I believe many people know that the first internship/job is particularly important for future development. The first leader you meet in the workplace will also have a significant impact on your working thinking and attitude in the future. Therefore, the first internship, can not casually find a part-time fuddle on the past.
So in the choice of enterprise internship, what should we do? As a matter of fact, the blogger herself just found the internship recently, and there is no way to judge how much the internship will play a role in her future in the long term. Therefore, I just want to talk about some preparations I have made, as well as my thoughts and thoughts in the process of looking for the internship.
Know where you are
Knowing where you are means finding out whether you’re looking for a summer internship or a fall offer. I believe that many students who are looking for internships/jobs have heard of the term “golden three silver four”, “golden nine silver ten” **, but also many people wonder what spring recruitment, autumn recruitment, summer internship is. What time does it start? Here is a schedule 👇
internship
Internships generally fall into two categories: regular internships and summer internships.
- Routine internship: Routine internship can be found at any time, usually according to the needs of the specific department, HR, department director or department staff issued recruitment news, relatively scattered and flexible.
- Summer internship: Many companies, especially large companies (such as BAT), will organize special summer internship recruitment activities. This is partly for students on campus (many of whom only get summer holidays or have their tutors released during the summer) and partly for autumn recruitment (mass recruitment). Summer internships are of great significance. For students, the most immediate benefit is the opportunity to get a job. Summer vacation practice, general at the end of June or so internship entry (also can be based on their own time, in advance), general at the end of August or September will have special summer vacation internship defense, according to comprehensive performance, after the defense can basically end autumn recruit.
Since most people don’t have much time for internships on a regular basis, finding a summer internship between March and May is a great way to build up your resume.
Autumn recruit
Autumn recruitment is the formal start of the job search, generally also divided into two kinds: advance approval and official approval.
- Autumn recruit pre-selection: time is 6 ~ 8 months, mostly within the push is given priority to, and research of the summer camp/pushing free, this time in autumn recruit number of bosses in advance much more special, not many jobs at the same time hc (because companies want to consider the situation of formal group, will control the hiring), so you can put simply understood as the fairy to fight this time period.
- Autumn recruit official approval: time is September ~ November, this stage is the so-called ** “gold nine silver ten” **, generally to this time is very test mentality, because if to September or October, you have no Offer in hand, and then look at the students around have got the Offer, must incarnation into lemon essence 🍋. But this time the mentality must not collapse, continue to cast continue to dry, wide net to catch more fish.
Because the landlord has not experienced the fall recruitment, so the following content is around to find an internship.
Jobs to choose
The choice of position is easy to understand, what can find what post. But the development of the industry to now, a single technology is certainly no way to make a living. And there are many people who don’t know anything before looking for a job. For example, I once wrote the following question on Zhihu.
So this brings us back to the dilemma we faced when we first learned to program. What direction should I take?
In fact, there are not many jobs related to the Internet, such as development, algorithms, testing, and products. It can be a little hard to choose between smaller categories. In the development of front-end, back-end, client, etc., the algorithm has data, visual and so on. So when we choose, we can consider the following three directions:
- Can you do this?
- Is it expensive to do this?
- Do you like doing this?
Some might say the ease of finding a job is another consideration. Yes, it is a point worth considering, but I think it is not the most important, because if you really like doing a direction, you will constantly improve your ability, and then worry about finding a job? If you take a position because it’s easy to find, you don’t choose the job. The job chooses you.
But if anyone still wants to know which positions are easy to find, here is a copy of a large factory’s recruitment ratio for interns in 2020 for your reference.
Internship Location selection
Before sending resumes, in addition to the need to choose internship positions, we also need to choose a good internship site, if the local internship will certainly be a lot of convenience, if you want to go to other places for internship, there will be a lot of things to consider.
Here I divide it into two categories:
You have to go to a certain city for some special reason
For example, if your boyfriend/girlfriend is in a certain city, he/she must go there for the stability of the relationship.
Or say you like a particular city, want to feel the local customs of that city, then this kind of words do not need to consider too much, directly invest in the city of the company is good.
There is no must-see city
What if there’s no place you have to go? Then my suggestion is ** “big cities + overseas investment”, such as Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Shenzhen, etc. After all, you don’t know where to go, which means it doesn’t really matter to you, so why not go to the big city, see the outside world, meet better people? I’m not saying you’ll meet great people if you go to a big city, but you’ll have more chances and opportunities than if you stay in your comfort zone.
But here I want to say is, don’t cry because it is chose an internship cities give oneself very great pressure, after the internship has one advantage is that we do have the chance of autumn recruit, for future, don’t feel sorry because it didn’t go to any city, also don’t cry because it is to go to a big city too much stress will feel no future, is to believe in yourself in the future!
Interview preparation
After we have decided where to work and what position we want to take, all we need to do is prepare for the interview. The first step is the resume.
resume
We all know that a resume is important for a job search, so why is it important?
Start with the interview
If you apply online, your resume will have to be screened by HR. HR may take only 10 seconds to look at a resume before deciding whether you Fail or Pass.
If you’re pushing in, no matter how hard someone pushes you in, there’s nothing they can do about it if your resume doesn’t stack up.
In addition, even if you make it through the screening process, your resume will be used to determine whether you are worth his or her time.
So, a resume is like a front for us, and it largely determines whether you make it to the next round of interviews.
From the interview
There’s nothing wrong with reading a lot of interviews before an interview, but what most interviews don’t tell you is that many questions are only asked under certain conditions. Take a simple example: I mentioned in the article “Take a chance, bike to Bike, Record my Taobao internship interview” that in one round of interview, the interviewer asked me a lot of questions about deep learning, but I was actually a Java backend post, so I asked me because I mentioned this point.
So, first of all, be clear: If you can’t, don’t put it on your resume. In addition, consider how you can make your resume stand out, such as what you did on a project, what problem you solved (as long as there is a project, there is a problem to solve), what technology you used on a project improved overall performance and concurrency, etc.
How to write a resume?
In fact, writing a resume is a very troublesome thing, content to consider, typesetting to beautify, if you want to invest in foreign companies, but also to prepare English resume. They often look for resume templates, and sometimes charge for them. In terms of resume layout, HERE I recommend a website I used before when making resumes, super resume, which can generate a professional resume for free, very convenient. (Not advertising)
What do you put on your resume?
So what should we put on the resume?
The most important things are personal experience, professional skills and project experience.
Personal experience
Personal experience is what happened to you as a student, like what competition did you participate in? An internship at a company? What activities have you organized? These are your personal stories, and may be your highlights if they come to fruition.
Professional skills
Let others know what you can do. Here we need to pay attention to is, do not write skills, and pay attention to some technical nouns, do not mistake the case, such as MySQL do not write MySQL, Java do not write Java. Some people account for more than this.
Project experience
Talking about project experience is a very interesting thing, looking for an internship is hoping to have a project experience, but without the project experience, I can not write a resume to find an internship. Well, it’s a chicken-and-egg situation.
When looking for internships, most people may not have much advantage in internship experience, but it doesn’t mean they can’t write a word. Project experience can be some small projects done in school, it can also be class design, graduation project, or find some open source projects on the Internet to follow. But if you ask me, what should I do if these are not available? As a last resort, I will find some practical courses and write the code completely with the progress of the video. It is also ok to know the whole project thoroughly.
Pay attention to what time
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Most HR people say we don’t value degrees (lie!). However, if your school is not outstanding, it will be difficult to stand out in the pile of resumes unless you have some special highlights, such as internship experience in a large factory, winning an award in a competition, etc.
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Lack of work experience or internship experience is a major drawback for most fresh graduates looking for a job, so if you are a fresh graduate, don’t miss the autumn and spring recruitment. Once you miss it, you are highly likely to face social recruitment later on. At this time, if you have no work experience, you may face all kinds of rejection, leading to the failure to find a good job
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Be careful what you put on your resume. This is where the interviewer will ask a lot of questions.
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It is important to present your project experience well.
For more information on your resume, I recommend reading this article at 👉
A resume
Once the resume is ready, we’re ready to send it out. There are two main ways:
Site delivery
Website delivery is to go to the company’s official website, or third-party channels, such as Niuke.com, BOSS zhipin or such a platform as the intern monk. The downside of submitting your resume to the website is that it’s hard to see where you’re going with your resume, and it’s very likely that it won’t work. So generally will choose to push within the department.
In the department to push
Push-in may sound like a fancy word, but some push-ins may simply mean your resume can be screened (which means your resume wouldn’t be screened if you didn’t). So at this time a reliable internal push is very important, generally speaking, the most direct internal push source of students is their seniors/senior students and the class/college group. If you do not have the above channels, in fact, you can pay attention to the information of some public numbers or push groups.
Interview preparation
If you pass the screening, you will soon be called for an interview. I always believe that the most important part of the interview process is to show your core competencies. Why should the company choose you over others? Why would you be a better choice for their company than anyone else? These are all things we want to show in the interview. So what should we do?
Preparation for an interview
Figure out what the technical side is going to ask
Since the core competitiveness is mentioned above, for those of us who make technology, the most core competitiveness must be our technical ability. Companies are unlikely to hire you if your technical skills are not up to scratch.
So we need to know what the technical questions are going to be before the interview. Take the Java back end, for example, and you will most likely be asked about Java basics, databases, frameworks, system design, and so on. What the technical side will ask is actually a very broad topic, an article is certainly not finished, the following will use a special article to introduce the common questions in the interview.
Read people’s faces
There are several benefits to seeing others face classics, one is to see what is the high-frequency test points, can play a role in consolidating their knowledge. On the other hand is to look at what you should do to deal with an interviewer who does not follow the routine, and strive to do the same.
My public account recently issued a new “follow me to interview” series, interested can follow the public account “01 binary” view.
Review again and again
In fact, the interview preparation process is the same as our senior three, first to a round of review, the knowledge point is a little, and then the second round of review assault high frequency test points, and finally do several rounds of paper simulation, so repeated review for us is an inevitable link.
The interview
Don’t stand me up. Give me advance notice
Generally, the hr will call you to confirm the time before the interview. If you have a good time, try not to cancel the appointment. If there is an emergency, you should also do a good job in advance notice.
Answer questions simply and to the point
When an interviewer asks a question, it’s best to give a brief and comprehensive answer, rather than a ramble. While you need to be able to guide the interviewer to ask favorable questions during the interview, you should also be able to limit yourself. If an interviewer asks you a question and you keep expanding on it, chances are they will be bored if they don’t really want to listen to you.
So it’s important to be concise, to get to the point of the question in simple words.
Don’t pretend to know what you don’t know
If you were the interviewer, would you like someone who would talk to you?
After the interview
After the interview, do a review regardless of the outcome. An interview and a job are two different things, and it’s possible that many people who fail an interview are much better at the job than you are, and vice versa. Personally, I think the interview is also like a brand new journey, failure and victory are common. So don’t get discouraged and demoralized just because the interview failed. Don’t gloat because you passed the interview, either.
Although interview and job are two different things, you need to be strong in order to get the offer you want. Through the review can also continue to consolidate their learned knowledge, so that their ability to a higher level.
Offer to choose
At the beginning of this article I said to cast a wide net and catch more fish. If you’re good at it, chances are you’ll receive several offers and be the “Offer harvester” who gets everyone to eat lemons. But such a person is also very difficult, after all, the final can only choose a company, can not achieve equal access.
So how should we choose Offer?
In fact, I don’t have much experience in this point, because I’m not an offer harvester, and I can’t predict what impact this offer will have on me in the future, so I can only share my current thoughts with you.
Apart from the internship location and position (see article), the next things to consider are the growth path, the benefits of the internship and the company atmosphere.
Growth path
Because it is an internship, we should pay more attention to the growth path. If you can’t grow in a company, no matter how good the treatment is, it should not be considered for a young person. After all, an internship without growth can get such a good salary. Wouldn’t it be better to wait for you to experience elsewhere?
Treatment of internship
Then there is the question of internship treatment. The internship treatment of most Internet companies is very good compared with other industries. The internship salary of big factory is high, some still can rent a house subsidy, some local government also has subsidy. The odds are that some interns can earn more than regular employees in some industries. And as far as I know, some professional internships even have to be paid for. Therefore, under the condition that the salary is not too bad, I still suggest to choose the Offer that can make me grow better. After all, there is still a round of autumn recruitment after that. If you are not satisfied with the salary, you can take advantage of the internship to practice and then choose a better Offer in the autumn.
Enterprise atmosphere
In fact, I think the enterprise atmosphere is the least important factor when choosing the Offer before the internship, because you have not gone to the company for internship, how do you know that the enterprise atmosphere is not suitable for you? The atmosphere of the enterprise is greatly influenced by the supervisor. Just because someone says that the enterprise is too depressing, you should not feel that you are not suitable for it. What may be depressing for others will be just like a duck in water for you?
Practice is the only standard to test the truth, only their own personal experience to evaluate the atmosphere of an enterprise is suitable for you.
The last
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