Young people who have fled the bubble industry are finding jobs through "unorthodox methods" and getting a 25% salary increase.

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Simin used to be a UI designer with a monthly salary of 18,000 yuan.

She originally lived a life with a decent income and manageable pressure in Suzhou. However, her colleagues on the team were successively laid off due to the impact of AI, and finally she was the only one left.

In the first half of last year, she bravely quit her job without a new one lined up and planned to switch to the booming AI industry.

Regarding AI, Simin decided to "get on the table first, then start eating."

● Simin sharing her experience of changing careers on Xiaohongshu

After a series of intensive AI online courses and leveraging her previous design experience with AI products, she was lucky enough to "get on the table" a few months later - she joined a small technology company in Beijing as an AI product manager, and her monthly salary just exceeded 20,000 yuan.

Zhangzhang had been working in the game industry in Beijing as a project manager for three years.

Due to the intense competition in the industry, combined with a work environment full of interpersonal conflicts and a lack of a sense of value, she had to consider a career transition.

In the Career Promotion Machine community of Career Bonus, she was recommended to a leading podcast label because of a small podcast she recorded in her spare time.

● A ginger cat that Zhangzhang often sees in the hutongs

Her new workplace is located in a hutong in Beijing. With a small and wonderful team, she has become much happier.

Liu Le is an architectural designer who graduated in 2017, just at the end of the real - estate era.

In Chengdu, after six years of work, her department was disbanded. She had little savings and suffered from severe cervical spondylosis.

While recovering, she looked for a job. Nine months later, recommended by a former colleague, she found a pre - sales support job in the industrial safety field with her design skills and communication abilities.

Her salary increased by 25%, and she exceeded a monthly salary of 10,000 yuan in Chengdu.

● Liu Le on a business trip to a factory

Compared with the real - estate industry, "this job has more obvious benefits with the support of policies."

Of course, they are hard - working and lucky people. In fact, in the severe job - hunting situation, the difficulty of changing careers and landing a new job is increasing.

As major recruitment websites integrate AI into the initial resume screening process, it means that job - seekers will face more brutal elimination - "resumes need to be more targeted and relevant, and it's impossible to self - recommend or explain to AI."

In this situation, in addition to quickly transitioning to industries with emerging benefits like Simin and others, job - seekers also need to actively explore more "unconventional ways" to find job opportunities.

Career Promotion Machine AI: The "Unconventional Ways" to Find Career Bonuses

Two years ago, 36Kr launched a Career Promotion Machine project (Zhangzhang was a member of our community at that time).

Among them, we screened a list of "Top 500 Bonus Companies":

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Looking back now, the two currently hottest companies, DeepSeek and Unitree Robotics, were both included.

This year, 36Kr, in collaboration with CloudMinds Group, a leading human - resources service provider, has upgraded it to Career Promotion Machine AI

In addition to incorporating AI capabilities to assist in job - hunting, we have also expanded the scope of companies with bonuses, including:

• All start - up companies (those with good development and recruitment needs) reported by 36Kr in the past 14 years;

• Companies that have won national honors, such as unicorns, potential unicorns, hidden champions, specialized and sophisticated "little giants", and gazelle enterprises;

• The investment portfolios of giants like ByteDance, Alibaba, Tencent, Xiaomi, BYD, and CATL;

• The start - up businesses of major technology companies, such as Kuaishou's Keling/Lingchuan Technology and ByteDance's Tomato Novel...

Also,

• The start - up projects of senior executives from major companies, such as LeXiang Technology founded by Guo Renjie of Dreame and Habitat founded by Shen Yanan of Li Auto...

• The start - up projects of scientists from world - renowned universities, such as Shenyan Technology founded by Dr. Jiwei Li from Stanford and Xingdong Jiyuan founded by Professor Hao Fang from Tsinghua...

• Companies founded by female CEOs, such as Meijia Technology founded by Li Zhuang and Duozhuayu founded by Ying Wei...

● The home page of Career Promotion Machine AI, where bonuses are continuously updated

We call these companies "bonus companies". They represent the new trends in future business and technological development, being innovative, cutting - edge, and full of vitality.

Compared with established large companies or listed companies, bonus companies are still in the early stages of development (the bonus company database of Career Promotion Machine AI mainly consists of companies that have completed Series B+ financing: their business models have been proven, and they have entered the expansion stage). The entry threshold is relatively lower, but there is more room for career development.

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Each era has its own bonuses.

Behind various changes such as AI, going global, digitalization, and domestic substitution, there are new bonuses.

For job - seekers, a more flexible and optimistic attitude is needed: During a person's 30 - plus - year career, it's very likely that they will experience multiple industry changes. Only by actively following the flow of bonuses can they make good career choices.

This is also the original intention of creating Career Promotion Machine AI.

User Guide for Career Promotion Machine AI

In Career Promotion Machine AI, we have screened tens of thousands of bonus companies in more than 25 bonus sectors.

Meanwhile, different from the logic of traditional recruitment platforms that serve employers, we want to use AI to help job - seekers find truly suitable opportunities across all industries.

How to use Career Promotion Machine AI specifically?

We will use a real resume of a product manager from the Career Promotion Machine project (with the alias "Up Jiangzi") to demonstrate:

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

After uploading the resume from the home page, AI will conduct an evaluation - we have developed a resume evaluation model based on professional HR knowledge (mainly the Iceberg Model of Competence).

After about 15 - 30 seconds, a resume evaluation report will be generated. It is recommended that the resume not be too long, and a standard one - page resume is the best.

The resume evaluation report is generated:

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

First, your "career personality" type will be analyzed from the resume, simulating the first impression an HR gets when seeing the resume.

Additionally, the comprehensive evaluation radar chart is also worth paying attention to: