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If there is no accident, Yi Yue will continue to stay in Shanghai after graduating with a master’s degree in the summer of 2022. Because after one round of written test and four rounds of interview, she got an offer from a leading Internet company.
However, the excitement of getting a job didn’t last long. Two months later, Yiyue suddenly received a call from the company’s personnel department, asking her to provide her bank account and receive the half-monthly salary breach payment from the company.
Yi Yue was “abandoned” by the company.
At almost the same time, many companies across the country made the same decision to terminate their contracts with fresh graduates who have just joined or are about to join.
In the face of the sudden wave of cancellations among the freshmen group this summer, most of the students were caught off guard and became very emotional-because the golden period of school recruitment for gold three and silver four has passed. For them, what is lost is not only precious time, but more importantly, the time window.
Who can be responsible for the golden period of school recruitment they missed?
“The market environment is generally sluggish, and social recruiters have been dismissed in large numbers, not to mention fresh graduates who are new to the workplace.” A headhunter told Wired Insight that termination means that many companies are reluctant to invest more in training fresh graduates.
The company broke the contract, what did it bring to this freshman?
“I’m 27 years old this year, and when I was about to graduate, I suddenly lost the job I had hoped for, and I lost love. What’s the point of my previous efforts?” Since the three-party contract was terminated by the company, Xu Lu has been stuck in the house for a week , she was not motivated to prepare for the interview for the new job.
Yi Yue’s “career plan was completely disrupted”. After her contract was broken, she suddenly found that she was no longer obsessed with big Internet companies, but was more suitable for the system.
As a boy, Wu Qi’s thoughts have not changed, and he will try to find another company to join and get a decent salary. “I still have to continue to make money. I will definitely have to buy a house in the future when I get married, and the financial pressure is huge.”
These fresh graduates who were terminated after graduation have also undergone important changes in their attitude towards work.
After connecting with Insight and contacting a number of fresh graduates who experienced the company’s breach of contract, they found that their career expectations for the next few years are no longer the desire for high salary before, but have become “the time when the first job can be done.” Longer, hopefully not going through layoffs again.”
“Stability” has become one of the most frequent topics in the mouths of this generation of young job seekers. Many people have to say goodbye to their ideals and give in to the brutal employment situation.
After my contract was broken by Ideal Car, my starting salary changed from 350,000 to 100,000
Wu Qi | Graduate student of a school in Shanxi, majoring in computer application technology
I am a freshman in 2022 who was terminated by ideal car. I plan to have a million deposit after 3 or 4 years of ideal work. But now all career plans have been disrupted.
Because I studied in the same school for both my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, I have been the president of the school’s student union during my schooling, and my social skills and language organization skills have been greatly exercised. This gave me a clear advantage over other competitors in the entire school recruitment process.
In addition, I have an advantage over other teachers in the same school. I have a very good relationship with a teacher who works in Ali. He planned the school recruitment plan for me when I was in my first year of study. So I started to review the questions in the second half of the study, and more practice experience.
Therefore, for the autumn recruit, my preparation time lasted about 10 months. That is, from October of the first year of research, I began to brush technical questions, and in July and August of the second summer vacation, I quickly reviewed the question bank again. If you have a lot of questions, you can find a job with an annual salary of 400,000. If you don’t ask questions, you can only find a job with an annual salary of 200,000. This is the gap.
Even if I was fully prepared, when it came to the autumn recruitment node, I only received a few offers after submitting the resumes of many companies. However, the companies are not bad, and the ideal is one of them.
In fact, to be honest, the ideal salary for me is not the highest, with an annual salary of 350,000, which is a price range above the normal salary; however, the company’s strength is not the best, and I also received an offer from a central enterprise at that time.
However, in the past few years, the three new energy vehicle companies of “Weixiaoli” have been the same, attracting graduates and job-hopping employees.
When HR talked to me at that time, he said that not only the ideal salary is high, but also free lunch and dinner, breakfast is very cheap, and there is basically no overtime, the overall treatment is indeed quite attractive.
I am also more optimistic about the autonomous driving industry, so last December, I chose the ideal from 8 offers.
After signing the tripartite contract with Ideal and the school, I began to concentrate on preparing for the graduation defense, and I did not participate in the spring recruitment.
Unexpectedly, six months later, one morning, as soon as I opened my eyes, I received the ideal cancellation email, which shocked me.
I immediately went to several official groups in the company to see if there were people in a similar situation to me, and it turned out that there were many students who were terminated by Ideal. Most of the people spoke fiercely, and some students even scolded them directly in the group. There are also a small number of people who feel fortunate that they got a better offer later, and the official termination of the contract not only allows them to accept the offer from a new unit, but also earns more than 20,000 in compensation.
At the same time, I went to contact the department leader and HR, and the department leader said he would know about it. As a result, two days later, he sent me a message “I have also been terminated”, and the entire department was laid off. HR has not replied to me until now.
Looking back now, there are already signs of the ideal judge freshman. According to the content of the offer, I should come to the Ideal Headquarters for an internship in April, but HR has been delaying and not allowing me to join. The reason is that due to the epidemic situation in Beijing, for the sake of safety, the employee’s entry is temporarily suspended. I didn’t think much about it at the time, but now that I think about it, I might be preparing for layoffs at that time.
After the termination of the contract, it is false that I am not uncomfortable. For me and my mentor, the gap is too big. After getting the ideal offer at that time, my tutor showed off a lot in the whole academy, and now he is also embarrassed.
However, I am also unlucky. A high school friend of mine also got an ideal offer this year and also went to work in Beijing, but he was not laid off.
If I pay the ideal salary, even if I don’t raise my salary, I can earn at least 1.6 million in 5 years. After all kinds of expenses, I can have at least 1 million in savings after 5 years. Now that the contract has been terminated, the goal of one million deposits has disappeared.
Even if the ideal termination time is advanced to April, everyone will not be so angry. May is coming to an end, and this year’s freshmen have missed the best time to find new jobs. Graduation is imminent, the school recruitment channel of the enterprise is closed, and the fresh graduates who have broken their contracts can only find a new job in the highly competitive social recruitment.
During this time, I mobilized all the relationships around me to help me deliver my resume, and I was also looking for new opportunities in recruitment software such as BOSS Zhipin, Maimai, and Zhaopin.com.
At present, I have received several new offers, but the annual salary is only between 100,000 and 200,000, which is far less generous than the salary given during the school recruitment period. If I work for the same five years in the future, I really earn a lot less money than my high school friend.
Even if there are several offers, I continue to participate in interviews, about 2 or 3 interviews a day, to give myself as many options as possible.
But to be honest, I don’t prepare for the interviews in advance. They are all small and medium-sized companies. The difficulty of the interviews is much simpler than that of giant companies such as ByteDance and Huawei. With the help of the previous brush questions and interview experience, I can basically answer them. .
Even if I can’t find my ideal job before graduation, I will not apply for an extension. Who knows how much better the situation will be next year than this year? Get a job first, then choose a job!
I got my job back after my contract was broken, but I already wanted to be in the system
Yi Yue | Graduate student of a Shanghai 211 college, majoring in International Chinese
Unexpectedly, before I entered the society, I received a heavy hammer from the society on the eve of graduation.
In May, I was reading a book at home one day, and suddenly received a call from HR and a WeChat friend application. It probably meant that due to the company’s strategic adjustment, my department was optimized, including some schools that have not yet joined this year.
At that time, when I received this news, I was helpless and helpless. Because I rejected several offers with good salary for this long-awaited job.
Influenced by my family before, in my concept, the big Internet companies are “moonlight treasure boxes” that provide young people with the dividends of the times and high-quality opportunities.
I have a distant sister who works for an Internet company in Shanghai, and the annual salary is 400,000 yuan after working for a few years. Whenever the elders in the family mentioned her, their words showed pride and envy. So, after I went to college, I always wanted to live in a big city.
All choices became logical. Three years ago, I finally came to Shanghai from a fourth-tier city with my ideals and academic goals. At that time, I felt that I was only one job away from staying in a super first-tier city. And this job is an offer from an Internet company.
Therefore, since I entered the postgraduate level, in addition to studying professional courses, I have been doing internships in Internet companies every summer vacation, improving my professional ability, communication ability, practical ability and other aspects, hoping to meet the recruitment requirements of Internet companies in the future.
Last year, I was in the third year of research, and finally ushered in the long-awaited autumn recruitment, which made me both excited and nervous. Considering my own liberal arts major, among many positions, I only applied for non-technical positions, and the expected monthly salary was 12K.
The autumn recruitment went very smoothly. I received several offers, but none of them met my ideal standard. After comprehensive consideration, I finally rejected them. I am ready to continue fighting.
But I never expected that this year’s spring recruits would be so much less than the autumn recruits, and the competition would become so fierce. Fortunately, I have been sorting out and updating my interview experience documents before the spring recruitment started.
Perhaps it was because of my sufficient preparations that I encountered a job that I liked very much. When the last round of interviewers nodded to my performance one after another, I knew the job was secure. Although the salary did not meet expectations, but I liked the work very much, so I readily accepted the offer.
After taking the offer, it happened to catch up with the rebound of the Shanghai epidemic. So, from March to May, my friends and I stayed in the rental house, cooking and reading to pass the boring time.
But I haven’t waited for the news of the unblocking of the community, but I first received a notice of termination.
I am afraid that I will be unemployed after graduation. After all, it is May, and the spring recruitment of large-scale enterprises is coming to an end, and the registration of career establishment, civil servants, teachers, etc. is almost over.
For about a week, my emotions have been unable to adjust, and others cannot understand the sense of gap that has been shattered.
Later, the long-distance sister who had worked in a big Internet company for many years came to me and told me about her unhappy work experience in the past few years, and told me that she had quit her job and was going back to her hometown. . I suddenly reflected, “Do I really like Dachang? Or do I have an obsession with Internet companies in order to compete with my sister?”
Calm down and think about it, the Internet market has not been stable in the past two years, and there have been layoffs. Although the Internet field will continue to develop, the large-scale layoff of fresh graduates this year has made me realize that the company management model and system in this industry do not meet my career selection standards.
After half a month of adjustment, finally, I cheered up and looked for a job. After all, I am already 25 years old, and I don’t want to postpone my graduation. I would waste another year to burden my family. If I can find a relatively satisfactory job, I will start my job first, and then choose a career during the practice process.
But I definitely wouldn’t “roll” in an internet company anymore.
Based on my previous internships, I decided on the employment direction of HR, and began to send resumes from various channels, such as Boss Zhipin, Zhilian, Maimai, Liepin, etc. We will also pay attention to the official accounts of the employment offices of well-known schools in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai, such as the Employment Office of Zhejiang University, etc. These schools have abundant resources and will launch some companies to be recruited from time to time.
Sometimes the information sent out has not received a reply from HR, so I will go to Maimai and find some seniors in the company to help with internal referrals.
In the past few weeks, I have received dozens of interview notices, and most of the group interviews have passed the test. In the past, it was difficult for me to pass the group interviews. It may be that as the number of interviews increased and I gained experience, the pass rate during this period became higher.
I found that in fact, there are still a few students whose offers were destroyed, and some excellent students have already taken a lot of offers. The students who are competing with us now have little difference in ability, so you must not be nervous during the interview.
Of course, there will also be some students with very strong academic backgrounds. For example, in the interview I attended yesterday, there was a candidate from the University of London who had 5 high-quality internships. The self-introduction shocked many people. But the one-on-one question-and-answer session was visibly tense. Finally, in a relaxed state, I got the notification of passing the second round of interviews.
Although my current job search status has returned to the track, and some companies are ready to make offers, the salary, company size and salary cannot be compared with the spring and autumn recruitment companies I participated in before, which makes me unable to have a high-quality life in first-tier cities. quality.
Recently, I was preparing for the transfer exam in my home county. There was only a month left before the exam. I was preparing for the corporate interview during the day, and I stayed up until 2 am to watch the civil service written exam tutoring class.
If I am finally admitted to the civil service, I will go directly to my hometown; if I fail the examination, the offer I am currently receiving is my guaranteed employment option.
The contract was broken a month ago, and I still can’t get rid of the depression
Xu Lu | Graduate student of a university in Tianjin, majoring in international trade
I thought I could get what I wanted by working hard, but in the end, there was nothing. I can’t go to the school to defend, and the company cancels the contract. Now my whole person is about to collapse.
According to the normal rhythm, after I completed the defense of my graduation thesis in June this year, I came directly to join this company in Beijing. The monthly salary is 17k and 16. For a student like me who graduated from a dual-non-college, this salary is very impressive.
In fact, the offer I received at that time was the one who got the earliest offer and the most lucrative salary among the students of the same class. To this end, I have become a proud benchmark for my mentors and even the entire college. The school also invited me to participate in lectures to teach the next class of younger students their job-hunting experience. Thinking about it at the time, it was really beautiful.
But in April, I asked the company’s HR if I needed to come to Beijing for an internship in advance, and the other party replied “no”. As a result, in mid-May, my contract was broken. I could have rated outstanding graduates, but because there was no job, I was completely ruined.
The most irritating thing is that I was broken by the company and didn’t pay any compensation. HR’s explanation is that when the three parties were signed at that time, the contract did not have this compensation provision. I was not even given the opportunity to transfer jobs.
Looking back on the entire job search experience, my relationship with this company is that in 2021, when I was an HR intern in a large factory and recruited a product line salesperson, I learned about this company from the other party – waist Internet platform, focus CDN business, my impression of this company is not bad. Unexpectedly, this turned out to be the beginning of my bad luck.
After the autumn recruitment started last year, considering my own dual non-degree education, I did not dare to focus on the top Internet companies, but medium-sized enterprises.
However, at that time, I was still very confident in my resume. After all, I had internship experience in two major Internet companies, and it was not particularly difficult to go to a mid-waist company.
In this way, when I screened companies based on my own work standards, I accidentally discovered that this company was also recruiting fresh graduates, and the open positions all met my requirements, so I tried to submit my resume.
Soon, the HR of the other party gave a reply. After that, the written test and the interview process were all unexpectedly smooth and fast, so I got the offer one month after the opening of the autumn recruitment.
Later, as the Spring Festival approached, Tianjin strengthened its epidemic prevention and control policies. After returning home from the Spring Festival, I was unable to go back to school and stayed at home, cooking and walking the dog.
As a result, after lying flat at home for 5 months, I was unemployed near graduation. Then what is the role of my graduate students in the past three years? I am 27 years old this year, and I will be 30 in three years. How many opportunities do I have to experience in society?
As a student born in Henan, a major education province under the high-intensity competition, in the first two years of my postgraduate studies, I won a number of school competition awards, and I also won the school-level first-class scholarship for many times. In the first semester of the third grade, I was the only “retrograde” in my class who went to Beijing for an internship.
At that time, all the other students were enjoying their last campus time at the school. I came to Beijing by myself and stayed there for half a year. During this period, I changed two companies for internships and moved three times. No one helped me throughout the process. My boyfriend broke up with me after I came to Beijing.
But I persevered. I also don’t think I’m “scrolling” others, in the past, I’m just used to being one step ahead of others.
All I did was to have a decent job after graduation.
As a result, beauty appears and disappears quickly like a bubble, leaving a vast void. I really don’t have the energy to find a job now, so let’s talk about it after graduation. All problems, let time solve it.
After being terminated by the new oxygen, I want to postpone the completion
Wang Wei | Undergraduate student of a university in Hebei, computer science and technology
About a month after my internship, I received a notice of termination from Xinxing.
For our school admissions, the first job is very important, it represents a springboard for us to determine the salary and rank of the next unit. But now, my springboard is gone.
Back in October 2021, it was the golden period of autumn recruitment. When all the classmates around me were sprinting for the autumn recruitment, I gave up the autumn recruitment because I was doing an internship and could not prepare well.
This is also one of the things I regret. I shouldn’t give up the autumn tricks directly because of the so-called lack of preparation.
It was not until December 2021, when I resigned from the internship unit, that I began to officially prepare for the spring recruits and frantically write questions. In fact, I could have gotten the offer through my internship, but my thinking was not as advanced as it is now. Professionals like us are not so flexible, so I really took a lot of detours.
Moreover, I also underestimated the difficulty of this year’s spring recruiting. This spring recruiting is much more difficult than the autumn recruiting. After submitting resumes to dozens of companies, only one or two companies responded, and interview opportunities were even rarer. On the contrary, when the school was recruiting for autumn, many students signed up for their favorite jobs.
From February to March, I sent hundreds of resumes without receiving an offer. During that time, I was very tormented. I couldn’t eat every day, and I was in a state of begging the other company for an interview. I really lost my spine.
At this time, I realized that the low response rate may be related to the size of the company and the work location. When I tried to expand the scope of work to first-tier cities and medium-sized enterprises, the interview opportunities began to increase, and I gradually entered the interview and written test.
I was lucky, and finally signed a tripartite contract with Xinxing in March, and it was my hard work that finally paid off. As far as I know, I am one of the few students in our school who got the offer in the spring recruitment.
In fact, the process of signing the contract with New Oxygen was not very smooth. The recruitment information shows that the minimum monthly salary for the position is 15K, but after three rounds of interviews, HR told me that the company will give the highest salary of 15K, and I agreed. As a result, HR notified again the next day and could only give 14K.
Although I am really getting more and more angry, considering that I am a dual-non-college institution, there are not many job opportunities, and I cannot win too many conditions with HR, so I choose to compromise again. In the end, New Oxygen offered me a monthly salary of 14K and 15, which was slightly lower than my expectations.
I thought that the salary issue was my final concession to New Oxygen, but I didn’t expect this to be just the beginning.
I am a computer major. At the beginning, Xinoxy opened GO, Java, PHP and other multi-directional positions. I chose Java, and the interviewer and HR did not mention the job direction during the interview process. So I thought that after joining the job, Xinoxy would arrange a Java position for me according to the position I applied for. but it is not the truth.
At the beginning of April, when I entered the company and started my internship, I found out that most of the back-end R&D positions are PHP, a few positions are GO, and Java is basically not available.
At this time, my immediate superiors and department heads suggested that I should do the PHP job first. But I still want to go to a Java position. The development prospects of Java and PHP are very different. Java has the best future development trend, and PHP is already a thing of the past. What’s more, the Java courses I have taught myself for a long time can be used in formal jobs.
In the end, the leader arranged me in the Java position, and an old employee took me to study. But less than a month later, the old employee was laid off.
The few senior Java employees left, and I had to step back and go to other positions.
However, when I suggested to my superiors that I could transfer to a GO or PHP position, the head of the department directly informed me that night that the company did not have so much time to train management trainees. Moreover, the research and development direction I am good at is different from that of the company, and the company does not have much time for me to re-learn the content of the new position. In addition, the company transferred my post and let me resign on the same day.
To be honest, during the working period of New Oxygen, I would take my computer with me every day when I went out to prevent unexpected work. But in the end it was abandoned by the company.
Fortunately, I kept the offer at that time, and it clearly stated that the company notified the employees 3 days in advance. I bought myself another three days, and after a week-long battle with HR, I got half a month’s compensation. About 7000 yuan.
Here is a piece of advice, fresh graduates who have been unilaterally terminated by the company must try their best to seek compensation for themselves, which is what we deserve.
Now the matter of the new oxygen breaking the contract has been resolved, but I am still very affected now. No matter how much compensation is given, it is all harm and no benefit to our fresh graduates. School recruitment is the biggest benefit for the freshmen, there is no one. School recruitment is gone, where do we go to find a job?
There is only one month left before graduation, and the job has not yet been settled, so I already have the idea of extending my graduation. Although people around me are persuading me to postpone my graduation, Shuangfei’s academic background makes me unable to have enough confidence to find a job with an ideal monthly salary after graduation.
I hope that the next class of junior brothers and sisters will try to avoid the trap when signing an offer through me. Fortunately, I live with my parents in Beijing, and I have no problem of survival. In the next time, I plan to slowly look for a job.
(At the request of the interviewee, the names in the text are pseudonyms.)
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