When we are familiar with the work at hand and can't acquire new knowledge and skills and expand resources in our existing posts, our enthusiasm and fighting spirit will begin to decay; Accordingly, when the company can't provide more resources and more room for development, we can only stay where we are, and our personal ability and career development are stagnant.
This kind of ceiling can be analyzed from two aspects.
The relatively objective situation is: I have worked in a position for several years, but there are no signs and opportunities for promotion;
The more subjective feeling is: I feel that my ability and experience have exceeded my current job responsibilities and I should get a more challenging position.
Take myself as an example, I have touched the ceiling of the workplace more than once.
When I was a salesman at Procter & Gamble in Hong Kong from 65438 to 0990, I was confused about my career development for the first time.
At that time, I worked in sales for two years, from novice to senior, and I was promoted three times in two years, and my salary more than tripled.
However, with the upgrading of my working ability, I am confused about the profession of sales-will sales be the destination of my career? After careful consideration, I finally chose to quit my job, go to Britain for a surprise study, take a French exam, and prepare to switch to a lawyer, starting from scratch.
P&G's professional ceiling is the professional direction of sales and can't give me more value. This is my subjective feeling and analysis. When I switched to be a lawyer, and then transferred from Gao Law Firm to China to be a lawyer of Nortel, I felt the career bottleneck for the second time, which was an objective promotion problem (I had no promotion opportunity for two years).
Compared with handling cases in law firms, the work of corporate lawyers is equally heavy, but the treatment is slightly lower than that of law firms. After nearly two years of transformation, I helped the company handle many projects. I thought I had made a lot of achievements, but my salary and position remained unchanged. I don't want to work more actively. Two years later, I was promoted to be the head of China Legal Department of Nortel.
The arrival of the third professional ceiling was when I left Nortel and became the legal director of Accenture Greater China. I joined Accenture in 2006 and got this position. My work in the first five years was very quiet, until 20 10 Ms. Shen Juli became Accenture's global general counsel, and my opportunity came. I helped the global legal department complete the reform and was promoted to be a member of the global legal department reform Committee.
There was an episode. At that time, although I fully met the promotion requirements, my promotion was postponed because the pace of company reform started from the American headquarters and the Asia-Pacific region has not been adjusted. At this time, IBM wants to hire me as the head of compliance department in Greater China. Hearing this news, Shen Juli decided decisively to promote me as the managing director of 20 12 Asia-Pacific Legal Department.
Breaking through the professional ceiling for the fourth time is a major decision in my life.
Objectively speaking, I have worked in Accenture for 13 years and achieved the highest position of China people in its global legal department. Subjectively, after working in a multinational company for many years, I began to think about whether I could concentrate on the mainland of China and spend more time doing my bit to improve the international practice level of China lawyers.
At this time, I was invited to become a member of the Advisory Committee of Blue Ocean Greater Bay Area Legal Service Research Institute. After investigation, I am very interested in Blue Ocean's innovative legal service model. 2065438+September 2009, I decided to leave Accenture and join Shenzhen Lanhai Legal Appraisal and Commercial Mediation Center as the Chief Legal Officer.
It is not easy for a middle-aged man to bid farewell to his wife and children and come to Shenzhen alone with a suitcase. Fortunately, after working for 30 years, I am used to cleaning up the past at any time and constantly breaking through the bottleneck. I hope to explore a career path different from the past. After all, it is never too old to learn. Who knows what will happen in the future?