The top ten companies with the highest resume submission heat among freshmen are all Internet companies, with Byte Jump, Tencent and Alibaba being the three companies with the highest heat.
Since June 2020, I have been working on the 2021 school recruitment. In order to find a good job, I have been preparing for three years, and the goal was clear from the moment I entered university: to find a good job after graduation.
But what exactly does a good job look like? Now I am also confused.
I studied in an ordinary college majoring in media, but my resume was quite rich during my school years, with two pages of A4 paper: student cadres, volunteers in large provincial and municipal conferences, participation in teaching research projects, and internships in central media.
These resumes in my opinion is a very competitive job search capital. I was very confident before looking for a job.
Since June 2020, I targeted the Internet companies, Tencent, Byte, Ali, Baidu, Meituan, Sohu, Jindo have voted all over, but only Sohu sent an invitation to interview.
According to the forecast of the Ministry of Education, the number of college graduates in 2021 will exceed 9 million for the first Time, reaching 9.09 million people. Adding to the Epidemic of returnees and former unemployed students, there are more than 10 million newcomers flooding into the 2021 school recruitment market. I am curious, are there many 2021 college graduates like me who want to work in big Internet companies but hit the wall? And what happened to them?
After taking Tencent’s written test, I was very confused
The process of school recruitment for Internet majors is basically similar, most of the positions are: online application – resume screening – online written test – technical interview (2-3 interviews) – HR interview (0 or 1 interview) – offer issued.
Take Tencent, Byte and Ali for example, during the fall and spring recruiting, only one position is allowed to be submitted in the same batch, and Byte Jump can submit two. The condition of limiting the number of positions undoubtedly increases the difficulty of selection for freshmen, and many people want to go for positions that do not match their professional background.
The first time after Tencent announced the opening of school recruitment, I applied for the content operation post. When I filled in my personal information on the website, I started to imagine the scene of how I would introduce myself to HR during the interview, tapping the words on my hand and slightly raising the corners of my mouth.
After I submitted my resume, I kept an eye on the progress of my process in Tencent’s school recruitment webpage. Within a few days, I received an invitation for a written test from Tencent. At that time, I was quite happy to receive the invitation for the written test, which meant that I had passed the resume screening and test, and I would finish the written test with a good answer.
I thought the written test was only about content operations or related positions, and if I answered the questions with my professional background and internship experience, I should have no problem getting a decent score. On the day of the online written test, I sat down early at the computer and opened the link to the written test, watching the countdown on the screen while drinking a freshly opened bag of milk and waiting with great anticipation for the test to start.
When the time came, the button to start answering the questions turned from gray to red, and after clicking it, the website jumped to the answer page.
I opened the paper and was dumbfounded.
The first part of the written test was a ten-question text-language logic question, which I thought was okay at first, because I am an arts student after all. In the second and third part, the test questions test the relationship between mathematics, science and graphics. Only two questions in the fourth part were related to operations. It took me more than an hour to finish, my brain was confused, I didn’t prepare for it at all, it was like a civil service test question.
Later, I learned that the written test for non-technical positions in large Internet companies generally uses line test questions, including language comprehension, mathematical calculation, reasoning judgment, information analysis and general knowledge judgment five major blocks. And each of the test questions will have an answer time, generally in 60 to 80 seconds.
In the day of Tencent, Ali written test, Tencent written test Ali written test once rushed on the microblogging hot search. Many students lamented the difficulty of the written test, and many students who were not prepared, like me, felt very confused after answering the written test.
The reason for being brushed off by Sohu
After I failed the written test at Tencent, I continued to vote for other big companies while brushing up on the questions, and eventually only Sohu sent me an interview offer.
Before participating in the Sohu online interview, I asked my roommate to give me a quiet interview environment. After that, I dressed up, washed my hair properly, and sprayed some hairspray to set my hair.
The interview started, and I introduced myself according to the HR process first.
The interviewer listened carefully with a smile on his face and nodded his head from time to time. After I finished my self-introduction, the interviewer asked some specific questions about my resume. I had a good conversation with the interviewer and basically got the answers right.
But the last thing the interviewer said to me made my heart shake a bit.
HR said: You are very good, in previous years it is really good, but and you are competing with some overseas Ivy League master’s degree and domestic 985 high school master’s graduates, and, some of them also have good internship experience in large factories, so this year is difficult for undergraduates. But do not be discouraged, the interview results will be sent to your mailbox within one or two working days, through the words will be further business interviews; not through, does not mean you are not good, you should also recognize the situation of this term, and plan their next goals.
I now figured out the reason why I was frequently blocked from voting for big factories, my opponents were Ivy League masters and masters from 985 universities, and I knew clearly that I was not capable of arm wrestling with them.
After the interview with Sohu, my eyes are no longer focused on the big Internet companies. I soon received some interview invitations from some companies, from one side, two sides, final interview to get the offer are relatively smooth, but I did not accept some offers because of various reasons.
Spring recruiting I will still try, but will not be so determined to choose the Internet big factory.
This period of job hunting experience let me grow a lot. But after graduation in the end where to go? What to do? Or continue to study? I don’t have a certainty in my mind now.
Not only the domestic freshmen, fresh returnees are also very difficult
Like me, Ji Che, whose goal is to work in a big Internet company, also lost in the battlefield of autumn recruitment of big companies. Unlike my kind of liberal arts students, science students are obviously better than liberal arts students, but it is also very difficult to find their ideal job.
Ji Che studied in a 985 science and engineering colleges, sophomore internship in a well-known manufacturers for two months, plus the background of 985 colleges. At first, he set his main target on the operation and maintenance post and testing post of a big Internet company.
His experience is similar to mine. He submitted his resume to a lot of big Internet companies and finished the written test, but only ByteDance responded and hung up in the second round of technical interview.
Ji Che thought of the competition, but did not expect it to be so fierce.
After frequent failure to vote for large factories, Ji Che also had self-doubt, but Ji Che did not die, he immediately adjusted the direction of job search, and switched to some of the well-known domestic manufacturers. After round after round of resumes, written tests and interviews, Ji Che got three offers from well-known manufacturers at the end of 2020.
However, he still has some lag.
He said that although he got an offer in the autumn recruitment and had a bottom in his heart, there was some gap between the salary package and his expectation.
According to the data from the “Latchkey 2020 Internet Industry Fall School Recruitment Trend Report”, the top ten companies with the highest resume submission enthusiasm among freshmen are all Internet companies, and Byte Jump, Tencent and Alibaba are the three companies with the highest enthusiasm. In addition to a small number of students who firmly want to do Internet-related work, most students are running for high salaries. According to the data released by Boss, 30% of the Internet industry freshmen salary over 10,000, much higher than other industries.
Ji Che around the students of the Internet job search experience is almost the same, not many people can go to the final interview, and eventually get a big offer is already considered the best.
Not only domestic freshmen, fresh returnees are also very difficult.
Wang Yu before embarking on the plane back Home, never thought that the domestic job market would be so severe. I thought the domestic job market would be very intense, but I did not expect it to be like this. Wang Yu confessed that he is now a bit anxious.
After graduating from undergraduate school, Wang Yu applied for a master’s degree at a university in London, England, where media is the kingpin. 2020 August, Wang Yu finally returned home after an arduous journey back to China. But Wang Yu did not let himself relax, adjusting to jet lag while looking for information to submit his resume.
In September, I voted for the operation posts of Tencent, Sohu and Netease, or some positions related to my major. But there is no response. Wang Yu said, before returning to China, I thought I was not bad, find a good job should not be a problem.
But the reality hit Wang Yu’s mind frequently.
Not only the big Internet companies did not respond, but also the resumes submitted to some media did not respond. It is reasonable to say that Wang Yu’s school has some reputation in the media circle, but the reality really surprised her.
I don’t know what their screening criteria really are. I have internship and practice experience, and the school is not bad, but there is no response at all. Self-doubt Wang Yu has also sought help from a number of job search agencies, but the world where there is a free lunch, whether it is coaching resume, or on some written, interview courses are required to spend money, and the price for a student is not low.
Wang Yu said: I have not found a job to earn money, to spend money to these job search agencies, a little unbalanced, I did not choose to spend money to them.
According to December 8, 2020 pulse release “talent attractiveness report 2020” shows that in the ranking of work happiness and satisfaction, the Internet industry, not surprisingly, ranked third from the bottom in all industries. 996, high intensity and high pressure job content still can not resist the enthusiasm of fresh graduates rushing to the Internet big factories.
The only positions open during the fall and spring recruiting in the big companies brought freshers who were interested in these positions to further in-roll competition, and many of them kept brushing up the questions in order to get high scores in the written test, and spent time, money and energy to attend interview training courses in order to have a smooth interview.
Wang Yu, who was not very successful in the fall, switched to an internship at a television station in his province in October. The internship was very hard, no salary, and it was also very difficult to transfer. The teacher who took me said it was hard to get a job, and there were many contract workers in the station. I think the possibility of changing my internship is very small, so I have to prepare for the spring recruitment and do my best not to be leisurely.
In fact, Wang Yu autumn recruitment is not no response at all, but received an invitation to interview are not their favorite jobs, or some local small businesses. This makes the sea return of Wang Yu is not willing to come back.
Successful people
Not everyone fails, there are always people who make it through the ups and downs along the way to success.
Li Yan’s school is a double non-first, liberal arts major she was able to enter a large factory, a large part of the reason from her college than others to pay more and more determined goals.
When she was in school, Li Yan participated in the Internet entrepreneurship competition, doing projects, market research, and products, from 0 to 1, which was very tiring, but the self-improvement was not small. In addition, Li Yan will also use the holidays to go to the media unit internship, also went to a well-known payment platform to do content operations positions internship. Followed by friends to do Internet entrepreneurship, in the region there are certain achievements. It was these practical internship experiences that made Li Yan decide she was suitable for Internet-related work.
Sweat and hard work brought Li Yan a valuable internship to a major Internet company in exchange for a regular opportunity.
In June 2020, Li Yan, who grew up in the north, went to the south, rented a house in an unfamiliar city and settled in, then went to the company for the internship.
The work was very uncomfortable at the beginning. The work was intense and stressful, and many things needed to be learned now, which was very energy-consuming. My previous experience in Internet competitions and business start-ups was not enough, and I could only say that it was a drop in the bucket. During the internship period, in addition to working hours, Li Yan squeezed in time every day to learn about product planning and understand the ecology of the industry, so that she could understand some of the theories and key words mentioned by colleagues at work and better integrate herself into the environment.
During the internship process, Li Yan also had the intention to quit due to stress and emotional problems, but luckily Li Yan met a mentor who treated her very well.
During a meal, she had a long talk with her mentor, which unlocked the knots in her mind since her internship. Everyone’s first three months are very hard, I can only stay if I can find a way to solve the problems of work and Life and persevere hard.
After surviving the difficult three months, Li Yan finally succeeded in getting a transfer offer at the transfer defense meeting, through multiple layers of assessment.
The effort was not in vain, but new pressure also came.
This session of the same school recruiting in everyone’s education is very high, it can be said that only I am a person is a bachelor, others are returnee master or master of a famous school. In fact, during the internship, I had experienced academic discrimination, and I also had low self-esteem, fearing that I could not blend in. So I was under a lot of pressure, not daring to make mistakes and trying to do everything right. She said.
No matter how difficult the past, how bumpy the road ahead, in September when the school started to successfully get a big factory offer, also made many students to Li Yan cast an envious eye. When I see my friends and classmates trying to enter a big factory through the online application route, I would like to tell them that the road is really extremely difficult. I such internship to the people first occupied part of the empty seats. The road of online application is really a godsend.
Many students are initially holding the goal of not entering the Internet industry to choose a career, but often discouraged after hitting the wall everywhere. Today’s freshmen want to enter the Internet factory as a thousand horses across a single wooden bridge. Who has the ability to walk a tightrope, who will be able to successfully disembark.
The Internet industry for young people, just like a new walled city, the people inside want to come out, the people outside want to go in, in fact, only stuck in the middle of the wall pulling the crotch of the part of the people most difficult.
Instead of going with the flow in the tide, you may want to stop and ask yourself before you start: squeeze into the big factory is really their best choice?
(Ji Che, Wang Yu, Li Yan are pseudonyms in the article)
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