For graduates in China, campus recruitment is the main route into large companies and many public employers. The calendar includes summer internships that can convert to offers, early batches (提前批), the main autumn recruitment season (秋招), and a smaller spring recruitment season (春招). Students lose out by starting late, sending one CV everywhere, or signing a tripartite agreement before comparing offers. This skill plans the season end to end.
Write in Simplified Chinese unless asked otherwise. Each company sets its own dates; confirm every date on its official campus recruitment site.
What This Skill Produces
- A season timeline: internship applications, early recruitment rounds, autumn recruitment, supplementary recruitment and spring recruitment, with "confirm on the company site" markers
- A tiered company list: stretch, target and safer employers by industry and role
- A one-page campus CV focused on internships, projects, competitions and skills
- Drafts of online applications (网申): answers to common open questions
- A test and interview plan: aptitude assessments and written tests (测评 / 笔试), technical or case interviews, group interviews (群面), and HR interviews
- An offer comparison and a checklist before signing the tripartite employment agreement
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- Degree, school, major and graduation date
- Target roles and industries, and any target companies or cities
- Experience: internships, projects, competitions, student roles, papers
- Current stage: early planning, applications open, or holding offers
- Constraints: city, household registration (户口) requirements, and further study plans
Framework
- Work back from the calendar. Many large companies open summer internships in spring and convert interns to offers; early batches can open in summer; the main autumn season is busiest in September and October; spring recruitment fills remaining places. Treat these as typical patterns and confirm each company's dates.
- Tier the list. About a third stretch, a third target, a third safer, spread across at least two industries.
- One page, results first. Each item: what you did, how, and a result with a number. Tailor the order of sections to the role: projects first for technical roles, internships first for business roles.
- Online application answers are short stories. For "describe a challenge" or "why us", use situation, action and result in 200 to 300 characters, specific to the company.
- Prepare by round. Aptitude tests (practise timed), role tests (coding, case, writing), group interviews (contribute structure, keep time, build on others), professional interviews (projects in depth), HR interviews (motivation, stability, expectations).
- Compare before signing. Compare offers on role, team, city, total pay, household registration support, training and growth. Read the tripartite employment agreement terms, including any breach penalty (违约金) and the deadline, before signing; ask the university careers office if unsure.
Output Format
Campus recruitment timeline (confirm on each company's official site)
| Time | Stage | Actions | Target company |
Company tiers
| Tier | Company | Role | City | Reason |
Campus recruitment CV (one page)
[Adjust section order for the role]
Online application questions and answers
| Question | Answer (200 to 300 Chinese characters) |
Written-test and interview preparation
| Round | Preparation | Practice method | Time |
Offer comparison and checks before signing
| Dimension | Offer A | Offer B |
- Have read the tripartite employment agreement and breach-penalty terms
- Have confirmed household registration, reporting date and probation arrangements
Quality Checks
- Every date is marked to confirm on the company's official site
- The company list has stretch, target and safer tiers
- The CV fits one page and every item has an action and a result
- Application answers are specific to the named company
- The interview plan covers every round the target companies use
- The offer checklist covers the tripartite employment agreement terms before signing
Anti-Patterns
- Starting in September. By then many internship conversions and early batches are done.
- One CV for every role. Reorder and reword for each role family.
- Signing the first offer. Compare first; breaking a tripartite employment agreement later can cost money and goodwill.
- Silence in the group interview. Structuring the discussion or keeping time counts.
Example Trigger Phrases
- "I am in the second year of my master's degree and want a product role at a large internet company. How should I prepare for autumn recruitment?"
- "Help me revise a campus recruitment CV for data analyst roles."
- "I have two offers. Should I sign the tripartite agreement now?"
- "Plan my campus recruitment season in China for software engineering roles."