Prince charming, your persona has collapsed! Chapter 1308: 569: Internships and Job Hunting (Part 2)

Chapter 1308: Chapter 569: Internships and Job Hunting (Part 2)

You need to know, Zhou Yuwen’s company’s current benefits rank among the top three in Jinling, especially after Zhou Yuwen announced a partnership with the Jiang family, the company’s reputation and assets soared, and many people tried in vain to get in.

Now Zhou Yuwen’s company mainly recruits interns from top universities like Jinling University. As for students from local second-tier schools, except for those who can be specially handled with part-ti positions, it’s really harder than ascending to heaven for other students to join Zhou Yuwen’s company.

And Shen Yu, who had not experienced the pains of job searching, was obviously a bit naive. Listening to her students complain, she couldn’t help but say, “It shouldn’t be that bad, after all, you’ve been in the student union for so long and have so office experience. I believe that whether it’s a big company or a small company, they’ll sowhat value that.”

“Ah, President Shen, it seems you’re still too lucky. People like us, there are countless in Jinling.”

“Exactly, you say we are excellent, but isn’t Chairman Chen even more excellent than us?”

Chairman Chen?

Shen Yu almost didn’t react, and after a pause, she suddenly rembered, “Are you talking about Senior Chen Wan?”

“Who else could it be?”

Ever since Chen Wan stepped down from the student union, there hadn’t been much news about her. Rumor has it that she went to Shanghai and got hired by a foreign company.

However, the reality was not like that. Chen Wan was quite ambitious when she just began her career. You should know, she was only twenty-one that year but managed two companies valued at over a million under Zhou Yuwen, wherever she went, people following her would respectfully call her Sister Wan.

Furthermore, Chen Wan previously managed a planning company and was in contact with wealthy individuals, holding Su Qing’s creativity and Zhou Yuwen’s resources in her hands, people were naturally courteous to her and hoped she could plan their weddings well. So clients even praised her for being capable.

They said it was a waste for her to be a planner here, if she ca to their company, she would definitely be cultivated into a manager.

At that ti, Chen Wan surely smiled but didn’t continue on the topic.

But in her heart, she inevitably felt a bit smug, really thinking she was on the sa level as these clients, also feeling very capable.

So much so that even after being kicked out of the company by Zhou Yuwen, she couldn’t correctly recognize herself.

She always felt that even without Zhou Yuwen, she could carve out her own path with her capabilities. After all, she was the student union president and had accumulated experience working under Zhou Yuwen.

Chen Wan couldn’t believe she wouldn’t find a job.

Initially, she didn’t contact those forr clients for assurance, instead opting to rely on her own ability to first find a job and see.

Her peers in the student union would exchange job search insights in the dorms, discussing how they’d choose second-tier companies, because with their academic background, top companies would filter them out in the first round unless they had connections for their resus to be seen by HR; otherwise, HR might not even glance at their resus.

And at second-tier companies, it’s more about getting an interview opportunity, and the rest depends on one’s performance.

Their private exchanges were pretty realistic, like feeling that applying to top-tier companies was a waste of a resu, especially if it was in color, which would cost money; for design students, so companies also required past design portfolios, which ant considerable expenses for color printing.

Previously, in school, this wasn’t noticed, but once out of school, they realized everything needed money, so they had to calculate carefully.

Compared to them, Chen Wan’s economic conditions were better, but likewise, her ambitions were bigger. Chen Wan felt it was right not to apply to top-tier companies, but with her impressive resu, she should give it a try.

So she printed several copies of her resu in color, photoshopped her passport photo multiple tis to make herself look more perfect, and listed her deep involvent in the student union, serving as Deputy Minister of the Organization Departnt, Student Union President, organizing various student activities like xxx and xxx.

She was a manager at Xianlin Planning, organizing and planning more than a dozen weddings of various sizes.

In short, others would rack their brains and struggle to write three lines on their resus.

But for Chen Wan, even one sheet wasn’t enough to fit everything.

Unfortunately, despite sending out several resus, she waited for nearly a month in her rented apartnt without receiving a single response, which puzzled Chen Wan.

Even if they weren’t interested, surely they wouldn’t ignore her entirely?

So Chen Wan called up one company, and upon getting through, she politely said, “Um, hello, I’m Chen Wan, who applied for your company’s recruitnt. I would like to ask, how long would it take to get an interview?”

“Ah? Sorry, Miss Chen, our recruitnt ended half a month ago.” At first, the other side was dumbfounded, then seed to understand Chen Wan’s enquiry, and replied formulaically.

“Half a month?”

Chen Wan was stunned, “But, no one inford .”

“Beep…”

Before Chen Wan could finish speaking, the other side had already hung up, leaving Chen Wan very discouraged. She couldn’t believe every company was so heartless, so she called one company after another, only to be t with disappointnt as most companies chose not to answer, and so outright told her, “Sorry, we don’t hire interns from second-tier schools.”

Chen Wan was infuriated upon hearing this, asking how they could be so arbitrary, “I might be a second-tier student, but…”

“That’s not up to ; it’s the boss’s decision. Beep!”

With those words, the phone was hung up.

Only then did Chen Wan realize the difficulties of job hunting. It wasn’t that she wasn’t outstanding, it was just that her first batch of resus had indeed been sent to the absolute top companies. Such companies might hire second-tier students, but definitely not just because of holding so student position; it usually depended on who your parents were or what they owned.

Unfortunately, Chen Wan had none of that.

During her year at Zhou Yuwen’s company, Chen Wan learned real skills, but because of those skills, she couldn’t lower herself like other students to any available role.

After staying in the rental apartnt for another half month, whereas she researched company after company, in the end, looking at those second-tier companies that didn’t et her expectations in salary and benefits, she couldn’t help but purse her lips.

She thought, maybe it’s best to start with so small companies and demonstrate her talents until soone recognizes and recruits her.

Thus, Chen Wan started targeting second-tier companies for her resus.

At that point, HR from so companies began to actively call Chen Wan.

With a relatively friendly tone, what they asked most frequently was, “Hello, Miss Chen, I noticed from your resu that you worked at Xianlin Planning. May I ask if that’s the Xianlin Planning under Mr. Zhou Yuwen?”

“Yes,” Chen Wan answered seriously.

“Uh, can I ask why you left Xianlin Planning? Because as far as we know, very few people leave Xianlin Planning, especially considering that you had already reached the rank of General Manager…”

Chen Wan expressed that Xianlin Planning was indeed good, but it was too comfortable, and she wanted to challenge herself.

“I see, understood. Miss Chen, you’re indeed very outstanding. I noticed you didn’t specify the position you’re applying for. Do you have any requirents for your position or salary?”

The HR’s tone was very kind, and Chen Wan felt that this company valued nurturing talent, increasing her favorability towards it. She thought that a second-tier company might actually offer better developnt opportunities than top-tier ones and thus said, “Well, I previously held the position of General Manager at Xianlin Planning, so after joining your company, I’d like to lead a team independently. As for the salary, I am looking for sothing between 8k and 12k, is that acceptable?”