Can Returned Overseas Students Survive the Toughest Job Hunting Season Ever? Blossom Is Here to Offer Some Tips!

Avinash Pulugurtha
Apr 17
4 min read

Jointly organized by student unions of more than 30 top universities in North America, the Italian Student Union, and the British Student Union, come and listen to industry experts together with returned overseas students from all over the world!

UniCredit, an Italian bank, has announced a layoff of 8,000 people!

Intesa Sanpaolo, another Italian bank, has announced a layoff of 6,000 people!

The Guardian in the UK has announced a layoff of 12% of its employees!

HSBC (Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation) has announced the restart of a plan to lay off 35,000 employees globally!

Air New Zealand has announced a layoff of 3,500 people!

Fletcher Building, a New Zealand construction giant, has announced a layoff of 1,100 people!

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An increasing number of layoffs means that more and more people will join the job-seeking army, making the employment situation increasingly tense. With a small number of recruitment positions and a large number of layoffs, the balance of employment is bound to be disrupted.

Similarly, the employment situation in China this year is also not optimistic.

The Recruitment Big Data Research Institute of Liepin released the "2020 Spring Recruitment Job-seeking Report for Fresh Graduates" in April this year. It shows that the number of fresh graduates from colleges and universities this year will reach 8.75 million, and more than 70% of fresh graduates have not yet signed employment contracts. The scale of enterprises' recruitment demand for fresh graduates has decreased by 22% year-on-year.

The sudden outbreak of the pandemic has disrupted the job-seeking rhythm of fresh graduates. This also means that returnees not only have to compete with other returnees but also with domestic fresh graduates. The competitive pressure is imaginable.

In addition to the tense employment situation caused by the pandemic this year, returnees also face some other employment problems, such as "lack of relevant work experience", "lack of understanding of the domestic employment situation and enterprise needs", and "employment time difference". These problems make it even more difficult for returnees to find jobs.

As college and graduate students, facing the increasingly tense employment situation in recent years, especially with the impact of the pandemic this year, it is particularly important to make career plans in advance, prepare resumes, and gain more internship experience.

Career Planning Is Crucial

For individuals, career planning can help us understand our own weaknesses in advance, give full play to our strengths, and develop our potential. By making career plans early, we can discover our less obvious characteristics earlier, make timely improvement plans, make up for our weaknesses, and improve ourselves.

Career planning can help us recognize positions earlier, set clear goals, and start preparing for future jobs during our student years. We will have enough time to understand the positions we are interested in. After understanding, we can adjust and match according to our own characteristics.

Career planning can also help us recognize industries earlier. After making a general plan, we will have a detailed understanding, investigation, and evaluation of our professional industries, obtaining an objective understanding. Thus, we can better judge whether we are willing to engage in related industries and make judgments and decisions in advance...

Making career plans in advance can help us set a reasonable and feasible career development direction, plan for the future, and ultimately achieve career success and realize life goals. Having a career plan is extremely important.

A Good Resume Is Essential

Corporate HRs review tens of thousands of resumes on average every year, spending 3 - 6 seconds on each resume. Only resumes that are viewed for more than 10 seconds have the chance to enter the interview stage.

A resume is the most direct, intuitive, and convenient way for companies to learn about us. It is a summary of our past studies and work. A good resume can easily leave a deep impression on others, making it easier for companies to discover us and creating more job opportunities. Therefore, a resume is the first and most important hurdle in job hunting. Even if you are highly capable, you need to have a good resume to get an interview opportunity. If you can't even pass the resume screening, there's no need to talk about the subsequent multiple rounds of interviews.

The quality of a resume also determines whether you can finally get an offer. When issuing offers, if there is little difference among several candidates after interviews, the resume will become an important deciding factor. So, the importance of a resume is self-evident.

Internship Experience Is Significant

"As the saying goes, 'Knowledge gained from books alone is shallow; one must practice it to truly understand.' The content in books is ultimately abstract, and real work is far more complex and changeable than that. Only in practice can we truly transform theory into usable skills. Getting an internship, entering a company, getting in touch with a position, and earnestly completing each task are very important for understanding a company's operating processes and deepening the understanding of professions and industries.

Internship experience can also add points to campus recruitment. Generally, in online applications, HRs will use machines to screen candidates based on various factors such as school, internship, and grades, with internship experience accounting for 30% - 35%. Internship experience is highly valued by many large companies. Having several internship experiences will surely greatly enhance your chances of getting a job.

Are You Still Anxious Because You Don't Have a Career Plan?

Are You Unsure How to Write and Optimize Your Resume?

Are You Unable to Find an Internship That Suits You?

Now the opportunity has come!

Blossom, in conjunction with student unions from various countries, is holding a free online lecture to answer your questions about your career path.

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July 26, 2020

Beijing Time: 9:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m.

Italy Time: 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

UK Time: 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

US Eastern Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

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