Many people have encountered career lows, some have rallied to start over, and some have fallen into confusion and don't know how to transition.
No matter what educational background or professional experience, everyone may encounter a career trough. What matters is how to flop.
In the highly competitive workplace, being eliminated is always quiet.
Some people's career development has been in a very smooth state. As a result, after choosing to start a business or because of various reasons such as industry development and changes, the times have changed and they have been excluded from the workplace for a period of time.
Zhang Yi worked for six years, and his work went smoothly. To outsiders, he has a good position in a good company and a good salary.
But this year, due to the business transformation of the enterprise, their departments will be merged into other project teams. As a result, because Zhang Yi is not good at project work, he can only be the one who was eliminated.
The eliminated people in the workplace, without saying hello, may not have recovered and have been eliminated long ago.
Maybe you think that your work has been going uphill and the future will be smooth sailing, but uncertainty will come at any time and will quietly invade our work.
Everyone may encounter a career trough, and some people have a smooth career development period, leading to an age crisis in the stable period of the workplace; Some people encounter bottlenecks as soon as they enter the workplace; Some people go higher and lower. ...
Career development is also influenced by many factors. The age crisis is an embarrassing period that most people in the workplace will experience, as well as various skills upgrading bottlenecks, job burnout, interpersonal black holes and so on.
Some people come back from maternity leave and their posts are replaced by others. Although they still have jobs, they are not core jobs or core positions. They were marginalized and once wanted to resign.
Some people take a gap of a few months or even a year after graduation, and when they look back for a job, they miss the best job search period and lose the pass for fresh graduates.
Some people have worked in the company for many years and can overfulfil their tasks every time, but the team as a whole is excellent, but he has become the last stream of compulsory distribution in the team, with no year-end bonus and the risk of being dismissed.
The pendulum in the workplace hits people randomly. Many factors are even out of control, which directly affect our career development. What we can do is to make full preparations for this.
1. Relocate roles and adjust cognition. When you encounter a career downturn, the first thing to do is to reposition your role and adjust your cognition.
In the workplace, this road won't work, so try other paths.
After working for several years, a little friend fell into job burnout and even felt that he didn't want to work.
She found a professional to re-analyze and position her advantages, confirm the direction that suits her and is interested in, start over and adjust her career direction. As a result, in less than a few years, she became a middle manager.
When you are at a low point, the first thing to do is to reposition your role and find the goal of starting over.
2, skills transfer, looking for exports When your work encounters bottlenecks and is at a career low, you can consider skills transfer. For example, if your job is HR, you can consider headhunting, consulting and other directions.
In addition, in the process of career development, we should also pay attention to our own skills transfer, from skill types to resources, interpersonal skills and experience, because the latter are abilities that need to be accumulated in long-term career development and produce higher value.
Xia Xia used to be a human resources person, but later she turned to a career planner because of the limited promotion space. Based on her experience in human resource management and accumulated customer base, she was good at consulting, and later she founded her own consulting studio.
When we set a new goal, there will be a link between the general work and the original work, and skill transfer is to transform our ability through the link point.
3. Seize the opportunity and precipitate the ability. At the low point of our career, we should also pay attention to the precipitation of our ability, but while walking with our heads down, we should keep looking up at the sky and focus on seizing the opportunity.
Job burnout, blocked career promotion and unsatisfactory industry development may all be their own lows. At this time, if you don't have a better choice, you should focus on improving your ability.
Kai-fu Lee also mentioned in the interview that it is a good time for people to learn when they are at a low ebb. Many successful business founders have also experienced a trough, and then went up the slope after the trough.
When you make good use of the trough and seize the opportunity, the trough will also be a new turning point in your career development.
The cycle of career development is not static, nor will it be a pleasant journey. There will be a trough, a platform and a peak. What is important is how to choose in the face of the trough.
The low period can also be the rising period, and the short braking is to let you see the direction ahead and start again.
The lower the trough, the more you can test people's mind and ability. Bravely cross the past, you will definitely turn over and start a new career path!
I hope you don't have to go through the trough, but I hope you have the ability to flop at any time!