Getting the Job You Want - 一亩三分地第一个英文就业总结

R同学去年毕业，在chicago找到了工作，在Warald邀请下，分享了她的就业找工作心得。话说R同学进步好大啊，当年也是挣扎着考托考G，写起英文就头疼，现在是长文一气呵成，可见留学这两年，她进步飞速


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How to get the job you want? A lot of people consider it as a truly hard and complex question. As a freshman on the job markets with zero working experience, I used to be one of them. However, after eleven-month real-world practices, I suddenly realized that the answer is actually quite short, just “be match”.

When people are talking about “match”, there should be two parties at least. In the case of job hunting, two sides would be you and those available positions on the market. Please allow me to make a simply assumption here that you are one job seeker, like me, who has no actual power to influent the number of availed openings in any particular company. In this case, the most controllable part through the whole job hunting process will be we. We couldn’t force the company to create a position for you. So we’d better to adjust ourselves to find a good fit.

Nowadays, the competition on the job market is more intense than it’s ever been before. Thousands of students graduate from colleges with shining bachelors, masters or PHD degrees. You might blame your failure on all those massive layoff news, continuous high unemployment rate and bleak economic environment. However, at the same time, another piece of news has been continuous mentioned for a long time: HR is still having a truly hard time to hire proper candidates. The responsibility of a HR just likes that of a matchmaker. They fail because either you don’t show the qualifications required by this position, or you don’t think this position is suitable for you. All those interviews are designed to make sure that the company has enough time to evaluate your experience and interests. Meanwhile, you would have opportunities to convince them that you perfectly match to the target position. All about “match”.


Collect Information

You might ask how come you will know the evaluation criteria for a specific position. This is the most popular question, I believe, on every job fair. HR is pleasure to answer it, but the problem is everyone will get the same answer, which is not as clear as you want. So here are some of my tips:

• Info-session. The reason that companies go to different places to hold these events is to let you know their businesses, culture, and most importantly, the recruiting information and the skill sets they are looking for. Another good thing about info-session is that it offers you an opportunity to build the connection with companies. The managers or other employees welcome questions. In some cases, HR will give some preference for the people who show up during info-session. Why? Because your attendance proves your interest and the willing of joining them. I am a strongly believer of info-session, because 8 out of 10 of the interviews I got, I went to the info-session as well.
• Collect information from current/ former employees of the target company. You could ask help from the staff in the career service to get the related contact information. Normally, your alumni would like to answer your questions and tell you their experience with the company. Depends on the closeness of your relationship, the information might be various. Sometimes, you are able to get some valuable information through this way, such as the common personality in that team and specific skill sets for that position etc., if your alumni or friends have that and want to share with you.
• Networking. You would never know the utility of attending networking events, especially in the short term. In some case, some of the attendees might have recruiting tasks in hand. Generally, networking will give you the chance to better understand companies and build the relationship with their current employees. Through these conversations, you will have a clearer picture about their working styles, job responsibilities, and project experiences, all of which would definitely distinguish yourself from other candidates during the interview. At least, you could use these stories to raise your recruiters’ interests, because those stories are part of their day-to-day work or used to be. Additionally, you could collect contact information and keep in touch with them. This would require your professional follow up.

Hope you can get some useful information using the methods above. After you go through the information collection phase, the next step will be to how to leverage it to better show your qualification on the resume.

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能不设计分积分上限么， 分享给大家又不愿意完全分享。 很多人都看不到。
wx0122 发表于 2012-2-21 12:31

能多做点贡献攒点分么？来论坛又不愿意做贡献。

对于找工作来说，自己的定位非常重要

能看到的部分都写得挺好的

学习了，今年估计也得在申请同时投几家公司试试

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plz, be active on the forum.exe

首先还是要qualified啊

CS的就是赞啊，其实是不是只要是CS的，怎么弄都是能有工作的。只是公司大小和工资高低的区别？

能不设计分积分上限么， 分享给大家又不愿意完全分享。 很多人都看不到。
wx0122 发表于 2012-2-22 01:31

全部分享了很容易被各种盗用版权地转载到各个不知名论坛

CS的就是赞啊，其实是不是只要是CS的，怎么弄都是能有工作的。只是公司大小和工资高低的区别？
momoisbrave 发表于 2012-2-22 03:24

这个人是MIS

很好的分享！回复 1# Warald