Job-hunting must have project management thinking, several methods to reduce job-seeking anxiety
1. To apply for a job, you must have a project management mindset:
Job hunting is a topic that everyone will encounter in their career development. How do you view job hunting? When I encounter a job search, I do not simply regard this matter as "finding a job", but operate it as a project, and a job search must have a "project management mindset".
Below, I will take my job search on the eve of my MBA graduation as a blueprint, and share how I applied "project management thinking" when I was looking for a job.
Let me talk about the background of the job seeker first: the job seeker, I am 29 years old, female, unmarried and childless. I have been away from the workplace for nearly two years due to academic reasons. I started my job search in the fall semester of my second year of study. Among the classmates who are full of masters, I am 29 years old, "old", unmarried and childless, and I have no advantage.
(1) Setting goals for the job search:
At that time, my job-hunting goal was very clear: I could solve the job of a large company in human resources with Beijing hukou.
- Reasons for looking for a job with a Beijing hukou:
Before I went to the National People's University to study, I had already decided to live in Beijing. A Beijing hukou is undoubtedly very important to me. The autumn semester when I was looking for a job was in September 2004. At that time, Beijing didn't have a car or house." Restricted purchases”, I thought at the time was very simple, that is, after I have a Beijing household registration, I don’t need to go back to my hometown to apply for some documents.
- Reasons to continue looking for a job in human resources:
During my MBA study, I have further confirmed my love for human resources work. Although many of my classmates have changed their career paths through MBA studies, I still have not changed my original intention and continue to choose human resources as the job search direction. .
- Reasons for looking for a job in a big company:
The two jobs before MBA are work experience in small and medium companies. I want to enter a large company with standardized management to learn and accumulate relevant work experience, especially in interpersonal relationships. Large companies are a good "copy" .
Because my work experience before studying was in the real estate industry, and later, with the progress of my job search, I continued to focus on the real estate industry—at that time, the real estate industry was in its golden development period, and there were many opportunities.
(2) Preparation for job hunting:
Resume optimization: Continuously optimize the template to condense the resume into one page of A4 paper;
Installation: Buy professional suits suitable for interviews, autumn + summer. After all, you have been away from work for a long time, and you are not sure when you will find your favorite job.
Summary of job search information:
This includes three pieces of information:
A. Recruitment information released by various companies on the campus intranet.
B. Information of job fairs - campus recruitment and social recruitment, campus recruitment refers to the time and location of the campus recruitment fairs held in major universities in Beijing; social recruitment is mainly the holding of agricultural exhibition hall recruitment fairs and related job fairs in various administrative districts Time summary.
C. Information Collection on Recruitment Websites.
(3) Set a deadline for the project:
Deadline is before April 30, 2005. The reason for setting this time is that we graduated in July 2005 and confirmed with the senior brothers and sisters. Good jobs are generally confirmed before May of the second semester of the second semester. Of course, it is not ruled out that some good big companies are in June. The school recruitment system is also given around the month. If you wait until that time, it will be too passive. So I set myself a date of April 30, 2005.
(4) Skills in submitting resumes:
Submit your resume at the on-site job fair: know the name of the participating company and the position to be recruited in advance, and only vote for your favorite company when participating in the conference.
Online recruitment for delivery of resumes: The time is set in the early morning of Sunday to Thursday, so that when the HR of the selected company goes to work the next day to look at the resume, I can ensure that my application is ahead.
Double insurance for key enterprises: If I see an ideal position online, I will apply for delivery online on the one hand, and deliver the resume through the text of the email on the other hand. The email name must be named according to the HR requirements of the company.
(5) Be fully prepared for the interview:
Interview preparation tools: a notebook; a gel pen; a map of Beijing.
Notebook function: After receiving the company HR interview notice, write down the address of the company to be interviewed, interview time, contact person, driving route, etc. on one page of the notebook, and write a company on one side, is it Airspace? too much? It is very important to leave blank here, it is for taking notes during the interview or for reviewing after the interview.
The function of the gel pen: If there are many people filling out the form during the interview, bringing your own pen can avoid the dilemma of the company's lack of preparation, waiting for others to use up the pen and then use the pen by yourself, and it is also convenient for me to record in time after the interview. own interview experience.
A map of Beijing: I am not very familiar with Beijing, and it is easy to ask for directions. However, given that I am well prepared, the utilization of the map is not high.
Familiar with the corporate background: After receiving the corporate HR notification, go online to understand the corporate background, such as development history, corporate culture, etc., so that you can know yourself and others.
Have a time concept: I require myself to arrive at the scene at least half an hour before the interview.
(6) Review after the interview:
This is particularly important. The benefits of continuous review are as follows:
- It can help me to further confirm what my ideal job is: because I was looking for a job at the time, I had no work experience in Beijing, and I was not familiar with the labor market situation in Beijing, the unfamiliar city, and the sense of alienation from the workplace made me I didn't confirm what my ideal job was at first, but as the interview progressed, I confirmed the "portrait" of my ideal job.
In addition, I was not picky about the place of work when I was applying for a job. At that time, I thought it was very simple. If the job is really what I like to do, the distance is not a problem.
It can help you sort out your interview skills: I won't say much about this, everyone is professional.
It can help to record the characteristics of poor companies: it is not all smooth sailing in the job search, and if you have encountered fraudulent companies or companies you don’t like, you should record them in time and put these companies on your “blacklist” ".
In the process of submitting resumes and conducting interviews, I have three offers: one is an offer from a state-owned enterprise in Beijing (non-real estate industry, which can solve Beijing hukou), and the other is the northern headquarters of a Hong Kong-listed company. Offer (listed company, real estate industry, can solve Beijing hukou), one is an offer from a Beijing branch of a group company (real estate industry, can not solve Beijing hukou, but the salary is the highest among the three offers), and finally I chose to list in Hong Kong The company's northern headquarters offer, although the salary is not the highest, but after all, it has solved the household registration and is still in the real estate industry.
Two, several ways to reduce job search anxiety:
If I was an older, unmarried young woman who had been out of the workplace for a long time, was I anxious when I applied for a job? Of course I was anxious. Of course, as an HR, I knew that my situation was not an advantage when I applied for a job, but I found a better one. Ways to ease your job-hunting anxiety.
(1) Make a reasonable plan to carry out study and life normally:
Although finding a job is the "top priority" for most students in the second semester of graduate school, I still put my studies first and job hunting second.
I achieve this through planning: every Friday, I will make a study plan for the next week, and I will allocate the time in this way. First, I reserve the time for job fairs and interviews that must be attended in advance, and I stipulate that I will every morning in the morning. The time for submitting your resume is no more than 2 hours, and the rest of the time is used to audit the undergraduate courses of human resources of the National People's Congress and attend various lectures.
In addition to participating in job fairs, submitting resumes, re-examinations, etc., I don't think about looking for a job - worrying about the interview results, extra anxiety, etc. are all useless - because whether the interview is passed or not is admitted. It is a matter for employers to consider.
(2) Posting and exchanging ideas and job-hunting experience on the forum:
When I was first looking for a job, I was still nervous and apprehensive. I found the benefits of campus forums—I can get recruitment information of certain companies on the online forum, and on the other hand, everyone can share their interview experience and experience. Published on the forum by means of posts.
Seeing the experiences and learnings shared by everyone, I will feel that I am not fighting alone. From the sharing of my classmates, I have eased my job-hunting anxiety and gained the courage to move forward. "Faces".
(3) Familiarize yourself with the situation of the company in advance of participating in the internship:
When I obtained an offer from a Beijing branch of a group company, the other party provided an internship opportunity. At that time, I hadn't received an offer from the Northern District Headquarters of a Hong Kong-listed company, but I already had an offer from a state-owned enterprise. At that time, many students wanted to better I chose not to do an internship when I was looking for a job, but I chose an internship because I wanted to achieve two goals through the internship:
Learn about the Beijing real estate market in advance;
See if the work content is what you really like.
To be honest, there is no time for anxiety during the internship - just thinking about how to complete the work assigned by the leader.
(4) Arrange abundant spare time activities:
In addition to normal studies and internships, I also set aside enough time for my spare time, such as going shopping with good female classmates, such as going to the National Library, etc. So far, I feel that I do The most correct thing is that I took the time to take the driver's license test--yes, that's right, I took the time to get my driver's license in the second exam.
During the driver's license test, I got up early and got into the dark, and I was so tired that I was dead. How could I still have time to worry?
(5) I am not the only one looking for a job:
Whenever I miss my ideal company, I always comfort myself like this - setbacks are always temporary, and I am not the only one looking for a job. When it comes to work, it is futile to be in a hurry, just do what you can do.
(6) It is better to improve your own strength than anxiety:
Every time I get rejected in an interview, it is a lie to say that I am not anxious or depressed, but I will turn this "mourning" into a reflection and review of my own shortcomings. If I am rejected, it shows that my strength is still lacking. Instead of worrying, it is better to read more books, listen to lectures more, and improve your strength more.