Just one year of UI design experience, how do I get into a bat-level big company?

Have gifted students ask, their own one-year work experience + art skills, because the project before the lack of funds dissolved, now want to enter the bat level of large companies, can have a way? Today let @ Kevin-kevinli from five aspects to give advice, help you to successfully kill into bat!

@ Kevin-kevinli: After my sophomore summer vacation in the Tencent CDC to do interactive design internship, and later also got Ali's visual internship offer, but after work has been mixed in the start-up company.

So although it has been done in BAT, there is no direct "one-year work experience to enter the bat" experience for reference. " But with my knowledge, the first thing you can tell us is the brutal fact that (most of the time) the same person and the ability to do the same: the difficulty of a year's work experience in the bat > Fresh students direct into > Early internship, take part in the assessment and then sign, that is, before graduating and graduating, you did not work Now the difficulty has suddenly increased.

Why? For large companies, there is a good training mechanism, and do not worry about attracting people, go to a well-known university to harvest a good seedling and cultivate themselves is more cost-effective. Social recruit generally only recruit relatively high-end people, work for a year or two, from the society, pick out the potential of talent is very laborious, and it is likely to have formed some not too adaptable to the large company environment work habits. For example, I have been working remotely, the big companies have not dared to.

But if you're good enough, of course there's hope, and that's what we're really talking about. There are probably so many suggestions for reference:

　　1. Increase antenna power

is to improve the ability to accept information, regardless of breadth or accuracy. This is probably a good premise for any industry, because it has "a golden House" in the information. Works, blogs, books, stories ... All the things, when you can not distinguish between the pros and cons, the first to see more, gradually establish their own judgment ability:

Do not be limited to domestic: see Designer News, Medium and other related articles on the website, you will find that the average quality of Chinese content is still far from the difference.

Not limited to design: design must be "Kung fu in the outside of poetry", only focus on the design itself is difficult to become a good designer.

One may be concerned that the redundancy of a large amount of information can affect concentration enhancement skills, there will be, but in stages, for example, when you want to go into BAT but do not know the method, you need a lot of information to support your plan "road book", otherwise there is no direction, unknown route, how to quickly reach the destination. When you have a direction, you can turn the antenna power down a little bit more energy to do.

Why put this in the first place? Because the nature of this problem is due to insufficient information acquisition capacity. For example, if you keep an eye on 10 designers in BAT, and focus on 10 designers of international IT giants such as Google and Facebook, as well as 10 outstanding young designers, you will know clearly how you can easily get to bat with your skill mix (note that it's easy Enter). Then? Just do it~ In fact, most people in the first pass "information acquisition → vision" on the lost very thoroughly.

Then there is the question of implementation, which is much simpler.

　　2. Specialization

First of all, what kind of designer does BAT need? First of all, of course, is good enough, but there are many kinds of excellent, single on the one hand extremely strong, or very comprehensive, is very different. It is obvious that large companies need T-type, are professional enough in specific areas (note that this is a prerequisite), in the relevant areas of understanding, have a big picture at the same time convenient and colleagues to collaborate. Too much of a panacea is not welcome by big companies.

Look back to see yourself, the current expertise in where, whether enough professional, pay attention to the professional is not enough, it is best to have high evaluation, of course, if the antenna power is large enough, I believe you can have an accurate judgment.

　　3, Difference alienation

When you have started to use a lot of information to build their own industry, professional three-dimensional understanding. Just do it is no longer the ultimate goal, you can do better route planning, the pursuit of a certain shortcut to achieve faster. In fact, this is the problem itself, not only how to get into BAT, but to work one year experience, how quickly to enter ...

Differentiation is the way to speed up when it is possible to ensure that the ability to do something is professional enough.

Let's say you've got a good UI designer with 10 different skills, and you can see that most of the young people on the market focus on just 4 of them, and you'll be able to work from the other 6. My friend Martin Dribbble–martinrgb although not design trained, but in the dynamic, prototyping aspects of research beyond the industry average n body position, is a good example.

　　4. Comprehensive ability

Excellent designers, engineers, product managers, all-round fighters, they have the common, is based on the comprehensive ability, including communication and collaboration, learning ability and so on. Casually recommend a few young designer friend's example to feel:

The sub-instrument of Beijing: Infoier

Huake's Soutar: Soutar-whatever design

Ethon:ethon LAU of Guangdong

Both before and after graduation, can do, can write, Ethon or basically live in the English world, they have a warm thinking about the design, that the spirit is some may have been in the industry with children's old guns are not comparable, I also very much admire. Take a look at their website, read their blog and feel it. To be brave to find more than oneself small or small, but more than their excellent people to learn, because they really realize the curve overtaking, itself is the best "dry goods."

BTW, if you have a personal website, you can get some extra points.

　　5. Skill

The technique of "knowing Daniel to communicate and getting the chance to get inside" is not much said, focusing on recruiting opportunities, communicating with seniors, and directly contacting design executives who are hiring. None of this, but is the end of the door, but also only the finishing touches, the natural clear. So please pay attention to the core of the problem, how to become a good designer, rather than how to use Chine into the BAT, or put the cart before the horse.

When you become a good designer, getting into BAT is just a matter of choice, although you may not be able to pick it up again.