Is it appropriate to propose an internship in another department after one month's internship in the company?

Under the background of difficult employment, the procedures for college students to find jobs are advanced again and again, and the purpose of internship has also shifted from past professional practice to direct employment. Judging from the situation in the past few years, a large proportion of college students finally found jobs through internships. For example, a professional position will be limited by professional experience and background. However, if you enter the enterprise through internship, you can take turns to train in various departments until you finally find a department that suits you, and the so-called work experience will be broken. This is also the reason why college students are keen on enterprise internships in winter and summer vacations, especially in foreign companies.

However, due to the increasing number of college students in recent years, the internship positions that enterprises can provide seem to be scarce. Many college students lament that finding internship opportunities is as difficult as finding a job, especially for foreign companies and well-known enterprises.

Then, how should college students embark on the "internship road" of foreign companies during the summer vacation? The reporter interviewed relevant professionals such as workplace experts, corporate HR, successful candidates and so on. I hope this article can provide "heavy weapons" and "private secrets" for "young" college students, and win greater "winning face" and odds for the upcoming summer internship!

One of the Weapons "Peacock Feather": Application Letter

In the world, there is absolutely no hidden weapon more powerful than peacock feathers, and there is absolutely no weapon more beautiful than peacock feathers. Peacock feather's petite body hides great strength, while the cover letter is short and pithy, but as beautiful and unfathomable as Peacock feather.

A cover letter is a quick sketch of one's own advantages, and it is the first step to get a summer internship opportunity. Its main purpose is to attract the attention of recruiters and win internship interview opportunities. Generally speaking, HR people read the cover letter first and then the resume. Whether they can impress and capture HR's "eyeball" and reading interest in the shortest time depends entirely on the writing skills of the cover letter. First of all, you should prepare both Chinese and English materials, because the process of writing a cover letter can truly reflect your English level, so you should try your best to standardize the language, conform to English grammar, and reduce grammar, typos or missing words; Secondly, the content of the cover letter should be targeted and hierarchical, and state personal situation and internship expectation in the shortest language. Structurally, it can be composed of three parts: introduction, theme and ending. For the applied internship position, it is necessary to emphasize the matching degree between the major and the position, and it is suggested to describe it in an independent paragraph. Thirdly, in the cover letter, you should show your self-confidence, and "freeze" your advantages, strengths, awards, honors and skills, so that the other party feels that your experience and materials are consistent with the requirements of the internship position you are applying for; Finally, in view of the length of the cover letter, we think it should be controlled within one page as much as possible to ensure that HR can "read all your personal information on one page". In typesetting, we suggest using font No.5 or small four to avoid the inconvenience of HR reading caused by too small words or crowded paragraphs.

From the perspective of job hunting strategy, the cover letter is a self-portrait sketch and description in the stage of "I am here, who am I", which is written for a specific individual and is essentially different from the resume, which is written for a specific job. In this sense, the cover letter can be said to be a supplement and overview of the resume.

The second weapon "overlord gun": resume

Overlord, the gun is the ancestor of a hundred soldiers, overlord gun is one of the most overbearing weapons in the world, and resume, like overlord gun, directly faces HR and points to job hunting. Whether it is a local enterprise or a foreign enterprise, it is an indispensable weapon, and it needs to show its due confidence and domineering all the time.

Compared with the cover letter, the information provided on the resume is more to better describe "I am the person you want" and "I am great". The richness and fullness of resume will directly determine whether to enter the next recruitment process. Ilana, who works in human resources in a foreign company, told reporters, "In the process of recruiting interns, we first look at whether the contents of the resume meet the job requirements. The information we must read includes personal basic information, education, social practice, internship and vocational training, personal specialties and hobbies. " "More often, we judge the growth potential of candidates based on the information obtained from resumes. Therefore, those resumes with highlights and characteristics are more likely to be passed. For example, some international internship positions in our company will give priority to those with excellent TOEIC scores. After all, these internship positions involving international business have higher requirements for the applicant's practical English application ability. " "For the evaluation of college students' social practice, we are more concerned about what college students have done and how to do it, rather than pale social titles and vague adjectives.

From the perspective of application strategy, resume belongs to the autobiographical description stage of "I am great" and "I am what you want". Regarding the arrangement and writing skills of resumes, Tian Li, a full-time expert in the workplace, gave some suggestions: "The position to be applied for should be clear and definite, the basic data should be correct and effective, the photos should not be blank, the professional interests should show their characteristics, the education and experience should be presented in flashback, the professional skills should be honest, and the language ability should be correct and effective. Finally, these points should be understood in this way.

The third weapon, "parting hook": the school move of enterprises.

Parting hook is a weapon, no matter where it is hooked, it will cause parting, but the original intention of using it is to get together with the person you love. Enterprise school recruitment is a new recruitment method. Its appearance gives more outstanding students the opportunity to directly contact and communicate with enterprises, and fully display their various abilities through the precious school recruitment season.

In the eyes of many global enterprises, the campus intern recruitment plan is an effective means to make up for the shortcomings of the traditional recruitment system, and it is also an effective way to strengthen the training of reserve talents and echelon construction. For example, Fortune 500 companies such as Procter & Gamble, Hewlett-Packard, Siemens, Nokia, IBM, etc. start campus intern recruitment plans around September and 10 every year. This is a golden opportunity for those students who have obvious advantages in professional skills and English ability. By participating in the activities, they will get internship opportunities from well-known enterprises in a faster and more efficient way.

Recently, the reporter also noticed that in order to recruit qualified international talents, some enterprises will also cooperate with third-party language assessment agencies. For example, well-known enterprises such as Lenovo, Ford (China), Citi Software and China Southern Airlines participated in the Toe Cup Professional English Challenge recently held by ETS, and the places provided by these enterprises such as recruitment, inspection and campus interns were the prizes of the winners of the contest. From the application strategy, students' active participation in such activities is an active form, which can not only get the most effective warm-up opportunities in the workplace on the eve of employment, but also open a green channel for internship, observation or employment opportunities in well-known enterprises, directly avoiding the traditional cumbersome online application and intern application process.

Weapon 4 "jasper knife": foreign language proficiency

Knife is the easiest weapon to use and the most widely used weapon. In the workplace of foreign companies, foreign languages, especially English, are frequently used like knives. All official documents and work reports must be written in English at ordinary times, and meetings, training and telephone communication are basically in English. Therefore, if English is not good, it is difficult to be qualified for the internship in a foreign company.

In the process of intern recruitment, foreign companies often use the following methods to screen the actual English level of candidates. First, online internship applications and job descriptions are mostly presented in English to screen out job seekers with poor English skills; The second step is to re-evaluate the English cover letter and resume submitted by the applicant. First, filter out those who only input Chinese resumes, and then filter out those who have poor English writing skills. At the same time, English qualification certificates will also occupy an important position in interns' resumes, such as CET-4 and CET-6, TOEIC, GRE and IELTS. And those with excellent grades will often be given priority; The third step is to make an appointment for an English interview according to the selected resume telephone, and to examine the applicant's oral English level and practical English application ability face to face by telephone. Telephone English interview is usually about 15-30 minutes, which tests the actual English level and adaptability of college students. Step 4: Only college students who have passed the telephone interview will have the opportunity to be invited to the company or headquarters to participate in the interview and written test, and at this stage, the applicant's English listening, speaking, reading and writing ability and professional skills will be comprehensively examined.

From the writing of cover letters and resumes, internship applications, telephone interviews, on-site interviews/written tests, it is not difficult to find that English is everywhere. From the perspective of personal English qualification strategy, it is difficult for the traditional CET-4 and CET-6 to make you stand out among many applicants. College students need to be exposed to more professional English applications in order to adapt to the actual workplace environment more quickly. Amber, who has been engaged in the recruitment of campus interns in foreign companies, told reporters, "We trust the English scores issued by third-party language assessment agencies, and we will be more optimistic about those English communication skills qualifications specially designed and developed for the international professional working environment, such as toeic. We believe that professional English examination can help us select talents with practical application ability.

The fifth weapon "eternal sword": information source

The eternal sword, the sharpest sword in the world, is powerful and persistent, just like a database, absorbing throughput and turning elephants into invisibility. Just like the eternal sword, the source of information needs to be continuous, as long as it can strongly support college students to obtain internship opportunities in foreign companies. After all, the internship channels of foreign companies are crowded in reality. It is reported that MOTO received thousands of resumes in just three hours when recruiting interns from prestigious schools. Too much porridge is an embarrassment that college students will face when applying for internship opportunities in foreign companies and famous enterprises.

Information determines success or failure! Now let's take a look at how Caedmon, a graduate student who just got a summer internship in a foreign company, got internship information and resources in a foreign company. "At first, I went to the blogs of successful people in previous years, company websites and BBS of famous universities (not limited to misty water and cloud swords, sun and moon brilliance, and drinking water Siyuan Society is better) to collect necessary information. For example, which companies have started to publish summer intern recruitment plans, the questions that I want to apply for, the corporate culture, the reputation and evaluation of successful companies, and so on. " From the time I got the telephone interview notice to the official telephone interview, I spent a lot of time preparing-collecting past interviews on the main BBS of Fudan University and Jiaotong University, getting possible problems, recalling past experiences to deal with stress interview, and improving my self-introduction.

In addition, in terms of obtaining information, the reporter wants to remind students to "pay attention to the diversity and accuracy of obtaining information". For example, Deloitte, Nokia, Samsung, Korea Development Bank, IBM and other internationally renowned enterprises all use toeic scores as one of the main criteria to measure applicants' English ability in the online application of "Summer Internship for College Students in 2008". Starting from the principle of focusing on the highlights of resumes and matching key points, students should closely grasp the specific needs of enterprises and prepare resume content in combination with the needs of enterprises.

From the perspective of employment strategy, information source is the stage to solve "where am I going" and "how do I work hard", and the diversity and accuracy of information source will directly affect the win of internship opportunities for foreign companies and famous enterprises. On the other hand, careful preparation before the interview also depends on a lot of information. It is in this sense that information determines success or failure.

The "love ring" of seven weapons: the network passbook

Affectionate ring is a strange weapon. No matter what you are trapped in, you will immediately cling to it and never let it go again, just like a affectionate lover, and the "personal passbook" is like a loving ring, which will firmly hold many internship opportunities. The concept of "network passbook" is not only seen in the old birds in the workplace, but also for college students who are new to the workplace, they can have their own "network passbook" and add it to the application when they get internship opportunities in foreign companies.

"A person's success depends on 30% ability and 70% connections", and Naariah, who just participated in the interview of KPMG's summer intern, has a deep understanding of this. "Earlier, I applied for internships in internationally renowned companies such as Deloitte, Ernst & Young, Unilever and Standard Chartered Bank through the Internet, but it was always like a mud cow entering the sea and I couldn't get feedback." "Later, I heard that KPMG had an internal practice of recommending interns. I remember a brother who worked in KPMG last year and contacted him. He helped me revise my resume, and then recommended my resume to the human resources department. It wasn't long before I took the written test of KPMG in Hangzhou with my classmates who registered online. "

It is very effective to contact brothers, sisters and classmates who have already taken part in the work and seek their help. Naariah told reporters, "In the process of asking for help, KPMG's brothers and sisters not only gave me a lot of selfless help in recommendation, but also gave me a lot of pertinent suggestions in resume revision and career development. At that time, I felt particularly warm and moved. If I can't find a good internship opportunity, I really feel sorry for this group of selfless brothers and sisters. "

From the perspective of job-hunting strategy, the application of "personal passbook" is a stage of accurately locking job opportunities, and it is also the most commonly used means for college students to apply for jobs. Judging from the efficiency of job hunting, the hit rate of internal recommendation is much higher than that of online application, so we suggest that college students should pay attention to their brothers and sisters, keep in touch, accumulate the necessary "personal passbook", and humbly ask them for advice or help, which will often receive unexpected results.

The "fist" of the seven weapons: interview skills

Fist is also a kind of weapon, and it is irreplaceable. When the scattered five fingers are clenched into fists, their strength is only five times that of the original. Mastering interview skills is as direct and deadly as the fist in the seven weapons. The on-site interview is about fists. Whether you can win the internship depends on your on-the-spot performance in the on-site interview process and the comprehensive impression left by the examiner!

According to the survey, more than 70% of personnel directors regard "the on-the-spot response of the interview as the main basis for selecting new people", so Carl, a workplace expert, has repeatedly warned college students, "First of all, before attending the interview, we should make detailed preparations, such as company profile, corporate culture, appearance and dress, personal job printing, job responsibilities and content, etc. ; Secondly, listen carefully during the interview, don't rush to answer, and don't rush to answer. Because the interview time is limited, you should pay attention to the content to be concise and to the point. At the same time, don't whimsically answer the common open questions of foreign companies, but start looking for answers from your side. Thirdly, at the end of the interview, whether you are successfully admitted as expected or just get an ambiguous answer, such as' We will further consider your situation and other applicants, and we will inform you in time if there is any news', we should pay attention to treating each other with a normal heart, especially don't forget the etiquette when leaving or going out; Finally, after the interview, you should carefully recall, sort out and record all the details in the whole interview process, because the success of the interview is not the most important. The most important thing is to analyze the gains and losses from the last interview, sum up experience, improve and improve your interview skills and psychological quality. " In addition, thank-you letters after job hunting are also very important. Many applicants with the same qualifications let HR see their professionalism and sincerity in this job with a thank-you letter, and were finally accepted.

From the perspective of application strategy, interview skills belong to the climax stage of self-promotion and winning internship opportunities, and it is the total explosion of personal comprehensive advantages in a specific environment. Mastering more interview skills will help candidates stand out from the crowd!

Conclusion: No matter how terrible the weapon is, it can't compare with students' confidence. Therefore, the most powerful weapon for college students to surf in the workplace is their self-confidence-"Believe in yourself, be the best yourself, and you will succeed". Use your confidence and strength to create a unique and energetic summer vacation!