Shortcuts to job hunting: How to get seniors and seniors to help you internally

How to find a shortcut for job hunting by asking senior brothers and sisters to help you with internal recommendations

Yesterday morning I went to the office early to check my emails, and an email titled "Can you help me?" came into view. . Opening it, the text of the email is as follows:

"Hello Sister Xing:

I am a senior student who has been reading your blog and magazine columns for a long time. Now I have something to ask for. Could you please help me forward my resume to your company's HR department? I have admired your company for a long time and don't know which department to submit my resume to, so I hope to get your help.

Please believe that I really like 4A Company and want to be a member of it.

--Lin Zi at XX University Library”

I closed it without even opening it. After receiving this email, it turns out that I am not from 4A at all, but more because...

Why don’t senior brother and senior sister want to help you?

On the way to job hunting or internship, it is really a quick and easy way to have a reliable senior brother or sister to help you submit a resume internally. Therefore, whenever there are experience exchange meetings and various activities where employed senior brothers and sisters appear, current students rush to participate. Because in this kind of activity, you can not only hear a lot of first-hand experiences, but also get to know the connections in the big companies that you dream of. In addition, you are in the same school or even the same disciple, so you will never worry about your senior brother or sister not doing you a favor. But have you ever noticed that every time you rush to grab a precious business card and send an email when needed, there is never any news? Or does the other party's reply just talk in general terms without any valuable suggestions or help? Why is this? Aren't the senior brothers and sisters willing to help the younger brothers and sisters? Could it be that my senior brother and senior sister have become worldly and utilitarian, and they must receive some benefits before they are willing to help me? Have senior brothers and sisters forgotten that they also came from this time?

In fact, in the final analysis, the most important reason why brothers and sisters are unwilling to help is: Who are you? How can I trust you?

"Recommendation" is not just a simple matter of transferring a resume, it also includes the credibility of the recommender, that is, the senior brother and senior sister in the company and the industry. I would like to use an unforgettable little story of my own to explain this:

When I was an intern at my first company, I recruited three interns for another group of the company to assist. A customer’s offline activities. I went back to school to find three juniors who had been begging me for help and wanted to come to our company for internships. I only met them at a teacher's event, but I had never interacted with them and didn't know them well. But since I had a business trip the next day and was too pressed for time, I casually mentioned the matter and forwarded their resumes to colleagues in the company. Who would have imagined that as soon as I got off the plane the next day, HR called me angrily and said: "Who did you recommend? He was late for the interview and was still quarreling at the company! How did you find the person? Don't treat people from your school as miscellaneous in the future. They all arranged to come to the company!" I called back in shock and asked my colleagues what was going on. It turned out that these three juniors knew each other and were planning to come to the company for interviews together in the morning. Since the interview times of the three people were different, and they thought it was a group interview, the time should be the same, so two of them thought they had remembered the wrong time, so they privately adjusted the interview time to an intermediate time without notifying the company. . The next day, my colleagues from the company arrived at the office early but could not find anyone. When the three people arrived, the company quickly started a one-on-one interview. While the other two students were waiting in the waiting area, they did not see anyone from the company bringing water or fruit to entertain them, so they argued with the company HR about my situation. The company was not humane and did not know the problem of pouring water for interviewers, so they started a vigorous quarrel.

What an incredible thing! I can’t believe these are three men from prestigious schools! I picked up the phone and called the three uncles to scold them. But when I put down the phone, I began to understand that this was definitely not something that could be solved by scolding them. The bigger problem was that my reputation was completely ruined.

Society is not a school. The core of a mixed society is "credibility." But where is my credibility now? It ruined the lives of all three uncles. Just like HR said, "Don't arrange all kinds of people from your school to work in the company in the future!", and my colleague's signature was also changed to "XX University students are too unreliable. !" In the next year, despite the pleas and requests from my junior brothers and sisters, as well as the email notifications of the company's shortage of people at various times, I did not recommend anyone to the company.

Perhaps you want to say, "I am very reliable, I will not quarrel with the company, I will not be so irresponsible", "I will definitely work hard, and I will definitely not give up halfway!" But , why should I trust you? You yourself don’t know what will happen to you in the future and what you will need to bear. The biggest problem for students is that they do not have enough ability to assume social responsibilities. Once there is a little responsibility dispute or a little criticism, they will find ways to escape or even disappear completely. This kind of thing is often unexpected by themselves, but it is Something can happen at any time.

The problem is that you escaped. What you escaped was just a small internship, and you escaped the senior brother and sister who recommended you in the first place. But the senior brother and senior sister who recommended you in the first place will bear your responsibility. All the work and all the responsibilities left behind will even be blamed for your bad reputation, and it will take a long time.

Therefore, dear classmates, please understand, if you and I have met once, or just chatted for a few words online, why would my senior brother and senior sister risk their reputations to recommend someone whom they don’t know about you? Woolen cloth?

How to make senior brothers and sisters trust you and help you on your job search

Stella is one level younger than me, and she is not in the same department as me. I have never met her, but We met after a lecture. In the next two years, I not only recommended her to get the internship she wanted, but I even fully helped her boyfriend with his internship. How did she make me trust her so much?

1 At the freshest time, use the most unique and simple way to let the senior brothers and sisters get to know you

At that time, I was a senior and had already been to several good places. During my company internship, I gave a 15-minute presentation at a campus internship sharing meeting. After the lecture, I was blocked by a huge crowd. When the crowd slowly dispersed and a few friends and I walked to the school gate, Stella caught up with me from behind and stopped me. At this time, there were not many inquiring students around me, so she had enough time to introduce herself. She asked me for a business card. She didn't have any questions to ask me, and she didn't need my help with anything. She just thanked me repeatedly and said that she hoped to have the opportunity to meet me again in the future. For the students who asked me what kind of interns my company needed, I was a little surprised when Stella chased me to the school gate without saying anything.

2 Follow up by sending an email in a timely manner, respect the other party, and be polite

When Stella went back that night, she sent me an email based on the email address on my business card and politely introduced her again. asked myself and asked if I could take a moment of my time to ask some basic questions about my industry. I received this email when I was at work the next morning. Out of politeness and the good impression I had made the night before, I responded to Fetion Chat after get off work at 6 pm. As a result, I went to another emergency meeting at 6 p.m. So we made a new appointment and decided to have a phone chat at 7 o'clock. At 7 o'clock, she didn't call directly. Instead, she sent a text message asking me if I had finished the meeting and if she could call me. At this time, I really appreciated her respect for details, and we had a short phone call smoothly. I answered all her questions, whether they were childish or ridiculous, and at the end she asked me to look over her resume. Later I found out that her mobile phone did not have the Fetion service, so she went to China Mobile to install the Fetion service just to chat with me in the afternoon. And because she switched to talking on the phone, she sat in a quiet and empty room in the library at 6:30. Waiting for time in a small corner. To be honest, I was deeply touched by these small details of Stella. She could put herself in my shoes and feel that I was very busy at work and had no time to change anything for her, so she changed herself just to adapt to me. I asked her for her resume because I really wanted to do something for this polite and respectful girl.

3 Strength is a guarantee, if you don’t have enough, you have to learn

In fact, Stella’s background is very average, and there are not many bright spots on her resume, but because this child left such a good impression on me , I kindly pointed out some formatting errors on her resume and questions about her experience and background. Unexpectedly, Stella went back and carefully revised her resume before sending it to me for review. Since then, she has worked hard to improve and enrich her resume in all aspects according to my guidance (actually I just talked about it casually that day). We maintained close communication throughout the year, and even traveled thousands of miles to come to me for dinner. She kept telling me what she had done recently, what inspiration she had received, what new opportunities she had, whether she was doing well enough, etc. . She continued to share her progress with me, and a year later, I sent her resume to the HR department to start interviews. Stella's strength was not good at the beginning. She knew that I would not be able to recommend her, so she did not choose to cut off contact with me and find a new connection. Instead, she chose to work hard this year and continue to let people know her. I see it in my eyes and remember it in my heart. During this year of interaction, I had enough confidence to guarantee his efforts, character, and character, and finally recommended him to the HR department.

4 After crossing the river, we have to build a bridge again

Stella finally entered my original company after half a year of various interviews and various schedule coordination. At that time, although I We're still in that company, but we're not in the same department. I receive emails from Stella every now and then. She tells me about the various problems she encounters every day, her small difficulties, worries, her confusion, and her various small gains. Although I am not her direct leader, I seem to be able to see her growth and progress all the time. Occasionally she would sneak up to me and talk to me, which made me feel that she still cared about me and was not a girl who was trying to burn bridges. But later, Stella had to resign due to family reasons. Both her leader and I felt very sorry. I knew that her leader was very satisfied with her, which made me feel more relieved. In the days after she left her job, I continued to help her find internships and freelance jobs that fit her schedule. In the days that followed, she often helped me think about things and search for information. Sometimes she wanted to help me You may even stay up late looking for something.

To Stella, I am deeply grateful. Thank you for her respect and courtesy to me. Thank you for her unwavering belief in me all the way. Thank you for giving me a heart that is willing to share and help others. . I also learned a lot from her acquaintance with me and the two years we spent together. Maybe she will not work in the top multinational companies that everyone is familiar with in the future, but I believe that she will win selfless help from many people in her life, because she is humble, respectful, hard-working, and grateful. These are the foundation for a person to enter the society and achieve a career, and it is also where each of us should work together! ;