This "where" includes both industries and companies, as well as jobs. I believe many people have heard of an example in Liang Ning: 20 10, a pair of twins, one chose to go to Tencent and the other went to a newspaper. Seven years later, Tencent's annual salary is one million, and the newspaper's one is facing bankruptcy and unemployment.
In fact, don't say industry, even if the same industry, different companies; The same company, different positions, even people with the same starting point, the situation will be very different in a few years.
If you have worked for several years, look at your classmates and friends around you. I believe that you have already felt the change, and the gap is gradually widening, from visible income and position to invisible cognition, knowledge and circle. Some people are full of energy and spring breeze, while others are unhappy and more and more sad.
Ten years ago, when I just graduated, banks were still a popular choice. Because my major is finance, many students went to major banks. After more than ten years of hard work, they basically have their own place from department heads to presidents. But I persisted for more than a year and then gave up. The middle process was very painful, with all kinds of self-doubt, entanglement and incomprehension.
When parents and friends tell you what kind of job to choose, their starting point is usually a single dimension, that is, what they think is promising and valuable. They basically don't consider whether you like it or not, whether you can do it or not, and even advise you: just study hard, it's not difficult. You'll like it if you do it for a long time. It doesn't seem that important. Stability, dignity and high salary are more important.
These secular and promising standards are right, but the mistake is that they don't apply to everyone. Relying on a single choice dimension is very risky, because a good job needs to meet three conditions at the same time: good job = willingness * ability * value. Simply put, a job that you don't hate, that you can do and that has prospects for development is a good job that suits you.
This conclusion was reached after the career planning of more than 200 people. Too many people are trapped by various traps because they don't understand this truth, either struggling to find their favorite jobs or being tortured by glamorous good jobs but unwilling to let go.
In fact, whether there are prospects for work varies from person to person. Only if you can grasp it is the opportunity and the prospect. What you can't catch is temptation and trap.
After coming out of the bank, after painful trial and error, I probably judged my suitable position. After many twists and turns, I switched to HR. By chance, the position was confirmed. At that time, a new company in an emerging industry was established for two years, and this industry has just emerged in the mainland for three years. In fact, everything is still unclear. At that time, young people didn't understand the policies and trends, but just felt that there was market demand in this industry.
Fortunately, less than a year after joining the company, the industry entered a period of rapid development, and the company quickly became the head of the industry with the foundation of its parent company. At the beginning of 2009, when I joined the company, my work number was 323. At that time, the company only had more than 200 people. Five years later, it has grown to 15 subsidiaries nationwide, with a total of more than 5,000 subsidiaries. Shenzhen becomes the headquarters of the mainland. The human resources department of Shenzhen Company became the human resources department of the group headquarters, controlling and guiding the human resources work of 15 subsidiary.
During the rapid expansion of the company, you will have many opportunities, such as changing jobs and getting promoted quickly, because there is a shortage of people everywhere, and work is the best training ground, and there is no one. I have basically rotated all the major modules of human resources, and finally decided that the module of talent development is the most suitable for me.
In fact, whether it is a hot industry or an emerging industry, the final choice will fall on the company. It's very important which stage the company is in. If it is a period of rapid development, you will get a lot of exercise. Even if the company goes bankrupt unfortunately, your experience will not go bankrupt.
There are several simple reference indicators to judge whether it is worthwhile to die in the company:
1, the company's development stage: preferably in the rising stage, ordinary employees can ask: whether the company's business volume has increased, whether the recruitment volume has continued to increase, and whether everyone is really busy;
2. The development speed of the company: When the development speed of the company is less than your growth speed, you should be especially careful. The criterion is: the current job is handy, there is no promotion channel, no one in the company has moved the radish pit, and there is no chance to quit. Boiling frogs in warm water is easy to fix in place slowly.
Second, what is death?
The essence of occupation is value exchange. The company gives you material, and you create value for the company. Knowing this can make our career develop faster and let us understand many things.
Reflect on the present situation from two dimensions:
1. What are the value demands of the company and the boss? Does what you do meet this value demand? Especially if you feel that you have done a lot of things without corresponding returns, you should think about this problem.
2. What is the value of the present job in the market? How can we create higher and more universal value? This question can help us to enlarge the pattern, and don't just stare at the land in front of us and limit our cognition and ability. You know you won't stay in a company forever. (except in the system)
The first question: What are the value demands of the company and the boss?
We can start from two aspects: first, the KPI of the position. I remember a friend joked: from the first day of work, I will firmly remember the KPI of the post. This friend works very hard and has been the director of a big company since he was young.
Later, it was found that a person who is * * * and has excellent work performance is very clear about the requirements of post assessment, so it should be. Knowing what the goal is, it is possible to achieve the goal, know the exam outline and prepare for the exam. I have consulted hundreds of people on this question, not only newcomers in the workplace, but even some people who have worked for many years can't answer it at once.
Second, the KPI of the immediate supervisor, if the post KPI is the company's value appeal, then the KPI of the immediate supervisor represents the boss's value appeal. Only by helping your boss succeed can you achieve greater success. Let's put aside whether your boss is worthy of help. One thing you must know is that if your boss doesn't mix well, you may not have substantial benefits, but if he doesn't mix well, you will definitely have a hard time.
Working for many years, I have developed a habit of thinking about how to improve the performance of the department from the perspective of the boss and the department. I will report my work to my boss regularly. Usually after giving feedback on my ideas and plans, I ask, what else can I do? At first, I said this from my heart to make my work better. Later, I found that this sentence will build trust and closeness with each other faster, and it is easier to know each other's demands. Only by knowing what the boss wants can our efforts be more targeted.
The second question: What is the value of the present job in the market? How can we create higher and more universal value?
The market here refers to those companies that are better, have higher requirements for your position and can also give higher returns. Their standards and requirements represent the direction you should work hard in the next stage.
I find that many people lack the ability to constantly break through, look high and set goals in combination with their own status quo. The reason is that when we go to school, the goal is too single, that is, higher scores, and the exam syllabus is established. The teacher will help us sort out the key points. We only need to be responsible for "eating", study hard and get high marks, so that we can analyze the outside world and sort out our own situation a lot less. Once this habit comes to work, it is particularly easy to be assimilated by work, especially in some industries with poor liquidity and little change. After working for several years, I seem to be isolated from the world.
Develop a habit: always pay attention to the trends in related fields and the requirements of employing people. The most direct source of this information is the recruitment website. If you have nothing to do, just visit Taobao more. What are the new trends now, and what are the requirements of excellent companies in this field?
1, vertical development, what kind of thinking, ability and experience should people at one or two levels have?
If you are a Commissioner now, you should pay attention to the job requirements of supervisors and managers, and also pay attention to how your superiors usually work. What is worth learning? What is the gap between you and ta?
2. What is my core competitiveness in horizontal job hopping? What are my experience and ability advantages?
Third,
1. Know yourself more and more: professional interests, ability circles, and sources of internal drive.
A person's understanding of himself must be based on past experiences. Everything he did was like an argument. As long as he combs, induces and summarizes, he can get some arguments, including your personality, interests, characteristics and so on. Therefore, if you want to know yourself better, you must have enough action exercises.
I changed my career and my post. I have experienced the torture of choosing the wrong job and the frustration of doing something I am not good at. These failed experiences are in sharp contrast to my later achievements, and I know myself better.
I know my professional interests: I especially like solving problems, enjoying the pleasure of discovering the essence of problems, and willing to spend time collecting information, reasoning, implementing and revising repeatedly.
Ability circle: Besides my professional ability, my insight and good listening ability are my advantages. I avoid reports and repetitive paperwork.
Internal driving force: the sense of accomplishment brought by completing the work or challenge, the pleasure of being recognized by the work results, and the continuous rise of jobs and income.
I am a good tutor, problem solver and coach. These findings and abilities laid the foundation for my smooth transformation into a career planner.
2. Get a higher position and income
Those constant efforts and accumulation in the past, like a small snowball, slowly rolled into a big snowball. This snowball is all the links between major, practice and work achievement. This snowball will eventually become your weight, with more choices and bargaining power.
3, improve knowledge and insight
When you go to a bigger platform and meet more excellent people, your thinking and knowledge will be opened. People don't want what they don't know, and they don't understand what they don't know, because you don't know.
4. The habit of iterative and self-upgrading.
Continuous efforts every day are much more useful than temporary hard work. When your body and brain are used to this little progress every day, laziness will make you unaccustomed.
The so-called epiphany is just the epiphany at the moment when your practice and cognition are highly coincident. All accumulation in the past is the premise of epiphany. Those truths that sound ordinary and even chicken soup can only be deeply understood by those who have practiced and achieved results.
How to judge whether you have upgraded iterations, look through past work plans, achievements, PPT and logs, if you don't think so; Review your previous thoughts and troubles. If you feel childish and ridiculous, then you must make progress. Making yourself stronger and better is the key to solving all problems.