171: Chapter 171 The Toughest Graduation Season! Campus Recruitment! A Frank Openness with Chen Li!

Chapter 171: The Hardest Graduation Season! Campus Recruiting! Being Open and Honest with Chen Li!

"Recruiting?"

Su Yang remembered that every year from March to May, many companies would conduct spring recruitment to build up their workforce.

Many companies and enterprises would also go to universities to hold career talks.

However, different schools received different levels of treatment.

Large companies preferred graduates from prestigious 211 and 985 universities.

Su Yang's alma mater, Rongcheng Institute of Technology, was a relatively ordinary second-tier university.

Its status was slightly awkward.

"Mm-hmm!" Ran Ying said in a low voice. "If your company is short of people, you could recruit some newcomers from our school to train. Our school still has many excellent students... This year is the hardest graduation season yet, so the employment pressure is very high, and the school is under a lot of pressure too. It just so happens that there are fewer companies recruiting now, so the school asked me to check with you..."

"Okay! I understand!"

Seemingly unsure of Su Yang's stance, Ran Ying added softly, "If you really don't plan on hiring, just sending a few people over to make up the numbers for the company count would be fine too."

Su Yang couldn't help but laugh.

He suddenly felt that his former counselor was quite cute; her tone even sounded a bit aggrieved!

"I'm planning to take a vacation recently, and everything's already arranged. Is it okay if I send people from my company instead?"

"Of course it is!"

"Can you send me a copy of the school's major and department information?"

"Of course!"

Ran Ying's voice had already begun to sound cheerful.

Su Yang said with a smile, "I'll send people from the company over. We should be recruiting some people!"

Ran Ying: "That's really wonderful!"

Su Yang couldn't help but smile.

He also recalled that his counselor wasn't that old herself.

Su Yang's various companies had never participated in campus recruiting before.

Social recruitment was usually enough, and he preferred hiring employees with work experience.

They had indeed hired some recent graduates, but the numbers were very small.

But since his counselor had asked, Su Yang's companies weren't lacking these positions, and since they would need to hire sooner or later anyway, he might as well look after his alma mater first.

If they recruited now, the students likely wouldn't join the company until July.

By then, Su Yang's companies would definitely be short-staffed.

Many positions in the company didn't have high educational requirements.

Graduates from a second-tier institution would be more than capable of handling them.

There were actually benefits to the company recruiting and training newcomers.

They had a higher level of education, learned relatively quickly, and their loyalty increased faster too!

Su Yang also wanted to adjust the personnel structure of his companies.

For example, at the Jiuxiang Food factory, he might need to recruit some fresh university graduates to train for management.

Some of the older factory managers had lower education levels and a rather crude management style.

Furthermore, they were too slow to accept new things... and some simply didn't want to learn!

Of course, if the graduates didn't want to come, then so be it.

Su Yang felt that the benefits at his food factory were quite good.

Because there were so many workers at the food factory, they only worked eight hours a day, and recently they even had two-day weekends.

Ordinary workers had a monthly salary of five thousand and were provided with social security.

If a university student came after graduation, he could probably offer six thousand after they became permanent, with almost no overtime.

...This treatment was much better than what he'd had back at Advertising Company!

Not to mention that once the food company became more profitable, he would consider giving raises.

Soon, Ran Ying sent Su Yang the electronic version of the institute's major information.

Su Yang glanced through the various majors at the institute and found them to be quite comprehensive.

There was Mechanical Engineering, Environmental Protection, and Food Engineering, as well as more common majors like Management, Accounting, and Chinese Language.

So, he had Jiang Yuzhen call the general managers and directors of the six companies.

He also passed the institute's major information to them, letting them see if they wanted to recruit any newcomers!

Su Yang also assigned the task of campus recruitment to Jiang Yuzhen.

The campus recruitment fair held by the school was on April 20th, so there were still a few days to prepare.

Jiang Yuzhen's head felt a bit dizzy: "So, I'm responsible for the campus recruitment of all six companies?"

"Yes!" Su Yang said with a smile. "You'll be in contact with my former counselor."

"But I only graduated last July myself!"

"That's why you need more tempering!"

"..."

After pushing the task onto Jiang Yuzhen, Su Yang went to find Chen Li after work.

He wanted to feed Chen Li her fill before leaving.

Holding the sweat-drenched Chen Li, Su Yang asked with a smile, "Do you want more?"

"No more! No more!"

"That's good then!"

Looking at Chen Li in his arms, Su Yang thought for a moment and asked, "Sister Chen Li, do you plan on continuing like this?"

Chen Li looked at Su Yang, stunned for a moment, and then asked, "What do you mean by that?"

"Do you have any plans for the future?"

"I don't know!" Chen Li burrowed into Su Yang's chest. "I don't want to think about it too much!"

"You're almost thirty, right?"

"Hmph!" Chen Li pinched the flesh on Su Yang's waist. "You're not allowed to talk about my age!"

"Don't pinch! It hurts!"

Chen Li was indeed almost thirty, but after being with Su Yang for a while, she had taken good care of herself.

Her work pressure wasn't high, she went to the gym regularly, and she paid a lot of attention to skincare.

Coupled with Su Yang's frequent 'nourishment,' her skin was hydrated and she was glowing.

She looked like a girl of twenty-five!

Su Yang felt that the current Chen Li was even more beautiful and glamorous than when he first met her after graduation!

After fooling around with Su Yang for a bit, Chen Li thought it over and said:

"Actually, I do have some thoughts!"

"Tell me about them!"

Previously, regarding their relationship, Chen Li had been playing the ostrich, and he had deliberately avoided mentioning it.

But recently, as Su Yang's career took off and his monthly income increased, he had become more and more confident!

He felt that as long as he didn't marry Chen Li, he could fully satisfy her other requirements.

Besides, continuing like this forever wasn't an option.

It wasn't his problem, but Chen Li's.

Chen Li was indeed playing the ostrich, but he didn't believe she wouldn't be agonizing over the future in the dead of night.

Now, both sides could have an open and honest talk!

If Chen Li was willing to continue following him, he was also willing to give her some promises and security.

He should at least be considered wealthy now!

Chen Li looked into Su Yang's eyes: "I know you won't marry me!"

Su Yang nodded: "Go on!"

"Scumbag!"

Chen Li gave Su Yang a hard pinch in anger; she really put some strength into it this time!

After venting her emotions, Chen Li continued, "I want to buy a house in Rongcheng with you, something around three million, with a relatively large layout!"

Su Yang teased, "The kind where you contribute ten thousand and I contribute two million nine hundred thousand?"

Chen Li kicked Su Yang in annoyance, finding his mouth truly sharp: "We'll contribute together. You put in one and a half million, and I'll put in one and a half million!"

"You're that rich? You're not taking out your parents' retirement money, are you?"

Su Yang asked in surprise.

The salary he paid Chen Li was twenty thousand a month.

Jiuxiang Catering had only been established for over half a year; no matter how much she saved, she probably could only have saved less than three hundred thousand!

Yet this time she could actually produce one and a half million...

Chen Li rolled her eyes at Su Yang: "I've worked for quite a few years. Isn't it normal to have a little money?"

"How much money do you have?"

"This is my money, I'm not telling you!"

"Then let's continue!"

"Wait! Don't!"

Chen Li tried to escape, but was caught by a prepared Su Yang: "I'm going to subject you to a strict interrogation now!"

Seeing that Su Yang was serious, Chen Li soon confessed.

Most importantly, she also knew Su Yang wouldn't look down on her small amount of money.

Chen Li had about 1.8 million in hand. Over two hundred thousand was saved from Jiuxiang Catering.

The other 1.5 million or so was earned from doing loans before, mainly mortgages.

A portion was also profit from investing in gold.

"Are loans that profitable?"

Chen Li was very frugal with her food and clothing; Su Yang had known this for a long time.

"It was indeed very profitable before. Everyone was desperately leveraging up, begging for loans, afraid that the price would go up if they bought even a day late," Chen Li said wistfully. "At my peak, I could make over five hundred thousand a year!"

"Why didn't you buy a house back then?"

"I felt people were too crazy; something felt off!"

"Fair enough!"

As it turned out, Chen Li's intuition was correct.

"You also bought gold, so didn't you make a lot?"

Su Yang knew gold had surged; at least those who bought early could make a lot.

"But I lost money on funds!"

Chen Li pulled out her phone and showed Su Yang the funds she had bought.

The poor child had spent a hundred thousand on medical funds and lost forty thousand!

Those dense little red dots were likely from automatic investment plans.

Investing from the peak to the mountainside, and then to the bottom...

To be accurate, the current bottom!

After all, it was the bottom now, but who knew if looking back next year, this would also be the mountainside.

It could only be said that it was lucky it was an automatic investment plan; if she had bought directly, the loss would have been even worse!

"Luckily I didn't buy much!" Chen Li said helplessly. "At first I only bought a thousand, then I kept averaging down, more and more... later I just gave up!"

"Look, I have some too. I bought medical funds as well, and liquor!"

Su Yang pulled out his own phone; he had also bought funds back then.

Even though Chen Li was physically exhausted, she still forced herself to lean over and watch Su Yang open his phone, asking curiously, "How much did you lose?"

"The medical fund probably lost eighty percent!"

Chen Li said with some happiness, "Then aren't you even worse off than me?"

"Definitely worse!"

But when Chen Li saw the remaining twenty-some yuan in Su Yang's medical fund... she immediately fell silent!

"You only bought a hundred yuan's worth?"

Su Yang asked back, "Yeah! What's wrong? A hundred yuan isn't money?"

"I'm going to bite you to death!"

She felt it was so unfair.

Su Yang was clearly much richer than her, yet he only lost eighty yuan.

A poor person like her who had worked so hard to save money had lost forty thousand directly!

After finally restraining the somewhat frantic Chen Li, Su Yang finally said, "Is buying a house enough?"

Speaking of serious business, Chen Li calmed down again: "I want to have two children for you!"

"Huh?"

Su Yang really hadn't considered the issue of children.

However, he felt that in the future, he would most likely want children!

"If I were single, I would absolutely not want children. I wouldn't want a child to come into this world to suffer with me..."

Su Yang asked in confusion, "Are you sure about having two children for me?"

"Yeah!" Chen Li nodded. "I think two is enough. They can keep each other company, and I can take good care of them... You can come over occasionally to spend time with them, provide some living expenses, and give them two houses, right?"

Chen Li had witnessed Su Yang transferring money to Jiuxiang Catering and knew he wasn't short on cash!

Su Yang quickly said, "It's not that. I mean, if you don't want children, then don't force yourself!"

"Huh?"

Chen Li looked at Su Yang in confusion, not quite understanding his meaning.

"Didn't you say... have children for me?" Su Yang explained, "My point is, if you yourself don't want to have children, don't force it. Don't wrong yourself; there's no need to have children for me!"

Su Yang emphasized the words "for me."

Chen Li was also a clever person and soon understood Su Yang's meaning.

She gritted her two rows of white teeth and said, "It's that I want children, is that okay now?"