Song Tong, a 15th-grade undergraduate student of Xiamen University, joined the industry in April 2018, Chunzhao hit a wall many times due to late entry, insufficient product knowledge and no internship experience, and had the honor of encountering Bole to come to Beijing Didi AI labs for internship, and Qiuzhao joined Shenzhen Tencent.
Due to its own characteristics, I am particularly aware of the difficulty of finding a job in the cold winter of the Internet by entering the industry late and experiencing ordinary fresh graduates. I have come up with some "stupid birds fly first" methods in the hope of helping everyone who is also an undergraduate student get through the difficulties in the cold winter of the Internet
Second, the product thinking of the interview preparation - self-introduction
Psychologist Mr. Orie Owens believes that most people hire the people they like, not the most competent people, and most decision-makers make the decision whether to hire or not within the first 5 minutes of the interview and spend the rest of the interview to justify their choices.
Introducing yourself is the most important clip of the first five minutes of your interview, and a prepared self-introduction will give you a greater chance of being liked within five minutes. Therefore, for fresh graduates with light resumes, an interview Latest Mailing Database without pre-preparation is irresponsible to themselves.
At the same time, as a product manager, you need to have a product mindset to prepare for this interview.
2.1 Think about the interviewer's needs
First, think of yourself as a product where each of your interviewers is your user, so you need to know how many rounds the company needs to interview, and what each interviewer needs. Taking Tencent as an example, my personal reflections on the interviewer requirements are as follows:
Tencent Autumn Recruitment product planning regular interview has four rounds: one round of group noodles + two rounds of professional noodles + one round of HR noodles.
The needs of the group: the students who face the same group need to quickly know your title, experience and general ability through your self-introduction; The interviewer is your future mentor, through the group to find a strong team, in the team can contribute value in teamwork.
One-sided interviewer needs: As your future mentor, through one-on-one understanding, look for a fresh graduate who has excellent hard skills and is comfortable with himself.
Two-sided interviewer needs: Big leader, with deeper experience, able to insight into the relatively hidden nature of the individual and weigh your strengths and weaknesses, choose a future leader who has more potential and excellent soft power in his eyes.
HR needs: You need to find someone who can take an offer and has a strong working ability.
2.2 Methods of self-introduction
For group self-introduction, it is best to introduce yourself simply and clearly and reflect your advantages in teamwork as much as possible. (Give yourself a nickname or bring a name tag to make it easier for others to call out that you can bring a good user experience)
The last three interviews require a detailed self-introduction, and my personal favorite introduction method is: "campus background introduction + internship introduction + job understanding + personal core competitiveness introduction", which guides the interviewer to read my resume.
The campus background introduction is a short and powerful description of the major studied in the university (the brothers and sisters of the same school are more likely to have a good feeling for the students) and carry out a certain "ability show". For students in the class, using two sentences to explain the excellent results of the corresponding subjects in their universities is a manifestation of hard strength, such as interviewing AI product managers and having learned artificial intelligence and achieving good results. All of the above is important to the counterpart, do not force the match.
Internship introduction is an important part of the interviewer's questions after the interviewer, give yourself a summary of the internship experience to extract the highlight to the interviewer to briefly explain (guide the interviewer to read the resume, talk about the highlight, the details of the problem in the subsequent dialogue, do not let the interviewer feel too detailed to produce a sense of redundancy), at the same time do not dig a pit for yourself, and be responsible for every sentence of yourself, if you say that you have produced xxx, It is necessary to explain clearly how I thought about xxx at that time, and how to verify that xxx was correct, and encountered the biggest difficulties and other related problems.
As a "product", we must have insight into ourselves, to understand our core competitiveness, core competitiveness can be divided into soft power, hard power. All interviewers care about your soft power, but while the interviewer also pays attention to your hard power (to let the interviewer know that you have the ability to move the bricks, hard power here refers to the ability to use tools and write copy, such as Axure use, etc.), so you can prepare some additional hard power introductions on the side. After describing your own characteristics, it is best to use specific behaviors to argue your own characteristics, and the demonstration method can use the Star law.