不一样的迪士尼，职业探索在这里开始

2020-6-11 20:24:11

昆山杜克大学

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不一样的迪士尼，职业探索在这里开始

昆山杜克大学

作者：顾磊（Craig McIntosh）

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提起迪士尼你会想到什么？淘气可爱的米老鼠唐老鸭？冒险刺激的游乐项目？美女与野兽的剧场演出? 事实上，作为全球第一大娱乐公司，迪士尼吸引人的地方远不止于娱乐。

3月1日，昆山杜克大学的九名本科生在学校职业发展办公室的带领下，来到华特迪士尼（上海）有限公司进行实地参访（field trip）。此次参访的目的地不是迪士尼乐园园区，而是与乐园一墙之隔的员工办公场所。在那里，同学们参观了迪士尼大学——迪士尼针对内部员工开设的培训机构，了解了迪士尼的历史、上海迪士尼建设花絮，并通过 HR 人员的讲解明白了各个部门的职能、公司对人员的招聘需求以及未来实习的机会。

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前往迪士尼的路上，学生们兴奋地讨论着这个被誉为“地球上最快乐的地方”即将带给他们的机会；而职业发展办公室的老师们已经在为学生下一个职业探索的机会而忙碌。职业发展办公室高级经理 Jake Hsu 正在与上海一家媒体公司电话洽谈实习生招录计划；办公室的另一位成员 Hyunwoo Lee 则与同学们讨论起了国际品牌建设的话题。

在3月初的这次迪士尼乐园参访中，同学们参观了舞台后台和巨大的服装库，并有机会与迪士尼校园关系专员 Cherry Qu 交流，了解这家全球最大的娱乐公司对求职者的具体要求。听到 Cherry Qu 介绍，迪士尼的所有员工——包括实习生——都可以免费游玩全球任何一家迪士尼乐园，同学们都特别兴奋。

“这是一次非常奇妙的企业参访，”来自上海的大一本科生汤澜说。“我看到了迪士尼公司为实现‘魔法’背后所付出的巨大努力。我希望未来能有机会加入迪士尼，更多地了解迪士尼乐园的运作。”

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这是昆山杜克大学职业发展办公室在近几周内所组织的第三次企业实地参访。此前，同学们还参观了自行车王国捷安特在昆山设立的一间工厂，这家工厂位于昆山郊区，每天生产约五千辆自行车；以及中国四大国有银行之一，中国工商银行昆山分行。

在迪士尼参访之旅后的几周，职业发展办公室的老师们又带着学生前往杭州一家机器人公司，展开对智能机器人相关领域的思考，探索新的职业领域。此外，他们还邀请了全球领先的专业招聘集团瀚纳仕公司来校园举办专题讲座。

昆山杜克的同学们接下来还将参观拜访的企业包括：迅达集团——瑞士自动扶梯和电梯制造商；信达生物制药——致力于开发、生产和销售用于治疗肿瘤等重大疾病的创新药物的生物制药公司；以及美国职业篮球协会（NBA）中国总部。

值得一提的是，参加实地参访的学生都是昆山杜克大学的2022届大一新生。Jake Hsu 认为，本科生们需要尽早开始为潜在的职业发展道路做准备。他说：“即使在大学生涯的早期阶段，同学们也需要了解各行各业的不同文化，与职场专业人士建立联系。我们会鼓励他们，并创造尽可能多的机会协助同学们实现目标。”

Jake Hsu 也表示：“企业实地参访深受同学喜爱，这类活动让学生得以近距离地观察企业的具体运作以及制造过程，开拓眼界的同时，有助于他们对职场产生更直观的感受，更好地了解各类工作的内容与职责。”

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企业参访中的 Q&A 环节

除了企业实地参访等“走出去”的活动，职业发展办公室还组织了许多“请进来”的活动。例如：特邀嘉宾讲座、校园宣讲会、校园招聘会等。此外，办公室提供一对一职业咨询、求职技巧指导工作坊等特色服务，指导学生如何写好简历、如何建立职业人际关系、职场礼仪以及面试技巧等，贴心的服务还包括安排专业拍照机构为学生拍摄职业照。

Jake Hsu 认为：“昆山杜克采用通识博雅教育模式培养本科生，学生们除了学习广泛的课程和科目，还能通过职业发展办公室搭建的桥梁，接触到各种不同的企业和工作环境，让同学们了解毕业后职业发展的各种可能路径。”

想要了解昆山杜克大学职业发展办公室的更多信息，请访问其网站。

English Version

A day out at Disney … for work, not pleasure

We’re bouncing down the highway headed to Shanghai Disneyland and there’s a flurry of activity on our minibus, which is carrying nine excited Duke Kunshan undergraduate students and the Career Services team.

This Friday field trip is no joyride; there will be no tour of the Enchanted Storybook Castle or hugging Mickey and Minnie. Instead, we’ll be dropping by Disney University, a more business-like part of this vast theme park, to discuss internship opportunities with campus relations specialist Cherry Qu.

While some of the smartly dressed students go over their research on the “happiest place on Earth,” Jake Hsu, senior manager of the careers team, sits toward the back of the bus to take a call from a Shanghai media company that’s also interested in taking interns from Duke Kunshan.

At the front, Hyunwoo Lee, one of the university’s Career Services officers, chats with students about international branding and some of the questions they might want to ask at the upcoming meeting.

It was the third field trip in as many weeks organized by the careers team, with earlier outings taking in a Giant factory on the outskirts of Kunshan that produces about 5,000 bikes a day and the local headquarters of ICBC, one of China’s “Big Four” banks.

It’s worth pointing out that the students on these trips were all freshmen, part of the Duke Kunshan’s inaugural Class of 2022, meaning they are still some way off graduation.

For Hsu, it’s never too early for students to start preparing for their potential career path. “Even at this early stage in their academic life, students need to be learning about the various cultures across industries and securing professional connections,” he said. “We’re here to encourage them and create as many opportunities as possible to make those things happen.”

During the visit to Shanghai Disneyland in early March, students got to see backstage areas and the vast costume warehouse, and had a chance to talk with Qu and get to know the qualities the world’s largest entertainment company looks for in a candidate.

The excitement level arguably reached a peak when she mentioned that employees – including interns – receive a free pass to any Disney park in the world.

“It was a fantastic trip,” said Chinese undergraduate Lan Tang. “I was able to get a glance at the tremendous effort Disney puts in to make the ‘magic’ happen. It got me interested in learning more about how the park works by joining its team.”

In addition to arranging field trips and providing one-on-one consultation services to Duke Kunshan’s graduate and undergraduate students, this semester, the careers team has organized job fairs; skills workshops, such as in resume writing, networking and surviving a job interview; talks by guest speakers; and held photography studio sessions so that students can have professional portraits.

In the weeks following the Disney trip, the team took students to a robotics company in Hangzhou, a high-tech city about two hours away in neighboring Zhejiang province, and hosted an on-campus session with global recruitment firm Hays.

Coming up, Duke Kunshan students are also scheduled to tour a factory belonging to Schindler, the Swiss-based escalator and elevator manufacturer, as well as visit Innovent Biologics, which makes innovative medicines to treat cancer and other major diseases, and the HQ of NBA China.

“The company visits have been extremely well received by students, as they’re eye-opening experiences that make the working world real for them,” Hsu said. “They get to take a close look at what an organization actually does, how something is made, and get a better understanding of what different jobs involve.”

Shang Li, who visited the Giant plant along with 28 other undergraduate students, described the trip as “amazing” and called for more factory visits so she could learn about production processes.

After about two hours at Disney, we’re back on the minibus and heading home, although now there’s a little less legroom thanks to all the goodies from the Disney Store and other outlets on the way out of the park.

The students, all of whom took the initiative to add Qu on WeChat to ask follow-up questions, are discussing what they have learned and whether they will apply for Disney’s summer intern program.

“Liberal arts students like those at Duke Kunshan get to choose from a broad range of courses and subjects, and we also want them to see a wide spectrum of companies and working environments. Our services, including the Friday field trips, aim to raise awareness of the countless possibilities our students will have after graduation.”

To find out more about the Career Services team, visit itswebsite.