Recently, Lagou.com CEO Xu Dan said on his social account that laid-off employees of a large factory asked for a salary increase of 30% when looking for a job. He was simply spoiled by the industry.
Xu Dan also said that wages in the Internet industry have reached their peak. In the past, they were able to get high salaries not because of their strong ability, but because of the large amount of capital invested. Now the industry bubble is about to burst.
Now the Internet industry is the first choice for young people to find jobs, mainly because the salary is indeed high. The "Internet People's Salary Report" released by Lagou. com in March 2021 shows that the average Internet salary for the beginning of 2021 reached 15600 yuan. This makes young people have too high expectations for their income.
Recently, with the adjustment of the Internet market, some young people from major Internet companies have begun to move to traditional industries.
At this time, a serious contradiction will emerge, that is, these young people who have transferred jobs from Internet companies have too high expectations for their income, which will bring tremendous pressure to ordinary employers, far exceeding what ordinary companies can give. possibility.
Therefore, for young people who come out of major Internet companies, they need to have a rational and objective understanding of themselves. Only by fully understanding themselves is the key to continuous development in the future.
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The 985 graduates will no longer be spared.
Even a master's degree
Moving water to work, the thunder before the storm.
First, the confirmation reply email was withdrawn-not only Song Qian, a 985 graduate, but also all colleagues in the innovative business team of the big factory where she worked were about to end their trial period and waiting to be converted to regular employees through the reply.
Although the business and projects are still advancing in an orderly manner.
However, HR's notice was that the company's business was adjusted and there were actions to lay off employees, so it would directly arrange a job transfer interview. After the interview, the interview was successfully completed, but the interview was not passed-that means it was not passed.
It was a long-planned decision, at least Song Qian thought so.
This was early December last year. Just a month ago, HR stopped recruiting business teams.
From March 2021, she started her senior year as an intern in charge of recruitment in the HR department, and graduated from 985 and officially received the company's Offer to become a sales support. In just 9 months, Song Qian witnessed the transformation of this new business team from 0 to 1. The number of colleagues has grown from 10 to more than 200.
After stepping on the sharp brake, the transfer of living water was the last buffer and dignity left for this new team.
But in Song Qian's eyes, this is also an excuse. After all, until the last second before the interview, Song Qian didn't know what position she wanted. And her job business is completely different from what she did before."It's all HRBP on our side communicating with HRBP on the other side, giving our resume to that side, and then arranging jobs."
Song Qian felt that the company's ultimate goal was to lay off this group of new graduates with less than half a year's work experience. "Because I don't have any work experience, and the big boss doesn't want me to stay, I feel like I won't be able to stay." However, I don't know where to find a job,"because I've only been working for less than half a year, and it's not a technical position."
In mid-December, the boots finally fell to the ground. Song Qian was told by HR that she had not approved the position of Huoshui.
Almost the entire business team was laid off. The difference is that most of those young colleagues with two years of work experience have successfully transferred jobs. Only Song Qian, a recent graduate, and an elderly colleague in the whole group, failed to pass the transfer interview. Song Qian's psychological defense line collapsed, and she sat at her workstation just wanted to shed tears.
Reality is always cruel. Even 985 graduates are no longer spared, even masters.
At the end of last year, Li Jiaxin, who was working as a marketing supervisor for a new consumer giant, was laid off on the grounds that "you didn't produce much output for the company." This company once provided huge spring recruitment positions for fresh graduates. In less than half a year, these young people who had just entered the workforce lost their jobs."Their faces are really funny," Li Jiaxin said.
Li Jiaxin also had a premonition. Two months ago, she met the company's first freshman to be laid off. At that time, she did not realize that this wave of layoffs would sweep across the company, because the classmate was indeed assigned to a relatively partial position with no one to guide him or work. In the end, he was laid off by the company for the reason of "bad work attitude."
In November last year, the company began to lay off students in its core business departments. Only then did Li Jiaxin feel the company's "plan". She started to feel worthless for herself, but she also took luck. What if she would not be fired?
It was not until early December that the leader found her and another recent graduate in the same group. On the day she was notified, Li Jiaxin felt relieved. After not knowing where she should go for a long time, she suddenly gave her a sense of relief. Instead, she was comforting the leader who couldn't bear it. This was not his problem, but the company's problem.
Later, the leader who had been working for 10 years resigned directly. He had never seen such a huge scale of layoffs, nor had he seen layoffs of freshmen. He told Li Jiaxin that the layoffs of their two freshmen were the last straw that crushed him.
The workplace environment is no longer the same as before. Chen Meng, a global career planner who works in Lagou, said that in the past, there were mentors to take care of new graduates when they were employed. But now in this environment, mentors are also in a relatively anxious state and they also have to protect themselves. When the team's hc is insufficient and needs to be reduced, newcomers with little background are the most likely to be laid off because there is no cost to lay off them.
In October 2021, the moment she was notified by the leader of layoffs, Li Li seized the opportunity to ask him if she could participate in the school recruitment again.
The answer is of course no. Three months ago, Li Ligang, who graduated from 985 graduate students, entered the core department of this Internet unicorn company through the 2021 school recruitment process.
It's so sudden. Li Li was stunned. She realized that with only three months of work experience, she would not have any advantage in the workplace. She could only keep giving herself psychological hints,"Don't think about this. You have to quickly accept the truth. You must not collapse in your heart. If you collapse, your next journey will be even more difficult."
For Li Li, the most important thing now is to think about what to do next. She asked her leader if she could help her push. The leader did not refuse and asked Li to revise her resume before sending it to him.
It changed overnight. The anxiety and uneasiness that only exists in 35-year-old professionals will soon spread to young people who have just entered the workplace. Even 985 and 211 graduates who have just entered the workplace will be affected by organizational structure changes, probation periods have not passed, and company business adjustments., leaving a gap in your shiny resume.
More than one million postgraduate candidates who have jumped the national line are making the final sprint.
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If you get an offer from a big factory in the future,
Should I pick it up?
"You must achieve something before the age of 35, so that you can prepare for layoffs at the age of 35 with peace of mind." After receiving the offer from the big factory, Yin Mengwan, who is still a graduate student at the top 30 in the United States, has planned her "35-year-old crisis."
However, she never thought that she would be prepared to lose her job after graduation so soon. Yin Mengwan said self-deprecatingly that maybe one day, while she was still in school, the project department she worked in would be laid off, and then she would have to find a job again. Last year, the Internet industry talked more about the salary inversion of fresh graduates.
Although she had the Offer in hand, she couldn't help but plan. If she was laid off, what would her retreat be? She began to deliberately go to Douban to find some groups where former students were looking for jobs. There were gathered students who had missed the school recruitment time but had not yet found a job. They shared their experiences with each other and also shared those who were still considering non-graduating students. company.
Even if it only increases anxiety. "Just in case, if a black swan incident really happens, or a grain of sand of the times weighs on me, I can immediately find relevant information to make new preparations." Yin Mengwan said.
Colleagues around him began to reveal to Tan Song that they were looking at new opportunities, and Tan Song also knew that the situation was not optimistic.
In September 2021, Tan Song, a 2021 211 graduate who finally got the opportunity to stay in a big factory after three months of internship, decided to study abroad.
At that time, the company's interior was not as unpredictable as it is now. He just wanted to train himself again. After all, his business department never recruited students and had high requirements for work ability and ability to withstand pressure.
But around November, e-commerce first encountered bottlenecks, and the company's Double Eleven performance was not ideal. In addition, the stocks of various major manufacturers were falling.
Professionals who have been working for several years sometimes come to discuss with Song and Song. Should they go abroad to study? Not to mention those students who received internship opportunities during the summer of their junior year."Some interns may return to the company, but the department will be gone. It is unknown what kind of place they will return to then."
In March this year, a few days before Tan Song left, his entire group was dismantled by the company, and several people in the group went to different places. He couldn't help but be confused. If he got an offer from a big factory in the future, would he still accept it?
Nearly a year of working experience in a large Internet factory gave him a bad feeling."Especially e-commerce, it obviously feels difficult to make things. Many things are not very meaningful to do."
Tan Song didn't know whether his choice to go abroad was the right one, but he still decided to stay away from the Internet for a while, so that at least he could think about the industry from an external perspective and reflect on himself. He only hopes that his improvement in the past year outside can outperform the domestic speed of inrolling and hc reduction speed.
Yu Zhouzhou, a master's degree in economics for the class of 2022 in 985, went through three rounds of interviews for Internet school recruitment, but the matter fell apart. She wanted to get the opportunity to stay in a big factory through a summer internship last year, but the interviewer was extremely arrogant and did not look at her at all during the hour-long interview. The company told her that she finally accepted a job seeker.
Yu Zhouzhou found that even if the Internet's spring campaign is still open, most of them are for technical positions. Often, the resumes he submits are worthless and difficult to salvage ashore.
Career planner Chen Meng also believes that the current environment is not friendly to school admissions, and more and more companies have downsized their school admissions hc. According to her observation, due to uncertainty about the future economy, the Internet has become more rational in terms of growth. Even job-hopping workers find it difficult to get a 20%-30% salary increase.
Now, looking at the frequent changes in large factories and "embracing change", Yu Zhouzhou decided not to just focus on big factories anymore. She moved to state-owned enterprises and central enterprises."Maybe a stable job would be better."
After the failure of living water, Song Qian also decided to think about whether she was suitable for developing in a big Internet factory.
Now, she finds that the people who advised her to take a break when she graduated have changed. The sister she knew told her that it would be nice if she could find a more stable state-owned enterprise at home or take a career exam; her mother was also guilty. If she had not encouraged her to go to work in Beijing, it might not have been the result she is now.
Song Qian suddenly relaxed."You don't have to stay here." Song Qian let go of her obsession with the big factory.
She decided to stay in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai to find a more stable job. "If I said that when I first graduated, my yearning for big Internet companies was 100%, now my yearning for big Internet companies is 40%.
New graduates participate in social recruitment,
It wasn't easy, but I survived it.
To survive in a cruel and uncertain workplace environment, what can newcomers with less than a year's work experience rely on?
"There are some hard skills that can really be unique in this field, so that you can be used by others." Chen Meng analyzed that nowadays children in such an environment may have problems finding a job, but does he really have no chance?
On the night she was laid off, Li Li couldn't sleep until 4 a.m. That was not a good time to look for a job. There was still some time before the gold medal, the third silver medal, and the market was still full of a large number of job seekers with work experience who had been laid off by education and training.
She didn't know how long her savings would support her in Shanghai. In order to survive, she was ready to cut her salary.
However, I also know that the most important thing at the moment is to quickly sort out your work results and put them in your resume. "A good resume is the stepping stone to a new job," Li Li said."Your resume must be written well. It is still quite important to highlight the results of your previous work."
Of course, Li Li has extraordinary ability-in the three months she worked at her previous company, Li Li had already achieved 100% of the okr, exceeding her goal.
A week later, Li Li was recruited into a large factory without a salary cut. She shared her experience on social media, and someone commented,"It's not easy for fresh graduates to participate in social recruitment."
"But I survived it," she said. The experience of layoffs made Li Li more optimistic. She felt that she would never encounter anything more sad than being laid off in three months. It also made her consciously worry about the uncertainty of the big factory."I'm always prepared. If I get laid off again, now I can update my resume at any time."
Li Jiaxin had a similar experience. She used to be an idealist with expectations and longing for the company. Until layoffs occurred to her, she found that the world was not as good as she imagined, and she was just a working worker."Everyone is on the knife, and I am the fish," Li Jiaxin said,"But it's not my fault."
She did not plan to change careers, but chose to continue doing brand marketing. For Li Jiaxin, the most important thing is to act quickly. She threw herself into the job search and felt that she could at least learn something by talking to the interviewer.
Ten days later, Li Jiaxin also successfully got an offer from a small and medium-sized new consumer goods company.
"What is an iron rice bowl? Only if you can eat food wherever you go and have your own skills is the real iron rice bowl." A primary school student said in an interview.
Li Jiaxin feels that she and primary school students have achieved an ideological fit. The experience of layoffs made her understand that only by refining where she really grew up from a work experience can she truly become her own and add value to herself.
When it comes to layoffs, Wang Wantong is considered a senior.
Everything stops in August 2021. Various localities have implemented "double reduction" policies one after another. Wang Wantong, who has worked in the ByteDance K12 project team for two years, has begun her journey of job hunting.
At first, it didn't go well. Wang Wantong "doesn't know where she wants to invest. She can't meet the requirement of a slightly higher salary, and the salary she can achieve is too small." She couldn't accept that her salary had been cut significantly. She set a range for herself,"I originally just got 10,000 yuan, but now I've been doing it for 2 or 3 years. I'll get another 10,000 yuan or at most 15,000 yuan. There's no problem at all. At worst, I'll interview more."
She decided to start overseas investment and increase the exposure of her resume. With the minimum salary standard of 15k, she interviewed more than 20 companies, covering almost all industries. Those who sell gold, insurance, and fund all went through the rounds, but she was short of medicine, Wang Wantong said, because she needed a threshold.
"Give the decision to others, wait for others to come to you to increase your courage, and increase your self-confidence by rejecting others." Wang Wantong completed her psychological construction in this way.
Even if an interviewer made things difficult for her,"How much dividends and premiums do you have in this industry?" "There are dividends in any industry. I don't care where I do, my bottom line is this price. If you can afford me, you can open it." Wang Wantong replied decisively,"If you want to suppress me, I'm sorry, we won't talk about this issue."
This process lasted for nearly three months, and Wang Wantong finally chose a fast-handed outsourcing position with a monthly salary of 15k.
Is this a blind choice? Wang Wantong denied that she hoped to contact advertising here to deepen her understanding of user growth. More importantly, she wanted to go to Quick Hand's to make a living."To put it bluntly, I wouldn't go if Quick Hand didn't provide food. I feel very secure to have food, you know?"
Wang Wantong did not plan to work here for a long time. She decided to change careers after learning the right thing.
Changes in the industry made her realize that all industries have a life cycle. A month and a half later, an Internet of Things company entered Wang Wantong's vision. In her view, logistics will not be eliminated. Its form can be changed, but it will not be eliminated because "this society will always need it."
The interview process was also tit-for-tat. When encountering unreasonable questions, Wang Wantong decisively rejected them. However, this was unexpectedly appreciated by the leaders. When negotiating salary, she became more decisive and confident,"The annual report is 30w. If it is lower than this, I won't consider it."
In early December, Wang Wantong received an appointment notice. This sudden career "turmoil" ended in a career change.
This girl understands the importance of "cross-travel". "You must have the ability to cross paths. If the company goes bankrupt, can you jump to a company in the same industry and take another position? If the industry is killed, is it possible for you to jump to another industry?" Wang Wantong said.
The good news is that being young and having potential is still the greatest asset.
When every industry has changes and many uncertainties, Wang Wantong feels that the only thing she can do is to improve her strength so that she can have cross-industry capital. "There's no need to worry about choosing the wrong industry or whether the industry will be yellow in the future. I don't think it's necessary."
Indeed, for fresh graduates, being laid off is cruel. "It may be a bit unfair to be treated like this when you are new to the workplace," said career planner Chen Meng."But you don't have a glass heart because you are already a social animal."
(Except for Chen Meng, all names in the article are pseudonyms. Thanks to Danru and Levis for their contributions to this article.)
From: Netease Technology