Volkswagen, Haier, WPP, NetEase, GSK, the Kraft Heinz Company…Yiyang Liu, a Year-4 student of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, raked over 30 full-time offers from Global 500 and other well-known Chinese and foreign enterprises. With a handful of offers, Yiyang turned all down and instead sought higher education in the UK.

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汽车行业中的佼佼者一汽大众、上汽集团、戴姆勒、宝马；

炙手可热的互联网企业网易、字节跳动、喜马拉雅；

制造业龙头海尔、美的、格力；

全球最大传播集团WPP；

还有卡夫亨氏、葛兰素史克……

刘奕杨在校招中，拿到了包括这些世界五百强和中外名企在内的30个全职offer，求职一役可谓大获全胜。

但当最终选择来临，他竟在通往名企的光明大道上来了个急转弯，决定去英国继续深造。

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应届毕业生，拥有两年工作经验

当刘奕杨拿出履历表的时候，你就知道这不是一个段子。

大学四年，他有26个月在实习，曾在两个月里走遍了全国一线城市，频繁往返于学校和工作地。“在吉利实习期间，我曾在24小时之内辗转深圳、宁波、杭州、重庆四个城市，身上的穿着也在西装-T恤-实验服-睡衣之间来回切换。很累，但我很喜欢这种感觉。”

刘奕杨在宁诺

其实，刘奕杨的实习之旅开始时并不顺利，大一时的他由于完全没有相关经历，很难获得顶尖企业的垂青。“投了70多封简历，收到两个面试电话，其他的全部石沉大海，或者直接把我拒了。”即使现在回想起来，刘奕杨也会觉得那是一段灰色的时光，不断被别人否定，连一个证明自己的机会也没有。

认清现实后，他降低了要求，开始从小企业的实习做起，尝试过远端、线上等各种工作方式，“没资本就没得挑，有什么就做什么。”也许正是遭遇的这些坎坷，练就了刘奕杨的大心脏，让后来的转折顺理成章。

慢慢地，开始有名企愿意给这个执著的男生一些机会。“总的来看，我实习的企业质量在逐步提高，工作角色也从一开始的打杂跑腿变得越来越重要。” 他先后在伟达公关、百威英博、吉利集团和网易实习，由于工作出色，多家企业表示毕业后能给予优先录取的机会。

“名企宠儿”不是一天炼成的

扎实的实习经历让刘奕杨对自己、对工作都有着比同龄人更加清楚的认知。

他会仔细分析每一个竞聘岗位的技能需求和工作职责，有针对性地将简历的内容进行编排。

“校招期间至少写了40份不同的简历模板吧，我会把实习经验进行排列组合，着重介绍那些跟招聘岗位强相关的。申请汽车行业的市场营销岗位，和申请互联网企业的运营岗位就是完全不同的写法，遇到特别心仪的企业和岗位，就需要做更多功课，阅读行业调研报告、整理作品集、设计新的视觉模板……也许这就是简历筛选阶段我基本都能顺利通过的原因之一吧。”

刘奕杨指着他求职期间画的思维导图说，上面标满了各种行业及岗位划分、优先级、目标企业等资讯。

面试是更难的一关，刘奕杨遇到过非常强劲的竞争对手。“阿里8个人的群面里6个都是985的硕士，甚至有工作好几年再去读了硕士的候选人和我竞争同一个岗位。”

大受打击的他开始通过大量阅读、学习和实战来扩充知识储备，渐渐发现那些牛人口中的系统框架、分析方法，自己也能结合实习经历熟练运用在面试中了，收到的offer也慢慢多了起来。他事后总结，所有的优秀表现，一定是分外努力再加精心准备的结果，“那些优秀的竞争对手，也有很多是‘二战’‘三战’才能有不错的表现。”

“Offer的数量不能说明什么，因为只要你能力足够，要拿更多offer也只是愿不愿意花时间投简历及面试的问题，岗位是做什么的更加重要。”

刘奕杨谦虚地说，“我家人知道后也很淡定，我妈开玩笑说，这没什么值得夸耀的。”

“突如其来”地爱上学术

“我的终极目标是将科技创新和商业相结合，创立一家属于自己的企业。在实习和校招的摸爬滚打后才认识到，自己在知识和资源储备上都还差得远，我想去更大的平台上积累知识、拓宽眼界。”

确定好申研的目标后，刘奕杨在大四开始拼命学习，为了补上之前学得不够扎实的课程，开启了007式的学术生活。

刘奕杨所在的毕业设计团队

“也正是在这个期间，我发现了学术的魅力。国内其他一本院校对化工专业毕业设计的要求多为设计一个单独的装置，而宁诺完美沿袭了海外院校‘严出’的风格，我们的6人小组需要完成一个有近80个装置的、完整的工厂前端工程设计（FEED Design）。

教授不会直接告诉我们怎样做是对的，组员需要紧密合作，结合专业所学去探索和运用很多未被教授的知识。凌晨一点、两点、三点、四点的宁诺，我们都见过。”

刘奕杨在学习闲暇时的脑洞：将装置的侧面图想象成“派大星”

刘奕杨在学习闲暇时的脑洞：将函式曲线当作变化的心形

功夫不负有心人，刘奕杨在大四上学期取得了专业前5%的好成绩，最近也收获了帝国理工、伦敦大学学院、曼彻斯特大学、墨尔本大学等多所世界排名前50高校的录取通知书。最终，他选择了伦敦大学学院和自己一直热爱的化学工程。

得知刘奕杨获得心仪offer，刘妈妈给儿子发来讯息

“宁波诺丁汉大学是什么鬼，傻子才会去吧”

“这是什么鬼啊，还自称教学水平跟英国诺丁汉大学相当，又贵，傻子才会去吧。”

其实，当宁诺第一次去刘奕杨所在的高中宣讲时，他对中外合作大学和出国都很抵触，认为在国内读不下去的学生才会这样选择。无奈父母被其他家长成功安利，在父母答应绝不强迫他出国的前提下选择了化学工程专业。

“真香，哈哈哈。来到学校后，我开心地屈服于UNNC开放的氛围和优美的校园环境。

UNNC对我的影响是巨大的，开放的大学环境让我这四年饱满而丰盛，批判性思维也让我学会不断走出舒适圈。UNNCer的未来，只有未想，无有未达。”刘奕杨说。

刘奕杨和他的老师Philip Hall

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Yiyang turned down over 30 job offers and instead sought higher education in the UK

Yiyang Liu spent a heavy portion of his college life doing internships and kept traveling back and forth between the University and workplace. “Once I had to rush between Shenzhen, Ningbo, Hangzhou and Chongqing within 24 hours, and switching between a suit, T-shirt, lab coat and pajamas was tiring but inspiring, too,” says Yiyang.

Finding top internships was not easy at the beginning. Yiyang says: “Even now I remember the depression of that period – always being rejected without even a face-to-face chance to prove myself.” Recognising the dilemma, he started from small enterprises, and accepted various forms of working. These experiences tempered him and made everything afterwards possible. “Gradually I had more opportunities and played a growing role in my job,” he adds.

Abundant internship experience gave Yiyang a more mature view of himself as well as towards work than his peers. He analyses the job descriptions and responsibilities of each target position and prepared his resume accordingly. “I made at least 40 distinctive formats of resumes, and adjusted the content and their order depending on various positions,” says Yiyang, pointing at a mind map full of notes. “When it comes to my desired companies or positions, I spend even more time reading industry reports, collating sample pieces of my work and developing better visual presentations of my resume.”

Nonetheless, interviews are even more competitive than resume screening. “Among the eight people in the group interview for Ali, six were postgraduates of 985 universities, and some already with plenty work experience.” Yiyang thus started to read and learn extensively and practice to accumulate knowledge. “All good interview performances come from extra efforts and elaborate preparations,” he summarises. “As for the number of offers – it means nothing. As long as you are capable, it just depends on how much time you are willing to spend on sending your resume.”

“The substantial internships and learning enlightened me about my insufficiency on both knowledge and resources, which I plan to acquire. That is where I found academia enchanting,” explains Yiyang, about his sudden change to pursue a Master’s. “Just like many other world class universities overseas, UNNC is strict on academics. As a group of six, we are required to do a Front End Engineering Design (FEED) for a factory with nearly 80 sets of equipment. The group cooperation, independent thinking, and spontaneous exploration of untaught theories completely altered my previous stereotypes of sino-foreign universities. To achieve our goal, we still have to pay 120% efforts. We know UNNC at one, two, three and four o’clock.”

Yiyang was among the top five percent in his major last term, and obtained an offer to study at Imperial College, the University of Manchester, the University of Melbourne and some other top 50 universities. He chose University College London and his beloved “Chemical and Environmental Engineering”.

“My ultimate goal is to set up an enterprise of my own, utilising my knowledge to combine technological innovation and business,” says Yiyang.

文案 | Nico Tian

English | Elena Yang

图片 | 刘奕杨

排版 | WEAVER PR

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