How to design your future career?

It doesn't matter where you stand today, but where you are going next is very important. Maybe you are busy making a department development plan or a work plan for your position. But have you ever thought about making a plan for your career? Occupation, that is, career, refers to the development path of a person's job occupation and job position. Career design requires you to position yourself in a position that can give full play to your strengths according to your own interests and characteristics, so as to maximize your self-worth. A person whose career goal is consistent with his life goal is happy, and career design is essentially a process of pursuing the best career. A successful life requires correct planning. It doesn't matter where you stand today, but your next direction is very important. Step 1: Know yourself An effective career design must be based on a full and correct understanding of your own conditions and related environment. The more thoroughly you know yourself and your environment, the better you can design your career. Because the purpose of career design is not only to help you achieve your personal goals, but also to help you really understand yourself. You need to look at yourself, know yourself, know yourself and make a self-evaluation. Self-evaluation includes one's own interests, specialties, personality, knowledge, skills, IQ, EQ, thinking mode, thinking method, moral standard and self in society. The first step is to carefully evaluate the advantages and limitations of the internal and external environment, design your own reasonable and feasible career development direction, and find out your professional expertise and interests through the analysis of your past experiences and experiences. It is worth noting that many people often think that choosing the hottest career means their most promising career. Experts remind that it is important to correctly analyze yourself, find your most suitable major, and then strive to become a leader in this industry. Step 2: Define your goals and dreams. If you don't know where you are going, you usually can't go anywhere. Everyone has a goal in front of him. This goal is great at least in your own view. Without practical goals as the driving force, people can easily compromise with the status quo. In The Pioneers, Gail Sheehy interviewed more than 60,000 people from all walks of life through a very extensive "life course questionnaire", and found that those who are the most successful and most satisfied with their lives have one thing in common: they are all committed to achieving a goal that is difficult for their own practical ability to achieve. Their lives are meaningful, and they will enjoy life more than those who have no long-term goals to drive them forward. Setting your own career goals is not that difficult. Just think about what you hope to achieve in a few years, and then count back step by step. Goal setting should be based on information such as your best talent, your best personality, your greatest interest and the most favorable environment. Usually goals are divided into short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals and life goals. Setting goals is the key to making career plans. Effective career design needs practical goals, so as to eliminate unnecessary hesitation and interference and devote yourself to the realization of the goals. Step 3: Make an action plan. Does your career help you achieve your ultimate goal in life? Do you have any way to keep your present career in line with your basic goals in life? Just like a battle and a football match need to determine the battle plan, effective career design also needs an executable career strategic plan. These concrete and feasible action plans will help you succeed step by step and achieve your goals. Usually, the choice of career direction needs to consider the following three questions: ● Where do I want to develop? ● Where can we develop? ● Where can we develop? If you are a financial officer now, but your personal career plan for 5 years 10 or 20 years is to become a financial planner. Then, you should ask yourself the following questions: ● What special training and study do I need to get the qualification of financial planner? ● What internal and external obstacles do you need to eliminate in order to make your development smooth and open? Can my current boss help me in this regard? Can people around me help me in this regard? What is the possibility that my current company will eventually become a financial planner? Is it better than in other companies? ● What is the experience level and age level of the position of financial planner? Do I fit this range? Step 4: Stop dreaming and start acting. This is the most difficult step in all career design, because action means that you must stop dreaming and really start acting. If motivation is not transformed into action, motivation is motivation after all, and the goal can only stay in the dream stage. Successful cases of career planning are always in line with that goal after having a clear career goal and in the process of job hunting. Of course, not everyone has the foresight to set their own goals and make continuous efforts in this direction in a planned way, but it plays a vital role in career development. Take action immediately, whether you are a young man who just embarked on a career path after graduating from college or a middle-aged man who is still stuck in a job he doesn't like at the age of 40, now is a good time for you to plan your career. As long as you haven't reached the point of enjoying your old age, it's never too late to start career planning. The plan hasn't changed as fast. There are many factors that affect your career planning, some are predictable and some are unpredictable. In order to make career planning effective, it is necessary to constantly evaluate career planning, revise career goals, career strategies and plans to adapt to changes in the environment and serve as a reference for the next round of career design. Successful career design needs to constantly examine the changes of internal and external environment and adjust its own pace of progress. The existence of goals only points out a direction for your progress. And you are its creator, you can change it at different times and in different environments to make it more in line with your ideals. Today, our working methods are constantly innovating. In addition to learning new skills and knowledge, we should always examine our professional capital and realize its shortcomings, and constantly revise our goals in order to be invincible. Bring a career map. Whether your dream is to set up your own consulting company or manage a multinational company, looking forward to your future career is not a dream. Georgebernard shaw said that those people will conquer the world: at first, they tried to find their own dream of paradise, and when they couldn't find it, they created it themselves. Just as you will naturally bring a map before traveling abroad, why not bring a "career navigation map" at the beginning of your career? Case 1: Background from software engineer to logistics planner. Miss Lin was born in 1966. She holds a bachelor's degree in optical instruments and a master's degree in measurement technology and instruments from Zhejiang University. Engaged in technical positions such as software engineer in IT industry and logistics industry. After nearly 10 years of technology, she found that her ideals and work were not in harmony, and she needed some challenging careers that were more suitable for her and could stimulate her motivation. Evaluation and analysis According to the results of self-analysis and career interest evaluation and Miss Lin's many years' experience and feelings, three possible career directions have been preliminarily determined: 1) Continue to do technical work; 2) teachers; 3) Engaged in logistics-related planning. Consultant's point of view ● Although technical work is Miss Lin's old job, she has a foundation and experience, but it is not her ideal career. It was because I was tired of technical work that I thought of changing the environment. Teacher Lin is very interested in the teaching profession, but how to get involved is a big problem. Uncertainties temporarily restrict Miss Lin from entering this industry. ● Miss Lin went deep into the industry when she was working on a logistics management system. It should be said that she has a deep understanding and clearly knows how to deal with each link. Under the guidance of the consultant, Miss Lin chose a small-scale foreign-funded logistics company and officially began to move towards the direction of logistics planner. Case 2: Different Positioning Background of Two MBAs Huang Yang, 34 years old, returned to China on 1999 and now works as the marketing director of a well-known computer company. Li Rong, 29, returned to China in 2000 and now works as a department manager in a biotechnology company. Question] Make an objective evaluation of yourself and hope to know which aspects you are suitable for management. The results of evaluation and analysis show that they all pursue success and have a strong sense of responsibility, but there are great differences in the depth, breadth, interest and professional interest of interpersonal communication. ● Huang Yang: energetic, optimistic and confident, good at communicating with people and exerting influence. Strong flexibility and adaptability, strong sense of innovation and wide interests. I often consider problems from a macro perspective, analyze problems rationally and deeply, and am particularly interested in business activities. ● Li Rong: Strong planning and organization, introverted personality, paying more attention to the details of things when looking at problems, stressing principles when doing things, sometimes appearing stubborn and inflexible, interested in transactional activities and not liking research activities. Consultant's suggestion ● Huang Yang: Suitable for high-level management such as setting goals, strategies and plans, and working under the leadership of encouraging autonomy and being fully authorized. ● Li Rong: It is suitable for transactional management in an environment where organizational objectives and tasks are determined and management is standardized. At present, it is not suitable for senior management, and it is necessary to enhance the interest in interacting with people. Main obstacles: on the one hand, lack of macro and overall awareness, unable to formulate development strategies and plans from the perspective of the organization as a whole. On the other hand, lack of interest in interpersonal communication.