Gusu University. Figures of diligent students bustled through the campus.
Liang Jiaming hurried toward the autumn recruitment presentation with several classmates. He was a master's student in pharmaceutical engineering, with graduation just around the corner, and he was doing his best to find a satisfying job.
Before beginning his job hunt, he had first set his direction: no lab positions, no sales, with expected work locations in second-tier cities such as Sea City, Su City, and Jinling City.
During university, he had studied diligently and earned excellent grades. Brimming with confidence, he had begun submitting résumés and applying online through the official websites of major foreign pharmaceutical companies around early October.
However, after several rounds of online applications to more than ten foreign companies, including Pfizer, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson, he had been rejected one after another. Not a single one had gone through. It was undoubtedly a huge blow, leaving him deeply dejected.
He had seriously reflected on the reasons. For one, the bar for foreign companies was simply too high. There were plenty of peers more outstanding than him. After all, Gusu University was not some elite C9 school, and he had no overseas study experience. With only his CET-6 English level, getting through would indeed be difficult.
So he turned his attention to domestic pharmaceutical companies. After submitting résumés and interviewing on-site at several autumn recruitment events, he finally received offers from several CRO companies. But CRO companies were all contractors, meaning the work was relatively demanding; furthermore, their positions were all in third-tier cities, and the pay was far from ideal, with most offering only a base salary of 6k–8k.
The only pharmaceutical analyst position with relatively high pay, offering 8000+, had rejected him in the final interview.
As for domestic pharmaceutical companies, the positions