This article comes from “Economic Observer” , author: Ren Xiaoning
23 days after joining the company, Liu Ying met her colleague for the first time on March 4. Chun Han is still in the office. During the epidemic, the office was not allowed to turn on the central air-conditioning. It was a bit cold. After she typed, she shrank her hands. Q: Can I come to the office to work tomorrow?
A colleague joked about her: now she must come to the office with a lottery. There are so many opportunities to come.
On February 10th, Liu Ying jumped from an online education company to Lagou.com. From video interviews to online contract signing and cloud entry, all are new experiences.
Before joining the company, she went through two rounds of video interviews. During the interview, she looked for the cleanest wall, dressing herself up and sitting in front of the camera to show respect. She likes this kind of interview method. “It is more efficient and does not need to spend time running back and forth on the road. It is a special time saver for our job seekers.”
In March, the nation has resumed work in January, and the stagnant recruitment market has recovered. The worry-free statistics found that although it is still incomparable with the same period of last year, the demand for labor each week has increased by more than 60% over the previous week.
Under the epidemic, video interviews have replaced traditional offline tests and become just needed. A friend of Liu Ying was also looking for a job recently. When a company came to the last round and asked her to meet and talk to the company, she refused angrily. “My personal safety is also very important. Take a trip when the epidemic is severe? “
Feng Lijuan, the chief human resources officer of Wou Chengyou, told the Economic Observer that more than 50% of the current interview methods are video interviews. Ten days after the Spring Festival, the number of times the BOSS direct employment video interview function was used has increased by more than 20 times compared with the first week of the autumn recruitment season last year. Lagou.com launched a video interview during the Spring Festival this year. Only the high-end headhunting department arranged nearly 1,000 video interviews in 2 weeks.
Video interviews, a form of interview that has not been valued before, have become a microcosm of recruitment during this special moment. Reporter interview processIn China, several job seekers and senior executives of recruitment companies believe that although it is impossible to completely replace the offline test in the future, this method is very precious at present.
Alternatives
At 9 pm, sitting at my desk, turning on the iPad, Xu Dan just started the last job of the day: interview. He likes to drink a little while chatting. In order not to be considered serious by job candidates across the video, he pours sake into a tea cup and takes a sip from time to time.
Xu Dandan is the CEO of the recruitment website Lagou. In the past two weeks, he has interviewed nearly 20 people for his company, including senior positions such as vice president. Lagou’s HR department is even more busy, with three or four video interviews every day. The results have been quite fruitful. Although Xu Dan was not able to return to China smoothly abroad, new people join the company every day.
After more than 20 days of interviews, Xu Dandan likes this method because of its high efficiency and flexible time. Talk to one at 9 o’clock. Anyway, you know that everyone didn’t sleep, and the interview was normal at about 9 o’clock. Offline, it is almost impossible to schedule an interview with people at night.
After trying it himself, he launched a video interview product on Lagou, which improved the efficiency of the company’s headhunting department. In the past, headhunters wanted at least two to four days for a successful interview between a job applicant and an interviewer. Now, it can be done on the same day. A common scenario is that one of the two parties feels good, and the headhunter added, “You see, you can meet this afternoon or night.” They usually choose to do it at night, so the day is over.
During the epidemic, video interviews became an alternative that job seekers and recruiters “had to” accept. Worry-free statistics show that more than 30% of employers who have never used video interviews use this new method.
Compared with job applicants, HR video interviews have a higher usage rate. Recently, HR has started to say to Feng Lijuan that it is “too tired”.
“Online is actually more tiring than offline. The picture, sound quality, and network speed are all minor issues. HR needs to observe the other party through the lens to judge the professional ability, always staring at the screen, or not used to it.”
Wu Chengyou launched the video interview function last year, and some positions have already played a role, such as junior and intermediate commissioners and supervisor positions. This is related to the recruitment market with Chinese characteristics. “Chinese job seekers are accustomed to overseas investment. HR has a lot of resumes for junior and intermediate positions. Arranging interviews is a manual job,” Feng Lijuan told reporters. One side, two sides, and three sides passed remote video interviews. , Both parties can improve efficiencySave energy.
In the past year, even for the HR of Fortune 500 companies, video interviews are a new way. During this time, video interviews started in all walks of life.
On March 2nd, the Suzhou Human Resources Department of Jiangsu organized a local employer to interview workers, including security guards and operators, from Tongren, Guizhou, using video interviews with qualified workers, and chartered cars to work in Suzhou.
Feng Lijuan found that the catering industry, express delivery industry, and takeaway industry have been using video interviews recently. “For example, there is a lot of demand for courier recently. It is easier to interview directly with their mobile phones. After the resumption of business, the number of video interviews continues to increase.
As a result of the epidemic, video interviews are now the norm. Feng Lijuan believes that even if the epidemic is over, video interviews will also be a long-term tool. Work in a realistic workplace. “
Xu Dandan gave more clear data judgments. Before the epidemic, the proportion of video interviews was less than 1%. After the epidemic, he thought that the proportion would increase to about 20%.
After the usage is 20 times higher than last year’s peak season, Zhang Lei, a product manager directly hired by BOSS, told reporters that in March, the direct employment of BOSS will iterate the video interview function to achieve a multi-person video interview scenario and support online interview collaboration among colleagues , Including alternate rounds of interviews, many-to-one interviews, etc.
Unbalanced
On March 3rd, Rollo is preparing to participate in an air dual election organized by the school the next day. Her expectations are not high, with 466 companies posting positions and more than 5,000 people submitting resumes. Rolo is a recent graduate of journalism major in 2020. He had a preliminary employment intention with a Shanghai media a year ago. After an appointment, he would go to Shanghai to talk in detail. After the epidemic came, Rolo could not go out. Looking for other opportunities.
Not many opportunities. There are only two positions related to media in the school’s aerial dual election meeting. If both parties are suitable, a direct interview will be held on March 4. Rollo submitted his resume a few days in advance and made an appointment for the two video interviews, but has not yet received a response. This year, the media category is the hardest hit area of the epidemic. BOSS directly hired the CSL Occupational Science Laboratory Xue Yanbo to tell reporters that from the data of the ten days after the holiday, the recruitment demand for the advertising / media industry this spring fell by more than 70%, exceeding the general decline.
The air dual election is an alternative to offline job fairs during the epidemic. Just like video interviews, in the spring of 2020, the new party will never be acceptedStyle became mainstream. On February 28, Vice Minister of Education Weng Tiehui said that the campus recruitment area has been opened in the future of worry-free, Zhilian recruitment, BOSS direct employment, China Talent Network, Hunting Employment Network. The double-election meeting in Rollo School is registered through the recruitment website.
Feng Lijuan told reporters that on the future worry-free platform, more than 1,000 companies participated in the air dual election in 2018, and more than 5,000 in 2019. This year’s data is not yet counted. According to her knowledge, a large number of companies have made appointments.
The air elections for freshmen have not yet started on a large scale. The reporter learned from the big companies such as Meituan and ByteDance that their air talks will start around mid-March.
More anxious than corporate HR is the increasing number of job seekers. With no worries about the future, resumes of job seekers have been restored to 70% to 80%, and jobs released by companies have just recovered to 40% to 50%. The increase in CV recruitment in the latest week exceeded the number of positions by 14 percentage points. The recruitment scale of other platforms is also not optimistic. Lagou Online reduced the recruitment scale in February by about 40% compared with the same period of the previous year. The direct employment of bosses shows that the small and medium-sized enterprises that occupy the main demand and the new posts for fresh students have shrunk significantly.
Liu Ying’s friend left the job before the Spring Festival this year. During this time, she felt the impact of the epidemic on job seekers. On February 10th, she returned to Beijing to apply for a resume. The chance of getting an interview is very different from that of the year before. “At least half of the 10 applicants will have an interview. Now, one of the 10 is very good.”
Recruitment is shrinking. A freshman majoring in management, has previously worked as an intern at some major Internet companies, and his job search has been smooth. However, she exchanged with her classmates and found that although many companies gave interviews, they were very perfunctory. “It will end in 5 minutes, just go through the process, I feel they just complete the number of KPIs.” Tell her that even if she recruits freshmen, it is easy to dismiss because she can’t pass the internship period. “There were dismissals before, but it won’t be as serious as it is now.”
Weng Tiehui, deputy minister of the Ministry of Education, said at a press conference of the joint prevention and control mechanism of the State Council that this year, the number of ordinary college graduates across the country was 8.74 million. The original job pressure was not small.
“In many industries, the cash flow is affected, and head budgets will definitely be reduced. Except for the Internet industry and some industries that benefit from it, most industries will have lower budgets and the number of hiring will be lower than in previous years.” Xu Dandan told reporters.
Wait for Spring Return
In March, the recruitment market showed signs of recovery. On the future worry-free platform, after the company resumes work, each week’s position has a growth rate of more than 60% over the previous week. “This amount is not comparable to the same period last year, but we think the recovery has come.” Feng Lijuan told reporters.
Lagou ’s data also exceeded Xu Dandan ’s expectations. When interviewed by reporters, Lagou ’s recruitment position recovered to about 70%. “This data is rising faster than I thought.”
According to the usual practice, one or two months after the Spring Festival is the golden period of recruitment in a year, which is called “Golden Three Silver Four”. Generally, there will be a wave of job changes around the Spring Festival, and the recruitment industry’s income accounted for more than 1/4 of the whole year. This year, the data and income of several major recruitment companies have fallen sharply. The main users of Lagou.com are Internet companies, which are less affected by the epidemic. Despite this, “the decline in February was quite large.”
Some companies have reduced recruitment because of the epidemic, and some companies have not activated recruitment accounts for a month. Xu Dan can see these data in the background, but he remains cautious. “It may be because the company has delayed the start of the business and cannot directly explain the company I wo n’t be hiring, and this number is not yet visible. “
At present, most companies have not completely resumed work, and the recruitment season has not arrived. When the business runs normally, the person who originally received the year-end award and wants to change jobs, or the last person who eliminated the need for a new job, will continue to apply for a job and delay the “golden three silver four”?
Xu Dandan believes that the needs of these people exist, and the recruitment of enterprises also exists to a certain extent, after which there will be a small rebound to a certain extent. However, the original peak period will not be completely postponed. “In fact, the economy has still declined a little, and the total number of hiring is less than in previous years. At the same time, under the circumstances of economic instability, those who originally wanted to change jobs may be Just postponed the tempo of changing jobs. “
Xue Yanbo is more optimistic. He observed that starting from February 24th, there was a rapid growth in demand for the first talent, and the overall recruitment situation is picking up. “This year’s spring recruitment season will not be absent, but it will be postponed. Some. “
After March and April, the general social recruitment has been dull, and the season of fresh graduate employment has arrived. This year, the peak season is also delayed due to the epidemic situation. This is a difficult year for 8.74 million graduates.
After Liu Ying ’s friend submitted her resume for nearly a month, she chose one of the offers she received. It ’s not particularly desirable, but it ’s relatively okay. After several rounds of video interviews, she felt that she was too tired to find a job. Now, I will go to work first.
On March 4th, Luo Luo sent a WeChat to the reporter. At the school ’s air election, she did n’tHave the opportunity to get a video interview.
She also continued her internship in that Shanghai media. By June of this year, if she can turn right, she will work hard and realize her journalistic ideal. If not, give up your dreams and go to other industries.
“June is my own deadline,” she said in a firm tone, a little bit sloppy.
(Rollo is a pseudonym)
This article comes from “Economic Observer” , author: Ren Xiaoning