Driven by the upsurge of postgraduate entrance examination, many students think that career planning is something close to graduation, which seems to ignore the previous "career planning", mainly in the following three ways.
Blind spot 1: first take the postgraduate entrance examination and then choose a job.
Many students have the view that the employment situation is grim, and it is too much to take the postgraduate entrance examination first. Anyway, if you have a high degree, you will be prepared even if the employment threshold is raised! Most of these students are "post-graduate students". They began to prepare in their junior or even senior year. They didn't have a clear understanding of the postgraduate entrance examination before, let alone choose the right major and direction. There is no clear plan on how to plan after being admitted to graduate school. Such students may choose popular majors when registering, such as finance, law, computer, communication, marketing, business management, news, advertising and so on. , a wide range of employment, more practical, so as to facilitate future employment; Choose a relatively unpopular major, such as "985" engineering colleges that recruit fewer graduate students, or majors that are taken care of by national preferential policies such as basic disciplines and agriculture and forestry disciplines, in order to be stable and secure, and strive to be admitted; Choose the major of our school and master the information advantage; Choosing a university in the western region has a relatively low admission threshold ... In short, the main purpose of the postgraduate entrance examination is to "be able to go to school" or "find a job easily after graduation". In this way, the understanding of the major itself is put in a secondary position. If you fail for a while, it is often to strive for adjustment. Many people failed in economics and journalism and turned to political theory, education and history. The target is the "985" universities in the eastern coast, followed by local universities in the central and western regions. At this time, I didn't think much about whether the adjusted major was suitable for me, lost the opportunity to find a job, and didn't have a clear plan for the future. The situation forced me not to think much, so I had to go to graduate school before making plans.
Blind spot 2: prepare for the postgraduate entrance examination blindly and ignore all-round development.
Many students made a vow when they entered the undergraduate study stage, and they must take the postgraduate entrance examination, improve their degree level, be admitted to their favorite schools, and start their college life again. Students who have this kind of plan often finish the basic courses from their sophomore year, and even begin to prepare from their freshman year. However, due to various reasons, I haven't come into contact with the job market, and I don't have a clear understanding of my future career planning. The source of information is only the word of mouth of brothers and sisters or the advocacy of teachers, and there is not much demand for my all-round development. New graduate students in the same school, some students participate in various community activities and social practice at the graduate stage, and hold various positions in graduate societies or youth league committees; Some students work part-time as interns or entrepreneurs to earn work experience; Some students have long been preparing to obtain various corresponding professional qualifications to lay the foundation for future work; Some students follow the teacher to do projects and plan to publish articles very early ... Graduate students focus on research, but they should also take into account many things after graduation and make full preparations for further research or going to the workplace in combination with their own characteristics. Due to the neglect of the needs of self-development in an all-round way, especially the understanding of the degree of integration between the major and oneself, one can only complete the course or the topic assigned by the teacher step by step, and the knowledge he has learned or experienced is far from the direction of the industry he wants to engage in in in the future, but deviates from the expected plan. By the time of graduation, many graduate students can only "vote" with resumes, but it is still unclear what kind of talents employers want to recruit and what kind of jobs they want to engage in.
Blind spot 3: excessively beautify your career prospects.
This kind of problem mainly appears in the "cross-examination" group. Because I don't like my major, I hope to change my major and pin my hopes on the postgraduate entrance examination. This is beyond reproach. However, the correct direction was not found, and the target was already in the air before it was clearly investigated, resulting in low expectations for the future. Some students in basic disciplines are mainly applied majors and want to enter multinational enterprises or central enterprises. However, they found that large enterprises not only have restrictions on majors, but also have requirements on foreign language level, technical level and comprehensive quality, and there are relatively many graduates of applied majors, and the competition is extremely fierce. Many students who take finance and psychology exams are employed by banks and psychological consulting companies. In fact, it is not easy to get involved in these units, and the complicated interview and highly programmed admission process are extremely tense. Many science and engineering students want to be liberated from high-intensity calculation and experimental work, but they find that their foreign language level and communicative competence have become a stumbling block to their future development. If you just think that you will succeed in changing your major, you will probably relax your requirements and lack a clearer understanding of your major, and it will be a mess near the workplace. Whether a major suits you or not cannot be measured by "pragmatism" alone. Opportunities should be created by yourself. Before you change your major, you should think about whether you want to engage in professional-related work and how to get in touch with work through your major study.
The above three points are just typical cases of ignoring "career planning". The lack of detailed investigation of the major before the postgraduate entrance examination, the lack of thinking about the degree of integration between oneself and the major, and the lack of career development planning after the postgraduate entrance examination are all cases of not doing a good job in "career planning". What major to take the exam, how to continue to make up for the disadvantages of the major after the exam, so as to give full play to your strengths, you must think clearly before the exam. Only by doing a good job of "career planning" can we give full play to the role of career.