The other side of Internet recruitment "I left, friends sent congratulations"

Data map: Taiyuan, Shanxi, job seekers looking for jobs at the venue. Photo by China News Service reporter Wu Junjie

Zhongxin Finance, March 2 (Reporter Wu Tao) The recruitment industry has the saying of "gold three silver four", and the Internet industry is even more so, in previous years, it will be riveted in the spring recruitment, with the purpose of recruiting high-quality fresh graduates into the company.

However, this year's Internet industry is somewhat different, there have been strange phenomena, on the one hand, layoffs, on the other hand, salary increases in recruitment.

Is it a kind of "luck" to be cut?

Recently, Dingdong Grocery Shopping, ByteDance, Xiaomi, Baidu, Weibo, Zhihu, Didi and other Internet companies have reported news of layoffs.

However, being laid off is not necessarily a bad thing, and Lan Fang (pseudonym), an employee who originally worked for an Internet company, told Zhongxin Finance, "I left my job, and many friends sent congratulations!" ”

Lan Fang said, "I just want to take a break and sign and leave." ”

The huge compensation plus the savings saved in the past few years made Lan Fang xiaoxiao withdraw. There are many similar situations, and some sources say, "Within a certain enterprise, in order to compete for a layoff quota, the department has fought for a red face." "If you want to win the quota of the referee, you even need to have a good relationship with the leader..."

But more people may not be so "lucky" after being laid off. Zhaopin recruitment recently released a report shows that the internet industry development speed slowed down, after this year's holiday, the scale of recruitment has shrunk, while the talent structure is also adjusting, compared with the same period last year, the core business post, technical post recruitment increased, functional post recruitment decreased.

A number of recruitment platform reports have revealed that this year's employees are more stable. "The end of the universe is the compilation" is no longer a joke, this is not, the vocational education platform chalk technology revenue has risen year after year, and recently submitted a prospectus to plan listing. One of the main businesses of Chalk Technology is civil service examination training.

The salary of the spring recruitment has also risen

Recently, the spring tricks of various Internet companies have also appeared one after another.

On February 28, Alibaba officially launched the 2023 campus recruitment, including technical and non-technical categories, a total of more than 150 types of positions open to college students. Some sources said that Alibaba's top school recruitment technical talent project "AliXing LAB", which Alibaba has been "hidden" before, is also likely to accompany the launch of this spring recruitment, recruiting hundreds of top young technical personnel around the world.

Baidu related people told China News Finance that the recruitment of spring interns was launched on March 7. In February, ByteDance announced the full launch of this year's spring recruitment, with more than 20 cities open for delivery and more than 6,000 offers. Xiaomi also said in response to layoff rumors recently that more than 4,000 popular positions are still recruiting talents.

JD.com announced in January that it will recruit more than 20,000 college graduates nationwide in 2022; among them, JD Logistics will recruit more than 10,000 college graduates to reserve and cultivate grassroots management talents.

In addition, according to incomplete statistics, many Internet companies, including 360 Group and 58.com, have opened the 2022 spring recruitment. Dingdong Grocery, which is in the midst of a layoff storm, also said at the end of February that it would open the spring recruitment in 2022. However, some offers are not clearly defined.

Moreover, the salary offered by Internet companies in the spring is not low. At the end of February, Lagou Recruitment released the 2022 Internet Industry Spring Recruitment Salary Report, showing that since 2022, the average salary of the Internet industry has been 18,500 yuan, an increase of 7.5% over the same period in 2021, higher than the 6.9% increase in the same period in 2021.

According to Zhaopin Recruitment Monitoring, in the third week after the holiday, most of the salaries in Internet-related industries increased, the salaries of the online game industry increased by 7.7% month-on-month, rising to the third place, and the average recruitment salaries of Internet/e-commerce, computer software and computer hardware increased by 1.8%, 1.7% and 1.3% respectively, up about 10% over the same period last year.

Age is a watershed in job hunting

Why is there a situation in the Internet industry that lays off employees while recruiting?

The caliber of Dingdong buying vegetables in response to layoffs is very representative: individual job changes are the company's normal organizational resource adjustment, and the recruitment needs of some positions are also released normally, and the business is currently operating normally.

Although many companies have not acknowledged the occurrence of large-scale layoffs and believe that talent has come in and out, this is a normal flow. However, some Employees of Internet companies combined with their own company situation to Zhongxin Finance, "Basically, those who go are older and have nothing to do with assessment." ”

The reporter noted that this round of recruitment in the Internet industry is mainly for fresh graduates. Many companies emphasize "young" when recruiting. For example, some enterprises said in the spring recruitment that not only a large number of post-95s, including fresh graduates recruited by the school in previous years, have now successively embarked on management positions.

This is undoubtedly waving an olive branch to young people, and even returnees who are looking for jobs are getting younger and younger. Zhaopin's recruitment survey shows that the age structure of returnees looking for employment in 2021 is further younger than in 2020. In 2021, 30% of returnees aged 16 to 24 accounted for 30% of the total, an increase of 2 percentage points over 2020; 62.8% of returnees aged 25 to 34, down 2 percentage points from 2020.

Where did the relatively "not young" people go? Most of them are "riding a donkey to find a horse". There is even a paragraph on the Internet: secretly go to other companies for interviews, the interviewer is the person who came to apply for a job yesterday, the capitalization is embarrassing...

Lan Fang said that her job was quickly replaced by another new employee, and the employee who replaced her had just left another Internet company and had a similar job content. (End)