After rebirth, I became a great master

Chapter 3 Information Gap

Dongfang Lang said, "Red Star TV is definitely not an option. If you really want to go to a TV station, you can go to the county one. Isn't Uncle Qiao from the Cultural Bureau? Let's go find him. He will definitely be able to arrange it."

"Does anyone watch the county TV station?" Zhou Haoran would not lower his standards, nor would he give up easily. "Let's go!"

"Where?"

"Go read the newspaper!"

The two returned to the newsstand they had been to.

"Uncle, do you have the Harbor Radio and Television News?"

Zhou Haoran walked over with a smile.

The newsstand uncle smiled back, but didn't rush to ask for money. He pointed outside and said, "Is it the one in the lower right corner? Look for it, it's pressed down underneath."

Zhou Haoran squatted down. There were "Haigang Morning Post", "Liberation Daily", "Xinmin Evening News" and so on. Finally, he found the "Haigang Radio and Television News" which was pressed down under the "Morning News".

I looked at the newspaper's publication date, June 6th, which is today.

Zhou Haoran took down the newspaper and said, "Uncle, let me flip through it first. I don't know if this is the newspaper I'm looking for."

"Row."

The uncle at the newsstand had seen how generous he had just been and was not worried.

Dongfang Lang finally saw it.

Good boy, you are awesome!
He had previously spent fifty cents on a free job search newspaper, feeling like a sucker. But his image as a sucker meant that he could now browse this one-dollar TV newspaper for free.

Zhou Haoran started translating from the first edition.

High efficiency and fast speed.

Read ten lines at a glance and pick out the key points.

But no useful information was found.

It wasn’t until I turned to the third edition that important information appeared!
This is a news item from our newspaper.

The title is: "Sales must have a bottom line, and the Life Channel will deal with it seriously and without leniency."

Look at the content again.

Very informative.

Probably Lansing Food Factory, Duodian Pharmaceutical and several other businesses have been advertising on the Red Star TV Life Channel for many years and have a very good cooperation.

But the TV station was reported to have some dirty hands.

After investigation, it was found that it was a conspiracy by the sales department of the Lifestyle Channel. They used various excuses to divide up more than 400,000 yuan in advertising fees, causing huge economic losses to the station.

Yesterday, the station made a punishment decision.

The director of the lifestyle channel was given a serious warning, and more than 80% of the sales department employees, including the sales director, were fired and transferred to judicial authorities.

Zhou Haoran quickly scanned it and the haze in his heart dissipated.

Clear the clouds and see the sun!

The opportunity is coming!

Zhou Haoran raised his head and asked with a smile: "Uncle, do you have a phone book? I want the city's one, the kind that records the phone numbers of all the units..."

"Yellow Pages?"

"Yes, the Yellow Pages."

"Looking for a number?"

The uncle's attitude at the newsstand was obviously much more polite than at the beginning, and he was no longer so materialistic and stingy. He stood up and took down the phone book that looked like a book from the top of the newsstand.

"This is the latest one, from last month."

"Thank you."

Zhou Haoran happily took the phone book, which was very thick and heavy.

Like looking up a dictionary.

The two sat on the curb and searched alphabetically for the letter "H," quickly landing on "Red Star Media Group."

Go to the specified page.

I also found relevant information about Red Star TV, which is under the Red Star Media Group.

There are two full pages of phone numbers.

Most of them are column hotlines.

"Take a pen and write it down quickly."

Zhou Haoran asked Dongfang Lang to take notes for him. He had just finished the college entrance examination and had paper and pen.

After a while, more than a dozen phone numbers appeared on the paper.

Live together!

Leave.

Dongfang Lang was very surprised. "Why is the newsstand owner like a different person? He doesn't want money anymore. I thought he was going to rip you off for a few cents."

Zhou Haoran snorted, "Learn something. Once you enter society, you'll find that using money to pave the way is more effective than your logic. You're still being taken advantage of. Why should others treat you well if you don't give them a little advantage?"

"Ah."

Dongfang Lang nodded heavily.

Somehow, he felt like he was being left far behind by his childhood friend.

Zhou Haoran walked and looked at the phone numbers he had written down. "I don't know if the operators these days are dedicated to their jobs. Please don't keep the line busy all day."

Dongfang Lang asked, "Where are we going now?" Zhou Haoran said, "Go home and make a phone call at the cigarette and paper shop in the alley. It's cheaper there."

"That's too much trouble." Dongfang Lang shook his head. "By the time you call all those dozen numbers, the phone bill will be several hundred dollars. Do you have the money?"

Now it was Zhou Haoran's turn to ask, "What do you mean? Where can I make a free call?"

Dongfang Lang pointed to a public IC telephone booth in front and said, "Go there."

"Do you have an IC card?"

"No."

"then you……"

Zhou Haoran saw his smug expression and immediately reacted.

These days, I can’t afford a mobile phone.

The most common way to make calls was a combination of a pager and an IC phone. You would buy an IC card from a carrier, insert the card into a public IC phone, and you could make calls.

Public IC telephone booths are being installed across the country.

However, the structure of this IC phone is very simple, relying on a set of internal chip control units. As long as the communication chip recognizes it, the phone signal can be dialed out.

It's too easy to crack it.

Among young people, there are various methods of cracking IC phones.

Zhou Haoran used to do that too.

However, after getting used to smartphones, I have long forgotten the normal operations of this era.

I can only watch Dongfang Lang's performance.

He took out his keychain and tied the ear pick and key together with shoelaces, which extended the length so that he could poke the ear pick into the chip position deep inside the card slot.

Then the key rubs against the outer iron sheet, generating an electric current to stimulate the chip.

Zhou Haoran picked up the receiver and dialed.

Tried twice.

It really did!

The first number was called directly to the general office of the Red Star TV Life Channel.

No one answered.

Keep trying.

The second number is to call the reception of the Life Channel.

Answered the call.

The voice was pleasant, and it was obvious that she was a beautiful young lady: "Hello, this is the Red Star Life Channel."

Zhou Haoran needed to be strategic at this point. He calmly said, "Hello, I'm the producer of Crown TV's urban program. I'm thinking of returning to the harbor for development and would like to apply for a position at our station. What procedures do I need to follow?"

The young lady chuckled and said, "The Life Channel welcomes you, but you need to contact the recruitment office."

"Can you leave me a phone number?"

"Okay, remember this."

"Thank you."

Zhou Haoran happily got the number, then looked at the list in his hand that had previously recorded various phone numbers... Hoo! As expected, the number wasn't on the list at all.

It seems that Dongfang Lang's previous guess was correct. The positions in Red Star TV are mainly internally appointed and not open to the public. Even the recruitment office number is not public.

In those days, before the internet and public information platforms, the most important thing for finding a job was to overcome the information gap. Often, it wasn't that state-owned enterprises were closed to the public, but rather that there was an information gap, meaning outsiders had no idea what positions were available.

Once you get an internal phone number, your chances increase significantly.

Zhou Haoran then dialed the number and called the recruitment office.

The call was answered quickly.

The operator was again a young female voice.

Zhou Haoran said in a very honest voice, "Hello, comrade. My uncle asked me to call you and told me to come work here."

"Huh?" The operator was surprised and said quickly, "Hello, sir. This is the recruitment office of Red Star TV's Life Channel."

Zhou Haoran also played the information gap and said, "I know. My uncle works at the Radio and Television Bureau. He said you are hiring for a sales position here and asked me to come over and give it a try."

"Sales position?" The operator was a little confused. "Sir, the Lifestyle Channel does have some positions, but no sales positions... Are you mistaken? Is this a different channel?"

Zhou Haoran said in a daze, "No, my uncle said it's the Life Channel. Don't you understand the situation? My uncle said it's there, so it must be there."

The other party was silent for a moment, "Sir, please wait a moment, I'll check."

Waited for half a minute.

The operator finally responded, apologizing profusely. "Sir, I'm so sorry. It was an oversight on my part. The sales department did send us recruitment materials this morning, but I didn't catch the latest updates. I think you have a more detailed understanding."

Zhou Haoran snorted, "I'll tell you what I'm saying. My uncle told me that he knows your director, so he can't be wrong."

The operator said enthusiastically, "Sir, we are indeed hiring salespeople. Would you like to sign up?"

"Well, sign up."

"Look, this is the recruitment office of the Human Resources Department. If you follow our procedures, you'll need to go through three rounds of interviews, and there will likely be a lot of competition. If you go through other channels, you might get better results."

"My uncle asked me to come to your place to sign up."

Zhou Haoran was playing dumb.

You can't just believe all the lies he made up. Other channels are just internal decisions that bypass interviews. He doesn't have such a strong background.

(End of this chapter)