Yu Wenjun, CEO of Zhishengweilai: Analyzing the New Job Search Ideas in the AI Era | WISE2024 King of Business Conference
On November 29, at the second-day site of the 36Kr WISE2024 Business King Conference, Yu Wenjun, the CEO of Career Upgrade Future, conducted an in-depth analysis of the new job search concepts and individual growth paths in the AI era. Yu Wenjun's sharing focuses on how to broaden job search concepts, embrace love, and achieve lifelong growth in the current era of rapid technological development.
Yu Wenjun, CEO of Career Upgrade Future
Yu Wenjun first introduced the background of Career Upgrade Future: It is a startup company that was incubated in 36Kr, in conjunction with the product research and development team of Yunsheng Group, a well-known leading human resource service provider in China, and officially operated independently in August 2024. She pointed out that many excellent companies in various segmented fields are not necessarily widely known among job seekers and are constrained in attracting talents. On the other hand, with the adjustment of the industrial structure, a large number of outstanding talents are overflowing from Internet companies, and Career Upgrade Future is established to solve this problem: with bonus observation reports as the carrier and AI tools as the support, to connect job seekers and employers who are concerned about future bonuses.
In the sharing, Yu Wenjun mentioned some key data in 2024, including the changes in the consumer industry, the rapid development of the artificial intelligence field, and the intensification of the aging population. She emphasized that these changes have brought about drastic changes in industry trends, with some positions becoming scarce while others requiring the attention of talents. For example, more than 50% of positions in the game industry offer a salary of over 200,000, while the elderly health care track has also emerged with high-paying blue-collar positions, with a salary of up to 30,000 - 40,000.
In this year's Chinese job market, although the recovery of the Chinese economy is still hindered, and the domestic and international environment is full of uncertainties and challenges, the overall economic expectation is still a steady and slow growth. Enterprises are more cautious in recruitment compared to last year. Currently, nearly half of the enterprises choose to maintain the existing staff size, mainly due to the reduction in business demand. Online recruitment websites are the main recruitment channels, and the composite employment model has also attracted attention. The application of AI in the recruitment field is not yet widely popularized, but with the continuous progress of technology, its development potential is huge.
In terms of the trend of industry capital flow, the mechanical manufacturing industry continues to play an important role in providing employment positions and recruitment needs. In the economic recovery in 2024, the recruitment demand of enterprises in the mechanical manufacturing industry will grow slowly with the prior repair of the supply side. The proportion of enterprises in the Internet and IT industry that increase the number of employees is at a historical low, only maintaining rational development. The recruitment demand for talents in the medical and health industry is expected to continue to grow. The automotive industry is facing fierce competition, and core enterprises are actively expanding the recruitment scale to adapt to the rapid development and technological update of the industry.
Yu Wenjun also mentioned that although the job market faces challenges, there are always people who find opportunities in the cracks. She emphasized that through visiting enterprises in the past two years, Career Upgrade Future found that there is an expectation gap between the expectations of employers for employees and the career plans of employees themselves. Therefore, Career Upgrade Future is committed to helping job seekers understand themselves and the market and break the information gap in job search by organically combining the media industry's insight and AI tools.
The content strategy of Career Upgrade Future was also displayed at the forum. According to Yu Wenjun, the company provides users with professional industry insights through in-depth and vertical employer-side research and vivid content presentation. She also revealed that Career Upgrade Future is internally testing a small program, aiming to improve the matching accuracy between users and target enterprises, and the small program will be officially released at the end of the year.
When talking about the preparations that job seekers should consider for employment, Yu Wenjun emphasized that in addition to academic qualifications or experience, job seekers should also pay attention to the abilities under the iceberg, that is, the soft abilities to solve problems: innovative thinking, maintaining curiosity, coordinating and communicating, and data sensitivity, which are frequently mentioned by employers. At the same time, for employers in the new era, it is necessary to understand that: when the post-00s are looking for jobs, they attach more importance to self-growth, openness and diversity, work-life balance and other labels. They hope to have autonomy, rather than being a screw or a workhorse.
At the end of the sharing, Yu Wenjun called on: Everyone should return to their inner love and find a job that can ignite themselves. Only by exerting their own strengths in the work can one find true satisfaction and success in the workplace. The original intention of "Career Upgrade Future" is to hope that both employers and job seekers can move in the direction of a two-way pursuit, that is, "Employers can find the employees with light in their eyes as soon as possible, and employees can also find the ideal company".
The sharing of Yu Wenjun, the CEO of Career Upgrade Future, provides a new perspective and idea for employers and job seekers present, and points out the direction for career development in the AI era. Career Upgrade Future will provide companionship and growth for workplace people through the three major bases of content + tools + operation.