China News Service, Beijing, July 5 (Zhang Yilin) ​​During the graduation season, resumes are the first hurdle for college students to apply for a job. An exquisite resume seems to be the "outfit" that job seekers must equip.

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Netizens lamented that there are business opportunities around them, while wondering whether they are paying the "IQ tax" by spending money to change their resumes?

Data map: A large-scale job fair was held in Taiyuan, Shanxi.

Photo by Wu Junjie

Resume optimization has become a business

　　This year, the number of college graduates across the country has reached 9.09 million. In the fierce employment competition, some e-commerce platforms and recruitment websites, writing resumes, providing templates, and optimizing resumes have begun to clearly mark prices.

　　The prices of these services are mostly based on the working years of the job seekers. According to the complexity of the work experience, the fees range from tens of yuan to thousands of yuan.

　　Job seekers only need to fill in their basic personal information and job requirements, and the platform will assign the corresponding resume optimization tutor.

In the service agreement, the platform and the organization will promise to protect the user's information security and prevent improper use or disclosure of information, but there are also platforms that clearly inform job applicants that "it is impossible to always guarantee 100% information security."

　　Chen Ziqiu, 32 years old this year, is a resume optimizer on a recruitment website. His daily work is to sort out the basic information and job requirements of job applicants, communicate with each other, and then optimize resumes.

Having been in this profession for two years, she has recently reached the top 10 platform performance level, and her monthly salary can reach around 15,000.

　　The Internet, construction engineering, manufacturing, and financial industries will have different consultants to optimize the needs of job seekers in different industries.

Chen Ziqiu is mainly responsible for industries such as consumer goods and finance. "Basically, he will be divided according to the industries that consultants are familiar with, so that he can better understand the needs of the positions."

　　"Resume feedback within 1-3 days, after-sales can be carried out within 30 days." Chen Ziqiu just finished communicating with a summer internship student who is looking for a job. "It is mainly to sort out personal experience. Generally, it is basic information, educational background, work experience, and projects. The five modules of experience and professional skills focus on revising the part of internship experience."

　　For the optimization principle of the work experience part, Chen Ziqiu will recommend the use of the "STAR Rule".

The so-called STAR principle is Situation, Task, Action and Result.

"Write clearly the content of your previous projects, what your role is, what actions you have taken, and what results have been achieved."

Resume optimizer: orders surge in graduation season

　　Since May, Chen Ziqiu's orders have gradually increased, from 80 to 150 a month. She often edits other people's resumes at 12 o'clock in the evening.

"Our communication time with job applicants is also concentrated in the evening. Most of them are employees and students, and they don't have time to talk in detail during the day."

　　Before working as a resume consultant, Chen Ziqiu worked as an HR consultant for 6 years. She often had difficulties in recruiting after having "experienced" countless people. "Some people have rich experience, but the resume description does not match the job requirements, or does not match her own The highlights are displayed, and there are even typos in some resumes, which seems to be not serious enough."

　　Seeing many resumes of worrying quality every day, Chen Ziqiu feels that he can't recruit people, and he is worried about missing talents.

"It's better to use your own experience to help them optimize their resumes."

　　In 2019, Chen Ziqiu officially became a resume optimizer.

"If HR is looking for gold, then I am the one who makes gold shine."

　　But resume optimization is not so easy, Chen Ziqiu bluntly said that he has received negative reviews.

Last month, she encountered such a "tricky" situation when she received an order from a graduate to revise her job resume.

"The other party is still dissatisfied after revising it several times. The bad reviews say it is not as good as the revisions made by the seniors in his profession."

Data map: The picture shows job applicants filling out their resumes at the job fair.

Photo by Zhou Yi

Are there any standards for the "optimization" of resumes?

　　In addition to full-time resume optimizers like Chen Ziqiu, many college students and on-the-job HRs use this as part-time job. This can be seen from the advertisements launched by various platforms: "The HR of the world's top 500 companies focuses on recruitment interviews and read countless resumes" "Master's degree in 985, personalized service, favorable price".

　　Li Li is a part-time resume optimizer. She is in a resume optimization platform in the second year of graduate school this year, and occasionally takes on some job writing or revising resumes.

　　What kind of resume can be regarded as a good resume?

It seems that there is no industry standard that can be quantified. The judgment of optimized resume quality generally relies on the subjective evaluation of customers.

　　According to the rules of each platform, most resume optimization services do not provide refund services. Modifying a resume does not guarantee an offer, but it will basically be changed until the customer is satisfied.

"The faster the feedback, the higher the customer's satisfaction, which means that the quality of the resume modification is good." A resume optimizer introduced.

　　"Only to meet the needs of job seekers as much as possible. They can get the offer they like, and it can be regarded as affirmation of the resume." In the past three months, Li Li has received good news from dozens of clients that they have successfully entered the job.

"But optimizing your resume is not a fake. A fake resume will show up in the interview even after screening."

Data map: Recruitment site of Guangxi Talent Exchange Conference in the spring of 2021.

Photo by Huang Yanmei

The hidden worries of paying to change your resume

　　A resume is the company’s first impression of a job applicant, and its importance is conceivable, but it seems difficult to stand out in an interview with a resume.

　　Shanshan, 26, works as an HR at an Internet company in Beijing.

During the graduation season, she will receive hundreds of resumes every day, "Some resumes are clearly organized and rich in content, but it can still be seen that they are professionally optimized."

　　Shanshan said that a clear resume will indeed attract the attention of HR, but the most important thing is to look at the actual ability, work experience and performance of the interview. The resume only increases the chances of entering the interview.

"A lot of people are overseas investment resumes, it can be seen that young people are really anxious."

　　Faced with such resume optimization services, on the one hand, employers are worried that the resumes received during recruitment are "mixed and falsified"; on the other hand, many netizens are also worried that personal information will be leaked when they purchase resume services.

　　Xiong Bingqi, dean of the 21st Century Education Research Institute, believes that the emergence of resume optimizers directly reflects some common problems that current job seekers have in job search and personal resume writing.

　　Xiong Bingqi agrees with the importance of the resume in the job search, "The resume will give the employer a preliminary understanding of the job applicant, so it is the first hurdle to impress the employer."

　　But he pointed out that the beautification of resumes should not be packaged by others, but should reflect the individual's ability or expertise in the process of study and work.

"Falsifications in the resume will not give extra points to the job search. If the employer finds that the resume is fraudulent, it will leave a big stain on life."

　　At the same time, Xiong Bingqi also mentioned that instead of focusing on resume optimization, job seekers need to be prepared in two ways. One is to make a good personal career development plan and have a clear career goal.

Determine your career goals based on your abilities, interests, and the employment situation, and you should not invest your resume aimlessly.

　　The second is to continue to improve their employability and better adapt to the needs of work.

"There are not a few people who find a job now but quit quickly because of unsuitability."

　　In the opinion of experts, resume optimizers should play the role of career planning instructors and guide graduates to determine their own career goals.

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