Positioning, Planning and Prevention-Career gap is no longer embarrassing.
When you have been neglected or enthusiastically engaged in the entrepreneurial craze by the employer because of the fierce competition in the job market, but ended in failure, will you feel extremely embarrassed in the face of this "embarrassing period" on your resume?
When your classmates are already employed, but you are obsessed with the postgraduate entrance examination, the more frustrated you are, the more brave you are. Finally, you can either leave Sun Shan or give up your job search halfway. Do you have a feeling of regret when the employer shows suspicion because you have graduated but have no work experience?
When you are enthusiastically preparing to go abroad and hopefully want to experience in a foreign land, but you still can't get what you want, do you find it difficult to express yourself better in the face of the interviewer's question about having no work experience during this period?
Xiangyang believes that all the above situations can be attributed to the passivity and helplessness of job seekers during their career gap. How to face the negative impact of career gap on career is puzzling more and more professionals. First of all, we help analyze from several classic cases:
Case 1:
I've never been so embarrassed.
Fan Zhe (pseudonym) professional manager
From small to large, Fan Zhe has always been the best among his peers in all aspects and has been very smooth. After graduating from college, due to his excellent academic performance and outstanding professional skills, he soon became one of the few students who found a job at the earliest and got the best pay. In the following years, he was at home in his post, won the admiration of his colleagues and the appreciation of his boss, and soon became one of the minor figures in the industry.
One headhunting company after another began to suggest and introduce Fan Zhe's better development platform. At first, he laughed it off until a company he had admired for a long time appeared. Fan Zhe was moved. According to the oral agreement between the two parties, Fan Zhe left his job in the North Company one month in advance and came to this strange city of Shanghai. However, something unexpected happened. Due to personnel changes, the person in charge of the enterprise who originally invited Fan Zhe to join resigned, and Fan Zhe was also implicated, and his position suddenly fell empty. I thought that after the personnel adjustment was stable, it could be solved satisfactorily. Fan Zhe has been waiting patiently. However, this wait is four months, and the situation has not improved. After waiting for a long time, Fan Zhe began to find his new position in this city. He thought this process would be smooth, and he was full of confidence when he received the first interview notice. But when he saw the interviewer's skeptical eyes on Fan Zhe's explanation that he had been in Shanghai for nearly five months but had no work experience, Fan Zhe knew that he had encountered an extremely difficult problem. After many twists and turns, I successfully received the interview notice, but all of them capsized within five months to illustrate this "vacuum". Fan Zhe, who had never been so embarrassed, began to worry and was at a loss. ...
Case 2:
I regretted it on impulse.
Sun Hui (pseudonym) Interior Designer
Sun Hui majored in interior design. During his college years, he did well in his studies. Many good works participated in professional competitions and won many awards. Sun Hui also likes design very much, and even has some obsession. He has often painted some imaginative little works since he was a child. Later, he applied for the design major, which he insisted on. After graduation, he found a job as a designer in a decoration design company. However, the tense working environment, huge working pressure, disharmony among colleagues and the lack of appreciation of leaders all made Sun Hui not develop well. He began to lose enthusiasm for his work, he began to hate it, he began to be anxious, and he began to be agitated.
After graduation, a classmate in Sun Hui didn't look for a job and go to work step by step like others. Instead, he started his own company and made a company website for other small companies. The students are developing well, in their words, they feel that life is very moist. Depressed, Sun Hui made some friends, quit his job and started such a company. Life was very difficult at first, and my classmates encouraged me to say that everyone was like this at first, and it will get better gradually, so did Sun Hui. However, after several months, the company still has no improvement. Sun Hui can't see a glimmer of light, and almost exhausted all the courage to continue. Moreover, he suddenly realized that in fact, his passion for design can't be left in his heart. He decided to return to the design industry, but this time the road to job hunting was bumpy. Sun Hui often receives phone calls from recruiters in some companies. The other party repeatedly asked him why he resigned from his last company and what happened after that. After that, there was no news and few interview opportunities. Sun Hui understands this problem, but he doesn't know how to deal with it. He only regrets his impulsiveness.
Analysis:
Absolute career and period. Relative occupation blank period
After reading the above two examples, let's first define the career gap period. The so-called career gap period mainly refers to the state that the professional has no work or employment record for a certain period of time for some reason. From the causes, the occupation blank period can be divided into absolute blank period and relative blank period. The former refers to the state of no employment experience at all; The latter refers to the interruption of continuous professional experience for a period of time throughout the career. Work experience during the interruption, but it does not match the previous professional experience. In short, it was a short affair.
The cases of Fan Zhe and Sun Hui are two typical cases about the occupational gap. The former is in an absolute career gap and has no five-month employment experience; The latter is in a typical relative career gap. Sun Hui got a job a few months after leaving his job, but judging from his major, ability and interest, he is more suitable for designing. After the targeted evaluation and analysis of Xiangyang CCDM career planner, he did return to the original industry and developed smoothly. From the whole process, the entrepreneurial experience is only an unexpected episode for Sun Hui's design career, which is not beneficial.
Many people will encounter a career gap, which is becoming more and more common and embarrassing in today's highly competitive workplace. How to avoid the emergence of career gap? If the career gap is inevitable, can people do nothing about it? Facing the interviewer, how should people properly handle the sensitive career gap?
Suggestion:
How to avoid the embarrassment caused by the career gap?
Countermeasure 1: Correct attitude
Be honest with the interviewer, don't pretend.
Faced with the embarrassing career gap, some people may think of making up a period of employment experience or lengthening the previous employment experience to make up for this career gap, so as to suppress or cover up the truth in the career gap. CCDM, a career planner in Xiangyang career, believes that such behavior is very undesirable. In fact, in the consulting practice of Xiangyang's career, when clients are faced with a career gap, more than 80% of clients will choose to falsify and cover up before expert counseling. At present, the recruitment audit system of employers is becoming more and more strict. When recruiting new people, the human resources department should not only look at the resume content, but also verify the authenticity of the resume content. Communication with the applicant's original company has become one of the whole recruitment links. If the employer finds that there is dishonest behavior in the resume or interview process, then even if the applicant's other personal qualities are excellent, the employer usually will not consider them.
Countermeasure 2: Respond bravely.
Accurately locate the career direction and let the blank period reflect the professional value.
How to better answer the interviewer's questions about the career gap in the interview process is what job seekers must face. CCDM career planner in Xiangyang believes that the best way to deal with this sensitive issue is to express the facts sincerely, and at the same time appropriately reflect the value of the career gap to the new job. To reflect the value of the career gap, we must first have a positioning and planning for our own career. What I am suitable for, what I will do, and what the target position needs must be clear.
When Fan Zhe came to a strange metropolis, he had no job for nearly five months. However, it is undeniable that he has a superb technical level and has a certain reputation in the industry of his previous work city. These are his strengths. He is suitable for this industry, and he will continue in this industry, just changing cities and units. A new job in a new city requires him to have a deeper understanding of the city's industries, adapt to the city's pace of life, working methods and humanistic environment, and master the most cutting-edge technology of his industry in this city. Having made this clear, during the interview, Fan Zhe might as well gently indicate to the employer that he has been working hard for these things for the past five months and is preparing for a new job. Of course, he also needs to be really prepared, at least when the interviewer asks the corresponding questions.
On the surface, Sun Hui's entrepreneurial experience has nothing to do with his design work, but he chose to leave at the beginning because he could not bear all kinds of pressures well and could not integrate well into the surrounding environment. He wants to continue his design work. These problems are unavoidable. Through the systematic analysis of CCDM career planner, we find that Sun Hui loves design work, and he has this talent and ability. Design work is his best choice. What he hated at first was not the work itself, but the surrounding environment. Having made this clear, Sun Hui's entrepreneurial experience will not be meaningless, but will sharpen his character and endurance, so as to improve his inner professional temperament and be better qualified for future design work.
Countermeasure 3: Prevention is the best.
The occupation blank period is also the energy reserve period, and prevention is the highest strategy.
Everything has advantages and disadvantages. Although the vacancy of employment experience in the gap period has caused some troubles to job seekers in the process of job hunting, on the other hand, it also allows job seekers to have more time and energy to analyze their own strengths and weaknesses and analyze the situation of the industry from a more objective perspective. The career planner of Xiangyang Career CCDM believes that during this period, people in the workplace may wish to conduct a comprehensive review and inventory of their career development, find out the existing problems and deficiencies, and thus make more scientific and reasonable career plans for themselves. After making a clear career plan, you can also use this time to recharge and reserve enough energy for a new starting point that is about to begin.
There is also a saying that "offense is the best defense". The best solution to a thorny problem is not to let it appear. Therefore, it is particularly important to have a clear understanding of yourself, define your career goals and plan your career development.
Don't be impulsive, don't be impulsive, do it when you think about it, and do it when you are ready. As the saying goes, "everything is established in advance, and it is abolished without advance." Sun Hui failed because he was hot-headed and impulsive. He didn't think about what he was fit to do, he was eager to do what he wanted to do. Students' success is supported by technical ability, and students love to do company websites. Sun Hui does not have these basic conditions, so it is much more difficult to succeed in this field.
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