like Xu Xiaoping advocating life planning at that time). So, after graduating from college, I began to "apply for a job at random": I did a translation.
Translation, sales, marketing, training, and finally became a teacher, wrote a book, or a consultant. Friends of college students may think this life is still beautiful, but everyone who has experienced it knows that a career without planning is serious.
It has affected the rising space and salary standard. My personal career development was determined only when I entered New Oriental, and it is estimated that it will never change in my life.
College students in the 1990s, it doesn't matter if they have no goals. Anyway, they have jobs waiting for them as soon as they graduate. Today's college students, born in 1980s, have no goal = unable to build their core competitiveness according to the goal = hard to find a job. So, how to be sure?
What about setting career development goals? I suggest a simple formula that is absolutely infallible: where you have been doing better than others+ask three most successful and intelligent people you know = the most suitable job for you.
5. Are you "upward"?
When I was in college, to be honest, I had no career planning and life goals at all (it was not popular at that time), but I made progress every day: when I was studying, I tried to improve efficiency; After studying computer, I used to
Be sure to practice typing quickly; In senior three, other students began to prepare to go abroad. Although I don't have any spare money at home, I don't want to fall behind, so I donated all the money I earned as a tutor to New Oriental (and another one)
An English training institution that has disappeared now), so, although I didn't go to the United States, after studying TOEFL and GRE, one of my international politics students actually passed the TEM-8 exam for English majors.
During the interview with Nike, HR asked me, "Tracy, how are you using your computer?" I said, "Oh, well used, I am the fastest typist in our class! Do you want me to show you? " Sure, you can.
Can you ask, "Do you have to practice typing fast?" Of course not. Typing is just a representation, it represents some small things in our lives. If you can make continuous progress in doing small things, you will be able to work in the future.
Keep forging ahead. This is the recruitment concept of famous enterprises: outstanding in the past+doing small things well = outstanding in the future+doing big things well.
6. Do you follow "sister" or stick to "sister"?
My first job in a foreign company was introduced by my senior. My husband was also introduced by my senior sister. For college students, teachers and sisters are the best and most effective network resources (professionals who care about you).
There are two points to point out: first, a senior sister who is two or even three grades higher than you is the best person; And those teachers and sisters who are just one level higher than you may not have passed the test of being a fan in the workplace when you start applying for a job.
Indefinite! When you ask them for help, you are likely to "hold hands and look at each other with tears" ... Second, why are your contacts willing to help you? I strongly suggest that helping brothers and sisters find jobs is definitely a win-win situation.
A good idea.
You can do this: 1, help brothers and sisters browse the job advertisements; 2. sparring in the group discussion of teachers and sisters; 3. Simulate the examiners and judges for the teachers and sisters.
7. Have you ever been a leader if you want to be a management position?
My experiences in college are few, but the quality is quite high, because I played a leading role in those experiences, not a supporting role. Even if it is the foil of the shuttlecock team, then I am also the protagonist on the field. Speech contest+debate
Sai+went back to his hometown in the countryside and opened a summer English class for 60 people. These experiences as protagonists played an important role in my joining Nike, Kodak and New Oriental respectively.
I have many classmates with extremely rich resumes who have participated in N activities. However, it is very difficult to get into a famous enterprise. There is a simple reason. In the past, he only played a supporting role and seldom played a leading role. The recruitment principle of famous enterprises is very simple. When an officer enters the enterprise, he is also the best officer. As a chairman, you can manage quickly when you enter the enterprise.
Therefore, if you want to work in a cattle enterprise, you must start from the university and continue to play a leading role.
8. Sharpening the knife does not mistake the woodcutter.
The most puzzling thing for college students is career orientation. Every job in the job market is like a cow or a sheep. Fresh graduates are confused: which will be fatter, cattle or sheep? Indeed, cows are fatter than sheep.
Shuo, yaks are fatter than scalpers, and there is indeed a difference between 360 rows, which makes countless college students at a loss: which cattle and sheep should I target?
But let me ask you a question. Which of the following things should you spend more time on? 1, carefully choose a fat cow or a fat sheep (this process must be very chaotic, because college students can't get too many opportunities to touch the cattle and sheep in person); 2, sharpen your knife! Sharpen the knife, sharper!
After graduating from college, there are many ways out. Every way out is cattle or sheep. To catch any one, you need some basic tools: 1. Postgraduate entrance examination: good English, interest in a certain major (if not, don't think about postgraduate entrance examination), strong logical thinking (writing articles); 2. Going abroad: Good English and computer skills.
Words should be fast (the new TOEFL is a computer test), you should be interested in a certain major, have opinions (if not, you don't want to go abroad for the time being), and you should have strong logical thinking (you should write all kinds of essays); ); 3. Employment: Good English (big company
) general requirements, especially oral English, computer skills (to be able to do calculations with excel, to be able to do PPT quickly), to understand a certain industry, and to have strong logical thinking (the interview should be orderly,
Reach one's own ideas).
As can be seen from the above analysis, the most important thing for universities is to sharpen their knives. In other words, before you sharpen your knife, you don't have to think about which cattle and sheep you want to catch for the time being.