How difficult is it for fresh graduates to find jobs?

Affected by this year's epidemic, it is really difficult for fresh graduates to find jobs. This year, there are 8.74 million college graduates nationwide, an increase of 400,000 over last year, and the proportion of enterprises shrinking is as high as 6 1%.

It's difficult, but I don't have to look for it myself. Therefore, instead of selling anxiety, I'd better tell you how I got here step by step and some experience about finding a job through my own story. I hope we have the courage to move on.

As a fresh graduate, I feel it is difficult to find a job, and it is even more difficult to find a suitable job. After struggling in my professional work, I decided to switch careers and successfully switched to new media operations in 90 days! Here, I sincerely share with you the experience of this fresh graduate who successfully found a job and switched to new media operation.

I am a sophomore in finance. When I first started looking for a job, I had no idea what I was doing. I thought I should find a job with a professional counterpart, but the interview for more than a month ended in failure. One day I accidentally received a phone call from a real estate company, so I was lucky and confused to join the marketing post of a real estate company in March this year.

I am a fresh graduate.

Freshmen induction training

It is too difficult for fresh graduates to find jobs this year. I should have cherished this job, but after doing it, I found that I didn't like it and it was not suitable. He resigned soon.

I felt very painful for a long time after I resigned, because my resumes that I continued to submit were still sinking into the sea, and I didn't know what to do if I couldn't find a job. Disappointment accumulates, and my struggle is getting weaker and weaker. Suddenly, I had an idea: I want to change careers! Through my own efforts, I finally realized the transformation from 0 foundation to new media operation within 90 days.

Next, I will share my story and experience of finding a job and switching to new media operations from three aspects:

First, redo career planning-the right job will last for a long time.

Second, accumulate skills and experience-help to find a job.

Third, prepare for the job interview-make it less difficult to find a job.

First, redo career planning-the right job will last for a long time.

Is the job you are looking for really suitable? After all, we are fresh graduates and have little experience in many industries.

Looking for a job is like looking for a partner. Only suitable, can we be bored for a long time. Although it's a bit difficult to find a suitable job, believe me, all this waiting and paying is worth it. Just like my previous real estate sales job, I resigned because it was not suitable, wasting time and energy!

The biggest change that this incident has brought me is to realize that I have to redo my career plan! It was through career planning that I decided to switch to new media operations.

Here, I want to say that career choice is really important! It is not easy to find a job, so think carefully before making a choice. Don't waste your status as a fresh graduate!

So, how to do career planning?

1. Explore yourself-fully understand yourself.

Do you really know yourself? Think about it. What are your interests? What can you do? What do you want?

Take me as an example, I find that I am very interested in creative and hands-on work, and I hate being bored.

what can I do? I spent two years in the new media center of the university. During this period, I studied WeChat operation in WeChat official account, participated in event planning and wrote articles. I have some experience in new media operation.

What do I want? I want a job with high salary and good career prospects.

After comparing various positions many times, I found that new media operation is most suitable for me, a freshman. Moreover, the entry threshold is low and the career development prospects are good. In March this year, the National Bureau of Statistics also released 16 new jobs, including all-media operators.

16 new occupation

The outbreak of the epidemic also strengthened my choice. Many companies closed down this year, and offline enterprises moved online. As an Internet industry, new media operation is an indispensable link for enterprises to create profits.

After reading the job demand and salary report of new media operation, I have strengthened my determination to change careers.

Job requirements for new media operations

Salary level of new media operation

2. Matching work-testing occupational character.

Choice is greater than hard work, everyone has his own advantages and disadvantages, so it is more important to know what kind of work his personality is suitable for.

I strongly suggest that you do some professional personality tests, such as MBTI professional personality test and Holland career tendency scale, to evaluate your personality and the suitability of your career more accurately.

To my surprise, after completing the professional test, there are new media operations in my matching professional type!

Professional personality test when looking for a job.

Second, accumulate skills and experience-help to find a job.

I thought it should not be difficult to find a new media operation in this situation, but Haitou lasted for nearly two months but only a few HR sent me a message. Some people think that my skills are not enough to match the job requirements of the company, and some people give me an interview, but I still failed.

Although I was devastated, I began to understand the positioning of new media operations. After in-depth understanding, I realized that new media operation needs seven essential core skills: user's emotional ability, operation planning ability, content creation ability, copywriting ability, design and typesetting ability, community operation ability and data analysis ability. I have only a little fur.

Essential core skills for new media operation posts

I made up my mind that I must quickly accumulate skills and experience in new media operation and successfully find a job as soon as possible, so I began to search, consult and compare major online new media operation training institutions. Finally, I decided to set up an online organization and started my learning journey.

I keep 6+h study time every day, and quickly master all the required courses of new media operation. After that, under the guidance of the actual class teacher, I made a personal WeChat official account and Zhihu, which really took a step to switch to new media operations.

My new media operation course

Notes on new media operation

How do fresh graduates accumulate skills and experience when looking for a job? I have some ideas to share with you.

1, accumulate skills-skillfully use learning resources

In addition to finding an internship, working part-time or taking classes like me to accumulate skills, there are actually many free learning resources online. I think the following websites and tools are very useful and recommend them to you:

(1) New Media Operation Skills

New Media Study Room: This is my first free course in into the pit. The course covers all kinds of core skills of operation, even including resume making and job interview. Suitable for people like me who are young or change careers.

Learn to shoot video with two-meter young people: this is an introductory course for short video production. Short video is one of the necessary skills for new media people. The overall style of the course is humorous and interesting. It won't make me feel bored when I study. I will feel happy and full of dry goods during my study.

From 0 to 1, the whole process of WeChat official account: contains many skills of WeChat official account operation, which is very useful for those who start to operate WeChat official account!

(2) Other skills

Wang Peifeng studied excel video tutorial: the total video duration is 1800 minutes, and it is completely free and easy to understand. There are many skills and dry goods to learn Excel.

Doyoudo: This is a website covering graphic design, post-editing, three-dimensional animation, special effects synthesis and music dynamic effects. Most of them are free and suitable for Xiaobai.

Oeasy: It is a completely free comprehensive video tutorial website, including PS, Au, photography, AI, PR, CAD drawing and programming. There are many types of free downloads.

Want to teach yourself: the course is detailed, and it is very friendly to people who teach themselves office software, PS and programming.

2. Sum up experience-improve work efficiency

Get into the habit of taking notes every day. In the evening, you can record what you have done and learned, and reflect on how you have not done well enough and how to improve. Here, I recommend two useful tools for plugging cracks: graphite documents and impression notes.

Get into the habit of sorting out love categories. For example, efficient tools, material libraries, documents, materials and peer cases can be sorted and classified. Used in the work process, it will be very convenient and quick to use again next time.

Get into the habit of making plans and arrangements in advance. Do a good job in daily, weekly and monthly work plans and task arrangements, and complete the work within the specified progress in strict accordance with the plan. Tick-tock list and Evernote are both useful tools for fattening intestines.

Come on, find a job, freshman!

Third, prepare for the job interview-make it less difficult to find a job.

It is very difficult to find a job in freshman year, and it is likely to be defeated in resume and interview. Resume and interview are the stepping stones to find a suitable job. I remember when I first decided to find a job in new media operation, I didn't prepare my resume at all, and the interview was in a hurry. Everything was like cramming for the last minute, which led to a very low pass rate of my initial resume and a mess in the interview.

Then, how can fresh graduates optimize their resumes when looking for a job or changing careers, and how can they prepare for job interviews to find a suitable job?

1. Four necessary steps to write a resume

First, understand the positioning. As a fresh graduate, the first step is to fully understand the "all information" of the applied position. Mainly includes: position, promotion channel, salary level, corporate culture, etc. You can learn the key information through the recruitment website or enterprise official website.

Second, refine experience. When looking at the job requirements, you can know what abilities the enterprise needs you to have by extracting keywords. Everyone will experience many things, and you just need to screen out the experiences that match the position you are applying for.

Third, writing. In terms of personal information, the telephone number and email address must be marked accurately; In the intention to apply for a job, it should be consistent with the job title applied for; In terms of academic qualifications, it is best to attach credits/grade points, and the academic qualifications are written from high to low; In terms of relevant experience, the core is: duration, responsibility for tasks, and achievements. Use specific figures to illustrate the value and credibility of the experience!

Fourth, touch up and modify. There can be no typos and format problems! Read it again after a while to check whether the language logic is wrong. You can also find classmates, teachers, relatives and friends around you to help you review.

Resume writing steps of fresh graduates looking for jobs

2. How to describe it-Resume FAQ

How to optimize your resume through relevant experience and numerical results? When describing related experiences in words, the commonly used "winning magic weapon" is the verb-object structure. Among them, the object part only needs to describe the practical experience that matches the job responsibilities. Verbs should be consistent with those used in job requirements, such as "responsible, planning". At the same time, relevant experience must highlight the results through numbers!

Example: Assist lecturers and sales specialists to sell 5 sets of JAVA courses, with a sales volume of 400,000.

How to describe the major on your resume? If your specialty is also related to the job requirements, you will be different and get extra points. At the same time, we can also refine it through brackets. For example, I want to apply for new media operation, and my major can be optimized as follows:

Before optimization: typesetting and copywriting of WeChat official account.

After optimization: official WeChat account typesetting (skillfully using Xiu Mi, 135 editor); Copywriting (good at hot writing and dry writing)

What should I do if my resume is too white and there is nothing to write? Learn from experience! All experiences related to job requirements can be written. For example, the job requirement is good organizational skills. It can be written as "Organize cyclists to complete a bicycle journey from Guangzhou to Zhaoqing for nearly 300 kilometers by hard cycling on the 7th". If there is really nothing to write, write it in your self-introduction, but don't talk empty words. The common formula is: ability+will+hobby; Ability+case+result.

Excellent resume template for new media operation

3. Respond to the interview-pay attention to interview skills.

How to introduce yourself? Don't simply repeat your resume from beginning to end or describe your personality characteristics. You need to focus on describing the personality highlights and experiences that can match the job responsibilities to HR. At the same time, you can also talk about your understanding of the job, your recognition of the company culture, your love and desire for the job.

How to describe the project experience? Project experience must be related to job responsibilities! Use "time+task+result" to describe it. That is, in the case of xx, I used the method of xx to do the work of xx and achieved the results of xx. Note: the result is the focus of HR attention, and the result must be explained by data!

On the contrary, as the director of the practice department of the Youth League Committee, he actively completed all the work and planned many practical activities, and the team in our school suddenly increased.

Positive: managing a team of 10 people and actively completing the work, which makes the practice team of our school suddenly increase by 20 people and the excellent team of our school increase by 4 people.

How to answer HR "How do you understand this job?" It's best not to talk about job requirements in general, but to contact the company's basic business and specific job requirements, and you can also talk about your career planning (plus points). This will let HR know that you have a full understanding of the company before the interview, that you cherish this job and that you want to do it well for a long time.

How to reply to HR "Do you have any other questions?" Don't ask anything, and don't ask for a salary as soon as you come up! Pay attention to the value orientation when asking questions, such as: "What is the promotion mechanism of employees in your company?" "What are the assessment indicators related to job responsibilities in your company?" If you really care about salary, ask it as the last question.

You'll find a job!

Finally, I hope everyone will adjust their mentality and make preparations for what they can do. I also hope that these fresh graduates will no longer have the trouble of finding a job and find a suitable job! If you want to change careers, it's no big deal. Be brave and ask me if you have any questions! If I want to switch to new media operations, I also have learning resources. I hope you can avoid detours through free sharing!