11 tips from top 500 executives to candidates

Author: Glen
What are the shortcomings of Chinese employees? Top 500 executives in the world look at the interview performance of each job seeker. Education, experience, professionalism, ability, in the world's top 500 of the idea of how much weight. Bingqi, a Shanghai Jiaotong University scholar who studies youth employment for a long time, has a dialogue with nearly 30 senior managers of Fortune 500 enterprises on the employment of young students. In the recently published "No Wall" in the book, Bingqi for Job seekers summed up 11 recommendations.
Recommendation 1: See the potential danger

Li Gang, Accenture partner and China president, believes that the shortcomings of Chinese employees are mainly manifested in two aspects: self-confidence and lack of ability to withstand setbacks. This status is detrimental to the growth of employees in multinational companies. In a project, if a colleague who is similar to your level likes to express his or her opinion and show more insight, he will get more attention. In addition, many of our young domestic colleagues independent ability, ability to withstand setbacks than weak, smooth sailing when the performance is very good, a encounter uncomfortable things, often make a mess.

Recommendation 2: Establish clear goals for success

Grand Company vice President Zhang Yanmei cautioned that college students should be planning early, when entering the university gate, it is necessary to have their own efforts in the direction, know their future want to engage in which industry, to what type of units work best. According to this position, you can be fully prepared, must not be to leave school, only to complain about the university for 4 years wasted.

Recommendation 3: Do not take education to say things

According to Wang XJ, director of human Resources, GE (China) Ltd., the company will be based on the requirements of different positions, professional and academic qualifications have a certain tendency. For example, GE's Global Research and Development Center in Shanghai, due to its nature of work, usually requires at least a master's degree. However, in general, opportunities are equal, and high education will not be added. Education, school and work experience is a way to prove the ability of candidates, but the most fundamental is the applicant's experience, ability and skills are suitable for their position, find their own position.

"Siemens Human Resources department has a clear ' talent quality model ', it includes 3 aspects, one is knowledge, two is experience, three is ability. Knowledge includes professional theoretical knowledge and business knowledge, market knowledge, experience includes practical experience in this field, project experience, leadership experience, cross-cultural experience. Capacity refers to 4 of the ability, one is the ability to promote, the second is the ability to focus, three is the ability to influence, four is the guiding ability. "Siemens China Limited, human resources manager Shekhei said.

Recommendation 4: Focus on your core competencies

"We are not strict with the professional backgrounds of candidates," said Chiliaoping, general manager of IBM Greater China University cooperation. "The first level of IBM recruitment is a written examination, the main test of the overall quality of students, the written questions do not have any information on computer knowledge." The second is that IBM values the potential of candidates, is not a piece of material to be made. In IBM, there are a number of examples that show that non-IT professional candidates end up doing a great job in it technology. In IBM, if you have the interest and potential, the company will give you the opportunity. IBM will discover your interests and potential in all rounds of interviews after the written test, and in future training and work.

Recommendation 5: Understand your needs

Carrefour China Co., Ltd. Human resources director Yang Xiaoquan said, in Carrefour, talent elimination rate is high, which mainly has two reasons, one is the company's requirements for talent positioning is very high, "We recruit college students, basically in accordance with the standards of management personnel training, which will eliminate a group of students who do not have the potential to develop" Second, as a labor-intensive enterprise, Carrefour's work is very specific and hard, some college students to engage in this industry is not prepared for hardship and challenge, but also the value of their work is not recognized, so choose to voluntarily leave.

Recommendation 6: Play your advantage in the right place

Yu Junxiong, managing director and general manager of 3M company China Limited, believes that a newly graduated student, with both high education and social experience, is very capable of working, which is almost impossible. "We focus on his attitude, whether he really likes creative work, and has a lot of ideas about his work." Our demand for job seekers is to love the company and be able to accept and integrate into the company's culture. "

Recommendation 7: Correct job-hunting attitude

Du Jiane, vice president of Cisco Systems, and president of Cisco Systems (China) Network Technology Co., Ltd, said that during the recruitment process, they would look at the content, methods, and attitude of the candidate in answering questions to evaluate his ability and attitude. "It doesn't matter, the answer is not really important, the key is that you have to tell us how you try to answer, we have to see your thinking of the logic and methods." People who have no feeling about answering their own questions, will be the first to be eliminated. At the same time also depends on your integrity. In particular, we emphasize that we want a person to speak the truth and not to lie.

Xu Cheng, vice president of human resources at Philips Electronics China, prefers to ask, "What do you think is the most satisfying thing you have done?" The most cowardly thing is what. He said the answer to the question can be seen whether the other side is magnanimous, whether there is integrity, whether willing to accept criticism and frustration, whether it is pressure-resistant, in his mind the best and worst coverage. "In addition, I will ask some very simple questions, to see his ability to respond, perhaps the question is not a precise answer."

Many people think the world's top 500 companies interview is very mysterious, so before applying for a lot of time to prepare, to learn all kinds of interview skills. In this regard, Xu Cheng that "this has a certain role, but very limited." There are some things that can be artificially disguised, but some cannot be concealed. The job of an experienced recruiter is to peel off the candidate's "disguise" and look for a person who is truly fit for the business. "I often suggest that the people who come to the job, the best way is to show the most natural self, not to find a job and deliberately change their own." Let the recruiter see the real you and choose the real you. "

Recommendation 8: Establish mutual trust with the enterprise

According to Chun, general manager of Mitsubishi Corporation (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., from 2002 onwards, they began to implement a new talent development program ——— "China Professional System", select the best Chinese staff, sent to the headquarters of Tokyo, Japan to focus on training, To give them the same job as a Japanese-sent employee. The first 9 "China Professional" went to Tokyo for training, with 5 employees in Shanghai being selected for the program. At present, some Chinese employees have already held important management positions in Mitsubishi Corporation, and the company has consciously cultivated them. "With the development of China's economy, Chinese employees will have better development, we will give Chinese employees more trust, let them play a heavy role." ”

Recommendation 9: Know what you need to do

Chabrand Charles G., president of DuPont China Group. Browne said there was an employee Orientation development program in DuPont. The plan is to encourage employees to decide for themselves what kind of person to develop themselves over the next 3-5 years. Each employee can discuss his own development plan with his direct supervisor, and the company will create the corresponding conditions to support and cooperate with the employee's action plan. DuPont offers every employee the opportunity to succeed, and everyone believes it.

Dr. Wang Wenhan, general manager of the Intel China Software Lab, said that in Intel, when considering employee promotions, education was never considered a factor. Education only in a person into the company that period of time, play a certain role. But the development after this is entirely up to your own efforts. Some graduate students may not work hard, then his salary will fall down, and some undergraduates through their own efforts, achieved excellent results, then he will be promoted faster.

Recommendation 10: Give Yourself a dream

"There are two things that play an important role in the success of a person and a project: one is the belief that through the efforts of oneself and the team can complete the task satisfactorily, and the second is to have a sense of pride in their own business, and feel that they are engaged in a very lofty cause." A person with the confidence to do what he likes to do, feel proud of things, will achieve unexpected results. "Fujitsu General (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. chairman Gisun said.

Wenyi, director of human resources at Bertelsmann Direct Group China, has entered Bertelsmann as a specialist graduate and has been a human resources director for more than 6 years. "I think my experience for junior college students should be a kind of encouragement." I have a very clear plan for my career development, I am full of ideals for the future. When I first entered Bertelsmann as a trainer, I wanted to be a professional human resource manager someday. Every step of my way was solid, and I also received a lot of on-the-job training, including short-term MBA training, Leadership training, team work training, customer relationship management training, psychology training and so on. ”

Recommendation 11: You can change yourself

Wu Zhixheng, general manager of the regional headquarters of the Netherlands international Group in China, said that in China, with the development of the economy, the demand for college students would increase further, "especially in our insurance industry". He advises job seekers to try to enrich themselves and increase their value as much as possible before finding the right job. "Charging while working is a way to improve your own value, and further degrees are the way to improve yourself." It is impossible to wait for a turnaround. Even if you have already lowered the standard to get a job, but also to take the night time to recharge, or on weekends to go to college to continue to study. When your values rise, new opportunities arise. ”