The biggest differences between school and work are:

You’re at school, the teacher gives you a book, and then you take an exam. If you fail, you have to take a make-up exam. You’re in the workplace, your boss gives you a problem, and you solve it. If you can’t, you’re out of here.

To do this, you’ll need to update your resume every six months, go out for interviews, and find out what the latest salaries are and how your skills are in demand.

After you submit your resume, if you don’t have project experience, then unfortunately, your resume won’t show up on HR’s desk, and HR will just throw it in the trash.

What: “I really want this job, I can really do it!” It’s bullshit. No one’s gonna listen. Companies look at your project experience, not necessarily because you’ve worked, but because you’ve done something specific to see if you’re capable of something.

So, here’s the problem.

A lot of friends who have just graduated or changed careers are most upset about:

I’m a graduate student, and they didn’t ask me to work on any projects, did they? I am change a line of work, had not done relevant project, do not have experience at all, how whole?

The best way to let others know what you are capable of is not what you say, but what you do. Thanks to the Internet, you can leave traces of what you do.

So the solution is also very simple, no matter what industry, you can usually learn the knowledge of the record online.

If you are looking for a job in technology, you can do several projects through open source platform, and then write an article on Zhihu as your project experience.

If you apply for new media marketing, then you can write your daily understanding of marketing into an article on the Internet.

I’ve highlighted the benefits of doing this many times in my previous post on Why You Should Start Writing a Column now. That is, you can directly include the address of your zhihu article in your resume, thus turning your value into a definite product.

The project in your zhihu is your own product, and there’s nothing more compelling than having that product on your resume. When the HR or the interviewer sees the project address on your resume, they’ll open it up and take a closer look at what you’ve done. Facts speak louder than words.