In addition to facing Lina’s scrutiny, they still have many hurdles to clear in order to get a job. In this year’s recruitment, the leading companies in the major industries had even more extreme application ratios, and the return of overseas students to China also increased the competition.
The process of getting an offer is “like watching a movie where everyone is sitting well. Suddenly, the person in the first row stands up, and all the people behind him have to stand up. The result was that everyone stood up and watched the whole movie”.
The “roll” is in the recruitment
What does it mean for people who are in school recruiting to get a job?
Become a screw in the bank, not only to know “which of the following Trojan horse programs also has a theft function “, and also “Which animal excreta has the highest urea content? The “modernism of the Tang Dynasty At the same time, not understanding the “Tang Dynasty Modernism Not familiar with “DES” encryption algorithm She may also be rejected.
On September 27, Yang Qi took the Bank of China’s written test that became a hot topic. When she was confronted with “indefinite integration, linear algebra, astrophysics, deep learning, static energy formulas for particles” on the screen, she said, “I’m not sure if I’ll be able to do it. She felt that her knowledge base had collapsed when she took “C”. After her freshman year of college, she never took any advanced math again, and now she had to “scalp the C’s”. She calls upon “all the nooks and crannies of knowledge. She calls upon “all the nooks and crannies of knowledge “, but still can’t figure out why you need to know this to become a banker (general teller/sales type).
Most written examinations are conducted online, with computers running cold. In order to prevent cheating, the web pages are recorded all the time during the written test. Yang Qi was used to reading the questions quietly, but now she had to put up with it. She didn’t go to the bathroom once for three hours. Not only because of the large number of questions and the time constraints, but also because she was afraid of the sound of going to the bathroom being recorded. The “most normal” of the screening mechanisms is the “business” category.
In the 2020 fall recruiting season, knowledge and business questions are likely to be the “most normal” of the screening mechanisms. “A hurdle. Many companies have taken the “strange” approach to cater to the post-95 fun. “The screening pattern – in previous years L’Oreal used a back room escape for group interviews, and Harbin Beer also had candidates fight werewolves.
In an FMCG company’s written test question, a freshman from Peking University, Tension, hit a memory question of unknown meaning. “A dot suddenly appeared on the screen and disappeared after two seconds. After repeating it five times, she had to recall the locations of the five points in turn. In a trance, Tension felt like she was doing an elementary school IQ test, “I didn’t expect that after so many years of reading, I would have to rely on my elementary school question bank to win the school recruitment! The “pencil” is a very important part of the job description.
Later, she saw someone else’s “penmanship” on a job site. I learned the best way to deal with this type of question: prepare a lipstick by the computer in advance and follow the “dots” on the screen directly. It’s a good idea to use a lipstick. Others have tried eyebrow pencils, but lipstick is better, quick to color and easy to wipe.
Graduates sometimes choose careers because of their interests. Monday’s biggest hobby at Peking University is playing games, competitive games when she has time, and placement games when she is busy. After the school recruiting started, she aimed for the game planning post.
“What’s the name of the new god holding a pipa in Yin Yang Shi? “This question was answered on Monday, but the test went on to ask. “What is the name of the lute in the hand of the god? “
It seems that a qualified game planner should also have the ability to move things around. In the written exam, Monday was asked to “write a game based on the Chinese worldview of Only Wolf, and make an in-game design based on the protagonist’s Shinobu gi hand”. The “western royal style chicken”; for a “western royal style chicken”. The “game” writes a backstory that rationalizes why players are attacking each other. “The protagonist travels back in time to before Akechi Mitsuhide assassinates Oda Nobunaga and is asked to design a level plot that changes the course of history”.
These questions not only required candidates to be familiar with the gameplay logic of various popular games, but also to be well-versed in Chinese and foreign history and able to spin epic stories out of their mouths.
“Do you eat grilled cold noodles? In an interview, Monday had just made up a science fiction story with a setting similar to that of Wandering Earth, when the examiner suddenly asked a question. Monday, who had just been immersed in outer space, was instantly dragged back to the roasted noodles stand under the dormitory building. Quickly, she recalled her most recent experience of eating cold noodles and was asked to tell the sordid story that the owner of the stand might have as an NPC.
Participants in the recruitment process knew that they were being drawn into an increasingly unfamiliar evaluation system.
“Like Huarong Road,”
Very few people pass these exams. Even though they have spent much of their lives preparing for exams – the predictable ones that begin in high school and continue through college – they have spent a lot of time in the past preparing for them. For them, dealing with such exams was like instinct. But this time, they were dealing with something unfamiliar.
The position Zhang Li locked was that of a management trainee in a fast-moving consumer goods company. She studied at Beijing University and was one of the best in the job market. With the opening of the recruitment channel in July, Zhang Li started to send her resume to the sea, “Almost 90% of the foreign companies I could find have sent their resumes. “. She counted a total of 21. As the net application became more and more filled out, the “self-description section became more and more exaggerated for some of the experiences The “I’ve done a lot of evaluations and interviews, but the offer is nowhere to be found.
She did a lot of assessments and interviews, but the offer was nowhere to be found. In September, Tension received a pitch invitation from Coca-Cola in her mailbox, and she immediately completed the online application. Every once in a while, Coca-Cola would send her a new offer, and then a month later, a real reply would come: Sorry, we don’t have a position that specifically matches your needs.
This is similar to the kind of “Path Finder” that Tension did in FMCG evaluations. ” (Pathfinder) of the question. In the figure given in the title, which consists of many squares, she needs to move in the direction indicated by each square to form a channel connecting two endpoints, “like the Huarong Road! “.
For a long time, her life consisted of one test after another. Zhang Li’s high school followed the teaching philosophy of Hengshui High School, and in her senior year of high school, the exams intensified, monthly exams became weekly exams, and every week they had to be re-ranked. It wasn’t without resistance – after an essay exam, she took the back row of papers and passed them forward, then tore her own papers to shreds in a drawer.
This was her fiercest “rebellion! “. Most of the time, Zhang Li talked herself through it.In September 2015, Tension entered Peking University along with more than 4,000 other undergraduate students. She imagined college life as “like the secret training base that rookies to ace agents must go through in secret agent movies. “. She thought everything was getting better.
At first, the university functioned according to expectations. In the middle of a volleyball team practice, Tension opened her backpack and took out a glass of water, and saw that it was full of stuff: books for her major, introductory social science books, and “free books” from the library. “, the student council research report form tucked inside the laptop. After drinking the water, Tension walked back to the stadium, the sun baking the stadium floor, Tension felt as if she could do anything. Soon, she walked into the fall recruitment, and in front of the specific job requirements and screening mechanism, her hopes for the future burst like a balloon, “one by one”! “.
During the long wait for the company’s response, Tension began to resort to metaphysics. She asked someone to count the tarot cards, and when the results were not good, she recalculated them, “three times! “. She felt that she had been wrong again and again: she had chosen clubs over student government as an undergraduate, a double degree in philosophy over a double degree in economics, and a master’s degree over a master’s degree. These choices, which followed her own heart and preferences, were now a disadvantage on her resume.
She counts her past self in the evaluation system of the job market – but denies that she entered the school wanting to “make it”. “The self that makes her suffer. “Isn’t that how people are? There are times when you make mistakes, and there are times when you are not good at something. Don’t people like that deserve jobs? “
Compared to other students, Yang Qi had experienced much less examinations. She has never taken the college entrance exam. Six years ago, she was sent from a super high school in Hebei province to Beihang University of Foreign Languages, where she received her bachelor’s degree and was successfully sent to our graduate school – Yang Qi is used to it! She won “without a fight” until she, like other freshmen, was caught up in the recruiting rush. HR told her that this summer, the position received more than 100,000 resumes, of which only 20 received offers – and the year she graduated from high school, there were about 400,000 candidates in Hebei province, 300 of whom were accepted to Tsinghua University and Peking University. The elimination rate is even higher than the rate of entering the North.
In order to win this ultimate exam, Yang Qi prepared a folder for each position, which was filled with past interview questions and company background documents. She even wrote a 20,000-word “self-analysis! The “quick presentation of the kind of personality the company wants in an interview” is the best way to get the job done. The process of securing an offer, for her, “is like watching a movie where everyone was sitting well.
For her, the process of earning an offer, “was like watching a movie where everyone was sitting well. All of a sudden the person in the first row stands up, and all the people in the back have to stand up. In the end, everyone stood up and finished the movie.
The return of overseas students to China has also increased competition. According to the Early Bird Report on Autumn Recruitment 2021 released by Boss Direct Recruitment, due to the impact of the international epidemic, the number of international students participating in the Autumn Recruitment 2020 increased by 94.3% year-on-year in the 20th/21st cohort, and the proportion of those with master’s degree or above was as high as 65%. The head companies in various industries are experiencing more extreme hiring ratios.
She studied at a famous university in the U.S. Originally, she planned to stay in the U.S. to work, but due to the epidemic, the employment situation in the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse, and she started to switch to a position in China. But in the first two months, except for one failed interview, Zhusha did not receive any written test or interview notification in her mailbox. Like many people, she had almost no luck and was caught in self-doubt, “Am I too good at this? “
On July 19, ZhuSha’s flight back to China took a connecting flight at the Frankfurt airport, and as she looked around, there were international students of about the same age as her. When the school recruiting really came, ZhuSha “did a three-handed approach: internship, online classes, and job hunting”. “. At her busiest, she spun around for three days straight, catching up on assignments after work on Wednesday until midnight, sleeping for two hours to get up for online classes, continuing to catch up on assignments during the day, and finding time to complete a written exam question before the deadline.
For many freshmen, the more difficult task may be competing with their classmates for a position. A master’s student from Fudan told us that, because there are so few Internet companies in Shanghai, maybe 18 out of 23 students in their major voted for Meituan. While there may be more than a hundred people competing for these positions across the college, they “have to compete within their majors first! “.
The old way of brushing up on questions
On the recruitment page of a multinational company’s website, the company explains the logic behind the test question: “We want to select people who are strong learners and match the company’s values. These written test questions. “
Behind the different types of questions, there is a “funnel” for future employees. “. Experts have designed a modern evaluation device – written test questions can be divided into three categories, one is a personality assessment, to examine the candidate’s personal character and corporate culture match; one is a professional assessment, to examine the candidate’s professional level; and another is a comprehensive ability assessment, like the bank’s written test questions. The difficulty of the increase, both candidates like Yang Qi, or teachers of school recruiting training institutions believe that is to increase the difficulty of screening, “anyway, in the end can always recruit high scores! The question is not about knowledge accumulation, but about mathematical logic and reaction ability.
A China executive of a multinational company explained to us that this kind of exam questions focus on mathematical logic and responsiveness rather than knowledge accumulation: “There are too many people in the pool, so it is inevitable that some will be missed, and those who can answer are definitely better than those who cannot.
In order to pass the school recruitment, many freshmen return to their familiar traditions – those who grew up in test-taking education and instinctively think of various training courses whenever they face an exam. And many such organizations lurk in the large and small school recruitment groups. It’s not even the beginning of the fall recruiting process, and they’ve been adding new students as friends on the pretext of receiving free materials.
The mock interviews that Zhang Li participated in were “spelled out”.
I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to do that, but I’m not sure if I’m going to be able to do that.
The teachers at these firms are not hard to find. Search for “school recruitment” on WeChat. “The top of the list is almost always the public number of training institutions. It was only after clicking into the interface that I discovered the detailed requirements for receiving free materials.
“Share the article (with a link) to a friend and take a screenshot (group visibility is not approved and saved for more than 3 hours)”.
“Or send to 2 job search microphones to a group of 100 people and screenshot the editor in 3 minutes”.
“Send a screenshot after adding the editor’s WeChat; the editor will pull you into the group to get the information within 36 hours after verification”.
Qiang Wang was one of the first trainers to join the industry. He didn’t come from a HR or management background, and had just graduated with a bachelor’s degree when he started, so he didn’t seem to have much more job search experience than his students. But like guerrilla warfare, Qiang’s company is active in universities, and before the epidemic, they trained students directly in study halls.
Those who came to the training “included students from Tsinghua University, Berkeley University, National University of Singapore, University College London, and others.
On the websites of job-seeking agencies, the competencies needed to apply for jobs are abstracted into a clearly labeled “antidote”. “: “The Traffic Play that Doubles Your Revenue “Selling for $300,” became the Internet’s Time’s Most Wanted Talent” sells for $600. On the header of the website, it says that 2 million students have already joined. It is also a good place to start, as it is a great place to start.
The best-selling training provider is the 6999 RMB all-inclusive coaching package, “from resume writing to written interview training all in one! This package is a great way to get the most out of your training. With this package, a person who, as he puts it, “has only academic training but knows nothing about the workplace,” will be able to “get the job done”. Students who have been through the “one-on-one resume revision” program can become seasoned veterans who can change their roles easily in a leaderless group discussion.
The Peking University Career Center held no less than ten “one-on-one resume revision” sessions in September and October. “The event was a full house. In fact, some of the companies with faster processes are already making offers, but students still come to change their resumes!
While working hard to get an offer, it is not uncommon for people to stop and ask themselves what they want and what it is all for.
After successfully qualifying for the internship, Zhu Sha was still trying to get other job offers. After the National Day holiday, she flew from Beijing to Shanghai to attend a final interview at an e-commerce company. At that company, ZhuSha caught a glimpse of the densely packed workstations, and for a moment, she felt like she was back in her junior year of high school, where everyone was occupying their tiny desks and chairs, looking on, doing rather mechanical labor, waiting for a given exit. She remembered her opponents in the group meeting, a group of ten people, each from a famous school at home and abroad, who were called “fighting immortals! It’s not just a job. It was hard for Zhu Sha to imagine that she had worked so hard to get just such a job. She “eliminated” in her mind. “Out of this company.
Monday remembers the interview that made her give up the game industry completely. The interviewer asked her if she did testimonials. Monday was pleasantly surprised to meet someone who knew how to “appreciate “Someone in her own profession, she talked about identifying the pseudo-antique Shang Shu of the Eastern Han Dynasty, but the interviewer quickly cut her off, saying she would prefer the kind of person who could identify the pseudo-antique texts in the game map,” she said. The “Dropped Book Bag” “Testament”.
At that moment, Monday knew that her expertise would not be utilized in this industry. The good news is that Monday didn’t “hang herself”. “In the game industry, she invested in other industries such as education and real estate.
Zhang Li feels that she is “happy in whatever she does! She has been working on her own music since the early 1990s. She envisioned another path: to study music theory carefully, to enter the music industry, and to create excellent original Chinese musicals. This may not be easy, but once she has made her choice, she will be able to make her way in line with “society’s expectations”. I’ll have a bunch of people popping up behind me and squeezing me out. She is not afraid to withdraw from the competition.
At Zhang Li’s undergraduate graduation ceremony, a short film was shown that described the entire school system behind the students, from the administrative teachers and security guards to the cafeteria aunts and boarding house supervisors, as a kind of “life support”. “. Tension liked that description, but the school’s recruitment anxiety period couldn’t help but think, “Shouldn’t all this prop up be worth something better? “
Zhang Li could not give an answer. She originally thought she could “test the waters”. But the company didn’t give her the opportunity to grow through her mistakes because there are many “perfect” people who don’t make mistakes. “Test takers.
Recently, Tension was preparing for a candidate exam. The underlined and highlighted textbook resembled the composition reference book of her senior year of high school. When she was tired, she would take her kalimba out of the bookshelf and pluck the keys with her fingers, the not-so-smooth melody floating above the desk, and Tension was trapped in an unfinished piece of music.
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