In 2020, I plan to be ready to leave. I started interviewing in March 2021, and that’s when I found my next job.

My old employer is a stable state-owned enterprise. When I just graduated, I went through four rounds of interviews and was admitted to the company successfully, with good welfare benefits.

I have been working here for three years. From a beginner to a little mature, my mind has become gradually mature. My idea is very simple, while young, give yourself a few more roads, more out to see.

Now, the job has been found, while these days of gap time, it is time to tidy up their own, start again!

My last post was in September last year, and I’ve been busy with my job search and preparing for interviews since then. In this post, I’ll give you some tips on how to find a job now or in the future.

Preparation stage

In the middle of 2020, I have the idea of planning to leave, but I still lack a lot of knowledge. So oneself before review, want to make full preparation

1. The departure? Ask yourself if you’re ready

First of all, you need to ask yourself why you are leaving your job. If it is because of a word from your boss or a bad day at work, THEN I suggest you calm down and think about whether there is something wrong with you.

If you’re not learning anything valuable from your job, and your work day is so intense that you don’t have time to recharge. Then I suggest you jump ship to a company that will be more helpful to your development.

Next, you need to know whether you want to leave here and go to an Internet company for a big company or go to a small company. Both of them have pros and cons, so I won’t go into the details here.

2. Make a plan

In fact, I had already prepared for the interview in March 2020, but it was intermittent in the period and the knowledge points reviewed were scattered. I did not officially start the review until September.

First, make a plan for yourself. Before planning, you need to know where you want to end up and give yourself a revision deadline. My plan was to study for three months and then go out and look for a job.

After that, define your goals, from monthly goals to weekly goals to daily goals, so that planned revision is much more effective than a slam-bang review.

Attention!! Don’t plan too much for the day, which can lead to self-criticism and depression. You can give yourself time to maneuver, avoid the review, the boss suddenly call you to work and so on.

3. Ask more questions

  • If you have the same professional senior, you can directly consult, this is the simplest and effective method, but only to give you a reference.
  • Once you know what type of company you want to work for, look for the company you want to work for on job boards, read their descriptions of their needs, and prepare accordingly.
  • If you still don’t know what to do, you can go to a tech guru on the Internet and search CSDN or B.

Actual combat preparation

Set the plan, is the practice stage! For the programmer’s work, the learning of knowledge is particularly wide, and in the work, a lot of knowledge points will be forgotten.

When you revise, don’t revise for an interview, but really understand the principles. By this point, you’ve surpassed a lot of students who have memorized.

My preparation method is to watch the courses I haven’t learned before through videos (watching videos is an easy way to reduce the time for thinking) after making a plan, and then follow the teacher to type a code. Of course, learning on the website is the best way, if you have to be willing to study.

1. Take notes

When studying lessons, you should learn to take notes and write down the important parts.

If there are problems at work, you can simply record the problems and solutions, and then fill in the rest when you have time off work.

2. Look for the teacher

When studying a course, studying alone can be boring and easy to give up. It is recommended that you find suitable teachers on the Internet (B station is really sweet).

I remember that one of the teachers taught a method of nine words, “theory, practice, summary”.

First of all, the theory of technology to browse again, understand the general meaning. Then according to the actual business scenario, follow the code. Finally, make a summary to deepen the impression.

3. Stabilize your mind

The first thing you need to understand is that you are human, not superman.

You may find that every day you learn something and forget something.

Whenever I finish reviewing a technique, I suddenly find that I have forgotten what I have reviewed before, it is quite normal. You can set aside time every week to review, review repeatedly to deepen the impression.

Writing a resume

The quality of your resume determines whether or not you will be invited for an interview. Your resume is very important, so put some effort into preparing it.

  1. First of all, it is recommended to choose a simple template, not one that is not mainstream or has a loud background color. The icing on the cake you think will only be taken away by HR for a second.
  2. Resume information should be displayed in the following order: Personal Information > Education Manager > Professional Skills > Work/Internship Experience > Project Experience > Certificates and awards > Personal evaluation/Job expectations.
  3. If you have a tech blog or Github where you can directly showcase your skills, include it in your resume. If there is nothing in it, don’t write it.
  4. Send resume to choose PDF format, Word format in different software open may be garbled.

Make it clear that every technical point, every sentence, you put on your resume can be used against you in a court of law. I’ve been there before, so think about how you’re going to say it.

Before delivering, stay awake

If you already have a company in mind, don’t send your resume directly. If you haven’t interviewed for a long time, you may have forgotten the process, or you may be nervous. Blindly sending a letter can waste a valuable interview opportunity.

The proposal looks for a few small companies to face one side first, after waiting for the opportunity to mature, go to the company that has intention to deliver again.

Of course, it’s normal to be embarrassed by the interviewer’s questions, so lower your expectations ahead of time and prepare for the worst. Even if you fail, it doesn’t mean you really have a problem.

It’s just like work experience. You get experience every time, and then you’re good at it.

Wait for the Offer

There were at least 10 large and small companies, including Internet giants and traditional companies, and the final result was good. Although I failed more, I also met people who appreciated me. What they said to me, I wrote down.

At the end of every interview, I would ask the interviewer some questions, such as my own interview performance, can give myself some advice and so on. Some interviewers will say, “You’re doing great for your age, there’s nothing wrong with you” (the most “kind” way).

There are also some interviewers that I can sense are the kind that really appreciate me and they will say the truth to me. Give me honest advice about my problems. Here, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the ctrip interviewer for your advice.

When we left, we knew that he was the youngest technical director of Ctrip. We shook hands and said thank you, just like saying goodbye to old friends. The saddest thing is that I was so excited that I forgot to add wechat.

In fact, in the interview process, it does not necessarily mean that you are successful after giving an offer, but in the process of slowly looking for opportunities, you know what you really want, you may meet the person in your life is not too much.

In short, you will learn something.

Finally, I want to say

Before see wonderful flower say, I write down a paragraph in the notebook, say so.

“Maybe she is very young, and we think in our minds, she is too young to know the ways of the world. But just because there is more unknown in front of her, she has more courage and motivation to rush forward.”

When a lot of people get the news that I’m leaving, they’re confused. The family will say that the current job is good, why choose to leave?

I know in my heart they are afraid THAT I can not find a better, afraid that MY life is not good. But in the end they supported me and were happy to hear the result.

Whether it’s family or friends, they have their own opinions, they want me to be better and give a lot of advice. But no one knows you as well as you do. You need to know what you want.

Make it to shore and finally get to spend the weekend playing with your cat, buying junk snacks and watching movies from your favorites, and playing video games with your friends.

The taste of freedom has not smelled for a long time, the new me, now full of vitality back.

So much for that, and I’ll see you in the next article.