Entering ChinaThe beginning of 2025 does not seem to have ushered in the imaginary “good start” for many job seekers with dreams and talents.
In Shenzhen, a city full of vitality and opportunities, many people with higher education have repeatedly hit a wall on the road to job hunting, and they were looking forward to finding a good job, but they were helpless and anxious.
The beginning of the year can be said to be a very embarrassing point in time, some people who quit many years ago came out to look for jobs after the year, and at this node, the number of fresh graduates in 2025 is expected to reach 12.22 million, an increase of 430,000 year-on-year. Those who do not choose to take the public examination and graduate school entrance examination are also pouring out to look for jobs at this time.
And big cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen have naturally become the first choice.
Shenzhen has always been a paradise for entrepreneurs and a hot spot for job seekers. There are countless new companies that have sprung up in Shenzhen, and there are also many industry giants gathered.
We always hear something about Shenzhen: Shenzhen is the easiest place to find a job, you can’t find a job in Shenzhen, and you can’t find a job anywhere else.
It is generally believed that as long as you are willing to work, you can always find your own world in Shenzhen.
However, the truth is that it is not difficult to find a job in Shenzhen, but it is not easy to find a satisfying job.
This dream city, which used to be “a Shenzhen person when you come”, may be building an invisible wall of academic qualifications.
The contradiction between the thirst for talents and the difficulty of finding talents is constantly staged in reality.
Open some recruitment software, it is not difficult to see that the talents recruited in various districts and industries in Shenzhen are densely populated. But even after a while, you’ll find that the position is still hiding.
The recruitment director of a new energy vehicle company revealed that 1 algorithm engineer position can receive about 300+ resumes, and even 70% of the master’s degrees.
However, when screening these resumes, it is not difficult to find that there are less than 5 people who have really mastered solid-state battery modeling technology.
Some people may question why companies can’t train these fresh graduates or these highly educated job seekers in their jobs.
A cross-border e-commerce HR calculated an account: it takes at least 120,000 yuan to train fresh graduates from a prestigious school, but the initial cost is only one-third of the initial cost when using AI technology + digital employee combination; Or recruiting an experienced worker, you can avoid a lot of risks, and greatly reduce the cost and investment of trial and error.
The person in charge of a large Internet company complained on the social platform: What we urgently need is engineers who can design distributed agents, not coders who can only write Java.
When the traditional Internet transforms to AloT, then your three or even five years of work experience may be reduced to zero in the face of rapid technological changes.
That’s probably why so many of the positions you see on recruitment apps don’t even get an interview when you submit your resume.
There are also interviewers who talk eloquently in the interview, and there are many loopholes in the actual operation assessment. There are also some job seekers who are already embarrassed when it comes to high-intensity work and overtime, as well as single days off and large and small weeks.
However, the HR of some companies complained on the Internet that the company was not sincere in recruiting people, but because HR was too idle, so they found something to do for them, and by the way, they exercised their ability to interview others.
It seems that there are many talents and opportunities, but work is a two-way choice between enterprises and individuals, and there are few that meet the needs of both parties.
In the changing times, look for new career coordinates.
Those who have set their sights on the neon of Tencent Tower can also try to look at the starry sky of small businesses, where there may be more virgin land for you to explore, and a coordinate system to be redefined.
In our previous understanding of looking for work experience, we often only see the threshold of high education, and many people will gild their academic qualifications by taking graduate school entrance examinations and studying for a doctorate.
But in today’s workplace, such a path may seem a bit impossible, and the interviewer will not only ask for your academic background, but also greatly examine the candidate’s abilities.
After graduating from an ordinary college, Xiaolin came to Shenzhen with a dream to find a job in the Internet industry, but repeatedly hit a wall on the way to find a job.
In an interview that finally came to pass, HR looked at his resume and regretted that he was too inexperienced in the project to be competent.
Kobayashi, who was rejected, couldn’t sleep all night, but he wasn’t discouraged. He found a job with a low salary but was very athletic, and he also used his spare time to study frantically, sign up for online courses, delve into cutting-edge technologies, and actively participate in projects to accumulate experience at work.
When he was looking for a job again and ready to change jobs, he was able to talk eloquently in the face of HR and got his dream job.
From gold-plated academic qualifications to diamond-plated skills, keep learning and improve your core competitiveness.
The slogan of Shenzhen Talent Park still stands: “Love talents, Shenzhen is waiting for you”.
When we no longer regard academic qualifications as a permanent pass, and when enterprises are “both want and want” perfectionism, then the innovation gene will continue to burst out, and eventually a more inclusive workplace ecology will be born.
What was a frontier town 40 years ago has now grown into an international metropolis has never been built up by resumes. Academic qualifications may be a stepping stone, but to keep breaking down doors, you need to forge new keys.
