Apply for a job!

Regarding the story of my younger brother who graduated with honors from a top university in the country and has been waiting in his hometown for more than a year now and is still patiently waiting, I would like to discuss more about job hunting - a matter that everyone, every household, and the whole society still talks about every day as a very difficult problem...

The truth is that in many families, especially in the countryside, the desire to send their children to college or university to get a stable job and change their lives is a legitimate wish of parents. However, thoughts such as: after graduating from school, there is no money to find a job, not knowing if they will get a job or not, not knowing anyone to ask for help in finding a job, studying hard and still being unemployed... have been and are haunting, becoming a catchphrase of many people and unintentionally planting negative thoughts in the minds of the next generations. That is why my nephew, after hearing people advise him to study road and bridge construction because it is easy to find a job in that profession, immediately registered to study road and bridge construction. He packed his bags and went to the city to enroll, he told me: "I study like that, but whether I can find a job or not depends on luck and fate." I held back my anger for a long time before I could analyze: “Why do you think there is luck or fate involved here? When you go to school, you have to know what you want to study. And you have to decide that after you finish school, you will go to work. If you don’t have this job, you will have another one. There are only people who don’t want to work, but there is no shortage of jobs in this society”…

The most frustrating thing is that many of our students, after finishing school, have the idea of ​​going back to their hometowns to wait for a job. I really can't understand why you guys go back to your hometowns to wait for a job. Your parents have supported you for so many years, but surely your parents can't understand everything about the city and about finding a job as well as you do. After finishing school, you should have found a job opportunity for yourself! Not to mention that when you return to your hometowns, you initially have some intention of applying here and there, but it's not like you'll be called to work right away. After waiting for a while, your will will surely be lost, you will feel that staying at home is too peaceful and you won't want to struggle anymore. Three meals a day with mom's cooking, a peaceful village, a house... so lazy thoughts will continuously appear: what if I go to the city to rent a house, what if I eat out, how can I spend a salary of three to five million a month... Then surely the beloved mothers will feel sorry for their children and say: "Stay home with mom, eat vegetables when you have vegetables, eat porridge when you have porridge...". What could be better, you will immediately feel satisfied and stay home. There are also friends who, after a period of waiting for a job like waiting for a plum to fall,... the job does not come to them, so they have to stay home to grow vegetables, raise pigs and chickens, do business, get married... That is also their own choice. But once you have made your choice, do not complain and do not plant in the minds of future generations that nowadays, there are only people who finish school but cannot find a job so they have to stay home to raise pigs like Mr./Ms. A, B, C...

Not to mention that when you finish studying, if you go home and wait for a job, there will be a lot of people coming to matchmake you for a job. So parents cannot bear to see their children unemployed, so they have to run around borrowing money, mortgage their land and houses to have tens to hundreds of millions to send to this or that network to find a job for their children. That creates bad thinking habits, creates the evil of job hunting in society and causes more debt for parents. It is sad that when I asked those who went back to their hometowns to find a job, I learned that most of their families had to spend a lot of money, even a lot compared to their family situation, to find a job.

Do you know that leaders of units and employers often have a good feeling towards young people who come directly to their door to apply for a job? Even if their place is not recruiting, they will sometimes enthusiastically introduce you to other units. That was the reality I encountered when I had just graduated and went to apply for a job at a certain unit. The agency was not recruiting, but the leader still made an appointment to meet and talk and called to introduce me to a leader in another unit that needed personnel and I could meet the requirements. So that shows that you have to look for and create opportunities for yourself. Once you graduate, you have to go to work, you definitely cannot go back to your hometown to wait for a job. Imagine when a unit calls you to work, they ask where you have worked since you finished school, if you answer that you have experienced this and that, would it be more sympathetic than if you said you have gone back to your hometown to wait for a job all this time?

Some other realities that make it difficult for you to be accepted if you apply for a job are: some of you only know how to study, not equip yourself with foreign language knowledge, communication skills; some of you are from poor families but when you graduate, you are afraid of hardship and conflict; some of you just graduated but demand a good, easy job with a high salary; some of you say that you can only do what you study, and cannot do anything else... I would like to emphasize that what you need is a job to do, don't depend on your parents forever! You should reduce your demands! If you have a passion other than work, you must first live before you can pursue your passion. We don't need to mention famous names from far away countries, just look at the successful people around you and see if all of them got a good job right after finishing school or immediately got a job in the field they studied? When you go out to find a job, having a job to do may not be the job you love, but you will have the opportunity to find a job that you love. But if you are not brave enough to go out and commit, you will never have any chance.

Let's assume that it is natural for each person to find a job after graduation, it is not too easy but not impossible. So why do many students intend to return home and wait for their parents to find them a job after graduation? Why is it assumed that to get a job, you must have connections and spend tens or hundreds of millions of dong? I would like to affirm that as long as you are conscious of studying and equipping yourself with the necessary knowledge and skills, when you graduate, you can confidently apply for a job and go to work. Applying for a job, the problem of employment is really not something that is beyond your reach.

Nguyen Hai Ly