True or false, true or false! It is said that Huawei's layoffs fermented from Huawei's own voice forum, and then appeared on various websites and media, which attracted the attention of all parties.
Including a 35-year-old employee, 35 years old, one old and one young, with two suites in Shenzhen, his wife is a full-time housewife, and she passively asked to leave her job, so her life is very confused.
Further feedback was reflected by Huawei employees, and China District began to focus on cleaning up the maintenance personnel over 34 years old who delivered the project. However, R&D began to pay attention to retired employees over 40 years old. Some people associate this retreat with the expedition of R&D soldiers in 2000, and think that Huawei has completed a disguised retreat by sending its old employees overseas to be eliminated naturally.
In fact, as people who eat melons, it is estimated that many people have the same mentality as Ai Quya, not worrying about Huawei, but thinking about themselves. They are old, where is the way out?
One, 35 years old is a watershed.
For most people, the age of 35 is undoubtedly a hurdle, and the civil service examination basically no longer recruits social youth over the age of 35; Enterprises recruit people, especially technology companies and emerging internet companies, and the "middle-aged crisis" comes earlier.
Iqiyi, many friends around him, also mixed into the position of director and senior manager. When chatting with young people who have just graduated, I often hear a lot of young talents, and the goal is to achieve financial freedom at the age of 35.
However, in terms of probability, a terrible fact is that the possibility of unemployment at the age of 35-40 is much greater than financial freedom.
According to the Hurun Report released in June, 20 17, the threshold of wealth freedom in China has been rising continuously, up by 50% compared with last year, including 290 million in first-tier cities and 0/700,000 in second-tier cities.
For most people, financial freedom is a mirage in the foreseeable future. Pursuing the other three freedoms in another direction may better ensure that you have no worries for the rest of your life.
Thirty-five years old is a boundary. Those who didn't reach the boundary were young people in their thirties, and those who crossed the boundary were middle-aged people in their thirties.
Second, at the age of 35, the change of mentality is more important.
I thought at the age of 35, I gained experience, got a title and even became a little wise. I can live a little easier, be comfortable in society, and begin to feel the benefits of maturity.
But this is really not the case. After the age of 35, it feels more like ending adaptive training. Life should give you something serious.
When I was in my twenties, I felt that I faced the world with open arms.
When you are in your thirties, the situation is that the whole world is dumping on you, and you can hear the crack of your joints and you can't relax.
Stress comes from all directions, but it no longer consumes your physical strength or even your intelligence. It just consumes your mind, so that your white hair grows wildly along your temples.
Ai Quya is also a person who is about to rush into the third and fifteenth years. Obviously, the change of mentality, from casual concentration, from restlessness to quietness, from sensibility to tenderness, has no collision, no casualness, no enthusiasm, more rationality, more assertiveness and a little tenacity.
Three major problems that must be faced when you are 35 years old.
In fact, Huawei's personnel turnover has been relatively large, and Huawei's layoffs are no longer news. It's only the rumor of layoffs by age, which is the first time, so Huawei has a great shock inside and outside.
On February 24th, the heartfelt community of Huawei's internal communication website released the internal speech of its founder Ren, in which Ren also responded to the recent online rumor that "Huawei cleaned up its 34-year-old employees".
"There are employees online who want to retire at the age of 34. I wonder who will pay their pension? Our company has no pension. The company buys social security, medical insurance and accident insurance for its employees. Your retirement should conform to the national policy. Even if you leave your job, you have to pay for it yourself, otherwise it will be interrupted. If the state does not recognize it, you will have no pension in the future. "
Regarding whether Huawei forced its old employees to leave, Ren Zheng Fei did not respond positively, but he said, "Huawei has no money. If you don't struggle, you will collapse. People who don't struggle can't pay anything. Young and strong in his 30 s, not working hard, just want to lie in bed and count money, is it possible? "
Finally, Ren also said: "I encourage you to struggle, and I will practice it myself."
1, the balance between family and responsibility
Most people, at this age, must consider family problems. If you have a family, you must be soberly aware: how should your career develop to ensure that you can support the burden of the whole family?
This includes not only your lover, but also your children and parents (especially when both are only children, you have to bear the support of four old people on both sides).
At this stage, your pressure will multiply, but if you can't double your growth in the workplace, or even regress in some form, then your future career development will face even greater pressure. And this kind of pressure, more often, will make you have no spare capacity to seek better development.
2. The matching degree between ability and age.
Why do many enterprises clearly require five years' experience, 10 years' experience and so on when recruiting talents?
Because working hours mean the level of ability that matches it.
The same job, five years of experience and 10 years of experience, abilities and responsibilities are different. The longer the working hours, the stronger the ability, and there is a positive multiplication relationship between them. But if you violate this relationship, then you won't be recognized by the employer, and then you will lose better career development opportunities.
One of the more difficult situations in the recruitment of iQiyi is the mismatch between ability and age. Many people who have worked for three to five years, even those who have worked for one year, have little difference in ability, so when they want to make a breakthrough in their careers, they will encounter a lot of resistance.
There are two reasons for this:
First, frequent job-hopping, no accumulation in one direction, no skills;
Second, although it has accumulated in one direction for a long time, it has only increased in the first year, and the remaining years are doing repetitive work and marking time.
So, for those 35-year-old friends, from now on, you must carefully examine one question: how many years have I graduated from work? Do my abilities match my age? If not, then you must establish a sense of crisis as soon as possible, run forward, make up the gap with those prophets, and ensure that you will not be pushed down by others in the competition.
3. Construction and promotion of knowledge structure.
Iqiyi once interviewed a candidate for regional sales manager, worked in sales for five or six years, and accumulated quite rich practical experience.
During the interview, he was able to answer all questions about the specific operational level, but when he rose to the institutional level and strategic level, his mind was blank.
I believe that people who have worked in the workplace for five or six years have this feeling: I feel that I can master the specific operational level, whether it is the process or the skill method; But if you look at the problem from a higher level, you often don't know how to start.
In the workplace, people at different job levels do different things, and their horizons and thinking patterns are different.
A basic salesman thinks about how to maintain the terminal, which is a tactical matter and his duty; But if a marketing director thinks about how to deal with the terminal boss every day like a salesman, it is his dereliction of duty.
The management of every enterprise is composed of strategy and tactics. The grand strategy is subdivided into small strategies, and the small strategies are subdivided into execution tactics, which are put into practice by grassroots personnel. People at different levels are responsible for different heights of work and perform their duties, which is also the significance of teamwork.
Similarly, people at different levels have different knowledge structures. The higher the level, the higher your vision and thinking, and the higher your overall knowledge structure level.
Otherwise, your ability will always stay at the specific grass-roots operation level, and there will be no great development, let alone the rise of your position.
In addition, from the perspective of communication, the higher the position, the closer the relationship with the boss, and the more opportunities for contact with the company's top management.
If you can't keep a high degree of consistency with your boss, then your ability can't be recognized. Under such circumstances, your chances of promotion are slim, and your career is over.
Fourth, after the age of 35, how to ask for it?
Career development after the age of 35 should no longer be stagnant. If you want to make great progress in your career after the age of 35, you must make a breakthrough in your ideas and practical actions.
1, complete your own professional brand building.
How to build your own personal brand? When we reach the age of 35, it will certainly be impossible to change jobs frequently. The biggest disadvantage is that our professional knowledge will remain at a relatively low level, which will affect your promotion and salary increase.
What should we do and what is suitable for us? At this time, we should have a clear and definite orientation and use the little time left to accumulate.
Kenichi Ohmae, the "father of Japanese strategy", also put forward this view in his monograph Professionalism: "Why did you win? What will affect the world in the future is the competition between individuals. Can you dominate the world stage and forge the core competitiveness that others cannot surpass? Your only dependence is professionalism. "
Are we first-class business people or ordinary office workers? This is the difference!
Give yourself a professional orientation, establish your own brand image and add more valuable chips for your future career development. Ai Quya has seen 10 job-hopping people in five years and has been in contact with more than 20 industries. If we do the same, it will be completely unprofessional.
Of course, in order to support our professional brand image, we need to make efforts in the following two aspects:
The first aspect, that is, the knowledge structure problem we mentioned earlier, should be divorced from the specific operational problems, set their sights higher and farther, and become a person with "foresight" rather than "shortsightedness". You should look up to the best people in this industry, take them as the goal, take them as an example for your own cultivation and growth, and make up the gap step by step with Excellence. At this time, on-the-job study, further study and so on need to be put on the agenda, and learn to enrich your mind with new knowledge.
The second aspect is to establish their own influence in the industry. Excellent talents in every industry have their own gathering circle. Why do some people need tens of thousands to go out and give a lecture? Why can some people use their own strength to promote the development of an industry? The reason is that their influence is too great. If you want to be an excellent professional, you must be on an equal footing with the best people, establish your influence in this industry, and influence others with your thoughts.
2. Seek the help of headhunting consultants
Generally speaking, headhunting consultants prefer professionals around the age of 35, especially successful people who have made achievements in the workplace. They not only have rich information about middle and high-end jobs, but also have good communication channels with enterprises, and know what kind of talents enterprises need most to truly achieve the best match. The most important thing is that they have rich identification skills. When a professional is targeted by headhunters, it means that he will have the opportunity to move to a higher level.
General headhunting consultants will have a detailed evaluation of the talents they want to hunt, including professional ability, professional values, personality characteristics, behavior style, job matching, career development planning and design, etc.
Remember that this is a neutral evaluation by a third party, and it is a pertinent evaluation for you. When a person is confused about his career, it is very important to seek professional evaluation (and keep your information confidential), which can not only help you clearly locate, point out your shortcomings and places that should be filled, but also give advantages and disadvantages of jumping and suggestions, which can help you avoid many detours.
If you pay attention to high-paying people in the workplace and make a little analysis, you will find such a rule. Most of their careers are jumping up step by step. Generally, every time they jump, the workplace value will increase by 20%-30%, which is the main reason why middle and high-end professionals are willing to deal with headhunters.
When we have professional confusion, remember that professional consultation can get twice the result with half the effort.
3. Cultivate the determination to focus on the professional field
Why is success so simple? For most people, they can't enjoy the joy and pride brought by success. The main reason is that many people have no determination and no workplace behavior of "clear goals and repeated priorities". In other words, he didn't "refine" his specialty and ability for many years.
If the 35-year-old workers have to make adjustments, they should try to follow the principle of "changing jobs and not changing jobs" or "changing jobs and not changing jobs". Whether they choose other positions in the same industry or engage in the original positions in other industries, they can learn from the accumulated experience before, shorten the time for correcting mistakes, and let themselves return to the track of career development as soon as possible.
Therefore, a 35-year-old worker must cultivate "professional determination". If they still change jobs frequently, because their behavior is not solid enough and they are eager for success, leaving when they can't get a high salary will only add bumps to their career path. When the crisis happened, we couldn't face it calmly, know ourselves correctly and took an unnecessary detour.
Persist in one field and you will always get high returns.
Just like some well-known enterprises at home and abroad, they always only produce products they are familiar with, strive for perfection, and eventually become the industry leader.
About 35 years old, the choice should be stable in a professional field or a company. Both sides know each other well. With the improvement of ability and income, the development of professional space naturally follows.
4, in-depth analysis of their own situation to reposition.
In the workplace, many 35-year-old people in the workplace do not have a clear position when choosing a job. Most of them go with the flow or are lured by high salaries. In this case, considering the transformation will act blindly because of the lack of overall consideration. In the process of transformation, many people have made serious preparations, such as skills and knowledge reserves, but unfortunately, due to their own or other reasons, these preparations can not really serve the transformation of the workplace, and the biggest reason is that they do not have a thorough understanding of the jobs they are going to transfer to. Lack of in-depth workplace and self-analysis can easily lead to confusion, low sense of value, lack of competitiveness, frequent job hopping and other bad situations.
Moreover, many people in the workplace believe that at the age of 35, with certain qualifications, the capital for job-hopping will be there; Marriage and family are stable and less tired; The economic conditions are relatively abundant, and they can withstand ups and downs in case of job hopping; At this time, we need to grasp our position more accurately. Unclear career goals and positioning are the biggest risks. Moreover, there is the possibility of repositioning and planning at this age. Instead of blindly choosing, it is better to calm down and make your career orientation clearer, so as to guide yourself to "choose a job" according to your career plan. In the process of work, down-to-earth, serious and responsible, can play a professional role in their posts, do it with ease, and leaders will naturally sit up and take notice.
5. Learn to charge in a targeted way
Although in the mature period of the workplace, the 35-year-old professionals have reached a corresponding level of experience and ability, and have been able to skillfully deal with various problems at work.
But for the 35-year-old people facing the job-hopping crisis, they still need to continue to strengthen their studies. If the "old people" in the workplace don't take the time to keep pace with the times, it is equivalent to pushing themselves into the backward blind stream.
The more you have a sense of crisis and pressure, the more you should take the initiative to learn. We must constantly update our knowledge structure to keep our knowledge and professional skills fresh; At the same time, we should take the initiative to communicate with the "newcomers" in the workplace, so that we can integrate ourselves well into the spiritual team of young people, and at the same time see our own shortcomings from the newcomers.
A 35-year-old worker should be brave and good at learning.
Mainly from two aspects:
One is to combine the knowledge and experience before the transformation with the continuous core resources to a certain extent, lay a solid foundation and avoid analogy;
The second is to study and discuss in practice and form learning resources. Charging more at work and learning an independent skill or craft will save you from going to the talent market with young underachievers.
In addition, it is easier to get happiness and promotion opportunities by learning to decompose stress and treat work and life with a calm and calm attitude. As long as you adjust your mentality, keep learning, keep making progress, and jump ship to find a job, this dangerous "hurdle" can be completely crossed safely and smoothly, and your career foundation is timeless.
Fifth, at last, I borrow the quotations from Jobs as the end of this article.
"People can't do too many things in this life, so everything should be done brilliantly. Your time is limited, don't live for others. Don't be limited by dogma, don't live in other people's thoughts. Don't let other people's opinions affect your inner voice. The most important thing is to follow your heart and intuition bravely. Only your heart and intuition know what you really think, and everything else is secondary. "
When we feel that our income is inferior to others, don't compare with others casually, because we are far from knowing what others have paid behind their income. Similarly, when our life is inferior to others, we don't need to envy, because our quality of life is created by ourselves. If you think your life is not good enough, you are not working hard enough.
In fact, it is easy to persist in 2 1 day, but it is difficult to persist all the time! Come on, we're 35 years old.