College students reverse their employers： forcing the workplace environment to change with self-expression
College students "reverse tone" employers: remolding the workplace with youth
Another graduation season is approaching, and Zhou Xu, a graduate student from a university in Zhejiang, has successively received employment offer from many "big factories". He didn’t feel any special pressure in the process of fighting wits with the same employers. On the contrary, relying on the "back tone" of various enterprises in the early stage, "basically all the problems are under control" in the interview process of these five enterprises.
As a matter of fact, as early as the autumn recruitment in June last year, Zhou Xu had made clear his requirements for the enterprise, and made a multi-faceted understanding of the relevant situation of the enterprise, and ranked it from high to low in importance: location, industry, platform size, salary level and corporate cultural background.
After screening based on this primary demand, there are only five or six enterprises left in front of Zhou Xu. When the conditions of the remaining enterprises were not much different, he finally chose to join a company that he thought was more dynamic and innovative.
Zhou Xu’s job-hunting experience is not unique. According to media reports, a large number of post-00 graduates are about to enter the workplace with new words, deeds and ways of thinking. Not only are they not obsessed with the aura of big factories, they dare to say "no" to overtime work, and even "reverse background check" their employers before the interview.
Anti-customer-oriented: After 00, graduates began to "reverse their employers"
In the process of job hunting, "back tone" is a very common link. This is the abbreviation of "background investigation", which usually happens at the end of the interview process. The employer checks the authenticity of the background information of the applicant by consulting the graduate school, former company and other relevant people. However, today’s college students have given a "counterattack" to the traditional sense.
Chen Heng, a fresh undergraduate from a key university in Beijing, made a tentative plan for his future employment environment before applying for a job. She yearned for a more relaxed and free working environment, so she ruled out a large number of traditional companies. As a student majoring in financial management, for the purpose of improving her professional ability, she finally set her goal on the Internet "big factories" and well-known accounting firms.
On this basis, on the one hand, she collects the information of the firm through the Internet, not only from the official website, but also from various types of apps to search for more sharing from employees. On the other hand, she took advantage of the holiday to practice in these offices, and personally felt the working environment and learned about the work content. In this way, she finally signed an agreement with her favorite firm and will officially join the job soon.
The "reverse tone" brings Chen Heng a deeper thinking about career development. When I first entered the university, the Internet giant once attracted Chen Heng very much, and had a "halo" value. But as Chen Heng entered the senior year, she began to think about what she really wanted. "In the final choice of occupation, although there are ‘ Dachang Halo ’ I still chose a place where I can improve my professionalism in a targeted manner. "
On the internet, "reverse tone" has even been summarized into different "segments". The most basic operation is to check the company from various online App information and go to the recruitment website to understand similar positions; Further, it is to ask the brothers and sisters or the "little friends" who have worked as interns in the company to inquire about the inside story; The advanced version is to compare the salary level in the salary tool, look at the company size from the enterprise inquiry website, check the boss background, and even look at the investors behind the company and their investment logic.
Li Li is a senior in Peking University. Since his sophomore year, he has had many internship experiences. Except for the first internship, he didn’t do a special investigation because he was still in a "white workplace" state. In other internships, he accumulated a lot of experience of "reverse tone": "First, he directly analyzed the existing second-hand materials such as computers, magazines, books, documents and Internet search; Second, relying on your own contacts, in the communication with friends and classmates, you can feel the environment of the corresponding company. Among them, the latter is more important. "
Is "reverse tone" common among college students? Yu Hanyu, a counselor of Hunan University, said in an interview with the reporter of Zhongqing Daily and Zhongqing.com, "In fact, this situation has always existed among graduates. For many years, we have often encouraged students to do it in employment guidance ‘ Career interview ’ It is a kind of research on the employer. The most common thing is to contact the seniors who have already worked in the unit, or to understand the specific work situation, salary and position development in some job-seeking websites and forums. "
"However, in recent years, as most of the graduates are post-95 s and post-00 s, some of them have become more and more diverse, detailed and detailed." Yu Hanyu said that this is because graduates at this stage are Internet aborigines, and their ability and sensitivity to information collection are much higher than those of previous graduates. The composition of graduates’ employment satisfaction is also more diverse and socialized.
Take the initiative: what do college students get after "reverse tone"
In the operation of "reverse tone", many college students admit that this not only gives them a deeper understanding of their upcoming jobs, but also gives them a further understanding of their career development and life path planning.
Li Li felt a little strange when she first saw the word "reverse tone". In his cognition, it is "natural" to actively investigate the company’s background. But he also admitted that in the process of job hunting, companies or units are in a dominant position, but this does not affect the initiative of job seekers.
In her extensive communication, Li Li found that not all students have the initiative to investigate interested enterprises. "Many students around me are used to studying and living before entering the university, and they are used to being selected, but they don’t realize that their choice is also very important."
"We should not be ‘ Seek a job ’ , but ‘ Looking for a job ’ 。” In his view, "reverse tone" should not only be popular, but also necessary.
However, the students around Chen Heng will also actively learn about the company through various channels. Through "reverse tone", they can not only screen out the companies they want to join through salary, employee characteristics and corporate culture, but also take the initiative in the interview process. It is with the investigation of the company’s concerns that Chen Heng not only prepared the interview materials in a targeted manner, but also actively led the interviewer to what he wanted to show him.
Let yourself take the initiative in job hunting, which is recognized by many "reverse" college students.
Hu Pan graduated from a university in Beijing, majoring in urban and rural planning. After working for one year, he was deeply grateful for his original "reverse tone" behavior: "Job hunting is a two-way selection process, even an indispensable part of the job hunting process. The background investigation of the applicant company or unit in advance can avoid many risks and prevent his precious youth from being wasted on blind selection."
A teacher of Tsinghua University Student Career Development Guidance Center said that "reverse tone" proves that students are capable and sure to be in an advantageous position in job hunting.
Why is this happening? The teacher said: "First of all, colleges and universities all carry out vocational counseling classes, which makes students feel that it is very important to find a job. Also let them have a self-reflection, self-exploration, and let their personal characteristics and job requirements ‘ Rengang ’ Match. After vocational counseling, a concept that students will probably have is that since it is necessary to achieve the matching of people and posts, self-exploration is on the one hand, and understanding the positions of enterprises is also on the other hand. "
Remodeling the workplace: forcing the workplace environment to change with self-expression
Starting from the "reverse tone", this young people are using their subjective consciousness to bring a new atmosphere to the workplace.
Faced with many inherent workplace traditions, this group of college students are also resisting in a sharp-edged way. For example, in the face of the "flower name culture" prevailing in many Internet giants, many students of Li Li called it "a way to cut off social ties" and opposed it.
Even, they will have more "restless" plans. Although Chen Heng has successfully joined a top accounting firm, she plans to resign after working for three to five years and continue her campus career.
Longing for equality, pursuing self-expression, attaching importance to one’s legitimate rights and interests, and daring to raise objections … … All this will also force enterprises to make changes and create a more reasonable workplace environment.
Teacher Liang, a counselor from Dalian University of Technology, observed that many enterprises do not reject the "reverse tone". "I learned that the alumni association will reverse the companies that they are interested in but don’t understand, and the companies actually cooperate with the students’ surveys, because the companies also know that some things will be beneficial to attract talents after they are made public. Even some enterprises say, ‘ Don’t bother, I’ll send our things directly to you, and you can see for yourself ’ On the contrary, it can win some trust from graduates. "
However, some college teachers suggest that college students should have a rational understanding while carrying out "reverse tone".
Yu Hanyu said that her views on "reverse tone" are two-sided. "It is true that some students have a mature sense of career development and a comprehensive understanding of the industry, occupation and market, and they can analyze the advantages and disadvantages of each position according to their own characteristics, weigh their choices with a development perspective, and enter the team with consistent values and in line with their own development expectations to create more value. I support the choice of these students."
"But I also saw from the Internet that some students actually haven’t done their own analysis and rational cognition of the outside world. They simply and subjectively look at some online information and evaluations, such as" the per capita annual salary is one million "on the Internet, and what companies and positions are searched for. Some people have advised them to retreat and other remarks. In the process of reverse inversion, we should also adhere to ‘ What suits you is the best ’ This view is not only to measure a position by adding overtime and annual salary. " Yu Hanyu said.
"You must swim in the water middle school." Yu Hanyu suggested that graduates should try their best to enter the target industries and posts for internship practice, truly experience the actual work content, deal with relevant processes and links, face the possible problems in interpersonal relationships and teamwork in the workplace, experience different corporate atmosphere, adjust their expectations and goals in actual combat, and further guide themselves to collect and analyze information more scientifically and pragmatically. (Zhongqing Daily Zhongqing Net reporter Sara Ye Intern Liu Yan Gong Wei)
(At the request of the interviewee, the students in this article are pseudonyms.)
