10 years ago, computers were still scarce, and many people regarded computers as the embodiment of high technology. Therefore, when recruiting computer operators, most companies require that they graduate from a university or a junior college with at least a "diploma". Liu Keli, a plate-making factory in Yuncheng, is not superstitious about computers. He believes that computers are only advanced production tools for design and plate making, and there is nothing mysterious. After training, high school students can master and use it skillfully. There are so many students who fail in the college entrance examination every year that they are worried about finding a job. Why not recruit high school students? You know, before 1997, college students were called "favored children" in society. After graduation, the national distribution is picky about their work, and they are arrogant and feminine. The eyes of college students are fixed on government agencies, state-owned enterprises and institutions, banks and other real power departments and affordable units. Who wants to work in a collective enterprise?
The recruitment process is quite strict, including written examination and interview. The written test questions are a bit strange, including the examination of knowledge points in high school culture class, some brain teasers and some psychological test questions. Judging from the examination contents and assessment methods, it is a bit like the assessment methods of Japanese companies. In terms of personnel recruitment, only the assessment results shall prevail, regardless of other factors, which can be said to be disowned by the six parents. It takes a lot of courage to do so under the prevailing social model of pleading and giving gifts. I remember the grand occasion when Yuncheng Plate Factory was recruiting, and the number of applicants exceeded the number of recruits by dozens or even hundreds. So some people describe this as "another college entrance examination" in Yuncheng area, and it is simply more difficult to enter Yuncheng plate factory than to enter the university. It's really one in a million. Of course, there are also people in the leadership of enterprises who worry that it is difficult for high school students to learn computers and it is difficult to adapt to work in the future. However, it turns out that after training, high school students are fully qualified for this job, even better than some college students.
Another major feature of the recruitment work is that people from Yuncheng, Shanxi Province are the mainstay. In the early days of starting a business, you can only recruit locally in Yuncheng, Shanxi, because foreigners don't know this enterprise at all, and few people come to apply. Later, Yuncheng Plate Making Factory established many branches all over the country, but the recruitment work was still carried out in Yuncheng, Shanxi. Recruited employees, after three months of training and internship, were sent to branches all over the country after passing the examination.
Because most of them are from Yuncheng, Shanxi, and they are all high school graduates, about 20 years old, from the hinterland, and many people are leaving their hometown for the first time. When we are in a foreign country, it is especially easy for us to hold a group when we are strangers. In addition, all the branches of Yuncheng Plate Making Factory are far away from the urban area. Employees work and live in the factory, and rarely have the opportunity to go out, so they don't know what the outside world is like, but everyone feels particularly honored and satisfied.
In order to improve the work efficiency of employees, the factory implements piece-rate wages and the last elimination system. Ranked last for two months in a row, the company advised him to leave. So everyone worked hard.
In the 1990s, China's advertising, inkjet printing, printing and phototypesetting industries developed rapidly, and there was a great demand for graphic design and production talents. As a result, many graphic design and production training courses have emerged in the society, and many people are scrambling to learn from Apple, operate Macintosh and use graphic software such as Photoshop, Pagemaker, Illustrator and Freehand. At that time, such people were very popular and their work mobility was extremely high. Many business owners suffer from brain drain.
However, in Yuncheng Plate Making Factory, the turnover rate of computer typesetters is extremely low. Although the wages of graphic designers in society are much higher than theirs, they don't even think of job-hopping. They are lucky and unlucky. Fortunately, they are honored to work in a modern world-class enterprise after failing in the college entrance examination. Unfortunately, they don't know their own value and the outside world.
This can reflect Liu Keli's employment strategy, that is, not to recruit the best, but only to recruit the most suitable. Because the best is also the most unstable. Having a relatively stable workforce is good for the company's own development and will not cause the outflow of employees and technology. In addition, it is also conducive to the rational use of talents, which can maximize the potential of employing people and will not cause the waste of outstanding talents.