If you can successfully answer the fifth question, "What is my career plan?" You will have the final answer. In many institutions and experts, career planning seems to depend on them. Undeniably, the research in this field must have psychological knowledge and training. And a person with basic humanistic quality can plan his career with some simple and easy methods, including five-step method. This method, designed by the author in his work practice and successfully applied by many people, relies on the zero-thinking mode: start by asking who you are. Then ask all the way, * * * has five questions:
1 Who am I?
2 What do I want to do?
What should I do?
What does the environment support or allow me to do?
What are my career and life plans?
Answer these five questions, find their highest similarity, and you will have your own career plan. If you are interested, you can try it now. First take out five blank sheets of paper, a pencil and an eraser. Write the above five questions at the top of each piece of paper. Then, calm down, eliminate interference, and think carefully about each question in order and independently.
For the first question, "Who am I?" The key points of the answer are: face yourself and truly write every thought answer; After writing, think about whether there are any omissions, and think that there are no, in order of importance.
For the second question, "What do I want to do?" You can trace your thoughts back to childhood, starting with the first thing you want to do in your life, and then as you get older, you can recall what you really want to do and record them one by one. After writing, you can think about whether there are any omissions. If not, you can sort it out carefully.
For the third question, "What can I do?" Then list the proven abilities and the potential that you think can be developed. If you think you haven't missed anything, you will carefully tidy it up.
The fourth question, "What does the environment support or allow me to do?" The answer is a little analysis: the environment, including our own unit, this city, this province, our own country and other countries, should be considered as long as we think it may be used; In these cases, think carefully about what kind of support and permission you may get. After you understand them, write them down one by one, and then rank them in order of importance.
If I can successfully answer the fifth question, "What is my career plan?" You will have the final answer. The way to do this is to line up the first four sheets of paper and the fifth sheet of paper, then carefully compare the answers on the first to fourth sheets of paper, and connect the answers with the same or similar contents with a horizontal line, and you will get several lines. The top line that doesn't intersect with other lines is what you should do most, and your career should take this as the direction. In this direction, put forward short-term, medium-term and long-term goals in three years; Then put forward this year's short-term goals; Break down this year's goals into quarterly goals, monthly goals, weekly goals and daily goals. In this way, you can reflect on your goals before going to bed every day, sum up the achievements and mistakes of the day, experience and lessons, and correct tomorrow's goals and methods. After waking up the next day, you can put it into action with a little modification! Over time, there is no plan that cannot be achieved.
For example:
Mr. S, 1999, is 27 years old. His younger brother helped him get the MBA admission notice from the United States. When he hesitated to go, he used the above regulations to plan his career. The answers are listed in the following order:
Who am I?
Customer service manager of management consulting company (working for more than one year, capable, good relationship, satisfactory performance and income); Before becoming a manager, I worked as a customer waiter for more than one year (expanding my business and ranking first for six consecutive months); Before coming to this company, I worked as a life insurance consultant in an insurance company for more than a year and earned some money. But I think working in the insurance industry is too easy to be misunderstood and despised. I can't stand it, so I came when I met a management consulting company to recruit people. Now I feel more and more that people in this line, if they are conscientious and have a certain level, will be highly respected by customers, more in line with their own temperament and earn some money. Willing to be a decent and dignified person; I love my father (retired deputy Commissioner of the regional administrative office) and my mother (ordinary retired cadres) very much, and I am worried about their health with chronic diseases. I go home to visit them almost every year; I don't ask for much money, but I need a decent and rich life. I didn't pay much attention to saving before, but now I have only saved more than 300 thousand. I don't know whether to buy a car or a house first. My brother went abroad to study directly after graduating from college last year, and I envy him a little; I love my girlfriend very much We are going to get married, but we haven't decided on the right time yet. Graduated from university for five years; Good health; Mentally normal; Outgoing personality and optimistic mood; Strong curiosity and good learning ability; Like singing; Sometimes I fantasize.
what would i like to do ?
Be a partner and professional manager of a management consulting company; Management consultant; Go abroad for MBA first, then go back to China to do management consulting, and even start a consulting company by yourself; Living in a comfortable house with his wife and driving his own car to work every day; Be filial to your parents when they are alive, and take them home if possible; Sometimes I want to start a consulting company in partnership with others. I am responsible for business development and others are responsible for consulting projects. But it seems better for the current boss to absorb me as a shareholder and provide more career space. I like singing. During my college years, I won the champion of solo men's team in the whole school singing competition and dreamed of becoming a singer.
what can I do?
Be able to manage more business of the company and coordinate the relationship between various departments of the company; Is an expert in promoting the company's consulting business, but also a teacher to guide subordinates to develop customers; Can speak business development courses and some relatively easy management courses; Can drive; Singing karaoke is charming; I believe we can still learn a lot. What does the environment support me to do? If the existing company provides promotion, it may get some shares (the company plans to expand into a group next year and invest in several professional management consulting and management software companies); Many similar companies in the city have hired me as business director or vice president. The salary is twice as high as it is now (about 200 thousand a year now), and some even say that they will give me shares without my investment, but I don't know if they can run the company well. It is still a question whether they can honor their promises after I really leave. The bosses of some industrial companies also invited me to be the head of the marketing department, promising high salary and equity. But I think other industries are not as respected as consulting industry; You can go to college for further study; You can also study on-the-job MBA, as long as you have good courses and teachers; My brother can help me contact foreign universities to study, but I may come back and start from scratch in the future; If you want to practice singing, you can also sing in a bar, but your professional achievements are slim.
What are my career and life plans?
Continue to do a good job in your current company, and you will be promoted in the near future and get the opportunity to start a partnership; Choose an on-the-job MBA and study while working; Buy a house and get married; Buy a car; I often go to see my parents and then pick them up. Sometimes go to sing and play; Go to other companies to be co-entrepreneurs; Studying abroad.
Mr. S doesn't want to express his goal of 10, 6 years; The three-year goal is to be the company's deputy general manager, study for an on-the-job MBA, earn 500,000 yuan a year, become a full shareholder of the company, own a house and car, and get married and take care of their parents. In less than three years, except for my parents who came to live for a while not long ago, all my other wishes have come true. I just feel that the pace of immigration to the city is too fast, and there are too few acquaintances to get used to living.
[Attachment]: Plan your own benefits
Is career and life planning necessary? The answer varies from person to person. But planning will at least bring the following benefits.
1 reduces a lot of anxiety and mood swings (high and low).
Life and work are more efficient and easier to succeed.
3 it is not easy to be disturbed by others; It may have a beneficial effect on others.
As far as career is concerned, whether you have a plan or not, there are cycles. People who are proactive and make correct plans (not necessarily the above methods) can often achieve their goals and enjoy more fun. On the contrary, pain and complaint become the main theme of life. The general rules are as follows:
During the probation period (18-28 years old), take the initiative to switch or go with the flow.
In the accumulation period (20-30 years old), stick to it, change less or enjoy it.
During the period of starting a business and climbing (25-35 years old), the performance between twists and turns is strong or weak.
In the development period (30-50 years old), you have achieved enough or lost your ambition.
At maturity (40-55 years old), stick to or grasp the shortcomings.
To sum up, the advisory period (50-65 years old) teaches or prevents young people from starting businesses.
Retirement (60-70 years old) Optimistic and detached or gloomy?