On May 5th, the 5th simulated interview contest of “Getting Ready to Start Our Career” activities held by league committee student union of institute of public administration was successfully hosted at the international meeting room of Chengxin building. Our professional judges come from L’Oreal, the international famous cosmetic brand company, Ernst&Young and KPMG, two of the “four giant accounting firms”,PICC property and casualty company limited, one of our most famous domestic insurance companies and China Securities limited liability company. At the same time, Lou Dahai, the senior trainer of Enrich Education Group is the professional instructor in this contest. Zhuang Hongyan, the deputy director of our school’s career center also attends this contest.
After screening the resumes by the professional HR, 15 students suited up and began their first stage of career-interview. Solid resumes reflect their confidence and their young faces reveal their vision and expectation. There are three stages and they need to win at the last stand. The first step is “My Style and My Show”and at this stage they need to introduce themselves, reveal their shinning points and respond to the sharp questions; the second step is “Confront and Versus”and at this stage they need to argue about the topic “Is returning from overseas study a personal issue or a social issue?”after a brief group discussion. While debating with each other wittily, they still held their manners; the third step is “Standing Out from the Crowd”, in this stage the judges posed many sharp questions and the students need to answer them resourcefully. A quick response and appropriate answer is the biggest weight to stand out from the crowd during interview.
After the contest, all the judges spoke highly of the students’ great performance and briefly explained the interview manners and response techniques. Meanwhile, they mentioned that students should have an adequate preparation and they must pay attention to cultivate their psychological quality and comprehensive qualities and they reminded them that the recruiters especially value a person’s attitude and work abilities.
At last, Lou Dahai made a general appraise about the 15 students and made pertinent suggestions. He mentioned that the detail is especially important in the interview,wearing and even a detailed behavior will probably determine the recruiter’s opinion about the interviewee.
In this contest, there are first place winner, second place winner and third place winner and three individual awards “Highest Potential Award”, “Most Popular Award” “Most Classy Award”and the Outstanding Award.
Students’great performance and the professional interview atmosphere surrounding the whole contest not only provide a direction for them but also let the audience benefited a lot. A message we can get from this contest is that the interview is a “battle”, adequate preparation and playing on the spot are equally important; interview is an art, during which the interview manner is important admittedly but the detail cannot be neglected; interview is a process that we need to make effort to learn and polish ourselves. The simulated interview contest can help college students to get up the courage to begin and find their ideal jobs.
