Harvest failure is also a kind of luck

Last winter, I was working on a travel project, and I was pressed for time and needed an intern. After I posted the news, I was inundated with letters.

Among them, a girl told about her experience and experience in tourism and the experience of traveling around the world. I think her experience is a good match for the client's needs, except that she has no office experience.

I'm particularly looking for interns who have different experiences than just good grades and good schools. After the interview, the girl said that she was hard-working and would learn all kinds of work skills that could be used in the office. She just wanted to be given a chance.

I also think that interns should not have too high requirements, and young people should be given more opportunities to grow into future stars. So, after turning down a bunch of top students at elite schools, I hired this girl.

After a while on the job, I found with some dismay how much of a problem it was for interns to have zero office experience. Experience alone is not enough. Without business experience, it is difficult to translate that experience into insight and help customers' needs in any meaningful way. In this case, the girl can only do some office help to show her worth.

However, it is a pity that she has been traveling abroad all year round, so she does not know many domestic situations. She even does not have Alipay, cannot use Taobao, and does not have a domestic bank card to transfer money. These are the important contents of my work. At the same time, she is not very skilled in using Word, Excel, PPT, and other operating software.

I tried very hard to convince myself, give her time, give her a chance, after all, she is my recruit, she is like me, compared to other people, I believe she can do it. But after a while, she still couldn't -- improved, but not as much as I thought.

One night, I talked to the female intern about leaving. She was very sad. I knew what it was like, and for months, I could see her trying to get used to everything. But most of the time, not only hard work that can succeed but fit is more important than hard work. I tried to explain this to her as best I could, but I knew she wouldn't believe it and would still think I fired her.

Maybe on the same day in the evening, I saw a former colleague who resigned to entrepreneurship sent a job Posting, is an organizational exit parent-child camp company, requires a good knowledge of English, has a wealth of experience in international tourism, like children, have an affinity, work hard, not in almost every weekend in the domestic, so it is best to single, and have certain organizational and planning skills. It was a tailor-made position for my intern, and everything suited her. I quickly forwarded this information to her and encouraged her to interview.

Three days later, she told me that she was going to work there as a regular employee, and her salary was 2,000 yuan higher than mine. I was especially happy because she had found her way. Before this, I was also worried that she would always be trapped in the haze of internship failure.

Another six months passed, and I regularly received pictures of her traveling around the world, seeing her getting along with her colleagues at her new company, hearing that she had rerented a house and was making English breakfasts and Americano. She's finally back to the person she was at the interview, instead of sticking around trying to fit in.

You are great, but the world is too big for you to fit everywhere. But that doesn't mean you're bad, or that you're bad -- it just doesn't fit. The internship itself is a process of trial and error, finding your preferences and shortcomings, and constantly adjusting yourself. In this process, you are lucky to find the right, harvest failure is also lucky. You should know that the internship is only the first step in your contact with society. No one can reach the position with such precision.