2002 was very extraordinary for Wang Shiyi, that year, he completely lost the goddess He Xueyi, and that year, he also successfully served as the quality supervisor of a foreign company.

That year, for Liu Lan, a candidate for R&D director, was also extraordinary, and it could be called a turning point in his life.

Standing on the ground of Shenzhen, this Chinese-American took a deep breath and was excited.

In a trance, the sun of May 2002 crept up above his blue memory.

A warm voice suddenly sounded in the sky above him: "May I ask if you are Mr. Liu Lan?"

That voice was beautiful and beautiful, and when I think back many years later, Liu Lan will burst into tears.

It was a recruitment call from He Xueyi, who gave him new hope and changed the course of his life, before that, he was a technician in a state-owned enterprise, after which he began a life of deep drift, and finally drifted across the ocean to the distant United States.

Liu Lan clearly remembers that that day was the tenth day he came to Shenzhen.

At the beginning of the 20000s, the Internet was not as developed as it is now, and job hunting basically depended on the talent market and face-to-face interviews.

Every year in May, is the peak period of job hunting in Shenzhen's talent market, at this time, many college graduates impact the job market, enterprises will also come up with more positions, to reserve talents, and the old people in the workplace after a period of struggle between ideals and reality, part of the workplace is ready to move, to start running out to find new employment opportunities, the job market will show a hot scene of supply and demand.

The sunshine of May 2002 shines brilliantly on every road of the dream-chasing people's job search years.

Every weekend is hard to forget for job seekers, and at eight o'clock in the morning, the war to find a job has spread to every bus passing through Longhua bus station in advance.

Those buses were densely packed with many young people with fresh faces, some of whom had a pair of glasses on their faces, and some of them still had the immaturity of their student years, holding printed materials in their hands, and whispering something in their mouths, as if they were preparing for the final exam, which made people suddenly nervous.

With a rattle, when the bus stopped at the platform of the talent market, the people who got off the bus rushed out like a tide.

"My books, you squeezed out my books!" cried one of the scholars, raising his empty hands in vain.

"My glasses, my glasses, please, don't break it!" begged a girl.

But it was useless to plead, and a pair of big feet had already trampled it to pieces.

"Hey, what's the hurry! Everyone is looking for a job, can you be polite!" shouted a boy.

The tall Liu Lan, like a small boat in the sea, was pushed to the door from the middle of the carriage and carried out of the car.

Standing in the shadow of the bus stop platform, Liu Lan was sweating profusely and panting heavily!

Job hunting, fast! Can't wait!

As soon as he took a breath, he looked up and saw the students-looking people, like those vying for seats in the reading room on the university campus, and suddenly left him behind, feeling that if he was a little late, a good job opportunity might be snatched away.

Seeing that everyone was running towards the talent market, Liu Lan did not dare to slack off, and also walked forward quickly.

Along the way, advertisements for bed accommodation can be seen everywhere, and the job search street is already crowded.

The cries of breakfast, the shouts of printing and copying resumes on the Internet, and the sound of the horns in the talent market ignited the enthusiasm in people's hearts one by one and completely burned up.

During this period, several middle-aged women sneaked around, dragging a handful of black shadows, and shouted in a low voice to the passing crowd: "Bachelor's degree! Bachelor's degree! Do you want a bachelor's degree?"

The middle-aged women, all rustic, shouting on the side of the road, their eyes rolling dripping, like thieves, were always vigilant, and when they saw a man in uniform passing by, they scattered like birds and beasts.

There is no doubt that the talent market is also a trading market, buyers are also pursuing cost-effectiveness, job seekers need to fully show what they have learned in life, and at critical moments, unreservedly show their eighteen martial arts, in order to defeat their opponents as much as possible and sell themselves at a good price.

Walking to the side of the venue, Liu Lan saw the polite service staff wearing ribbons coming and going, constantly distributing recruitment information newspapers to job seekers, and the huge LED display screen was also rolling to broadcast the recruitment information in the venue, telling you that many well-known companies have been stationed in the market, and these companies are throwing out a large number of high-paying jobs, waiting for job-seeking friends to go to their arms.

These seductive messages that are extremely shocking and violently stimulate the central nervous system of people's brains, forcing you to search for money to buy tickets, to crowd, and to pour into the job search venue without thinking.

Standing in the midst of the crazy flow of people, Liu Lan looked up and saw that the two big characters "Sanhe" were particularly eye-catching, and he also followed other job seekers, spent ten yuan, and finally bought a ticket, and then followed the flow of people and entered the job search venue.

It is worthy of the market, which is densely packed with people, and the booths of the so-called well-known American, Taiwanese, and Hong Kong-funded enterprises have long been surrounded by an army of job seekers waving job resumes, and it is difficult to move an inch in the job search hall.

In the market, recruiting companies will post recruitment posters in their booths, and the job responsibilities and requirements for the recruitment are very specific, Liu Lan comes and goes, looking at those posters, I don't know which position to apply for, I feel that all the positions that belong to management are far away from him, and those fresh management words such as "Six Sigma", "Lean Production" and "Quality Control Circle" in the job description make him also in the clouds and fog.

Before he entered the venue, he was worried that if he was a step late, his good job would be snatched away, but when he walked into the venue, he felt like a spectator, and he didn't hand out a single resume in his hand.

He also wanted to submit a few resumes, but the recruiters in front of him were sitting in front of him, like a strict elementary school teacher, which made him nervous, the key was that he couldn't even say 5S, for fear that during the interview, he would be embarrassed in public.

From elementary school to college, he has always been excellent and has never fought an unprepared battle.

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the recruiters were leaving one after another, and the job seekers were also leaving one after another.

The peak of recruitment in Sanhe's talent market is Saturday, and after this Saturday, it will have to wait for another seven days.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally mustered up the courage, sat down on the application desk, and submitted his resume.

"Sir, there are too many resumes received today, we will bring your resume back and show it to the head of the employing department, if appropriate, we will call you and ask you to come to the factory for further interviews. "Thankfully, the recruiter didn't ask a single question and accepted his resume!

"Thank you! I'm waiting for your interview. Liu Lan replied gratefully.

After his first successful experience, he became much more courageous, and soon succeeded in submitting a resume.

That day, before the end of the talent market, he finally threw out all the five resumes printed in his hand, and Liu Lan felt as if he had completed a major matter, and he was relaxed.

In the haze, he felt that the beautiful Shenzhen was smiling and beckoning to him.

I feel like I'm not a few centimeters away from this beautiful coastal city.

When he excitedly walked out of the talent market, it was already two o'clock in the afternoon, and then he felt hungry, so he walked into a fast-food restaurant next to him and found that it was already crowded.

The job seekers who sent their resumes to the office seemed to have found a high-paying job, sitting in a fast-food restaurant, enjoying the whirring electric fan, all excited, and some people were in groups, giggling and talking about the interesting things they had just interviewed.

"Hahaha, may I ask Miss what are the seven major techniques? Such a simple question is simply an insult to my work experience! I have been out for a year anyway!" A girl with glasses couldn't help but laugh as she recalled the recruiter's question.

"Brother, your salary is a bit high, we can't reach it! The salary can't be reached, and you still drag me to talk for half an hour, it's really faint!" complained a round-faced young man, the company that didn't issue interview notices wasted his precious half an hour in vain, making him gnash his teeth.

"On Monday morning, two interview notices, Longhua family, Longgang family, I have choice syndrome, everyone tells me, which interview should I go to?" A young man held two interview notices in his hand, constantly shaking in front of others, showing off!

No one calls you to go to the interview, it's uncomfortable! A few families call you to go to the interview, and it's uncomfortable!

"Draw lots!" a young man helped him with his idea.

"Dude, which one has a high salary? Which one generously chooses which! After entering the factory, it is more difficult to raise wages than to ascend to the sky!" said a person who came over with deep feelings, he just can't stand the kind of stingy company that adds one or two hundred a year.

The best way to raise wages is to change jobs! Jump and increase by 30 percent! This is the silent law of Shenzhen's talent market.

If you don't raise your salary, who wants to take the risk of jumping ship!

Compared with that group of crazy people, Liu Lan is much lonelier, and he doesn't have an interview notice in his hand.

Seeing others showing off the interview notices in their hands, he felt that he had no hope, and his good job must have been snatched away by them.

That weekend, there was not a single interview notice, he was a little decadent, but the five resumes in his hand were all handed out, according to the probability of job hunting, there should be one or two interviews, disappointed, he was full of hope.

On his first weekend in Shenzhen, he spent it in a state of uncertainty.