改简历，找工作和面试咨询

我帮两个好朋友找到了工作．我看不少人有找工作的烦恼，我现在愿意和更多人分享我的经验和提供帮助，如改简历, 面试模拟, 如何找工作等. 为避免有人随便打扰或不珍惜免费的机会, 我会酌情收取少许费用．
我现在是飞利浦的一名高级经理，家住Eindhoven. 以前分别在两家著名的美国公司中国分公司工作。我的email: simleis1@yahoo.com

Quite a number of people approached me with their CV and cover letters. I'd like to summarize a few common problems for knowledge-sharing.

1. Do not like your study area or do not really know what you want to do
The first step of job searching is to understand yourself and look for the jobs that will bring you joy.

2. Boring CV
CV Should NOT be a log of your history, but a highlight of you as a student, an employee and very importantly as a person!

3. Many copied phrases
Too many people use "team player and also can work independently; very good communication skills"

4. Do not say your English level is advanced/fluent and how well you can communicate when you have several typos and grammar mistakes in CV/cover letter.

5. Even if you are desperate, do not show it in cover letter. e.g. some people wrote "please do not turn me down just because I just graduated...I will do all I can do and try never to let you down." The employers are interested in your quality, not how desperate you are.

啊~~~我都毕业大半年了还没找到工作。。。。

lz 同学经验丰富，佩服佩服。
找工作好比谈恋爱。靠运气也靠缘分。

分析得很有道理，帮顶~~~~~

希望lz再多分享点给大家~~~~：）

Good points.

It's all about the whole picture, who are you as a person. HR managers get information about you from different sources(C.V., cover letter, how you talk, how you dress, what you said, what you have in your C.V., these days they even look at your facebook, linkedin pages) etc, and try to put them togeher, to form a whole picture about you.

You as candidate can also get information from different sources, company profile, job description, inquery by phone, how the interviewer talks, what he/she says etc. The employer always look for someone who matches their ideal candidate profile, try to do the match by yourself. If you don't match at certain points, try to think how you might compensate it with others points where you are better at. Be confident about yourself, without going overconfident, show you know your limits while let them know you can improve yourself beyond your current limits. Never lie, not in C.V., not during the inverview, you hurt yourself much more than you gain.
It's OK to exaggerate a bit, but don't go too far.

While I support LZ's initiative to help newcomers, people need to realize that the job market has never been so bad as now. Do your best but be realistic, nobody can gurantee you a job, no matter how wel you prepare, no matter who helps you to prepare. In the end, it's yourself as a person, your own quality that decides if you get a job and how good you will be at it.  And it's also a matter of luck and timing, if you graduate at the right time, finding job is 10 times easier than in difficult times.

原帖由 YANGYANGAILIFE 于 2010-6-3 08:54 发表
lz 同学经验丰富，佩服佩服。
找工作好比谈恋爱。靠运气也靠缘分。

呵呵 太同意楼上的观点了！找个好的employer如同找个好的husband一样。一切靠缘分。（除非你的简历absolutely shining)

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6. Many people are asking me where to find vacancies -- company websites, HR agencies, job search websites or recruitment exhibitions etc.
Actually, it does not matter. People find jobs via all above-mentioned channels. What matters is good CV/cover letter + good interview skills. Integrity is No. 1 important quality. A good CV does not mean you put something unreal. A good interview does not mean you brag.

7. Think about why you have to stay in the NL? Think about your parents and your country. If you do not find opportunities here, why not seek opportunities back home? Of course, you still need to know how to market yourself; In China, at least you'll have more opportunities and your overseas experience and language skills will become your competitive advantage.

8. For those who fall in love in the NL, if you have to stay here and cannot find a job that you like, think out of the box of job searching. There are many things you can do and you will find happiness. e.g. A colleague of mine resigned recently. He started his own company. He enjoys managing his own business. His small company does not bring him more money but more happiness. Money and happiness, which is more important for you?

If your happiness is to make money, then think about investment opportunities. When most people were deeply worried about economic crisis, some people including me saw the bright side of it and enterred stock markets last year. It was a very good timing. AEX was 190+ and now is 300+; Dow Jones was 6000+ and now is 10000+ . If you missed the best timing of last year, you can still enter the stock market now, as the index is still relatively low.

If your hobby is to be a volunteer, it is also perfectly fine. The stories of 卢安克 will encourage you. Check it out on the internet.

LZ 好奇同问你是哪个组的SENIOR MANAGER??