A survey conducted by China Talent Hotline not long ago showed that about 21% of this year’s college graduates have set state-owned enterprises as their employment goals. According to relevant information, domestic large and medium-sized enterprises are in urgent need of recruiting college graduates. Logically speaking, both supply and demand parties have their own needs and should "hit it off", but this is not the case. At some job fairs, reporters often see and hear that some state-owned enterprise personnel managers have many concerns or complaints about recruiting college graduates, such as "Today's college students are not professional, dedicated, and honest" and so on. Regarding this issue, the reporter recently visited some experts and asked them to give advice to fresh college students——
State-owned enterprises prefer: focusing on grades more than "loyalty"
Southern Network News Someone in Human Resources According to the company's senior consultant, state-owned enterprises not only focus on recruiting graduates with excellent academic performance, but also hope that students' performance in school will be "excellent". Nowadays, many state-owned enterprises that are eager for talent have looked to foreign companies. During the peak employment period for graduates at the end of the year, they go directly to domestic famous universities to find talents. The most common method they use is to ask the school for graduates with the highest comprehensive credit scores. List to choose from.
A large state-owned steel company stated its recruitment principles this way: We will not blindly pursue higher education, because the consequence of requiring higher education is the company's "high consumption of talent." It is understood that the company recruits more than 180 talents every year, including undergraduates, junior college students, masters, doctoral students, and technical school students. The academic performance of the recruited talents is among the top among the candidates. In addition, this state-owned enterprise also attaches great importance to the performance of job seekers during the probation period and grassroots training period. "We are willing to spend time and energy cultivating talents, but we do not welcome those who use the company as a springboard." Senior consultants said that paying attention to candidates' loyalty to the company is a common requirement of state-owned enterprises for fresh graduates.
Expert Tip 1: Go all out for the written test
At present, some large state-owned enterprises have followed the practices of foreign companies and usually arrange one or more rounds of written tests before the interview. The content of the written examination is mostly literature, mathematics, logic, intelligence and current affairs. Before taking this kind of written test with a huge amount of questions and information, graduates should first review famous ancient sentences and sequence problems in high school mathematics, and then browse the current news that happened in the past month. Of course, it is best to read a few books If you use intelligence test books, your chances of passing the written test will be higher.
Special attention should be paid to the fact that the handwriting on the test paper must be clear and beautiful. Otherwise, the marking staff may no longer favor you. If you pass this level and successfully enter the interview, then you are basically successful in entering a state-owned enterprise 80%. In state-owned enterprises, usually 3 out of 5 people can be retained for interviews. In foreign companies, only 1 out of 10 people may be retained, or even none at all.
Expert Tip 2: The interview should be steady and restrained
Compared with the various interviews in foreign companies, interviews in state-owned enterprises basically adopt the form of one question and one answer. Usually there are multiple interviewers for one applicant, and it is easy for the applicant to be overwhelmed and lose sight of one. At this time, you need to have a stable mentality as support. In interviews with state-owned enterprises, you will rarely encounter situations where everyone speaks English, but it is appropriate to answer questions in Mandarin.
State-owned enterprise interview questions are characterized by "going to extremes". For example, the opening usually makes people feel very relaxed, asking whether the applicant is an only child, how many people are in the family, where they live, what they like to do, etc.; then the topic changes sharply, pointing directly to the "key issues" and asking the applicant about their business knowledge. How much do you know, how to solve some business problems, how to do your job better, etc. It can be said that the simplest and most difficult questions are asked alternately, and candidates must be mentally prepared for this. In addition, state-owned enterprises generally do not like candidates who express too sharp opinions, and graduates should be more restrained when answering questions.
Expert Tip 3: When talking, you need to “discriminate by appearance”
As mentioned above, state-owned enterprises pay more attention to whether candidates are loyal to the company, politically motivated, and able to comply with Rules and regulations, willingness to pay, etc.
Most of the HR directors of state-owned enterprises are older. If he finds the shadow of his own children in the applicant, or feels that the applicant looks like himself when he first started working, then the probability of admission will be greatly increased. How to find the "same language" depends on whether the applicant can "adapt to the situation". For example, regarding the question "What should you do first after joining this company?", what state-owned enterprise interviewers most want to hear is "obey the company's system." As for hobbies and interests, state-owned enterprise interviewers generally hope that candidates will be good at "traditional projects" such as calligraphy, Go, and folk songs.
In the final analysis, applicants should quickly judge the interviewer's age, cultural background, value orientation, etc., and "discriminate appearance and color" in order to "appeal to the interviewer's preferences."
Expert Tip 4: Don’t make excessive demands when negotiating salary.
When interviewers from state-owned enterprises ask about the salary requirements of applicants, they should avoid making excessive demands. Generally speaking, for fresh graduates, around 1,000 yuan is more suitable at present, because the monthly salary amount offered by most state-owned enterprises is after-tax salary, and this number is relatively in line with "market conditions."
If the monthly salary proposed by graduates is too high, even if the state-owned enterprises are willing to pay the full amount due to temporary difficulties, they will inevitably have "grievances" in their hearts, which may not be beneficial to the success of the candidates' future careers. .
Of course, if some state-owned enterprises explain that the 1,000 yuan monthly salary they offer is before tax, and the applicant thinks it is indeed too low, they can refuse it face to face.