The 3rd "Passing the Torch, Connecting Career Futures" Career Guidance Conference was Held Successfully
DATE： 2025-12-03
On November 1, the 3rd "Passing the Torch, Connecting Career Futures" Career Guidance Conference was held at Public Teaching Building 1 in RUC. Attending the event were Zhenyun Li, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Foreign Languages; Chao Bu, Deputy Director of the Admissions and Employment Office; Lanlan Chen, Deputy Secretary-General of the Alumni Services and Resource Development Department and the Education Foundation; Lili Tian, Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Languages; Yuan Lin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee; representatives from various departments, and over 200 students from both in and off campus. Xin Shen, an undergraduate student from the Department of English (class of 2023), was the host of this meeting.
Xin Shen hosting the conference
Alumni and guests participating in this meeting include: Renkai Zhang (Class of 1990, Chairman of Qiang'entaige Capital), Xiaokai Dong (Class of 1993, Senior Executive at a Foreign-Funded Enterprise), Hongbin Zhang(Class of 1997, Partner at JunHe LLP), Bo Wang(Technology Expert in ALOps), Jian Zhang (President of Legal Department 1 at a Leading Enterprise), Rui Jing (Class of 1997, Former General Manager of HR at a Finance Company of Central SOE), Jian Ning (Class of 1997, HR Director at Dingcheng Life Insurance), Lina Zhan (Class of 1997, General Manager of Supervision & Audit department at Honghe Technology), Lei Qiu (Class of 1998, Sales Director for Asia-Pacific at ZF Friedrichshafen AG), Jiajia Zeng (Class of 2002, Head of Intelligent Mobility Ecosystem Investment Office at Panasonic Group), and Xi Chen(Class of 2008), alongside other distinguished guests. They delivered on-site presentations.
Zhenyun Li, Secretary of the School’s Party Committee, extended a warm welcome and sincere gratitude to all guests. He highlighted that since the debut in 2023, the "Passing the Torch, Connecting Career Futures" Career Guidance Conference has evolved into a vital bridge for the school to connect alumni and empower students. “Alumni’s career journeys, hard-won insights, and profound life reflections have lit up the path for generations of our current students, guiding them forward,” he said.
He emphasized that while Foreign Language and Literature is the foundation of our profession, career paths know no bounds. Beyond technical skills, he urged students to cultivate the mindset of breaking barriers and expanding networks, and the capability of transferring knowledge. “Step out of the confusion of being a ‘path-seeker,’” he encouraged. “Instead, act as ‘path-builders’: take the initiative to leverage alumni resources, transform from today’s audience into future alumni collaborators, achieving advance in tandem.
Secretary Li Zhenyun delivering the opening speech
Appointment letters were issued to nine career guidance mentors appointed by the School in the second batch, including Xiaokai Dong.
Lei Qiu gave an introduction of this program from the aspects of background positioning, implementation paths and achievements, then summarized the achievements of the previous two programs.
Mr. Qiu Lei delivering a speech
The first half of the sharing session was hosted by Dong Xiaokai. Alumni and guests, under the theme of "The Path to Longevity in the Workplace: Core Construction and Long-term Strategy," engaged in in-depth discussions on the inner exploration, cognitive upgrading, and long-term strategies for university students. Drawing from their rich life and professional experiences, they sincerely shared insights on how young people can build core competitiveness and core workplace value, condensing years of practical experience into actionable growth pathways for others to learn from. Additionally, they offered perspectives on self-cultivation and life attitudes for university students, encouraging everyone to embrace bold exploration, broaden their horizons, and enjoy the diversity of humanity.
guests sharing their insights
During the halftime speech, Renkai Zhang encouraged everyone to not only solidify their language foundation, but also make good use of school resources to explore extensively, expand diverse knowledge dimensions, hone communication skills, clarify key issues such as "where to go and why", and forge the core competitiveness of foreign language students. He hopes that his underclassmen will fully display their talents and compose a chapter of youth in the vast territory of "foreign language+" amidst the wave of cross-cultural turbulence.
Renkai Zhang making the speech
The second half of the sharing session was hosted by Hongbin Zhang. With the theme of "Career Crash Guide - Senior Leading Role Transformation and Job Hunting Practice", the guests shared their insights focusing on external paths, practical skills, and goal selection, aiming to provide an immediate action plan to solve the confusion of "what should I do". Based on their own characteristics and decades of accumulation, they spread their knowledge in an easy to understand way, from decision-making wisdom to job seeking operations, from role transformation to advantage integration. Their predecessors shared their feelings: "There are no shortcuts to career success, but there are methods.
During his closing remarks, Zhang Hongbin encouraged students to transform the sparks of thought from lectures into practical actions, urging them to embrace bold exploration and fearless experimentation. He also highlighted the importance of leveraging Renmin University's outstanding alumni network to co-create an empowerment platform guided by the principle of mutual support.
Conveying heartfelt aspirations, he envisioned a bright future for the students while expressing confidence that the college would continue to nurture exceptional talents and achieve new heights of excellence in academic endeavors.
Hongbin Zhang delivering the closing speech
Editors: Xinyi Jia, Shirui Liu