Recently, Ah Xiong has received a large number of questions from international students both in Zhihu and in the backstage:
"It's an awkward time for graduation, am I still considered a fresher?"
"What is the status of various industries in China now?"
"I studied a cold specialty, how is the domestic market"
"Competition in my specialty is very strong, how should I prepare for returning to my home country to seek employment?"
"There are thousands of companies and positions, how do international students choose?"
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Graduation anxiety, likewise, coiled around them, coupled with occasional media pop-ups such as "Shocking! The wages of returnee master's degree holders are not as high as those of domestic undergraduates! Studying abroad for a year is 300,000, but after returning to China, the employment is 3000 a month! If you're not careful, it's easy to get lost in the anxiety.
But this is a minority, an isolated case. If this were the case, it wouldn't be news, and no one would be willing to pay for it.
That's not as bad as it sounds, but after a few years of not being in the country, the development of society and the market demand for talent is changing rapidly, and Rui Ran was able to learn about some of them from his friends and relatives, but he never had the experience to experience them. In this case, the returnees and how to deal with the domestic school recruitment?
According to the Ministry of Education statistics, in 2017, the number of students studying abroad in China for the first time exceeded the 600,000 mark, amounting to 608,400 people, an increase of 11.74% year on year, and continue to maintain the status of the world's largest source country for international students. In the same year, the number of students returning home increased by 11.19% from the previous year to 480,900, of which 227,400 were granted master's and doctoral degrees and postdoctoral discharges, a year-on-year increase of 14.90%.
In FY2017, the scale of China's international students studying abroad and returning to serve in their home countries grew doubly, and the degree of fit with national strategies and industry needs continued to improve, and the development trend continued to improve.
In recent years, more and more international students have chosen to return to their home countries for employment. The emergence of a boom in international students returning to their home countries is a result of the fact that many ocean-going students can't let go of their feelings for their homeland, and it also shows that the development of all aspects of the country is on the rise, with a large number of vacancies for talents.
However, after they set foot on their motherland, they realized that there are all kinds of problems waiting for them. In the end, the school recruiting season is over, and not only is there no imagined "Offer rain", but also some people have missed the net application of a number of large factories, and even the opportunity to get an interview, more chilling is that, to the entry after the job, and found that the base salary is not higher than that of domestic college students to where to go.
Today's returning students are less likely to have a halo than they once did. Although international vision, excellent overall quality and language skills can be a plus, but in the workplace, more is needed to solve the problem of ability, once ignored, then the direction of the school period may be biased, without a strong professional foundation as a backing, in the future career development will face many difficulties.
At the same time, the domestic employment situation is changing year after year, and every year is the "hardest employment season", so if you don't know the market trend in time, and only rely on your own wishful thinking, it's hard to get what you want in the end. Moreover, in many majors, compared with domestic students, the advantage of professional skills is not obvious, and some foreign majors do not have corresponding jobs in China. Therefore, for the returnees, in strengthening their core competitiveness at the same time, but also to prepare PLAN B in advance, and to spend more time to understand the situation of various industries.
The best case scenario is to start thinking about what will happen after graduation on the first day of study. Have a general direction ahead of time and make a list of what you need to do to prepare and build a foundation to reach that direction. Going by hearsay alone without experiencing it for yourself might miss out on some surprises.
Ah Xiong suggests that we should not dwell on the question of whether studying abroad is worthwhile or not, but rather focus on how to make it worthwhile. Since you have already taken the first step bravely, you should continue to go on step by step.
Career planning is really important
When I talked to many HR staff about international students, the most common problem was that many of them were too idealistic.
In fact, we can't blame the students for this. Different countries have different conditions and different views on work, and after a long period of time, the influence is not so deep-rooted, but it's not easy to adapt to another state quickly.
And during the period of study, most people have little interaction with the workplace, at least during the undergraduate period, to find a local internship is not an easy thing to match, in many international students resume in the personal experience, most of them are some clubs, or some part-time work in Chinatown, a little bit better, but also to follow the mentor's program for a while.
In fact, during the school years, if you are not clear about your career plan, you don't have to deliberately spend time to enrich your experience, appropriate experience is fine, but too in-depth, it is easy to give up on the end. Utilize the resources of the university as much as possible, which is the most valuable place. Of course, if you are sure you can find a good internship in and can reap the benefits of a Return Offer, that's not a bad choice either.
Of course, it's best to take the opportunity to go back to your home country during the holidays and intern in a big factory for a month or two, no matter if it's an odd job or an Unpaid Internship, the influence of the "Famous Company Effect" is still relatively large. It's not as difficult as you might think, but it's the mentality of "I think it's difficult" that makes it difficult.
Remember one thing: good people will be good no matter where they are placed. Sort out your strengths and weaknesses, combine them with the domestic employment environment and your specialty, and plan a career path that suits you.
Take a chestnut:
Majors bring their own light, like science and technology, the Internet, medical care, energy, etc., this kind of will not be worried about finding a job anywhere, as long as you do a good job: constantly improve your professional ability.
"Wanjinyou" majors, such as marketing, advertising, management, the competition for jobs in the country may be relatively fierce, if you determine to take the road of this profession, it means that you have to make the appropriate psychological preparation in advance;
professional bias, or temporarily unpopular in the country, don't panic, there is a demand for the market, or would not have opened the profession, this time! It is necessary to invest more in "discovering and tapping into this domestic demand".
After clarifying your career plan, it will be much easier to choose which one will help you more in your career plan.
Don't get carried away, pay attention to the timing
When it comes to timing, I have to explain the concept of 'fresher' to you first. Many international students returning to China to seek employment are overwhelmed by this question, not knowing in what capacity they should walk into the huge job market.
In fact, the term "freshman" refers to undergraduate or graduate students who will receive their diplomas in June or July of the current year (some two-and-a-half-year graduate students will receive their diplomas around March each year). In other words, there is no such thing as a "freshman" among returning students.
In order to encourage returnees to return to their home countries for employment and entrepreneurship, as well as to take into account the different graduation times abroad, the state has relaxed the period of returning to their home countries for employment reporting procedures to two years, so there is no need to worry about returning to their home countries for social recruitment only, and they can enjoy the same treatment of school recruitment after going through the procedures of reporting for employment. That is to say, after graduation within these two years to the Ministry of Education Service Center for Study Abroad, open employment reporting and settlement procedures, so that in the materials and related regulations, you are equivalent to the year of graduation of fresh domestic graduates (TIPS: at the moment, in reality, there are a lot of companies do not recognize, so it's best to look for a good job).
Then this time there may be a small partner asked, "But I graduated back to China has missed the time of the same year school recruitment what to do?"
Don't worry, Ah Xiong still have tricks.
Enterprise supplemental recruitment: in the period from December to January every year, many enterprises will start the first batch of supplemental recruitment, there are also some positions reserved specifically for returnees will be open at this time;
Social recruiting recruitment: to the graduation of the same year of the spring recruiting period of March to May, in addition to the normal school recruiting, returnees can also pay more attention to social recruiting jobs recruitment.
Specialized job fairs for returnees: After returning to China, you can choose to run more targeted job fairs at universities in your city and special job fairs for returnees.
If, unfortunately, the above time period you have missed, have not yet found a preferred job, may wish to purposefully try to GAP one year, the use of one more year to enrich their own, for the future to look for their preferred job to lay a solid foundation. Wait until the graduation of the same year in September-December fall recruitment, that is, the next freshman fall recruitment, and then hunt a wave.
Of course, this year doesn't mean sitting at home and playing computer games to kill time, you can go ahead and find some relevant internships according to your career plan, or get some necessary qualifications to enrich your resume, and then you can participate in the spring recruiting and social recruiting while doing internships in March of the same year of your graduation, and then sign up for the job once there is a suitable opportunity, or continue to do the internships or look for a new one if there is no opportunity. This is because it's easier to find an internship than to find a job, and there may be a chance for a career change. In September, you will start preparing for the fall recruitment in advance, and you will be able to work for 4 months. You'll be able to get a job offer in November/December.
GAP for a year is a relatively tough choice, because it means your job search will be a long one, and it requires a lot of patience and resilience, but you still have to believe that you'll be able to reap the rewards of the rainbow after the rain.
Don't be in the information blind spot
In addition to career planning and time planning, access to information is also a very important part of the application process. So what do you need to pay attention to in order to get information about school recruitment?
One is the access to recruitment information. Although open the phone, enter a few keywords, you can search a huge amount of information, but bidding ads and SEO is too much, those who really is the content they need, it is easy to be ignored.
A bear here suggests that you pay more attention to some of the regular integration of the release of school recruitment information public number, such as the bear's panda school recruiting internships (ID; pandaoffer), regularly search for everyone around the country high-quality reliable school recruiting internship information. A lot of companies have special recruiting sessions for international students, so I'll give you a few examples:
PwC Overseas Student Recruitment Program
Dajian Innovation Overseas Student Campus Recruitment
NetEase Games International Talent Recruitment
Deloitte Overseas Student Campus Recruitment
Beijing Dong International Traineeships
Tencent Overseas Campus Recruitment
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Photo: Tencent Overseas Campus Recruitment 2017
Photo: Jingdong International Executive Trainee Campus Recruitment 2017
In the process of obtaining information on campus recruitment, one should pay attention to whether the information is real and effective. Mainly through the platform of information release, the company's official website information and other verification, or to see whether the resume delivery mailbox is the company mailbox (如腾讯@tencent.com, 阿里@alibaba-inc.com等), can also help you to a certain extent to identify the true validity of the information.
Secondly, according to the recruitment process of the enterprise, arrange their own time. If your resume has been successfully screened, it's no surprise that HR will notify you of an interview. If you're on the phone, it's time to ask for more information about the interview:
Is it possible to apply for a phone interview or a video interview when you're overseas?
If you have to go back to your home country for an interview, does it come with a round-trip airfare?
Is it possible to adjust the interview time?
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If you have received an email for an on-site interview and you have not yet returned to your home country, you can contact HR through the official website, official microblogging/weibo, or by contacting the company's siblings to reflect the situation.
Except that some companies will hold campus recruitment seminars in overseas universities, in the course of which they will collect resumes, and even interviews can be conducted on the spot, but it depends on the information released by the companies.
Additionally, there is another issue that we can easily overlook. In the country, many jobs employment is a must have the appropriate qualifications, with or without these documents has gradually become part of the employer will ask you to interview the decisive factor, especially some banks, securities companies need to be related to the post qualifications.
Many students will feel that the cycle of examination abroad will be longer, often their own graduation, the documents are not yet in hand, so simply choose to ignore. Coupled with the fact that they have been studying abroad for many years and do not understand the relevant information about the domestic qualification examinations, they have come back to their home countries to seek employment only to find that without these certificates it is really difficult to move forward.
As mentioned in the previous schedule, many international students often choose to GAP for a year after returning to their home countries, and while looking for internships to enrich their resumes, they will also arrange time to get the necessary qualifications.
Of course, some securities companies offer a grace period for this common lack of qualifications. After confirming the applicant's ability and giving the result of the interview, these companies will give the Offer and on-the-job training, and then the returnees can take advantage of this "grace period" to get the relevant qualifications.
Lastly, a few suggestions
Specialized recruiting for international students is a very good opportunity, relatively speaking, the competition will be much less, if you meet, try not to miss, after all, this is for you.
The difference between school recruiting and social recruiting is just the difference in work experience. If you can prove that you can create value for the company, it doesn't matter whether it's school recruiting or social recruiting.
After graduation, you can continue to work overseas for three to five years to maximize the advantages of being a returnee, but of course, you will face more resistance and need stronger personal skills, but the payoff is always proportional to the payoff.
To carry forward the advantages of being an international student, but don't be too superstitious about it, it's important to position yourself, and at the same time, different industries are very different, so the so-called different industries are like mountains, there is some truth in it, find the right industry and then go into it.
Lastly, no matter if it is a returnee or an ordinary three, having the ability to solve problems is the biggest talking point in your job search.