Job Search vs recruitment-communication skills

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• Review job requirements (JD ):

 

Job Search equation:

Successful Job Search = 40% confidence + 30% sincerity + 20% earnest + 10% skills

 

After years of experience in the industry, I would like to summarize some of my experiences in recruitment and recruitment: the two sides are on the opposite side of their desks, and the two sides are on the phone to communicate and communicate with each other through tentative questions or games, on the battlefield where both the mode and time are restricted, the employer must determine the applicant's quality and ability in the shortest time, and determine the position applicability, candidates must provide their own information in the shortest time.

In the formula, self-confidence and your ability are related. Self-confidence without ability is arrogant. On this basis, you can communicate with each other in a sincere and frank manner. Pay attention to every detail, and you have succeeded 90%, the last smallest part, although only 10%, is indeed very important. With some good skills and strategies, You can exert confidence, reflect sincerity, and foster strengths and circumvent weaknesses to make your communication smoother, I will share the last 10% tips based on my own experience. You are also welcome to talk about your recruitment and application experience.

Everything starts with a cover letter.

 

Your test does not start from the moment you enter the interviewer's office, nor does it start from the first question asked by HR, the real interview started as early as you sent the first email to your favorite company.

I believe that in normal cases, this email must contain your resume as an attachment. In the letter body, you should briefly introduce yourself. Generally, there should be no more than 6 [covering letter] sentences. usually, the title of the email is ignored. Generally, you need to put your job in the title to facilitate HR selection. However, there are hundreds of questions, such as applying for a senior sales manager, how can you stand out from the title letter like an intermediate development engineer?

A better way is to put your qualified words that best show your abilities in the title, such

Description of work experience:

Apple sales director apply for your company sales director

Linux core developers apply for senior R & D personnel of your company

 

Degree:

MBA candidates for your company's marketing director

Apply for your legal counsel

 

Service Life:

8 + year senior developers apply for senior developers

6 years it market sales apply for your company's sales staff

 

It should be noted that, if it is not a special case, one or two qualified words are enough. Do not stack too many qualified words. The qualified words should not exceed 10 words.

 

Suggestions on writing resumes

 

There are a lot of skills here, but they are not the focus of this Article. Below are some good articles for your reference.

 

I will only remind you that after you finish writing your resume, you 'd better show your resume to 2-3 people. The following are some advantages for doing so,

1) They may be able to give many pertinent comments.

2) check for some issues you have not seen.

3) They may use different tools or view your resume in different environments, which may expose unexpected problems.

For example, I once wrote a resume on the Chinese XP system word2003, and then handed it over to a friend with a recruitment background. She opened the resume in word2007 under her English system, I immediately discovered that my resume format was very ugly and the fonts were uneven. When I edited my resume, the English letters sometimes use, and sometimes use times new Roma. On my local site, there seems to be no difference, so I didn't notice it, but on her machine, it turned into a mess of different sizes.

If this resume is viewed by the personnel department of the company using the same environment, many opportunities may be missed.

 

Telephone Interview

 

Generally, when people check your resume and feel good, they will send you an intentional email or make a phone call to schedule a further interview with you, which may be a telephone interview, it may also be a face-to-face interview. From now on, communication and confrontation are everywhere.

Let's simulate the phone conversation. Let's see which of the two conversations is better.

HR: Hello, is it Mr. X?

X: Yes, you are?

HR: I am a company like yy. We saw your resume and thought you were very good. Is it convenient for you to speak now?

X: No problem

HR: we want to give you a phone interview first. When do you think it is appropriate?

X: Now.

HR :............

X :.............

 

Scenario 2

 

HR: Hello, is it Mr. X?

X: Yes. Are you?

HR: I am a company like yy. We saw your resume and thought you were very good. Is it convenient for you to speak now?

X: No problem

HR: we want to give you a phone interview first. When do you think it is appropriate?

X: Do you think it is convenient to set it to or tomorrow morning?

HR: tomorrow.

X: No problem. What is the main content of the telephone interview?

HR: Based on your resume, I will talk about your work experience and simple career skills.

X: OK. I will wait for you to call tomorrow afternoon.

HR: Okay, 88

X: 88

 

In the second conversation, X provides two time points for the other party to choose for formal interviews. This allows the other party to feel that you have fully managed your time.

More importantly, you have provided yourself with a preparation time and direction by asking about the interview content. For example, you can repeat your resume and think about the highlights of each work experience, what are the disadvantages of your resume? (for example, if there are too many job-hopping jobs, the most common problems for young people nowadays). How should we deal with them? If it is a technical interview, are you familiar with the technical points you have posted on your resume? Can I answer your questions? If not, I should further review the prepared knowledge.

 

Preparations for the interview

 

Review job requirements (JD ):

Employers will learn about your soft and hard abilities based on their job requirements. The so-called soft abilities refer to your communication skills, character stability, and hard abilities refer to your professional abilities, therefore, you need to prepare your resume and interview for these issues.

For example, you can read from your job requirements that you may want to work in North America. You need to prepare for an English interview in advance and write an outline of your self-introduction in English, avoid being caught off guard during the interview

For example, the core job of a job is to present products to customers and collect user feedback. You need to prepare whether you have experience in public speaking in your previous work, summarize your strengths in writing articles and giving speeches.

A better strategy is to imagine a work scenario and process based on work requirements.

When creating a virtual environment, you often need to consult industry insiders or search for relevant work information and work methods online.

By setting up work scenarios and processes, you can probably understand the soft capabilities you need, the tools you need, and the professional knowledge (hard capabilities ), in this way, we have prepared an interview for all aspects, so we have a strong pertinence.

 

What is soft capability?

Http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48a4e3850100cnmm.html

 

Review Resume details

Always pay attention to what is most likely to cause problems is what you are most familiar with: here is an example of my personal experience.

In the past few projects, I often used a technology called remoting to support distributed systems. Because of its frequent usage, We encapsulated remoting, then the technicians directly used this encapsulated class. In the next few years, I did not directly access this class in the project.CodeBut naturally, I did not forget to add "proficient in remoting technology" to my resume. I think it is okay, and I did not even think deeply about my resume.

When the technical director of the other party mentioned the specific technical problems of remoting to me, I suddenly found that these technical details had been forgotten by me. When I thought of remoting, the only thing that can be remembered is the method of using the encapsulated class, and the other party certainly knows nothing about this encapsulation, so the scene is very embarrassing, so we had to get stuck with it for a long time.

Therefore, we must pay attention to every technical point on our resume, especially the point where we are proficient in XXX, and think about the details. If you forget something, you can look at the previous code, or look at the information again.

 

Understand your professional injury and Defects

Generally, HR interviews cannot involve very in-depth content. Generally, they are used to ask questions about personal experiences and resumes and check the applicant's response and communication skills. Therefore, questions are generally very relevant to your resume, so you have to sit down and review your resume to see if there are any loopholes in your career experience. Below are some tough questions about your resume. You must think of a correct answer.

 

Too frequent job hopping

Possible problems for candidates: impetuous, untargeted, or eye-catching, hard to communicate

To answer this question, please note that you should have a description of your job goals. Throughout the interview process, you must give people an image of steadfast willingness and harmonious personality, you can talk about every company, but do not give negative comments. You should prepare the reasons for Job hopping in advance. These reasons must be reasonable, positive, and not radical.

In short, candidates with such hard injuries should be extremely careful, because when reading your resume, the recruiter may have a preemptible image for you, therefore, many details may be used as evidence to prove this image. Therefore, correcting this image is a challenging task.

 

No work for a long time, and no resume

Possible problems for the applicant: unwilling to work, conflict in family life, ability problems, lack of work experience for a long time, out of the circle

To answer this question, it is most important to give a reasonable reason, and secondly to prove your progress in this gap. For example, after leaving the company last time, I felt that I was lacking in some aspects and needed to be charged, so I studied some aspects. the answer should be a good one, but according to the principle of frankness and sincerity, Do you think: Are there any progress?

 

The previous and next positions are too different

It is very important to find the association between the front and back positions, and it is often reflected in the resume. for example, if a developer applies for a project manager, he must prepare and manage relevant content in his career experience. For example, if he has trained several people on his team, he must not feel that he is definitely not a project manager, A slightly experienced technician must have more or less experience in training new people. He has experience in cooperating with or leading a few people. I would like to summarize these areas before the interview and think about the work situation at that time, and I think I have a bright spot.

For a job with a relatively large span, you must find the Core qualities of the target job, and find the places that reflect these qualities in your career experience.

In order to do this, you should pay attention to reading the other party's job requirements, do not let a word go, and then modify and establish the requirements for the other party, prepare for the interview, in order to be targeted

 

Poor degree or not a related major

There are not many possibilities for the interview to mention this issue, because companies generally advertise themselves to ask for the source, but almost every company will be very careful about this problem, because the degree may cause some problems

For example:

• No good career circle
• No good basic knowledge
• No high-end work experience

For some posts, the circle is very important. I often think that an MBA must go to the best school, except that there are the best teachers there, and the best thing to teach you is, the more important reason is that the students there are both elites and potential partners in the future.

For some industries with strong technical requirements, recruitment agencies often think that the people transferred to the job are not well-formed and cannot do research work, therefore, the research institutions of large multinational corporations generally apply for master's degree doctoral backgrounds in top-level schools, such as Microsoft's Asia Research Institute...

In the absence of an academic halo, you must tap into your own advantages. In general, people who change careers or have a low starting point have the following features:

• Clear goals and practical work
• The frivolous nature of a school graduate, the idealistic nature of highly educated students, and the original nature.
• Long working experience
• College graduates or higher vocational graduates enter the Society earlier and have more social experience.
• Persistent and enthusiastic

The determination and courage of those who enter their favorite fields and persistently struggle on them are admirable. many of my friends around me are like this. They have switched from various industries to the desired software industry, starting from code and moving forward step by step. Now they have become the backbone of their own companies and even industries, for these technical heroes, the academic experts who serve as vegetarian food only have to pay off their hats.

For enterprise recruitment, each job has its own requirements. An ordinary developer does not need a high degree of education or profound experience. The previous strategy that requires elites is wrong, in the end, it can only result in a waste of talents, higher costs, and the loss of talent. In this regard, India's education and enterprises are doing well, so with the prosperity of today, chinese enterprises have begun to relocate themselves and find appropriate employees based on their job requirements. This is the way to recruitment.

 

Interview skills

Change interview to two-way communication:

Interviewer: Do you know about distributed file systems?

Interviewer: Hmm... yes, but it has never been used

Interviewer: You know which distributed file systems

Interviewer: Hmm... seems to have mogilefs.

Interviewer: Can you talk about the advantages and disadvantages of mogilefs?

Interviewer: It should be file distributed storage. mogilefs seems to be in Linux. Hmm... can be used to store files in a distributed manner.

Interviewer: OK. Let's talk about the design model ..

 

The above conversation was a very common interview scenario. The interviewer was asked an unfamiliar question and seemed to have tried his best to answer the question, here are some examples of the advantages and disadvantages of this passage:

I personally love playing badminton. Although I have a general technical skill, I am confident and young, and I am still strong enough, I challenge the old man in the first half of the game. As a result, I am exhausted, and the old man is calm. After half a day, I am sweating, the experts are smiling. after the game, I asked the old man for gains and losses. The old man said that you didn't fully mobilize me, so you only had to beat me. I suddenly realized that I wanted to come back to the scene in detail. The old man rushed to my dead corner every time, and I tried to go back to the ball. As a result, the old man often came back to the old man, so the old man only needed to stand in the room, think about where to move the next ball.

Interview is a confrontation. The interviewer does not want to learn how to communicate with the old man. During the interview, the interviewer can also ask his or her own questions in due time. On the one hand, the interviewer can avoid being overwhelmed by the interview, try to gain the initiative of conversation. On the other hand, it can promote communication, increase knowledge, and leave an image of willingness to communicate with each other.

Especially in technical interviews, the interviewer is often a technician, And the technician is usually happy to communicate with each other. Therefore, you can relax and ask the interviewer's Thoughts about the questions mentioned in the interview, you can also ask the recipient about the advantages and disadvantages of a specific technology. Generally, technical staff are willing to report to each other without confidentiality. In this way, you can also make some progress in the interview. Why not?

 

With this principle in mind, we can be more skillful in coping with the conversation above.

Interviewer: Do you know about distributed file systems?

Interviewer: Hmm... yes, but it has never been used

Interviewer: You know which distributed file systems

Interviewer: Hmm... seems to have mogilefs. Others are not clear. Have you ever been in touch with other distributed file systems?

Interviewer: we use the DFS provided by Microsoft, and hadoop is also good.

Interviewer: I know that mogilefs is used in Linux to distribute files. What are the characteristics of mogilefs?

Interviewer: we are actually preparing to migrate from DFS to mogilefs. We mainly need to use its automatic backup capability ....

...

....

Interviewer: OK, I understand. I will go back and dive into the mogilefs content.

Interviewer: OK. Let's talk about the design model ..

 

Who is the interviewer and who is the interviewer?

 

Be brave enough to acknowledge what you are not familiar

Ignorance is not terrible. Ignorance is terrible.

In general, the interviewer will ask some questions in depth based on what you claim to know. If you do not understand the information, it is likely to be exposed, leaving a dishonest image to others, in direct communication, do not pretend to be knowledgeable and give people a handle.

On the contrary, being honest with your lack and shortcomings in some aspects will help you get a favor, and then cooperate with the previous technique: Ask the other party's opinions about the places you do not know, so that the interviewer can guide your progress; you may turn your weaknesses into advantages and give yourself full marks.

 

Get yourself a cup of water

A cup of water is too necessary.

When you are helpless, when you are faced with problems that are hard to answer, stop and drink, and you will have time to sort out your ideas and make the best judgment.

When you are in an awkward silence with the interviewer, stop and have a drink and think about the next topic.

When you get overwhelmed by the fatigue interrogation interview process, stop and drink your water and get down.

When you talk about the feeling of the audience, thirst is a signal, indicating that you may say too much. Stop and drink a cup of water, observe the expression of the other party, and intercept the time for others.

.....

A cup of water is too necessary.

 

Keep smiling

No matter how many rounds of tests and interviews you have passed, please smile as much as possible no matter how embarrassing the process is. This is a demonstration of your self-confidence and affinity.

 

Related vocabulary and resources:

JD: job description job requirements

CV: Resume

HC: head count, which can be understood as a compilation. Each department of the company generally has a fixed compilation every year.

HR: Human Resource

 

What is soft capability?

Http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_48a4e3850100cnmm.html

Interview skills: Answers to 16 typical interview questions

Http://edu.yesky.com/348/3049848.shtml

12 errors that foreign companies cannot make during interviews

Http://job.veryeast.cn/HR/Interviewsbook/2008-10/14/0810141820545049.htm