Sino-Singapore Jingwei, June 11th (Xue Yufei intern Hu Jingrong) It is the annual graduation season again. The 2022 graduates will soon leave the campus. Some of them will continue their studies, and some will enter the workplace and start their lives Another important stage.
Under the epidemic, the job search for this class of graduates is destined to be uneven, not only to face unexpected tests such as "cloud interviews" and "cloud internships", but also to face the postponement of job fairs and some exams, and the recruitment plan of supply-side employers. changes, etc.
How do these graduates successfully complete the "last mile" of entering the workplace and find a desired job?
Sino-Singapore Jingwei recently launched a series of reports on the "2022 Employment Season" to talk to this class of graduates and listen to their job-hunting experiences, and hope to inspire graduates who are looking for jobs.
Wenxuan (pseudonym) is a fresh graduate of an ordinary college in Shandong in 2022. Faced with the phenomenon of employment difficulties and the devaluation of diplomas, his family strongly urged him to obtain a postgraduate degree.
But in order to achieve financial independence, he chose employment and became an engineer in a car company.
The following is Wenxuan's own statement:
In March 2021, I began to prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination.
At that time, I decided to take the postgraduate entrance examination. On the one hand, I saw that many people had to take the examination, which was a bit of a herd mentality. On the other hand, my family kept telling me how good my graduate degree was.
It may be that my parents have not received higher education, they put their ideals on me and want me to complete them for them.
My father studied adult undergraduate, but the degree has not been recognized, in his view, this is the reason why he has not been promoted.
My sister is an undergraduate student majoring in English. She also thinks that a postgraduate degree is very important. After giving birth, she has been trying to postgraduate studies.
Under the influence of these factors, I signed up.
My undergraduate major is vehicle engineering, and I applied for one of the best subjects in machinery - ships.
Then I started going to the study room near the school to review, going out at 8 am every day and coming back at 10 pm every day.
This regular state has been maintained until the summer of 2021.
During the summer vacation, I stayed in school to study, and every time I called my family, they would urge me to prepare well for the exam and let me study hard.
At first I thought the encouragement of my family gave me motivation, but later when I told them that the idea of a job would be good, they would retort me very strongly.
I started to feel like they didn't think about what I wanted, just what they thought was good and pushed me there.
In the later stage, I no longer want to review, but I don't know how to communicate with my family.
My father has been very strict with me since I was a child, and he has very high requirements on us. When he is disobedient, he is taught by "sticks". Now he can't do it, but I am still afraid of him.
When I was recruiting in the fall of 2021, I began to pay attention to the recruitment information, attended the presentations, and submitted some resumes.
At that time, I wasn’t sure if I wanted to get a job, but I just thought that if I didn’t pass the exam, I could have a job guarantee.
Two months later, I still got an offer from a car company.
The salary of this car company is good. The average salary of our professional students is about 7,000 to 8,000 yuan per month. This job exceeds the average level, with more than 9,000 yuan.
At that time, I thought that employment is good. If I have an income, I can do what I want to do, eat more delicious food, and travel to more places. The most important thing is that I don’t have to ask my family any more. Reach out for money.
There are three children in our family, all of whom have been admitted to university, and the burden on parents is relatively heavy.
The family does not give living expenses regularly, usually I ask them to take it after I use it up.
The closer I get to graduation, the more embarrassed I am to ask for money. On the one hand, my parents are very hard working, and I feel ashamed when they ask for living expenses, and I don’t want to put so much pressure on them; I want to buy some non-essential things sometimes, I'm embarrassed to tell them.
With a guaranteed job, I couldn't continue to study. During that time, sitting at the desk, I didn't want to study at all.
I also began to doubt my motivation for the postgraduate entrance examination: is it to meet the expectations of my family?
Conform to the trend of the times?
Or do I really want to further my studies?
In the end, I went to take the test, which was basically a naked test, and the results were very poor, so naturally I didn’t pass the test.
Although the result was in my expectation, I still don't know how to tell my family the fact that I didn't pass the exam.
Later, when I summoned the courage to tell my father, although he did not criticize me seriously, he immediately said that he wanted me to continue studying for the exam.
In their view, if you really want to do something, you will succeed if you put in enough effort.
Although I agreed with my family that I should go to work first, my father still asked me to work during the day and prepare for the exam at night.
Sometimes, he will share some articles in the family group, such as the content of the college degree is not valuable, the competition for employment is fierce, isn't this a hint to me?
All three of our kids are going to college, but my dad still wants us to climb higher.
There is nothing wrong with "people go higher", but sometimes I should think about it, what do I really want?
I have joined the job, and I don’t need to support my family. I can also help the family appropriately. I think this is also an ideal choice.
(Sino-Singapore Jingwei APP)
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