I have a lot of affection for WeChat, both for the product itself and for the team behind it. On the eve of graduating from graduate school in 2019, I practiced on WeChat for a year, learned a lot of knowledge, and met many worthwhile friends.
A recent autumn recruitment message on WeChat has attracted everyone's attention. Specifically, the normal autumn recruitment will not be carried out this year, and the recruits will only be selected from interns.
As a former WeChat person, I dare to talk about my understanding.
In fact, WeChat did not decide to focus on interns this year. It has always done so, but this year it is more thorough, and it is directly advertised in the form of documents. After coming to my place for an internship for two months, there is no other opportunity to come in.
For this approach, my understanding is that they think: well thought out, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.
What is profit? From past experience, WeChat has discovered that talents are very important, and matching talents is even more important.
How to find a matching talent, the most simple and crude way is to run in for a while to see if the two parties are suitable, and if it is suitable, continue to live together, otherwise they will be separated and each will be fine.
I have worked in several companies, and it has happened to me, and I have also seen some colleagues, because of serious dissatisfaction with the company, they are extremely uncomfortable, close to a state of depression.
Sometimes, under the pressure of all aspects, people are so fragile. For school admissions, this vulnerability is easily magnified. I feel uncomfortable, unable to work, and the company has also suffered backlash, and I am not happy.
Therefore, a large part of the reason for WeChat to do this is to avoid the pain of being inappropriate, forcibly together and then forcibly separated later through the early evaluation period before the establishment of a formal labor contract.
From the perspective of talent selection, WeChat is more cautious. They know that long-term pain is worse than short-term pain.
In addition to this reason, there should be another reason, a kind of euphemistic degree of cost reduction and efficiency increase.
If you don’t recruit directly from the school, you can directly save a lot of recruitment quotas without having to twitch. Even if you spend a lot of internships and become regulars, it is still more than enough. There is more room for maneuver here, and you can avoid directly bearing the recruitment pressure of public opinion.
Accurate selection of candidates and controllable quotas are certainly a correct move for business operations, but it may not be good news for school enrollment.
As a very influential company in the industry, WeChat’s every move will be paid attention to and magnified by the society. It is a bad start for many companies that are far behind.
Many students do not have the conditions for internships, and are limited by heavy courses, scientific research pressure, and the economic costs of leaving their hometowns for internships. Whether this decision is fair to students from all over the country is a question mark.
Although it seems to be a small change in the recruitment of a company, it still reflects many problems: talent selection mechanism, economic pressure, opportunities in big cities, etc.
It seems that we are far away, but in fact they are closely related. We are in the torrent of the times, unconsciously participating in the evolution of this society, and being carried by the rolling waves to the distance.
