I want to ask everyone how to find a job, should I inquire offline or look online? What is the process for finding a job?
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Online platforms include software like Boss Zhipin, or for service industries, you can inquire offline at shopping malls.
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It depends on the city you live in and whether its economy is developed or not, and what kind of job you are looking for. For service industry jobs, you can look on Boss Zhipin or directly inquire at stores offline. Asking at stores is more efficient and faster. For factory jobs, you can check offline job postings or inquire online, but online options are mostly through agencies.
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It’s best to inquire both online and offline. During your time at home, check job recruitment apps such as Boss Zhipin, 51Job, and Zhaopin. Then, it’s best to head out for offline job searching right after lunch because many job interviews are scheduled between 1 PM and 5 PM. Before setting out, plan your route carefully: if you’re looking for factory jobs, focus on industrial zones where factories are clustered; if you’re seeking service industry jobs, look for commercial areas with many shops.
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@afterburner It depends on what kind of job you’re looking for. I used Boss Zhipin for regular office jobs before; the responses there are the fastest. But it mostly has small companies; if you want to enter some big companies, they might have their own recruitment channels on their official websites. If you’re looking to work in factories or the service industry, you can inquire offline.
By the way, afterburner, what kind of job are you planning to find? Lately, it seems like you have appeared less often. You previously said you were determined to join an external organization, but there hasn’t been any news recently.
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I am about to graduate and defend my thesis soon, and I have to spend a lot of time dealing with the bourgeois school. I want to find a job that involves a lot of contact with workers, preferably in a factory. Before I leave school, I can only visit forums when my roommate is not around. It’s best for me to become independent first, leave behind the parasitic and opportunistic life, and then make plans.
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The most commonly used software is BOSS Zhipin, which can be considered a giant among job search and recruitment apps. However, no matter how good the software is, it depends on the geographical location and the development status of the city or countryside.
If you are near the city center, mainly a commercial city, the easiest jobs to find are usually in the service industry. You can look for these on BOSS Zhipin (and its affiliated app “Dianzhang Zhipin”) or go directly to the commercial city and ask businesses door-to-door. Don’t hesitate—just ask straightforwardly.
You can usually find commercial cities using map software. For example, on Gaode Map, commercial cities are marked in purple and show icons like food. If you don’t know how to find them, you can click on “Food” in the map app and see what famous stores are nearby, such as McDonald’s, KFC, Starbucks, etc. These stores usually have their name followed by “(XXXX store)”, so if it’s a branch in a commercial city, you can easily identify it and then trace back to find the commercial city.
If you are in the suburbs but in an industrial park or technology park cluster (in China, factories usually cluster in industrial parks, industrial zones, technology parks, etc.), the approach is similar to commercial cities: go directly to the industrial park to look. Factories usually post recruitment notices at their entrances. If not, and you are unsure whether they are hiring, you can ask the security guard, though usually they don’t know. You can also search the factory’s name on the map app and find the factory’s customer service phone number to inquire about recruitment. If they are hiring, they might give you a contact in HR.
If you are in the countryside, it’s a bit more complicated. I haven’t lived in the countryside for a long time, so I’m not very clear about the job situation in villages or towns.
In some areas, such as certain provinces in South China, there are many intermediaries. Some small factories don’t rely on recruitment notices at their doors but get labor through intermediary companies. In these places, you can pay attention to intermediary companies, which usually have storefronts on main streets. You can go in and discuss what jobs are available. They often have a large board outside listing nearby factories and wages. However, intermediaries are not always trustworthy, so you should be cautious, pay attention during conversations, and even record them in case they change their mind later.
As mentioned above, apps like BOSS Zhipin and Dianzhang Zhipin are quite versatile (the latter focuses more on the service industry). But if you want to find jobs in more specialized industries—like construction sites—you can use “Yupao Net” to search, though you should be even more cautious there.
In China, the hardest part is not finding where factories or stores are, but hoping that any factory or store is actually hiring. Because the unemployment rate in China is very high, and with the soaring unemployment rate comes worsening wages and increasingly abnormal working hours.
Now, about how to bluff your way into getting a job. This is almost a required skill. Simply put, you can fabricate your work experience, tailoring it to the nature of the company you’re interviewing with, making it relevant to the field.
If asked about skills or business knowledge in the relevant field, you can bluff, but only for simple labor. For example, if interviewing at a burger shop, you can say you worked at XXX before; to avoid being caught out when asked about skills, you can watch some related work videos online beforehand to get a rough idea and be able to bluff your way through. I usually call this interview method “whether you know or not, just get the job first.”
When looking for jobs on recruitment apps, you especially need to fabricate your resume unless the company has no requirements at all.
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Same question: (borrowing this post)
What is a reasonable salary? I think 3000-4000 is better, as I feel the salary won’t be very high when entering a factory.
Should I buy social insurance? The five insurances and one fund?
If I run away, how much money should I bring? I want to find a place in the city where the school is located, but I’m afraid of being found.
The salary mainly depends on the cost of living in your location. For example, some big cities require 4500 to 5000 just to survive. How much money to bring also depends on your situation. Regarding this “running away,” do you mean dropping out of school altogether or something else? If you are dropping out, then just bring all your money. Social security mainly depends on whether the company handles it or not. If they don’t, you can still rely on labor laws to fight for a month’s salary, and you can also use this as a reason to unilaterally terminate the labor relationship. However, the main thing I want to ask is what your current plan is. Are you planning to drop out if you run away or what?
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Running away is equivalent to dropping out. Choosing either of these two options leads to the other. At least that’s how it is for me. I don’t think there’s any need to fuss about “dropping out.” I’m running away now, and then the school will expel me (because working means being away from school for at least a month). Where else can I go after dropping out? Why run away? It’s to live, eat, and work together with the workers. Now I feel that no matter how many books I read, it doesn’t help because I don’t understand them—the term “proletariat” is just four big characters on paper to me. I’m 18 now; in a few years, I’ll be old.
You are speaking completely incomprehensibly. You should think carefully about why you need to work and why you should drop out of school. If after dropping out you still feel comfortable parasitizing, then the worst outcome is that you will return to your parents to parasitize, becoming the most useless and reactionary “eat-the-old” family member. Or you might not drop out and just go back to school; returning to school also means you have become the most reactionary and parasitic petty bourgeoisie. I don’t know if you’ve read about the future revolutionary path of China, which clearly explains why we need to join the ranks of the proletariat.
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First of all, I should apologize to you: my reply was a bit late, and last time I didn’t explain clearly and had some errors in my viewpoint. But now, regarding the points you raised, I want to elaborate on my views in detail.
“Too abstract. Is this fun about class?”
“…Why work, why drop out…”
These questions, generally speaking, are issues of the petty bourgeoisie. Therefore, I will start from the second question about why a “change in thinking” is necessary.
Why should the petty bourgeoisie join the proletariat? The “Zhong Wei Ge” (中未革) has already mentioned a large number of objective facts, so I won’t list them one by one here. Starting from objective facts and combining dialectics: everything that truly exists, that is growing day by day, is reasonable. Everything that is decaying day by day is unreasonable and therefore doomed to fail. Starting from the specific situation of the petty bourgeoisie “either siding with the proletariat or siding with the bourgeoisie,” it determines that supporting the “growing thing”—the proletariat—is in line with the historical trend and is progressive. This is not based on some kind of “principle” or “justice,” but based on perceived material facts—thus it is also the source of our confidence in victory. Therefore, from this reasoning alone, joining the proletarian ranks is necessary.
“Why drop out?”
“The bourgeois education system causes… students to be detached from reality, detached from practice… being indoctrinated with bourgeois ideology… every word in school is… fabricated… easily accepting the corruption of bourgeois ideology… ultimately only leading to… national ruin and extinction.” — “Zhong Wei Ge” (中未革)
First of all, this is the objective reason why one should drop out. Because attending classes is basically meaningless, “better to sleep.” This is why I want to leave school, because what is said here is all factual. But why work then? The first few paragraphs of “Si Dou Nan” (思斗南) have already proven to us from a materialist perspective:
“Ideological struggle should be based on material struggle.”
To carry out ideological struggle and thoroughly transform one’s thoughts, just reading books is not enough. Lenin’s path made this mistake. “True ideological struggle starts from transforming one’s lifestyle, participating in the three major social practices, smashing the bourgeois and petty bourgeois ideology…” (“Zhong Wei Ge”). If this is not done, how can one change one’s “anarchism”?
“If after dropping out you still feel…” This is the problem of “form lagging behind content.” It is undeniable that at the beginning it is indeed like this; it is impossible to transform so quickly on the first day of work. But if you don’t “work,” then there is simply no possibility of complete ideological transformation, this is indisputable. New content is always contained within old forms.
As for the possibility of failure, this is one situation, but the probability is very small. Only those who still cling to the “good days” of bourgeois schools and think about class crossing would think so. Many people in history have set examples for us: Engels, Jiang Qing… I think: since I choose to abandon this life, carry my luggage, and abandon the so-called “original family,” there is no possibility of going back. “One must have the determination of a warrior cutting off his own wrist.”
This is roughly what I have thought.
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I didn’t expect Qian Renling to study quite seriously, but transforming oneself through social practice is not an easy task. It requires thorough preparation and awareness, and a comprehensive consideration; it cannot be done on a whim.
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You’re right about that, it’s my expression that’s problematic. Mainly, I want to say that once the uprising starts, you must keep attacking, cannot go back, and cannot return just because you feel comfortable at home.
But I want to ask, why do you want to drop out and work part-time? I saw you also said you wanted to “recruit comrades” at school before.