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很多中國學生和家長都有一種想要迅速成功“一步登天”而不是厚積薄發的心態。這實際上是受中國文化的影響，“好勝心理”在中國人心中根深蒂固。當然，我個人也很欣賞這種特質，因為我自己就是一個很好勝，一定要做的比他人要好。然而，在你選擇在美國接受的高等教育時，你是在哪里上大學還是讀研究生都不重要，可能只是因為在你首次申請學校時沒有進入一個頂尖大學，但這并不意味著你再也沒有機會在那些頂尖大學獲得學位。這個道理也同樣適用于職業選擇上，大多數中國學生和家長希望在他們剛畢業時，就可以找到符合他們期望薪水的完美工作，盡管期望值放得過分高，然而他們并沒有意識到一點。當然啦，如果你可以一開始就得到你想要的工作或者被頂尖大學錄取，那么就盡你所有的努力，因為這是一條更簡單的路。但是如果你沒有，那么這絕不要灰心，因為這不是世界末日也不意味著“大門已經關閉”。下面我就想和你說說我所說的“兩步登天”也就是申請學校和求職的“二次機會”。

美國頂尖學校的申請過程現如今一年比一年殘酷，特別是考慮到北美有比所有英語語言國家加到一起還多的世界頂級大學，同時申請者人數也在逐年增加，所以每年錄取機會越來越小，因此學生們得到錄取的壓力越來越大，不通過申請就意味著他們的失敗。每年在三月底，學生如果被自己的夢想學校所拒絕，這基本就意味著這所學校變成了一個有點遙遠的夢想，即使它還不至于只是一個遙不可及的幻想。然而，美國是個有“二次機會”的國家，人們生活在 “永不言敗”的座右銘下。招生這方面也是一樣。正如我在以后的文章中提到的關于轉學項目，許多在美國的學生可能會選擇在轉到他們的夢想學校之前先去讀一所兩年制的大學。這個方法鼓勵那些沒有進入他們的理想學校的學生，最終憑借他們最后機會來向他們的夢想大學證明，他們比起上一次申請，已經明顯進步了。最后，沒有人真的看你開始的學位，你最后在哪里完成學業才是最重要的。比爾蓋茨被哈佛錄取了但是他并沒有完成他的學位，從本質上講，他不能算是哈佛的畢業生。

成為應屆生的你，離開學校尋找第一份工作也是同樣要甩掉“一步登天”的錯覺。近些年，許多畢業生沮喪于他們沒有辦法在畢業后找到一份合適的工作，因為他們無法獲得他們理想職業的offer。然而，他們在腦海中一開始的理想的職業是不切實際的，這些職業對于他們的職業生涯來說也未必是一個好的開始。我站在之前常常培訓很多職業規劃和留學顧問，甚至親自輔導職場人士的角度，可以負責任的說，當你閱讀許多成功的企業高管的簡歷時，會有個很有意思的發現。許多人并沒有以如“分析師顧問”等很吸引人的頭銜，并沒有月薪10,000人民幣開始工作，相反，在他們真正開始他們的職業之旅前，他們通常以如“記錄員”或者“初級秘書”的頭銜作為第一份工作。許多學生和家長會認為他們出國留學的經歷會讓他們在第一份職業和薪資上擁有特權。我認為這種期望是很有缺陷的，事實上作為一個雇主，由于文化沖擊的問題，我跟很多不同行業的人士一樣可能會猶豫支付與一個本地畢業生同樣的薪水，畢竟多年在海外，基本對國內的職場會產生認知斷層（你想想看，近四五年中國的發展有多快呢?）。獲得國外教育的關鍵是它為你開辟了不同的道路，一旦你克服了反向文化沖擊并且積累了足夠的工作經驗的話。而且，你至少需要 2-3年的工作經驗，你在頂尖外國大學學習的經歷對你的益處才能真正發揮出來。雖然很多例子表明學生花了比2-3年更少的工作時間，有了更好的工作機會，但是對那些一開始沒有的，真的沒有必要來比較，因為很多人力資源調研公司一次又一次證明國際教育的好處更多體現在在中期和長期。更好的指標是在5-7年后，但是即便如此，真的沒有將職業發展來作比較，因為每個人都是獨特的。即使一個人看起來在一個階段是處在一個比別人劣勢的位置，也許經過3年的轉折，前者或許最終變成了后者的經理。這種情況絕不罕見，這也是為什么我一直講——成功需要耐心。

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——————————以下為Andy老師英文原稿————————

Obsession with the immediate success

There is a tendency for many Chinese students and parents to expect instant success rather than throughout a long duration. This is actually a great aspect of Chinese culture, the winning mentality is so deeply ingrained. (好勝) However, in terms of choosing your tertiary education in the US, whether you are pursuing undergraduate or graduate degree there, just because you do not get into a top institution when you first apply does not mean you will never be able to earn your degree over there. The same applies for a career, most Chinese students and parents expect to find that perfect job fresh out of college that matches their often lofty and overambitious salary expectations. What they fail to realize is that.Of course, if you are able to obtain what you want either in job hunting or ?admissions to a top university on the first go, then all the power to you as it is a much easier route, but if you don't then definitely don't be disheartened because it is not the end of the world nor are the “gates closed”

Every year, the application process to these top desired schools in the US is getting much more fierce than the previous year, especially given the fact that North America has more world-class institutions than all the other English speaking countries put together and an increasing number o applicants. Admission chances are getting slimmer each year so the pressure is on for these students to get that offer or they will be deemed a failure. Getting rejected by the student's dream school at the end of March each year often means that particular school becomes somewhat of a distant dream, if not a fantasy. However, the US is a nation that is built on second chances, people live by the motto of ?“never say never”. With admissions, this is still the same.As I will mention in a future article about transfer programs, many students in the US even opt to attend a two-year degree institution first before transferring to their dream school. This method encourages students who don't get into their most desired institution and end up with their last resort a chance to prove to their desired institution that they have improved remarkably since the last time they applied. At the end of the day, nobody really looks at where you begin your degree, it is all about where you finish that matters. Bill Gates was a Harvard admit but he never completed his degree, technically there is no way to consider him an actual Harvard graduate.

Hunting for your first job out of school is the same exact concept of not requiring immediate success. Many graduates these days are despondent of not being able to find the right job out of college because they have been rejected by just about every potential employer for their ideal job. However, their idealized first career in their heads is impractical, it fails to consider that these jobs may not ultimately be the right career path for them to start off with. From a career counselor and ex-recruitment professional, you would be surprised to read resumes of various successful corporate executives. Many do not start off with sexy titles such as “Analyst Consultant” with a pay of RMB10,000 per month, instead they usually start with titles such as “Record-keeping clerk” or “Junior secretary” before working their way up. A lot of students and parents seem to think that their education abroad gives them an entitlement to a much better first job platform and higher starting salary. I think that type of expectation is very flawed, in fact as an employer I may even be hesitant to pay them the same salary as a local graduate because of reverse culture shock issues. The point of obtaining your education abroad is that it opens up multiple paths once you overcome reverse culture shock and accumulate sufficient work experience, which in my opinion requires at least 2-3 years of work experience before your international education from a top institution will count for anything. There are ample examples where it has taken much less time or even actually providing a higher starting platform, but for those who don't, there really is no need to compare because evidence by various HR consulting firms have shown time and time again that international education is beneficial in the medium and long term. A much better indicator is 5-7 years later, but even so there really is no point comparing career paths because everyone's unique. Even if one seems to be in a much inferior position than someone else at one stage, perhaps in a twist of 3 years the former may even end up becoming the latter's manager. These cases are by no means rare, which is why I keep preaching the need for patience with success.

Andy的簡介：

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- Multicultural and multilingual: Grew up and lived in a number of countries, American-born Chinese -（Third Culture Kid）多文化和多語言:在多個國家成長和居住；美籍華人-典型第三文化人士(TCK)

- Leader in empowering corporate training and recruitment professionals with assessment methodologies and project-based learning andragogy為企業培訓和招聘人士提供領先評估體系和游戲化的項目式學習的職場教學法的領袖

- Decade of experience in education and training, and expert in China十年以上的學生教育和企業培訓的經驗:并被很多本土和國外人士稱為“中國通”

- Regular community event organizer with expertise in workplace gamification for employees定期社區活動的組織者:游戲化員工體系的主題

- UC Berkeley Alumni Club Ex-Leader and Recruitment Ambassador畢業于世界名校加州伯克利大學并擔任校友俱樂部前任負責人和前任招生大使

- Third-party Interviewer for College Admissions美國第三方面試官(很多大學現在需要學生在提交申請書與第三方機構進行面試)

- Helped build a number of college admissions counseling departments負責搭建多個海外升學指導中心

- Unlike most “education experts”, personally attended more than a dozen schools growing up and personally went through the AP, IB, British, Singaporean and Hong Kong education systems相比其他所謂的“教育專家”，從小上過十幾所學校，親自體驗過AP、IB、英國、新加坡和香港的教育制度

- Recently, created China’s first bilingual entrepreneurial and innovation educational events organization: Center for Youth Business Facilitation

在這一兩年間，建立了中國第一個雙語創新創業學習的活動平臺: CYBF創習國際交流中心