How much money did you spend on job hunting last year? After entering October, senior students have begun to rush to various seminars and invitational meetings. The reporter’s investigation found that with high prices, the cost of finding a job for college students has also increased. A few foreign students interviewed reported that the cost of finding a job is about 1,500 yuan to 2,000 yuan, which is 40% lower than three years ago. Among them, installation expenses and transportation expenses are still the “small expenses” in college students’ job search.
Equipment costs: 40% lower than three years ago
“Professional attire must not be saved. This is a big expense.” , Xiaowen, a 2008 Chinese major at the Buddhist Academy of Sciences, has been busy choosing professional attire in the past few days. Last week, when she attended a press conference for a well-known optoelectronic company in Foshan at school, many of her classmates came over in formal attire with their resumes, which made her, who was wearing a T-shirt and jeans, immediately feel stressed. After returning, she searched on Taobao for more than an hour. In the past few days, she and her roommates have been shopping for formal attire at Baihua Plaza, Xingxingxianxian and other places.
The reporter saw on a bulletin board in the Buddhist Academy that many garment companies had posted advertisements for the sale of professional attire. The campus version of the four-piece formal suit for men and women (including jacket, shirt, tie, and trousers) costs 380 yuan for a cheap one, and ranges from 500 yuan to 800 yuan for a better quality one. The starting price of custom-made business attire is around 500 yuan, and the price for good materials is around 1,000 yuan.
“If I put on professional attire, I feel much more naive, and I seem to have more confidence in my speech.” Azhe, a 2008 master’s degree student in literature and art at Jinan University, studied at the Buddhist Academy in 2009. She recalled that many students in Foshan had their professional attire custom-made at small shops around the school. However, after prices fell in recent years, the cost of purchasing clothing has also increased. Three years ago, custom-made professional attire in small shops around the Buddhist Academy of Sciences only cost more than 300 yuan per set, but now the price for the same quality has risen to more than 500 yuan. And if you go to a brand store, it will be even higher. “There are also sets that cost thousands or even thousands.”
When you buy professional attire, you also need to buy shoes to match. In 2009, Azhe spent 200 yuan at Baihua Plaza to find a pair of shoes at a special discount. But in October last year, when she was shopping in major stores in Foshan, she found that she could no longer buy suitable shoes at this price. High-heeled shoes that are of slightly better quality and are more comfortable to wear basically cost more than 500 yuan in regular price, and they cost at most more than 300 yuan after discounts.
Costume: basic equipment is 200 yuan cheap
Purchasing a “outfit” does not mean that the “image project” has been completed. The reporter’s investigation revealed that during the job hunting season, many campus girls who used to be bare-faced would put on makeup carefully before participating in recruitment fairs. Basic “equipment” such as foundation, lotion, lipstick, etc. can cost more than 200 yuan per set. Once entering the formal oral examination, many girls will temporarily do their hair, apply mascara, eye shadow, etc.
Xiao Hui, a 2006 Chinese major at the Buddhist Academy of Sciences, recalled that she had always faced everyone without makeup for three years in school. However, at a special recruitment meeting for fresh graduates, she found that many girls had put on makeup. , she looks a bit outstanding without makeup. At subsequent recruitment meetings, she would enter with light makeup. There is a female classmate in Xiaohui’s class who goes to a hair salon to get her hair done, which costs one or two hundred yuan each time.
Although in her recruitment experience at that time, no employer looked at the makeup artist with special attention, but she still believed that proper makeup was necessary, “A recruitment meeting is like a battlefield, the impression is very important, everyone wants to I want to appear naive and steady.”
Transportation expenses: At least 200 yuan is needed to successfully apply for a job
“For a job fair in Foshan, the round-trip fare is about 20 yuan; to Guangzhou once , at most 50 yuan.” Xiaoxin, a 2008 graduate of Guangdong Business College, is from Foshan and is currently busy traveling to participate in job fairs in Guangzhou and Foshan. In her view, transportation expenses will be a major source of income for job hunting. Last month, she participated in several job fairs. Although she chose the provincial “subway bus” combination, she still spent nearly 200 yuan.
Previous senior brothers and sisters told her that some cautious employers would arrange multiple interviews and interviews. Xiaoxin’s parents are ordinary wage earners, and their families are not well off. Previously, she had spent all the 600 yuan in living expenses given by her parents to buy professional clothes, print resumes, and register for the civil service examination. Xiaoxin said with some helplessness, “Now we have to wait for the school to issue the scholarship for last semester.”
However, Guangfo has been very popular in the city in recent years. Among foreign institutions such as the Buddhist Academy of Sciences and Nanhai Neusoft Institute, about 60% to 70% of the graduates in 2011 chose to stay in Foshan to find their jobs. . Generally, students who are more successful in applying for jobs usually need to apply for 4-5 work units before they can successfully get an offer. Assuming that each unit only needs two links: interview and interview, the transportation cost for each foreign student when applying for a job is at least 200 yuan.
Job hunting story
Wanted to take a bus but accidentally took a taxi
Character: Shasha
Graduation date: July 2009
Job search costs: 380 yuan for installation, 700 yuan for transportation, 300 yuan for communication, 100 yuan for engraving works, 100 yuan for printing a resume, 20 yuan for accommodation, 200 yuan for makeup, 20 yuan = 1,720 yuan
Experience: Check the appointment in advance Take the bus and allow time to wait for the bus
Sha Sha, a 2009 graduate of Chengdu University of Technology, lives in Sanshui, Foshan. After graduation, she returned to the Pearl River Delta to find a job. During the “job search” three years ago, she felt that the most expensive thing was transportation. It is her choice to participate in job fairs or oral interviews in advance.It saves money on transportation, but in the end, no money is saved.
“Later, I planned to take the bus, but I realized that there were many unbudgeted taxis,” Shasha recalled. Once, she went to a certain unit in Dongguan to participate in an interview. Although she arrived at the local bus station an hour early, she took a wrong route and saw that the interview time was approaching, so she had to take a taxi to the recruiting unit. Afterwards, she calculated the day’s expenses one by one, including nearly 200 yuan in round-trip transportation expenses.
I have fought for everything I can do
Character: Xiao Lu
Graduation date: 2010
Job search cost: 340 installation fee 220 yuan for cosmetics, 200 yuan for transportation, 200 yuan for communication, 30 yuan for resume, 300 yuan for food and accommodation = 1,390 yuan
Experience: Business attire can be rented or bought together
“Business attire can be “I only wear it when I’m looking for a job, and that’s only a few times, so it’s better to rent or buy together.” Xiao Lu, a 2010 graduate of Guangzhou Foreign Studies University, lives in Nanhai District. She has many ideas when she recalls her job search. That year, she ordered a set of black business attire at a store near the school, spending nearly 300 yuan. But apart from wearing it when participating in a few oral examinations, this suit of clothing has little use.
She suggested with some regret that if the positions that graduates are applying for do not often require formal attire, they can consider renting formal attire or buying a set together with classmates in the dormitory. “At that time, our school’s work-study center had a formal attire rental service. Yes, 20-30 yuan a day.” In addition to business attire, “buying” cosmetics is also a good way to save money: except for cosmetics such as lipstick and lipstick that cannot be shared, other facial cosmetics can be purchased with personal investment as shared property in the dormitory.
The cost of time is also a cost
Character: Ah Xin
Graduation date: 2012
Job hunting cost (tentative): Purchase Installation fee 360 yuan, transportation fee 50 yuan, communication fee 100 yuan, resume printing 15 yuan, civil service examination registration 80 yuan, examination materials 100 yuan = 705 yuan
Experience: The Internet speed is too slow, you can “apply online” at off-peak hours
“I think the biggest cost of job hunting is time.” She not only signed up for the civil service examination, but was also busy looking for a job, so she didn’t have enough time.
Since then, many units have announced recruitment information through the Internet, and “online application” has become a major way for college students to find jobs. The internet speed on campus is generally slow. “Sometimes I can’t open the web page or upload the file for half an hour, and sometimes I find it has timed out after filling in the form,” Ah Xin said with some helplessness. She suggested staggering the peak period of Internet access, choosing the time for “online application” in the early morning or late at night, and also being able to access the Internet outside the school, so as to kill two birds with one stone.
Bill
Formal “four-piece suit” (including jacket, shirt, tie, trousers) 300 yuan – 1,000 yuan
Shoes 300 yuan – 600 yuan
Cosmetics (basic “equipment” such as foundation, lotion, lipstick, etc.) 0 yuan-500 yuan
Hair styling 30 yuan-500 yuan
Transportation fee 50 yuan -700 yuan
Communication fee 100 yuan-300 yuan
Resume 20 yuan-130 yuan
Examination registration fee and material fee 0 yuan-200 yuan
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Food and accommodation expenses for job hunting in other places range from 0 to 600 yuan
Calculation: 800 yuan to 4530 yuan
Interview and writing: Nandu reporter Zhu Lihui
Nandu cartography: Li Yong
(Volunteer Editor: UN606)
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