職場雙語：大學畢業(yè)生自辦招聘會
When high-flying undergraduates have gone in search of prospective corporate employers, they have not usually had to look too far. The annual milk round of blue chip careers presentations has traditionally involved companies rolling into university campuses with canapés and crates of cabernet sauvignon.
過去，自命不凡的大學生在尋找日后的企業(yè)雇主時，通常無需付出太大努力。知名企業(yè)一年一度的巡回招聘推介會一般都以這種方式進行：諸多企業(yè)帶著點心和一箱箱解百納(Cabernet)紅葡萄酒走進大學校園。
But, with graduates facing one of the worst job markets in decades, students are taking the initiative by organising events for prospective employers themselves.
但如今，面對幾十年來最糟糕的就業(yè)市場，大學畢業(yè)生們正主動出擊，自己組織面向未來雇主的活動。
Katherine Lee, a 20-year-old third-year bioengineering undergraduate at the University of California, chairs Disciplines of Engineering Career Fair (DECaF), a job fair run solely by students, which attracted 70 high-tech and life science companies this year. “Students should and are taking more of a lead on approaching employers because they recognise the recession will affect their job [chances],” she says.
現(xiàn)年20歲的加州大學(University of California)生物工程專業(yè)大三學生凱瑟琳•李(Katherine Lee)是“工程類學科招聘會”(Disciplines of Engineering Career Fair)的主席。這場完全由學生組織的招聘會，今年吸引到70家高科技和生命科學公司參與。李表示：“學生們應該、并且正在更主動的與雇主接洽，因為他們意識到，經(jīng)濟衰退將會影響到他們的就業(yè)（機會）。”
Competition to become involved in this year’s student recruitment event was fierce. “I saw an increase in the number of volunteers this year [wanting] to be attached to the career fair as a lead-in to their [job] pitch.”
若想?yún)⑴c今年的學生招聘活動，需要經(jīng)過激烈的競爭。“我發(fā)現(xiàn)，今年有更多的志愿者希望參與到此次招聘會中來，他們將此視為求職大戰(zhàn)的序曲。”
Rivalry for places at the Alternative Investments Conference, held in January by students at the London School of Economics, was also intense, with 1,600 applicants fighting for 350 places. The annual event for students and financial institutions, which was started three years ago by the university’s private equities club, attracts an impressive roster of speakers – this year’s event was headlined by Josef Ackermann, chief executive of Deutsche Bank.
今年1月，倫敦政治經(jīng)濟學院(LSE)的學生舉辦了“另類投資會議”(Alternative Investments Conference)，與會資格的競爭也很激烈，1600名申請者要爭奪350張入場券。這一面向學生和金融機構的年度活動是在3年前由該校私人股本俱樂部發(fā)起的。它吸引到的演講者給人留下了深刻的印象，今年最受矚目的演講者是德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)首席執(zhí)行官約瑟夫•阿克曼(Josef Ackermann)。
“LSE today is very different to the 1960s when students occupied the buildings,” muses Akhil Chainwala, the club’s president, who is in his second year of an economics degree. “Now we have the hedge fund society, business society and finance society. Participating in these clubs gives you a competitive edge when it comes to getting a job as it helps make contacts.”
“與上世紀60年代時相比，倫敦政治經(jīng)濟學院現(xiàn)在已發(fā)生很大變化。60年代的學生都呆在象牙塔里，”該俱樂部主席阿克赫•錢恩瓦拉(Akhil Chainwala)若有所思的'說，“如今，我們成立了對沖基金俱樂部、商業(yè)俱樂部以及金融俱樂部。參與這些俱樂部可使你在求職時獲得一種競爭優(yōu)勢，因為它有助于建立人際關系。”錢恩瓦拉是經(jīng)濟學專業(yè)二年級學生。
While admission to the conference is free, the catch for participants, who come from universities round the world, is that they are selected by a student committee on the basis of their academic credentials and experience in the sector – most have done internships in banks or hedge funds.
盡管這種招聘會可免費參加，但對來自世界各地大學的參加者而言，潛在的困難在于，參加者是由一個學生委員會根據(jù)他們的學歷和行業(yè)經(jīng)驗篩選出來的——他們中的多數(shù)人都在銀行或對沖基金有過實習經(jīng)歷。
Christina Li, president of Olin Business School’s council at Washington University, runs a “road trip” taking 40 paying students to meet companies including Deloitte, JPMorgan and Google. She agrees that competition for places will increase as the recession takes hold.
華盛頓大學(Washington University)奧林商學院(Olin Business School)學生委員會主席克里斯蒂娜•李(Christina Li)組織了一次“公司之旅”，帶領40名自付旅費的學生與包括德勤(Deloitte)、摩根大通(JPMorgan)和谷歌(Google)在內的公司會面。她認為，隨著經(jīng)濟衰退站穩(wěn)腳跟，對這類活動名額的爭奪將更加激烈。
For the companies recruiting graduates, student-led events are extremely attractive. Randall Dillard, director at Liongate Capital Management, one of AIC’s sponsors,says: “It’s much more cost-effective for companies to attend this conference than get their HR staff to trek round the universities on the milk round.”
對那些招聘大學畢業(yè)生的公司而言，由學生牽頭的活動極具吸引力。另類投資會議的贊助者之一、Liongate Capital Management的主管蘭德爾•迪拉德(Randall Dillard)表示：“與讓公司人力資源部員工長途跋涉展開校園巡回招聘相比，參加這種招聘會對公司來說更具成本效益。”
Gordon Chesterman, director of Cambridge University Careers Service, agrees that some companies are less likely to be active this year when it comes to recruiting graduates.
劍橋大學職業(yè)服務(Cambridge University Careers Service)主管戈登•切斯特曼(Gordon Chesterman)認為，在招聘大學畢業(yè)生方面，一些公司今年不太可能表現(xiàn)得很積極。
“We’re working hard at getting companies to advertise with us. In better times, they would come to us but now we have to knock on their doors. It’s not that we’re able to make a job out of nothing; it’s just that they don’t think, if they’ve got three jobs on offer instead of 20, it’s worth coming in and doing a presentation.”
“我們正努力讓公司與我們一起做宣傳。形勢好的時候，他們會找我們，如今我們則必須自己找上門去。這不是因為我們能憑空創(chuàng)造出一份工作；只是因為他們認為，如果他們僅能提供3份工作而非20份，那就不值得來校園做宣傳了。”
Student events are more than just a way to cut costs. They provide companies with a chance to identify future stars. Mr Dillard explains his involvement in the AIC as a way to attract the best talent. “The students attending the conference are preselected so we know they are keen and ambitious,” he says. He says it is also a way of rooting out the dilettantes focused on high salaries. “It’s a way to tell them what finance is really like – you have to work long hours and give up some of your social life.”
學生組織的招聘活動不僅僅是一種降低成本的方法，它們還為公司提供了找到“未來之星”的機會。迪拉德解釋稱，他參加另類投資會議是為了吸引到最優(yōu)秀的人才。他表示：“參加招聘會的學生經(jīng)過提前篩選，因此我們知道他們滿懷熱情而且志向遠大。”他表示，這也是把那些一心關注高工資的淺薄求職者排除在外的方法。“可以借此向他們揭示金融業(yè)的真實情況：你必須加班，必須放棄一些社交生活。”
Furthermore, it is also engaging for the speakers. “Students ask blunt questions about ethics or regulation,” he says. “We’ve been asked about influential books and risk. It’s energising. It is a way of giving something back to the younger generation. You wouldn’t get such high-level people at a commercial conference.”
另外，對演講者而言，這類活動也頗具吸引力。“學生們會問一些關于道德或監(jiān)管的尖銳問題，”迪拉德表示，“我們曾被問及與頗具影響力的書籍和風險有關的問題。這很有意思。通過這種方式，演講者可以向年輕一代反饋某些信息。在商業(yè)會議上，你不會有向這么高級別的人提問的機會。”
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