The cold wind has arrived and winter is deepening, yet a piece of good news about employment quietly dispelled the chill of winter — Wang Ruoyu, a 2026 master's graduate majoring in Mechanical Engineering at the Institute of Engineering Technology, was among the first graduates to receive an offer from Chongqing Changan Automobile Co., Ltd., becoming a veritable "first signing" graduate of IET this year. Let us approach his job-seeking journey and listen to the thinking and gains behind it.

Wang Ruoyu is a 2023 master's student majoring in Mechanical Engineering. He has won a Second-Class Academic Scholarship and the Jinheng Academic Award, and has applied for one public patent. He won the CICTP BEST POSTER and the Second and Third Prizes in the 2025 China International College Students' Innovation Competition (Beijing Division).

Company Profile

As a leading enterprise in China's automotive industry and a benchmark of self-owned brands, Changan Automobile maintains a leading position in both the fuel vehicle and new energy vehicle tracks, with brands such as DEEPAL and AVATR continuing to gain momentum. The company actively promotes its intelligentization ("Beidou Tianzhu") and electrification ("Shangri-La") strategies, participates in major national special projects and covers diverse markets with its products, leading domestic automobiles from "following" to "running abreast" and shouldering the important mission of industrial transformation.

Career Choice

During his studies, Wang Ruoyu systematically mastered multidisciplinary knowledge in mechanics, electronics and software, and accumulated hands-on capabilities in vehicle engineering and intelligent control, which are highly consistent with Changan Automobile's talent needs in directions such as new energy and intelligentization. Changan Automobile has a technology layout covering the entire industrial chain including the three-electric system and smart cockpits, providing Wang Ruoyu with a complete practice platform from theory to mass production. He is eager to participate in tackling frontier technologies such as new-generation electric drive and high-level intelligent driving at Changan Automobile, and even more expects to integrate his personal growth into the national strategy for intelligent connected vehicles and new energy vehicles, contributing his professional strength to industrial transformation and upgrading.

Reflections on Job Seeking

Reflection One: "Early planning" is the key. Job seeking is not a temporary task that starts only with the autumn recruitment; only by clarifying the direction and accumulating experience half a year or even a year in advance can one firmly grasp opportunities when they come and avoid falling into a passive position in later competition. At the same time, planning ahead also facilitates targeted and rapid adjustment of strategies during the recruitment process, avoiding an over-long battle line and the passive situation of few positions and fierce competition in the late job-seeking season.

Reflection Two: "Precise preparation" is the core. Only by optimizing the resume in a targeted way and gaining an in-depth understanding of the target company can one improve the hit rate of applications and make every effort get a response. Before applying for a position, one needs to optimize the resume according to the requirements of the position, polish one's research, internship and project experience in a targeted manner, highlight the actual experience that matches the position and give the company the information it most wants to see.

Reflection Three: "A steady mindset" is the guarantee. Setbacks are unavoidable in the job-seeking process; only by maintaining a calm mindset and treating every attempt as accumulated growth can one reap surprises through persistence. Building self-confidence, continuously reviewing, and constantly clarifying one's strengths and recognizing one's weaknesses — this is the lowest-cost advantage one can gain in job seeking.

Message for the Future

Three years of study, with gratitude for the cultivation of my alma mater. May my junior fellow students aim high and keep their feet on the ground, scaling new heights in the vast world of intelligent manufacturing. Empower industry with professionalism, boost the strength of the nation with innovation, and let youth shine brilliantly through striving!