A report by Manpower shows that 41% of businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are actively expanding their scale, creating many attractive job opportunities. However, up to 77% of employers admitted to having difficulty finding candidates with suitable skills.
For new graduates lacking experience and working skills is a major barrier. Many GenZ feel "losed" when entering the labor market due to lack of practical experience; not knowing how to stand out; lacking orientation and soft skills.
Manpower Company offers 5 secrets for candidates to score points when they do not have work experience.
Leveraging experience from extracurricular activities
Club activities, event organization, or personal projects are all valuable experiences. They demonstrate their ability to work in groups, manage time and solve problems.
If you have organized events at school, emphasize how you coordinate with other members outside of your class or class and the specific results achieved (attracting 200 participants within 7 days of promotion...).
Learning new skills
Proactively learning more professional skills (Excel, design, programming) and soft skills (interview, presentation) to "upgrade" yourself is a big plus in the eyes of employers.
Complete the course "Analysis and presentation of data with Excel" and add this certificate to your CV to prove your ability.
Internship and part-time work
This is the fastest way for you to approach a real work environment, understand the working process, and expand relationships at work.
If you used to work as a collaborator for a small cosmetics store, you can learn how to operate the sales process, how to write advertisements, and customer service skills.
Prepar a professional CV
A clear, outstanding CV with strengths, with specific evidence from activities, projects or courses will help make up for the lack of work experience. Don't forget to customize your CV to suit each job to show your interest and seriousness with the job.
If you are applying for a marketing position, please state whether you have ever managed any fanpage (no matter how small) of the school, how much interaction has increased...
Scoring in the interview round
Dress politely, on time, confident and prepare for answers will help you score points in the interview - even if you do not have experience.
You should practice answering the question "Have you experience in this job?" - "Although I do not have official work experience, I organized this event at school, helping me promote my strengths (literacy) and find and overcome some weaknesses such as time management skills (literacy of weaknesses that you are trying to overcome)...".
