I don't know what I'm suitable for. Everyone in the workplace wants to find their own workplace orientation, then dig deep in this field and eventually become a big cow in this field. But many people don't even know what they are suitable for. Here are some answers.
I don't know what I'm suitable for. 1 1, through the combination of industry/position/self.
Since the fundamental reason for making the wrong choice lies in information asymmetry, what we need to do is to collect as much information as possible to help us judge and reduce the probability of making mistakes.
Therefore, before you make a career orientation, you should learn as much as possible through Baidu, attending classes, reading books or paying for consultation.
1. Which industries have good development prospects?
2. What positions are there?
3. What is the specific job content of the post?
For example, if I want to know about the Internet industry, I will know.
1, development of Internet industry in recent 2-3 years (collecting various industry reports)
2. What are the Internet giants? What are their characteristics? What products do you have?
3. Besides giants, are there any other companies worthy of attention?
4. What are the jobs in the Internet industry? (Baidu/recruitment website collection)
5. What is the specific job content of the post? (Baidu search/reading/paid consulting related industries)
6. What is the salary level of the corresponding position? What are the development prospects? (From the recruitment website)
After I know the external information, I need to consider it in combination with my own situation.
1 What are my values?
2. What is my gift?
3. What is my past experience?
After understanding from the outside to the inside, the optimal positioning is of course the intersection of the three (not only a good industry, but also a good post, and it matches its own characteristics).
However, this kind of work is rare after all, so at this time, we need to choose and ask ourselves: if I can only choose two of the three factors, how will I choose?
Career orientation is not to choose everything, but to learn to give up.
This industry has the first-Mover advantage.
Many people can't find a suitable job because he is always obsessed with "I must find a job I like"
Is it reliable to use whether you like it or not as a measure? The answer is unreliable.
Because your preferences change with your experience, what you like now is not necessarily what you really like.
For example, you like to do operations in Tik Tok now, because you have been brushing videos for three months, and it feels quite interesting. But you may get tired of it in three months, and then you don't like to do audio and video operation in Tik Tok.
If you find a job in Tik Tok for this reason, you will feel bored in a few months, and then you will quit and find another so-called "job you like", which will only lead to an endless cycle of frequent job hopping.
Preference is dynamic and disgust is relatively constant. When looking for a job, ask yourself what kind of job you don't like.
Bezos, founder of Amazon, said: "Many people ask me all day, what will happen in 10 years. I am more concerned that nothing will change after 10 years. "
Our values will hardly change. Values can help us to judge which jobs are mutually exclusive and which jobs we absolutely don't want to do.
For example, my major in college is computer, and my counterpart should be a code farmer. But I am outgoing by nature and like to deal with people. Therefore, in the work of code farmers, it is very painful for me to simply type codes on the computer.
So from this value point of view, I will not touch any kind of works that one person has completed silently.
As for whether I like my present job? I don't know, but at least I'm qualified to say I don't hate it. Because I have worked in the marketing position of FMCG industry for five years since graduation. No contrast, no harm. I haven't worked in other industries, so I can't say I like it, but it doesn't hinder my work pleasure, because I know that as long as I don't find a job I hate, I may like it if I do it.
Finding a job and knowing what you don't like to do is more important than knowing what you like to do.
3. What should I do if I don't understand the industry/position/myself?
There are still some people who know nothing anyway, neither what industry they are, what position they hold, nor even their own personality characteristics. How can they find a job that suits them?
It's simple: don't be melodramatic, just find the job closest to money.
Since you know nothing and have no specific skills, it is like a blank sheet of paper. Then let's find a position with a relatively good salary. After all, part of the reason why work is very important is to make money and make your life better.
For example, you open the recruitment website and see three jobs.
1, financial sales-average monthly salary of 8000.
2. New media operation-the average monthly salary is 6,000 yuan.
3. FMCG marketing-the average monthly salary is 7000 yuan.
I don't know what I'm suitable for.
In the workplace, it is easy to appear such a phenomenon:
After working for several years, many people feel that their work is mediocre and face the risk of being eliminated at any time; And some people can be independent and become team leaders after working for less than a year.
In fact, many times, this is caused by whether a person works in his own advantageous field.
In the international nine-personality occupational test, people's occupational character can be divided into nine types, each of which has its own advantages.
Working at one's own strengths makes it easier to be top-notch; And working in areas that you are not good at, although you can do well, it is difficult to be top-notch.
For example, if a rational person is allowed to do academics or technology, the probability of achievement will be much greater than that of art.
If you still don't know where your strengths lie, I suggest you take a professional test of Type 9 personality, which is one of the most authoritative occupational test methods recommended by Stanford in the United States at present (online professional version is hard to find, so you can go to my official WeChat account "Xiao Qiang Workplace Theory" to test it, which is officially authorized by Type 9 personality).
Type 9 personality test may not give you complete advice, but it can make you clearly realize your own advantages and then combine them to find some favorable career directions.
For example, product managers have high requirements for a person's logical thinking ability and communication ability, which is more suitable for a personality with 5 high IQs;
Project management needs a person's leadership, communication and coordination skills, and emotional intelligence, which is very suitable for a person with high personality who leads No.3 or No.8..
If you can give full play to your strengths in the workplace, you can easily make extraordinary achievements and even reach the top level.
In addition, regarding personal advantages, I recommend another book, Now, Discover Your Advantages. You can read the title when it is empty.
Second, position your own industry direction.
Everything has a cycle, and so does our industry.
For example, the traditional PC computer, communication industry and construction industry are all very mature in China. Many people who entered this industry as early as the 1990s have already realized the freedom of wealth. But if they choose to enter again at this time, the dividend has disappeared and the growth rate will be much slower.
In fact, this is because the industry has reached a mature period or even a recession, and the growth rate has slowed down. The demand for talents will naturally decline, leaving fewer opportunities for newcomers.
In some industries that are just in the growth stage, it is easy to get "dividends" from some industries, which makes personal competitiveness and wealth grow rapidly. (For example, industries such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things have reached the growth stage. )
Many seniors in traditional industries like to tell their younger generations how hard they worked in those years to get to their present position and wealth.
But in fact, the real reason is that their contemporaries, who have entered the industry and persisted, have actually done a good job.
Because this is a dividend brought by the development of the industry, it has little to do with personal efforts.
So I suggest that you try to find an industry that is rising at present (and may rise in the future), and then find ways to go to this industry, so as to maximize your growth.
When your career goes up, you don't have time to be confused, do you?
So how do you find these industries?
On the one hand, pay close attention to the support and importance of some industries in the news (for example, there are really many opportunities to pay attention to the important speeches of some leaders).
On the other hand, Zhaopin publishes some professional industry reports every year, from which you can basically understand the situation of some industries in the market.
Based on these reports, we can have a general understanding of the whole industry, and then determine our career direction on this basis.
Third, determine your career orientation (by industry/company/position).
In a big industry, how to determine your own small direction?
1, after determining the target industry, you can choose to cut into the post in combination with the personal advantages in the first item.
For example, if you are good at communication, negotiation and team management, I suggest you start from a non-technical position;
If you are good at logical thinking and technical research, you can consider technical posts in new industries;
2. Determine the position according to whether it belongs to the core business.
Generally speaking, a company's jobs can be divided into service jobs, business jobs, support jobs and so on.
For example, administrative, human resources, financial and other positions, which belong to the professional field in a company, are all auxiliary positions. Although it is also very important, it does not involve specific business, and its growth rate is slower than that of business jobs.
Core business positions, such as marketing, growth, research and development, are easy to expand on a large scale when the company's business develops, and the promotion and salary increase are very fast.
Therefore, I personally suggest that when you choose a position, you should combine 1 and 2, and choose one that can give full play to your advantages and ensure that you have a good income.
When choosing a position, I can teach you a measurement method:
List the main factors you value when choosing a job in a table:
After listing all the factors, score different jobs, and finally get a total score (negative score means you are hard to accept), so you can easily calculate the weight of different jobs in your mind.
Of course, these scores are only your own subjective evaluation, such as company prospects and personal growth, which need some information in Article 2 as a supplement.
Fourth, keep learning-enter the business-dig deep and look for opportunities.
When you know what you want to do, the most important thing for you is not to submit a resume interview, but to study.
(Of course, fresh graduates can try to invest in unskilled jobs. )
But a lot of work, especially technology development, marketing, human resources,,, actually has a certain threshold. If you want to enter the business directly with zero experience, there are only two ways:
1, take the time to briefly understand an industry, become an intern, and start as a handyman;
The premise of this method is that you have a basic understanding of this industry and the company is willing to take you.
The advantage is that the threshold is relatively low and you can get in touch with things about this position. The disadvantage is that they are basically doing odd jobs, but they can't grasp the core content of the post and grow slowly.
2, through a period of study (or training or through a mentor), directly into the industry, barbaric growth;
I recommend this method more, because it grows faster.
First of all, you learn directly, you have a certain foundation, and the content of your work can be mastered. Secondly, after studying, you can get higher salary, more personal rights than interns, and your personal growth will be faster.
I don't know what I'm suitable for. 3 1. How to find your own interests?
In today's society, there are not 360 lines, but 300, 3000 or even 30000 lines. There are many jobs that we haven't even heard of. I wonder if we are interested. So if you want to find an area of interest, there are three tips:
First, try and experience more positions. And get 60 points in this position, instead of just leaving for a day or two, because it is impossible to judge whether you are interested without a deep understanding of an industry.
Secondly, we need to find some professionals to help us. For example, go to some career planners. Go to some professional evaluation. Because there are a large number of people studying every position we can think of now, we can directly exchange money for their achievements, which can save us a lot of detours. It is the most efficient way to exchange money for other people's experience.
Of course, the above two methods are both ways to assist us, and the most important thing is to seek your true inner thoughts.
Third, this requires us to ask ourselves more questions and dig out our deepest thoughts. For example, if you tell your parents that you don't want to go home to be a teacher, it may be because you think this job is more stable. I feel that the nature of its work is repetitive. I feel that I can see my old age at a glance and I don't want to do it.
But when you know that in today's Internet age, each of us has many possibilities. We can do what we like regardless of time and place. So you can design, draw, write articles and do some other part-time jobs in your spare time to improve your spare time. At this time, if you think about the profession of teacher again, you may feel less boring.
2. How to find out what you are good at?
If you want to find your own good field, you should listen to the opinions of people around you and listen to the feedback from others. As the saying goes, the authorities are fascinated and the bystanders are clear. Sometimes we may be more prominent in one aspect, but we don't know it ourselves.
For example, I often go to some salons in the industry and then actively express myself at this party. When the party was coming to an end, I asked people around me for advice and suggestions. For example, get on well with colleagues and leaders, and often ask them to give some feedback on your work and personal performance. After a long time, we can easily find what we are good at.
In short, whether we are looking for our own interests or our own areas of expertise, the most important thing is to ask ourselves what we really think, and all external tools are just to help us.