Chapter 1 Job Search
It was almost noon, and the curtains in the bedroom were still tightly drawn, but fortunately the curtains did not block the light, and the position of the bay window was clearly visible, with a few pieces of clothing, some books, and some toys placed messily on it. Zhang Xiaoxiao curled up on the bed, slept for a while and woke up for a while, stared at the windowsill for a while, closed her eyes and thought about her situation, and then shed tears gloomily, thinking that she would sleep for a while when she was tired.
My stomach was very hungry, and I was reminded to take care of my stomach, but I couldn't get up to collect some food for myself, because the guilt of being full was even more uncomfortable, so it was better to lie down.
I don't know when, the sound of vibration remembered, Zhang Xiaoxiao touched it a few times, but found nothing. She suddenly woke up, and the person who called her at this time should it be that the resume submitted in the past two days has an effect, she quickly sat up, looked around, picked up the charging mobile phone from the bedside table, and sorted out her emotions.
"Hey, hello. ”
"Hello, is it Ms. Zhang Xiaoxiao?"
"Yes"
"Okay, we are here Xinjing Holding Group, we have received your resume, after a preliminary review, I would like to invite you to participate in our interview, and the relevant information will be sent to your mobile phone later, please pay attention. ”
"Okay, okay, thank you. ”
"Then don't bother, I wish you a happy life, goodbye!"
Putting down the phone, Zhang Xiaoxiao sat down, thinking for a long time and didn't remember which company this was, after all, she had submitted so many resumes. She ran out of bed barefoot and turned on the computer on the desk on the right side of the bay window.
Unexpectedly, Baidu shows that Xinjing Holdings is actually one of the top ten real estate companies in the country, and the treatment is also very generous. However, the employees in the post bar do not have a high evaluation of this company, saying that it pursues a perverted high turnover, and the employees are under great pressure, with long working hours and few holidays. Zhang Xiaoxiao is a casual person, the company she longed for in the past is the kind of European and American working atmosphere, no overtime, paid vacation, work can be very fulfilling, but the time is flexible, the work is completed, there is no need to have nothing to spend all day, the atmosphere between colleagues is good, and there is nothing to build together.
But that was before, and since she resigned nakedly, that invisible pressure had forced her to put her requirements to the point where she had a job similar to before.
Opening her job search information, Zhang Xiaoxiao saw that she was looking for a human resources performance manager, and her salary was medium among all positions. In fact, she is not familiar with real estate companies, but in this third-tier city, it is really difficult to find a suitable job, there are few job opportunities, some large enterprises are state-owned enterprises, equivalent to iron rice bowls, personnel mobility is very small, and it is not easy to vacate this position, which is not enough to relate to the household congestion.
I originally came out of a state-owned enterprise, and my starting point was higher, and if I wanted to find a better job, I had to choose these cutting-edge industries. Engineering and accounting positions are definitely not good, accountants can understand a little, but for so many years, I have never thought of taking a certificate, without an accounting certificate, it is impossible to enter the accounting industry. In the end, you can only choose the human resources, after all, you are in the original unit, and you can fish in troubled waters. Thinking of this, Zhang Xiaoxiao realized that whether he could be hired or not was unknown, and what kind of bicycle he wanted, it was worth giving it a try.
In the next half day, Zhang Xiaoxiao simply packed up the house she rented, the house is a small two-bedroom apartment, for her, a single apartment is enough, but one-bedroom apartments are not popular in this city, and it is difficult to rent. Huaiqing City, where she is located, is located in an underdeveloped area of a developed province on the eastern coast, which is a fourth-tier city, with an average house price of less than 11,000 square meters.
The house has a sunny sun in both bedrooms and the living room, which feels extra warm and importantly has heating. Huaiqing is from the edge of the heating area, only the place near the city center is heated, and this community is already close to the edge of the heating area, a little far away from the commercial area, fortunately I don't like to be lively. The resettlement community in the east is 1,000 yuan a month, half cheaper than this community, but Zhang Xiaoxiao has a soft spot for heating, because she has been a person who is particularly afraid of cold since she was a child. Besides, she lives alone, and it is safer to live in a regular community.
A person's house is easy to clean up because every time she runs out of things, she has a habit of putting things back in their place. You don't need to tidy up the rest of the place today, just clean up the mess of last night's drinking, and then sweep the floor. In the evening, Zhang Xiaoxiao pulled out a steak from the refrigerator, fried it seriously, accompanied it with a little red wine that had been drunk, raised his fork, and said loudly, "Thank God for your favor, from now on, I, Zhang Xiaoxiao, will live a good life!"
Interviewed for a large hotel in the new city, this hotel Zhang Xiaoxiao has passed by many times, but has never been there, but just from the outside, he knows that it is very high-end. She was half an hour in advance, but when she arrived at the door, she felt that there were a lot of people, and she turned around, feeling different from the previous interview unit, and there were a lot of enterprise-related roll-up banners and banners at the door, which was similar to the previous unit to hold an exhibition. She walked into the hall, received the number at the service desk, and when she saw the number, there were more than three hundred, and she couldn't help but chuckle in her heart. Looking around, I saw groups of people waiting for interviews, all whispering to each other.
Generally speaking, a project of a large real estate company in a certain city will be fast for two or three years, and it will end in four or five years, and after the end, if you want to continue to stay in this city, you must jump to another unit, so this industry is not as particular about qualifications as state-owned enterprises, and it will not start from scratch if you change units. In real estate companies, although people who do not follow the unit cannot be the upper leaders of a project, the middle and lower positions will also be open to some excellent job hunters.
Zhang Xiaoxiao quietly slipped to the side of a group of people, stood against the wall, pretended to play with her mobile phone, and listened carefully to the discussion of the people around her.
"To tell you the truth, I've been to job fairs in Xinjing in several surrounding cities, and every job fair is like this. ”
"On the surface, it's recruitment, but in essence it's publicity. ”
"Will it be recruited?"
"Recruitment is definitely recruiting, but there are not many reserved positions, that is, more than 20. ”
"I've heard that there are several projects, so I'm recruiting more than 20 people, and three or four hundred people are here today."
"There are also veteran employees who were brought over from other projects. ”
"The big leader will definitely not recruit later"
"I'll go and be cannon fodder. I have to hide, don't run into acquaintances, I heard that Da Mao just ran into his manager and came for an interview, so embarrassed that he hit the wall. ”
The crowd laughed.
"When is this going to be interviewed? Are there any groups?"
"I guess it's grouped, and I see the people in it quickly. ”
"Anyway, I took a leave of absence, and waited. ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao finally understood why she was invited to the interview without relevant experience, in fact, she was just one of the many cannon fodder, and at this point, she had to try her luck head-on, and it didn't cost money anyway. She was thinking, three or four hundred people, even if they are divided into five groups, each person only has two or three minutes of interview time, she is not a practitioner in a related industry, she does not have an advantage, if the examiner asks relevant questions, she will be finished.
She's a pretty smart person, to be exact, a smart person who doesn't like to use her brains, but at this time, it's time to use her own brains. She gave herself two sentences: she was confident on the outside, and she thought twice on the inside. In a word, die beautifully.
Towards noon, she was finally able to walk into the interview area with her head held high. The interview was divided into many rooms, and the guide shouted to let her enter one of the rooms, and she raised her eyes to see the administrative and human resources interview office posted at the door, and she was a little more relaxed: since this is a job interview, it means that the interviews for her are all relevant leaders, and there will be no other leaders who are not familiar with the position to throw some confusing questions.
She swept the interview seat, there were three interviewers, two of them were women, and the chief interviewer in the middle was a woman. Dealing with women is very subtle, for example, in this interview, the male interviewer looks at 60% of the ability, 40% of the impression, and the impression score is mainly based on appearance.
Sixty percent of the female interviewers will be impression scores, 40 percent of them will look at ability, and their impression scores are relatively complex, the appearance of this part is to look comfortable, how to be comfortable, it depends on the examiner's preferences, the appearance is very beautiful, it is definitely not good, too ugly is not good, and the rest is words and deeds, which cannot be generalized. But in either case, what impresses female examiners the most is their sense of identity.
Zhang Xiaoxiao quickly organized a self-introduction in her mind, and before she could speak, the female examiner in the middle asked: "You have been working in your original unit for ten years, why did you think of changing jobs, did you resign yourself or for some other reason?" Zhang Xiaoxiao thought about this question for nearly a year, and blurted out: "I am very happy in my original unit, and I get along well with my colleagues." However, the original unit was a state-owned enterprise, and its thinking was relatively traditional, and women were basically not considered for important positions. I am past the age of establishment, I can no longer do the old work at a glance, I need a better development platform. ”
After listening to her words, the two female examiners looked at her carefully, Zhang Xiaoxiao straightened up slightly, met the examiner's gaze, and smiled lightly. The female examiner on the right is not as fashionable as the female examiner in the middle, or even not very good-looking, and the overall is not very fat, but with a chubby face and thin eyes, even if she is wearing professional clothes, she still looks like a college student waiting for an interview. She looked at Zhang Xiaoxiao quietly.
"What kind of work did you do before, do you have any experience in human resources?" asked the fat-faced female examiner.
"Our subsidiary does not have its own human resources department, so I do all the human resources related work of the subsidiary, including performance appraisal and training. Of course, the fields involved are different, but as long as you study carefully, it is not a problem. ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao bragged, the subsidiary does not have its own human resources department, but performance appraisal and personnel appointment are real rights, the leaders are tight, and they are just doing some chores, and they can't play their own turn at all.
"Alright, you can go back and wait for the notification. ”
Zhang Xiaoxiao drove his eight-year-old broken car, aimlessly, it was too early to go back, but he had nowhere else to go. The first money I saved at the beginning, hesitating whether to buy a house or a car, the master joked with her: "If you buy a house, no one can climb you, you still buy a car, and when the time comes, quarrel with your husband, no matter how late, as soon as you collect your things, drive straight to your parents' house." ”
In fact, because of the quarrel with him, I slept in the car all night, and I don't like to cause trouble to others, and I will definitely have to jump when I go back to my parents' house. The morning after that quarrel, he went back to find that he hadn't even found himself rushing out of the house, and he explained it like this, and she didn't dig deeper. From now on, she only needs to keep one thing in mind, quarrel with him, solve it face to face if she can solve it face to face, there is no need to punish herself, she must know how to feel sorry for herself.
The car was parked in the underground garage, and she put down the back of her chair and lay down in the car, thinking about what happened to her for nearly a year, tears streaming freely. It seems that two years ago she was still very happy, every night before going to bed, listening to the sound of breathing on both sides, one side is her husband, one side is her son, every night, people who love each other lie down and fall asleep, feeling happy but so. A lot has happened this year, and everything is small, but the interweaving has left her emotionally broken.
This year, she changed to a leader with a changeable mood, with strict requirements, cautious in the unit, and often angry. He also changed to a high-paying job, but he was very busy, working overtime late every night, and the two of them basically had no time to talk. Without his participation, the contradiction between her and her mother-in-law became increasingly prominent, she knew that her mother-in-law was not a bad person, but she just couldn't communicate, and many times after work, she was like today, lying in the car, and came home very late.
From this year on, she couldn't let him go home early, and he no longer had time to participate in family activities, such as family gatherings, hanging out with the children, etc., he would justifiably tell her that he was earning money to support the family, and she was also earning, but she didn't earn as much as him, which was enough to make her speechless.
He didn't cheat, there was no domestic violence, he used cold violence to gradually cool her heart, a short meeting, but there was always a fierce quarrel, and even once, he couldn't bear it and hit her a few times with a pillow, although it didn't hurt very much, but his hideous appearance frightened her, as if she was not her lover, but her enemy, this is the most unacceptable place for her, can't think, don't want to think, when she thinks of it, she is disheartened, full of frustration.
The company was so efficient that it informed her that she could attend a second round of interviews that evening. She didn't have much hope, she was watching TV at home, received a message, and immediately went to turn on the computer, she knew that she had to start working, if she could enter this company, maybe she could prove that all her choices were right, she was angry that it was right to leave the company, and it was right to leave him.......
Zhang Xiaoxiao made up all the background and recent planning of Xinjing Enterprise, and learned a lot of knowledge about human resources, and he must master those lofty terms to make himself look professional, and the second round of interviews may be a little longer, and he can't let himself have stage fright.
Before entering, she took off her down jacket and put it on the waiting seat, and sorted out her neat tweed suit. She hadn't gone to bed until three o'clock last night, but now she was surprisingly awake, but she didn't know if she looked haggard or not. There are still three interviewers, but today's pattern has changed, two men and one woman.
The man in the middle has big eyes, high cheekbones, a wide face, rough skin, and a lot of acne marks on his cheeks, this person probably accounts for all the characteristics that Zhang Xiaoxiao doesn't like, but on the whole, it can be regarded as a middle-class appearance among men, and the woman is yesterday's chief interviewer, with a medium appearance, but a good temperament, and decent clothes and makeup. The male interviewer on the right didn't say a word the whole time, only occasionally looking up at her.
Zhang Xiaoxiao didn't know that these people would have a close intersection in her life in the next few years.