Hearing an interviewer say this

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In today’s interviews, I will give each person no more than 5 minutes. There was one person with whom I talked for only 3 minutes; I kept his resume. The students who came after him looked at him with a disappointed expression and said, “So quickly?” ” I said, “You’ll be faster.” If you can describe your strengths in two sentences without thinking, I’ll challenge you – in 1 minute. It’s a pity he spoke in fits and starts, saying a lot of things – clearly his mental ‘script’ was the self-introduction he had rehearsed, and I ‘disrupted’ his plan. There was a student whom I thought was quite good; she managed to convey her strengths and qualities in just one page of her resume. When I decided to hire her, I habitually checked whether she had any classes in the next semester and looked at her resume, but I couldn’t see the name of her school. “Why isn’t the name of the school listed?” ”Because... my school isn’t that good... I still asked about her school, then picked up a pen and wrote down her alma mater in her resume for her, before holding up the resume in front of her and asking, \"Is it written correctly?\" ” “No. ” Today, for all the resumes that remained, I simply did one thing (checked the box for those I considered particularly suitable). This is the only resume I’ve written; I don’t know if she understands what I’m trying to tell her. Her approach greatly diminished my enthusiasm. If I were in charge of education and had a large enough hammer, I would use it to destroy all Chinese schools, because none of them would dare to claim that they teach students how to be good people – they are all focused on teaching knowledge alone. Of course, there are also some students who are very good at promoting themselves. For example, there was a student applying for a position in web design; since he created his works on the school’s internal network and couldn’t show them to me, he said to me, “I’ve uploaded my work to a site called Zhiyouji; you can take a look there.” ”There was also someone applying for a copywriting assistant position, who uploaded her articles to her own blog as well. That night, I went back and visited their homepage; I found that the content they had posted online was quite substantial. For example, there were many essays by a student applying for the position of copywriter, and I could see her good writing skills and level of thinking. I decided to inform those two people to start working tomorrow. They are all students from what are considered \"inferior schools,\" but they are good at using various means to showcase their strengths. For example, their ability to make use of new free tools such as \"Professional Networks\" and BLOGs was indeed key to winning my trust. Summarizing my feelings for today, I think: graduating before finding a job, losing one’s job first – it’s not because there are no job opportunities available, but rather due to an imbalance in one’s employability skills ； The key to the difficulty in finding employment lies not in the large number of graduates or a decline in educational standards, but rather in a blurred sense of self-awareness, as well as a decrease in confidence in finding work and in one’s expectations regarding one’s own value. It is a good thing that the arrogant attitude of the chosen ones of heaven has disappeared, but what takes its place is not a sense of balance or composure, but rather inferiority, impatience, and confusion. You might think I’m being pretentious or trying to establish my credentials, but as a graduate, I believe you’d still be willing to hear the following \"complaints\" from someone who has been a human resources director for 5 years and has conducted 10,000 interviews: Don’t send me fancy resumes; give me something concise (not simplistic) that can highlight your strengths. With thousands of applicants, do you really think HR will bother to read those application letters that are all pretty much identical, or those resume templates that look like books? Don’t give me too much about yourself in your introduction. I can’t claim to be able to accurately judge you after 3 or 5 minutes, but I can form an initial impression of you within 30 seconds ； The reason I ended your interview so quickly is because there are so many people waiting in line after you. I too once had to wait patiently as a graduate, and I did that only to give more people an equal chance like yours. After that, I will select you to come to my office for a second interview ； You think I’m giving you too little time and show disappointment (am I not considered valuable enough?) ) In that moment of gaze, you lose the chance to get another interview. I will always hold fast to this: your confidence is my hope. The job opportunity isn’t something I give you; it’s one you have to earn for yourself. Don’t act as if you’re willing to do anything just because I hire you; it gives me the impression that you’re trying to sell yourself. I invite you to work here because you can bring value to the company, so it’s not you who is ‘asking’ for a job, but rather I who am ‘hiring’ you. It’s not asking you to raise your posture, but just hoping you’ll lift your chest. Don’t give me a gloomy look or show disappointment because I refuse to accept your resume. I’m not accepting your resume; it’s not that you’re not qualified, but you’re not the right fit for my company ； I’m not accepting your resume, not because I’m not giving you a chance ； I just don’t want to give you expectations that don’t exist at all (if I accept it, you’ll wait for me to let you know) ； It’s not that I don’t want to give you face; it’s that I don’t want to waste the hard-earned money of you and your parents. Although each resume costs only 1 or 2 yuan, I have no reason to squander even the slightest amount of money that belongs to you, especially since you are just a consumer ； I’m helping you save so that you can invest it in the opportunities that belong to you. I never wanted to leave your hopes alone at the recruitment site when I couldn’t bring back that many resumes to the company ； I certainly don’t want, after the job fair is over, your resume to end up in that deserted venue, scattered like all the other discarded resumes, trampled underfoot by everyone – I will never join such a situation. I would rather reject you and cause you pain (you must also learn to face such setbacks), because that resume, which you spent countless nights working on, represents you; it embodies your value and your dignity. I have always believed that anyone can criticize the education system harshly, but one must never deny your value or trample on your dignity! Don’t be afraid to say and write down the school you graduated from, no matter how poor it may be; you came out of there, and I definitely won’t want someone who is too ashamed to acknowledge their parents because of their humble background ； Or one day, when I leave my company to go for an interview at a larger one, I won’t want to admit that I come from a company that isn’t part of the Fortune 500. For a company, your value and values determine everything. Never question a hero’s origins; if you are a bear, then even if you come from heaven, you remain a bear. Don’t list all your academic grades and so-called internships for me (because many graduates have also come to me, taken a look around, and gotten a stamp to call it an internship); you just need to pick one specific thing and explain the process and results in a concise manner, so that I can understand how you work. Don’t be afraid to look me in the eyes; when you’re too shy to look at me, I’ll look down on you as well. Don’t include so much nonsense when answering “what’s your salary expectation”. I don’t want to hear everyone repeating, “Since I’m a graduate with no work experience, if the company thinks this requirement is too much… I can still…” My money might have just been printed by the central bank, but that doesn’t mean its value is reduced just because it hasn’t been circulated yet. Actually, I don’t care whether you say 5000 or 1500; what matters to me is the tone of your voice and the look in your eyes when you say that number. I respect the right of everyone to assess their own worth in terms of labor (but companies have their own salary systems and won’t treat anyone specially), but I prefer colleagues who are straightforward. Being straightforward is a sign of confidence, it’s a style of working, as well as an attitude toward life. I will stubbornly believe that the number of characters before and after the figure you mention indicates how indecisive you are in carrying out tasks ； Or how uncertain your self-awareness and confidence are. Life is short but full of value; tell others that you are unique – you are who you are, and it is you who creates your own success.