In front of the gymnasium, the applicants lined up in a long line of four people, slowly moving forward. Du Nannan was in it, looking at the endless crowd, and suddenly remembered the concentration camp refugees who went to die with broken bowls in the movie "Schindler's List", so he couldn't help laughing, causing the girl in the queue in front of him to look back at him several times in surprise.

After queuing for nearly twenty minutes, Du Nannan finally entered the gymnasium.

For Du Nannan, who has participated in many job fairs, he has long practiced a keen sense of smell: a long recruitment company, he can determine which are high-quality companies in 10 seconds - the reason is very simple, which one is crowded in front of the door, there is no doubt that it is a fragrant and sweet company. Following this line of thought, he first came to the booth of the city TV station. There were no less than 40 students crowded there, some waiting in line for the interview to hand over their resumes, and some were reluctant to leave the onlookers after talking for a long time. Du Nannan, who is 1.83 meters tall, has to stand on tiptoe, lean his neck and open his mouth wide, so that he can barely see the recruitment information in the booth.

The TV station has a lot to recruit this year: directors, post-editors, human resources, reporters, interns, etc., adding up to more than 30 people. But for Du Nannan, who is learning English, there are not many corresponding positions, only the position of clerk in the external propaganda center seems to be able to cope with it.

He squeezed into the booth as best he could. Du Nannan smiled and greeted the interviewer: "Hello, I am Du Nannan, a fresh graduate, and I am very happy to have the opportunity to communicate with you today." "The interviewer was a middle-aged man in his forties, wearing a pair of gold-rimmed glasses, a little bowed, and a kind face. He glanced up at Du Nannan, and the handsome, passionate and energetic young man in front of him still made a good first impression on him.

"Hello, what are you studying?" The interviewer asked with a smile.

Du Nannan took out his resume from his bag and replied, "I studied English." He took out his elaborate resume and respectfully handed it to the interviewer.

The interviewer didn't rush to look at it, but asked with interest, "What position do you want to apply for?" ”

"Based on my own abilities and majors, I think the position of a clerk in the Outreach Center may be more suitable for me."

"Why is it right for you?" The interviewer followed up with a follow-up question.

Du Nannan thought for a moment and replied: "First, my personal personality is more extroverted and cheerful, which is suitable for extroverted work; Second, I believe that our TV station is likely to be able to use English in its external work, I was an honor student at the university level, a first-class scholarship winner, and I have passed English level 6 and BEC-3 level, I believe that I can complete the general work; Thirdly, I am personally very interested in the media, I was a screenwriter and actor in the school drama club during college, and I also participated in large-scale activities organized by TV stations, so I have a certain understanding of TV stations, and I believe that I can get started quickly after joining the company. Du Nannan said all the advantages that came to mind in one breath.

The interviewer listened quietly, keeping a friendly smile on his face. After listening to Du Nannan's words in one breath, he felt more satisfied, and said twice: "The young man is good, and his expression skills are also very strong...... As he spoke, he lowered his head and flipped through Du Nannan's resume, as if he was asking, and he seemed to be talking to himself, "Are you ...... Northern College of Arts and Sciences? ”

"Yes." Du Nannan hurriedly replied.

The interviewer frowned, "Is it specialist English?" ”

"Yes, hehe." Du Nannan was still smiling, but his heart was tight.

The interviewer didn't speak, the smile on his face was inadvertently put away, he stared at the resume and flipped back and forth a few times, and suddenly raised his head and asked, "Why didn't you get admitted to the undergraduate program back then?" ”

The interviewer's words have never appeared in Du Nannan's last 20 interviews, and when other employers see his resume, the most common situation is to terminate the interview immediately, and tell him politely and coldly that he will go back first, and he will contact him as soon as there is news. And from the interviewer's sincere face, Du Nannan saw some helplessness and regret.

"Actually, my academic performance has been very stable back then, I am a key high school key class, my grades have been maintained in the top 80 of the grade, our school is a bit difficult to get into a prestigious university, but it is sure to go to undergraduate. But there was only one college entrance examination, and for various reasons, I really didn't play well, and the score line of the college entrance examination was only 4 points higher, and our teacher also asked me for advice on whether to repeat it, because my family conditions were not very good, and I really didn't want to increase the burden on my family, so I insisted on going to a junior college. In the future, if I have the opportunity, I will definitely continue my studies and make up for today's shortcomings. After Du Nannan finished speaking, his father's wrinkled face and big rough hands instantly appeared in his mind, and he suddenly felt a heaviness in his heart.

The interviewer listened quietly, staring intently at the handsome young man in front of him who was full of vitality and quick thinking, and was thinking about something in his head. It wasn't until Du Nannan finished speaking that he nodded thoughtfully, still not jumping out of his thoughts, and didn't speak immediately. The surrounding classmates were obviously starting to get impatient, and as the crowd crowded, several classmates collided with Du Nannan intentionally or unintentionally, as if to remind him that it was time for him to go. One of the boys stumbled forward, hit the table, and shook the table, and the man turned around and shouted angrily: "Don't squeeze, it's going to be over soon!" ”

Hearing this, the interviewer suddenly recovered, he quickly skimmed through the resume and said: "Okay, I know your situation roughly, if there is any news, our human resources department will contact you, thank you!" ”

Du Nannan stood up, and wanted to ask a few more questions, but he was blocked by the rushing resume, so he simply said goodbye and withdrew.

The week after returning from the job fair is the peak period for interviews, and basically companies that are interested in you will definitely have an interview notice within a week. Du Nannan relied on his own good conditions, and got several interview invitations this week, and the happiest thing for Du Nannan was that the city TV station actually called him to inform him of the interview, and the time was set at 1 pm on Wednesday.

Du Nannan was determined to seize this opportunity. Early on Wednesday morning, Du Nannan finished breakfast, put on his only suit bought for 90 yuan, and borrowed a pager from the third child - this is the only pager in the 107 bedroom, or Han Xian's, because the third child's father has already arranged his work, so he has no particularly important contact tasks, and his pager has become a small pager, not only the brother of 107 will leave his number for the interview, but even the brother in the next bedroom will leave his pager number if there is anything. Today, Du Nannan borrowed, in addition to the need to have contact, there is also a bit of vanity in pretending.

Du Nannan circled around the TV station, and then looked at his watch It was already half past eleven, so he went to the Shanxi noodle restaurant next to him to eat a bowl of knife-cut noodles. Coming out at about half past twelve, he ran to the door of the television station. At the door of the TV station's communication room, a security guard stood up, and Du Nannan asked with a smile: "Hello, I'm here for an interview, where is the third conference room?" ”

The security guard looked Du Nannan up and down, waved his hand towards the communication room and said, "Go in and register your ID card, enter the third floor of the building on the right hand side, there is a sign on the door." ”

Du Nannan thanked the security guard, finished registering, and walked into the TV station building.

Pushing open the heavy glass door of the building, a cold wind blew in his face, which made Du Nannan, who had adapted to the sweltering weather outside, shiver, so cool. It seems that the temperature in the building is only about 22 degrees Celsius, which is in sharp contrast to the temperature outside about 30 degrees Celsius.

He went to the third floor and found the third conference room. The door was not closed, and he saw that inside, there were already more than a dozen classmates standing or sitting. Du Nannan walked in, and several nearby classmates looked back at him, their indifferent and vigilant gazes choked back the words that the man originally wanted to say hello. There were a lot of interviews in the conference room one after another, but everyone seemed to have their own thoughts, there were few chatting and talking, and the whole conference room was still very quiet.

Suddenly, a shrill female voice broke the silence and asked, "Why doesn't this water dispenser have paper cups?" In fact, this girl's voice is not loud, she just speaks normally, but because the whole environment is quiet, it may be that everyone is nervous, so this sentence is very loud. Du Nannan followed the sound and looked over, and a short and thick little chubby girl was squatting next to the water dispenser, looking at the empty water dispenser locker.

"Huh? Why? The fat girl turned her head, swept around blindly, and fell on Du Nannan, and continued to ask. Du Nannan didn't want to talk, but the little chubby girl's eyes stopped on his face, making him stand up instinctively, walked over and said, "I don't know, maybe there wasn't in the first place." ”

"I'm dying of thirst, I don't even have a cup, you wait." After speaking, the little chubby girl pushed the door and walked out of the conference room.

In less than a minute, the little chubby girl walked in with a large stack of disposable paper cups, and greeted as she walked: "Come on, come on, drink water!" ”

Du Nannan helped her take the water cup in her hand and asked, "Where did you get it?" ”

"I'll go to the next office and ask for it, hehe."

"You're so bold," Du Nannan suddenly admired this unattractive little chubby girl, "You are so courageous." ”

The little chubby girl hurriedly took a glass of water, drank it all, took another cup and took a sip, before she turned around and said to Du Nannan with satisfaction: "Haha, I am very familiar here, I always come to play when I was in elementary school." ”

Du Nannan looked at her and asked in a daze, "You've been here since elementary school?" ”

"Of course," Chubby Girl leaned over and lowered her voice, but said proudly, "My dad is the deputy director here, hehe." ”

Du Nannan opened his mouth in surprise, no wonder this little chubby girl came here like home.

The toss of the little chubby girl melted the solidified atmosphere a lot, and the classmates who had been reserved for too long also took advantage of this excitement to start talking quietly, and a few laughs came out from time to time. Du Nannan drank water and chatted with this little chubby girl. This little chubby girl's name is Liu Li, a fresh graduate of Northern Communication University, and her father is the deputy director of Northern Television, in charge of logistics and infrastructure work. Before graduation, her father originally arranged for her to be sent directly to graduate school, but this little chubby girl was really tired of going to school, so she clamored to work, and her father was ready to let her come to work in Taiwan.

"With your background, why are you still here for an interview?" Du Nannan then chatted with Liu Li.

"Cough, I'm annoyed too, but my father said that now the top is strictly controlled, and it is safer to walk around according to the procedure, so as to save people from gossiping."

Du Nannan nodded and said, "Then you have already decided?" ”

Liu Li looked at Du Nannan, "What do you say?" Silly hat, you, haha. ”

Du Nannan smiled awkwardly, and also felt that he was too reckless to ask like this. However, Liu Li didn't seem to care, but pulled the chair to Du Nannan's side and continued: "Let me tell you, there are a total of ten career establishment places for TV stations this year, and at least seven or eight of them that I know have been decided. After speaking, he leaned back on the chair and said nonchalantly, "I heard it when my father was having dinner with the director." ”

After hearing this, Du Nannan's heart was cold, his academic qualifications and school were not advantageous, but now that Liu Li said this, he thought, are we all here to accompany the target? No wonder I can interview in a junior college. He took a sip of water silently, and was in no mood to chat for a while. Liu Li didn't seem to pay attention to the changes in Du Nannan's mood at all, and chatted with Du Nannan in a rambling manner, and Du Nannan also politely agreed, thinking about his own affairs.

At about 12:50, a middle-aged woman walked into the conference room and announced the interview process: there were twenty students interviewed this afternoon, divided into four groups according to their majors, and interviewed in different offices. After announcing the interview procedures and discipline, she opened the interview form in her hand and said, "The first student to interview is...... Liu Li! ”

"Hey!" Liu Li happily jumped up from the chair, grabbed her bag and was about to leave, suddenly she remembered something, turned her head and said to Du Nannan: "Handsome guy, leave a phone call, maybe you can work together again." ”

Du Nannan said "oh", hurriedly took out a pen, and wrote his bedroom phone number and the pager number of the third child to Liu Li.

Liu Li smiled playfully, "Well, let's talk back, I'll go directly to my father after the interview, and I won't come back to say goodbye to you." ”

Du Nannan nodded and said, "Okay, keep in touch, I wish you a smooth interview!" As soon as I finished speaking, I realized that it was really redundant to say this.

In just a few minutes, Du Nannan saw Liu Li swaying past the door of the conference room, and her interview was over. The middle-aged woman called another girl in for an interview. Du Nannan had no baggage in his heart, and began to walk around the office casually, chatting with a few classmates, but he never mentioned what Liu Li said, he couldn't bear to watch this room of classmates return deflated, no matter what, they came here today with hope.

Du Nannan waited for about an hour, and finally it was his turn. He followed the middle-aged woman to an office at the end of the third floor, pushed the door in, and the room was small, with three interviewers sitting against the wall, including the man he had met that day at the recruitment meeting. After politely greeting, Du Nannan sat down on a chair across from them.

The interviewer who met with the recruitment first spoke: "Hello Du Nannan, thank you for participating in our interview this time. ”

Du Nannan could feel from the eye contact that this interviewer had no impression of himself. Du Nannan was a little lost in his heart, but there was no reaction on the surface, which is also the basic skill of the interview.

The interviewer continued: "I am the personnel director of Taili and the chief examiner of this interview, Daniel Zhang, this is my colleague Manager Shang from the personnel department, and this is Manager Lu. Following Daniel Zhang's introduction, Du Nannan smiled and nodded to them respectively.

Director Zhang put on his glasses, looked down at Du Nannan's resume, and then asked, "First of all, Du Nannan, can you briefly introduce yourself in English first?" ”

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Du Nannan was stunned, and he was really a little caught off guard, it seems that the TV station is also prepared, and what he wants to check is your real English mastery level. Fortunately, Du Nannan's basic English skills are very solid, so he immediately adjusted his thinking and talked eloquently.

Fluent English and accurate expression make the interviewer always smile and can be seen to be quite satisfied. While Du Nannan was answering questions, Manager Lu interjected from time to time to ask a few questions, and the atmosphere was also very harmonious. After the English test, the interviewer communicated with each other about his performance, personality, future planning and other issues during the school period, and Du Nannan answered them one by one with confidence.

Before I knew it, twenty minutes had passed, and everything went well. The three interviewers exchanged glances with each other, and it seemed that they were ready to finish. After a few seconds of silence, Manager Shang suddenly said: "Xiao Du, objectively speaking, your comprehensive quality is still good, but there is one thing we want to hear your opinion, I can tell you that this year, the Taili Foreign Propaganda Center only recruits one clerk, and we have screened more than 200 resumes, most of which are one, with a professional background...... You're the only one. Do you think you have any special advantages that you can beat them? ”

This question again. Just like the English introduction, Du Nannan has been prepared for this issue for a long time, nothing more than how good I am in school, what certificates I have obtained, what practices I have participated in, what honors I have won, and finally a sentence: Give me a chance, and give you a miracle. But today I don't know why, he doesn't want to talk like Xianglin's sister-in-law.

Du Nannan was silent for a while, did not answer Manager Shang directly, but raised his head and looked at Director Daniel Zhang and said, "President Zhang, do you remember?" You met me at the job fair and asked me why I didn't go to undergraduate? Daniel Zhang was stunned by this sudden rhetorical question, and did not answer for a while. Du Nannan turned his head to Manager Shang, "Manager Shang, when I first met Mr. Zhang at the job fair, he asked me the same question, I introduced to him my study situation and the problem of college entrance examination mistakes, I don't want to tell these excuses over and over again today, past mistakes are destined for me to encounter these difficulties today, I accept and am willing to face them." The past, good or bad, I want to let them pass, and I will prove my future with practical actions. As you said, a position, more than 200 people, 90% of the undergraduate students in prestigious universities, but Mr. Zhang, Mr. Shang, Mr. Lu, you still gave me the opportunity to interview. I believe that you have been doing personnel work for many years, reading countless people, and you have proved the meaning of my existence with practical actions, and if I can work at the TV station one day, I will also use my actions to prove that your choice is correct. ”

After saying this, Du Nannan looked at Manager Shang quietly. Maybe it's because he's condescending, or maybe it's because he's used to seeing fresh graduates justify at a low level, Du Nannan's words made the three interviewers fall into deep thought all of a sudden. After a while, it was Director Daniel Zhang who broke the silence first and said: "Okay, Xiao Du is so young, it is rare to know himself so deeply, hehe, let's do this today, if there is a chance to retest, Manager Lu will contact you again, okay?" After speaking, he took the lead in standing up and shook Du Nannan's hand. The other two also stood up and shook hands with the man to say goodbye.

Du Nannan walked out of the TV station building, a heat wave choked his brows, he pulled off his tie, took off his suit as he walked, and walked briskly towards the bus stop.