As a new industry, career planning consulting plans and guides the future for professionals, advocates rational job selection and scientific development. However, in recent years, shady and tricky things about vocational counseling have been frequently reported in newspapers, and there have been frequent storms in the industry. Therefore, many professionals have questioned the value and professionalism of career counseling. With related questions, our reporter interviewed Mr. Dale Hong, the chief career planner of Xiangyang Career, a famous career planning consulting agency in Shanghai.
Dale Hong said that due to some unpleasant events in individual institutions, public opinion recently questioned the career counseling and planning industry, which he understood. He believes that as a new thing, the development of the industry needs to be improved and matured, and the media and the public need to have a deeper understanding of the industry.
First of all, the growth of any emerging industry will inevitably go through a process from non-standardization to gradual planning. At present, the development of career planning consulting abroad is quite mature. For example, in Japan, career planning consultation has formed a fairly complete system in the whole society, but in China, it is still in a stage of development, which can basically be said to be just in its infancy, and it is still a new thing for most professionals and is in a mature stage of development.
Because the career planning consulting market is in the development stage, there is considerable room for development in the future. Some institutions, including those without professional qualifications, saw the business opportunities and wanted to take a slice of it. This has led to a mixed situation in the whole consulting market, and some institutions even have some quick success and instant benefit behaviors. If some companies do career planning consulting without professional training and rely entirely on HR experience, these are things that our industry will avoid in the future.
Secondly, at present, the domestic society's awareness of career guidance planning is not high, and many people's understanding is also one-sided.
Career planning consultation is a kind of planning based on science to choose the appropriate career development path and career environment for people with personality characteristics, and it is a developing and dynamic planning. However, under the current social employment pressure, many consultants equate career planning with career introduction, which obviously runs counter to the original intention of career planning. Everyone should distinguish a concept. The introduction work belongs to the category of talent intermediary and must be done by professional talent intermediary. Career counseling planners and talent agencies perform their respective duties, and things in different fields cannot be solved in the same event.
Many people regard career planning as a panacea, hoping that it can cure diseases and solve all their problems in one consultation, which is even more unrealistic. Career consulting planners help people to know themselves better through professional knowledge and evaluation, so as to find a suitable development route for them. Consulting and planning are not omnipotent, let alone omnipotent.
Others equate the professional knowledge applied in career planning with some psychological assessments published on the internet, newspapers and magazines, which is a very superficial and one-sided understanding. Psychological evaluation is only a small part in the process of career counseling, and it is one of the reference materials for counselors to make career decisions. Professional career counseling uses psychological evaluation based on psychology and norm, rather than the so-called evaluation that is flying all over the sky now.
Finally, career planning consultation in the true sense is a highly professional profession, which needs profound theory and extensive practice as the foundation. A qualified consultant needs to master a wide range of knowledge including psychology, intelligence information, career development, marginal laws, policies and other related knowledge. With the internationalization of China, the social competition is becoming more and more fierce. Students and confused professionals at all stages need professional career planning to help them avoid risks and live in society rationally and intelligently. Therefore, career planning consulting is still a very promising industry in the future.
Finally, Dale Hong said that the domestic career consulting and planning service market is in the ascendant, and he expects to make joint efforts with peers in the industry to promote the standardized, benign and healthy development of the industry, and is also willing to accept the supervision of the mass media and public opinion. There is an old saying in China that true gold is not afraid of fire. I believe that the market will talk and always find out the elites in the industry.
Experts remind:
Choose a consultant with professional qualifications.
Remind professionals that individuals should pay special attention to the professional qualifications of consultants when choosing career planning consulting services. At present, in the fields of career planning, consulting and guidance, relevant departments have introduced some professional certifications. For example, the national vocational qualification certification for vocational instructors launched by Shanghai Labor Department, and the post qualification training for professional planners jointly launched by Shanghai Office for Shortage of Talents and Xiangyang Career. Take the professional certification of professional planners as an example. In the training process, teachers are strictly controlled, and experts and university professors who have made great achievements in the field of career planning at home and abroad are invited to teach, and exams are required for nearly 120 class hours, including internship cases. Up to now, nearly 100 professional planners have been trained.
Rational consumers who do career consulting planning
Career planning is what everyone needs, but everyone needs different time. When seeking career counseling services, first, don't blindly believe some so-called evaluations, so as not to miss life because of wrong information; Second, when seeking advice, it is necessary to recognize whether the other party has the qualifications recognized by the industry. In short, you must see clearly when you see a doctor.
Selected essays on consulting career planning 2 1, reading
There are millions of books about how to promote your career development. But there are several books recently, and I have a unique perspective on this field after reading them. Their purpose is to treat your career as a freelancer who provides services. Your job is to ensure that the service is needed. The rarer and more valuable your service is, the more you earn.
Watch the news
Make watching news a part of your daily life. It is important that you always know what is happening in the job market, which industries are reported and which ones are hot (and more importantly, which ones are not).
3. Network communication
A good way is to use LinkedIn to keep in touch with people in the industry and track what they are doing and worrying about. If the people you admire make a fortune in Weibo because of difficulties, you have a good chance to help them solve their problems. It's also a good way to get to know potential bosses/employers.
Communication at work
The person you work for today is a reference for your next job. You don't have to cheat, just remember that your goal is to do things well, and the whole team will succeed. Be friendly. Become a member of the team. You can't do everything by yourself. If your colleagues don't like your attitude, you must spend a lot of time doing everything.
Looking for a mentor
Mentors are very important in your career development. We all think we can do a good job, but that's just a rash illusion. Find those experienced people you respect and trust and learn from them as much as possible. These people may be your boss or their former bosses. You'll never guess who it is.
Help colleagues
Look for people who have too much to do or are obviously frustrated. Then try your best to help them. Take on some of their work. Put off the deadline a little. Take them out for coffee. Anything will do. Just let them know that you are willing to lend a helping hand. Help your networking team today, and they will try their best to help you tomorrow.
7. Check your salary
Your goal is to find out whether you get a salary commensurate with your efforts. Browse the salary comparison website to find out your salary range. Be careful, you may find that you have got the same salary (maybe more! ), you may also want to get a higher salary.
8. Control consumption
The best way to improve the economic level is to earn more money, but you must also control consumption. It's not as difficult as you think. Spend less than you earn, and get out of debt as soon as possible.
9. Work smarter
Before you try to find another job, please make sure that your current job is impeccable. In order to make life easier for ourselves and others, we should improve efficiency, work smarter and do things well. I know it's easier said than done, but when you interview in a new company, you also want to have concrete examples to illustrate how you created value in the past.
1. Flexibility
Most people think that their career is under their control. You choose a field/industry/occupation, and then you are aggressive and strive to go further on the career path. But this idea is unrealistic. What interests you will lead you to different fields. Things you don't know will happen, you will be fired, you will be promoted, and you will jump ship. Accept these changes with open arms and don't shut them out just because they don't conform to your five-year plan. The best way is to be willing to accept everything, because sometimes unexpected actions often prove to be the best step.
1 1. Sit down and have a good communication.
Communication is very important, especially with the person you want to report. Whether you get along well with your boss or not (in an ideal world, you should at least respect and trust him/her), you need to know what your boss expects of you and how to exceed it. I don't know how to complete the task assigned by my boss perfectly. Ask directly, and then execute.
12. If you are the boss.
I'm not saying you put your feet on the table and start giving orders. What I really mean is to take the time to imagine yourself in the boss's position. Think about what she does every day, the subordinates she manages, and the boss she has to deal with. Think about all this. Sometimes a little empathy will make you understand a lot.
Help your boss.
We are all busy, but spend a week keeping a close eye on your boss. I mean, I really cherish it. What's bothering him? What made him stay up late? What's he worried about? Now take some time and try to make life easier for the boss.
Why should I be a counselor?
Faced with this question, I will probably spend my whole life answering it. The answer delivered now is only the understanding at this stage. I'm afraid this problem will be a problem that everyone who chooses psychological counseling has been wandering in his heart all his life. Answering this question is like wondering what's upstairs before going upstairs and whether it's worth going upstairs to see. It's just that if you don't go upstairs to see it, how do you know if it's worth it? Psychological consultation is my ideal, and simple ideal is the starting point of happiness. No matter what kind of scenery there is upstairs, I am always happy to get my ideal. Suppose psychological counseling is an apple hanging on a tree. Facing it, there are about four angles: A says: I want to eat. B said: I want to draw it. C said: I want to do experiments with it. Ding said: I want to love it. This shows that Apple is to A: the object of knowledge-the knower; Apple is for B: the object of appreciation-the appreciator; Apple is to C: practical object-practical person; For Ding, the apple is the object of love-the lover. My attitude towards psychological counseling includes four angles: A, B, C and D. I appreciate it because I know, use it because I appreciate it, and finally love it because I use it. If I break down the reasons for this love, I can deliver the following nine reasons at present:
1, save people from unhappiness
I wanted to be an angel when I was a child. Because angels are not only beautiful but also can fly. Of course, there are not so many children now, but I still hope that Emily in the movie Angel Emily can make her surroundings brighter because of herself. I am very clear: consultants are not angels! You can't involve yourself, and you can't pretend to be taller than the visitors. Of course, it is even more impossible to eliminate disasters and save lives. But just saving people from sadness, sadness, anger, pain, regret, hatred and resentment is just a small standard to make the surrounding environment brighter. Just right. The significance of psychological counseling is to help people restore happiness without surfing the Internet. Help others when they are unhappy and save others when they are unhappy; That's all.
2. The way to teach my lover
There is a saying in Buddhism that crossing people means crossing people from one side of hate to the other side of love. It is vulgar to talk about love these days, but love is still the root of human emotional response. Everyone loves it, but the types and forms of love are different, covering all the beauty, ugliness, goodness, evil, strength and weakness. In the counseling cases I have experienced, I found that people who lose the method and ability of love are the most painful. The process of psychological counseling is to collect and summarize the methods of love, and then help visitors regain the power of love. Restore his confidence in the face of cruel love. This is equivalent to hugging a person mentally, which makes people more happy forever than hugging physically. The ultimate ideal of Confucian culture is to seek wisdom and benevolence. Wisdom refers to knowing people, and benevolence refers to loving people. Psychological counseling can meet people and love others. This is also the social significance of psychological counseling. As a psychological counselor, I am proud of this social significance, and I am proud of myself who is constantly aware of this significance.
The more you help others, the more peaceful you will be.
Countless predecessors have described that we are the biggest beneficiaries in the process of helping others. The so-called altruistic behavior can benefit others for their inner peace, and the more you help others, the more you can become a mirror, which can be used to take care of yourself and make yourself unified, peaceful and broad. The inner strength of counselors lies in their incomparably broad mind, which can be suitable for any kind of high clouds. Positive emotions and negative emotions in the body gradually exist in the body in an optimal proportion. I know a senior who is engaged in psychological counseling. He is so quiet and serene, with auspicious clouds floating overhead. Everyone around him feels happy as long as he stays by his side. This is the strength I yearn for and the realm of life I yearn for. I am sober-minded, introspective and calm, and I can get happy peace in helping others.
4. Psychological counseling has made me realize myself.
The interaction of psychological counseling made me realize myself. When I was a child, I chatted with my friends, and they always regarded me as the object to talk to. Every time I become a listener, sharer and comforter, I really feel the meaning of my existence. So there is a peak experience, and this kind of self-realization becomes more and more real with the richness of consulting objects. In fact, being trusted and being able to empathize with a wider range of people makes me feel that I have a fairly honest vitality and am very happy. Moreover, nothing is closer to the truth of life than psychological counseling. The direct effect of these principles is growth: bit by bit, step by step, step by step, enriching my experience and expanding my boundaries. The more open and powerful I am, the more I feel that I stand firm. I think the highest level of human needs is simplicity, which is a process from scratch, and it is detachment after touching all the complexities and returning to ignorance. I regard simplicity as the highest demand for self-realization. In order to realize it, I have to face the most complicated life and trivial needs of human beings, and then extract the simplest truth. Psychological counseling is a job that can be contacted at any time. In case consultation, visitors' resources sometimes suddenly meet my feelings and suddenly feel heartache. This closeness to the truth has brought strong self-realization, so psychological counseling is the best career choice for me to realize myself.
5. Accumulate the first line of life
There are people in the world who have loved, loved, prepared to love, born, nurtured, treated others well, feared, envied, hurt, laughed, cried, promised, turned around and repented, remembered, and shook hands. In all the work related to psychology, psychological counselors are in the front line of human nature. The counselor's job is to accumulate a large number of cases, but also to conduct introspection and research on a large number of cases. Everyone only lives for a lifetime, but the counselor has lived for N more lives through so many people's complaints and emotions. I just want to know the simplest truth of life, that's all, so I need a lot of life accumulation. No one knows life better than a counselor, because so many people's lives will eventually become Buddhas.
6. Psychological counselor is a cloud in my career planning.
Psychological counseling is a step in my career planning. My career plan is as follows, and my intention is clear at a glance: speaker = > listener = > person who filters these words = > person who summarizes these words = > silent person. Media psychological counselor, psychological supervisor, psychological writer, self-sufficient happy old man. Many teachers have asked me why I gave up my present job and devoted myself to psychological counseling. Most of these teachers care about me from the economic point of view. For me, the career choice of psychological counselor is not impulsive, but planned long ago. It is a choice in my career planning, and engaging in other jobs is a career exploration. I have never been confused about the goal of engaging in psychological counseling: I have to study psychology in junior high school, apply for the psychology department in the college entrance examination, and have a four-year undergraduate course, plus postgraduate courses and psychological counselor certification, all in order to accumulate and prepare for becoming a psychological counselor, to learn for myself, to apply what I have learned, and to apply what I have learned.
7. The life of a counselor is very close to my personal ecology.
In any profession, you can be a happy person, but life is limited. Your profession determines who you think about and the nature of solving problems most of the time every day. I hope I can spend most of my life thinking about how to love well and how to have happy resources. My personal ecosystem can't cope with nine-to-five work, computer reports, fame and fortune. Like quiet, honest, have a sense of belonging, can study people's work. In addition, the nature of psychological counselors' work is relatively free, and the main time is spent interacting with visitors, studying cases, reading and learning, and listening to the experiences of predecessors. How happy I am! ! I prefer this working environment, which is more important than money.
I believe in its industrial development.
No one will choose to break the boat and cross the river on impulse. I am aware of the ascetic state of psychological counselors at the early stage of their career, and I am also psychologically prepared. But there are a lot of market research figures and revolutionary achievements of predecessors, which makes me believe that the development potential of this industry will definitely become Noah's Ark in the future. I love money like a gentleman, but I prefer the luxury of letting my thoughts wander. Let me give up my money once when I was young. This is immature, irresponsible and fearless. If I didn't dislike it when I was young, I was afraid that I would be adopted by my parents in the future, and I wouldn't dislike it either. What's more, I have to go through this ascetic stage sooner or later, and return to my ideal as soon as possible, so as not to compare with the current professional status of domestic psychological counselors who die in a humble room and cry with pillows, which is not comparable to the hardcover room in other industries, but I prefer to be a humble room, only seeking the virtuous and sincere, without making false original intentions, and be trained all my life. What's more, why is it ugly for a gentleman to live in it?
9. Psychological counseling is a process of spiritual practice.
The work of psychological counselor, you can regard it as a profession, an identity and a way of life, but I prefer to regard it as a practice. It is a good experience, the most all-inclusive accumulation and lifelong growth. This experience will make me stronger and more energetic. It is also a kind of vitality that can be shared and infected. For example, you have to stay alone for fifty hours before you can talk to people for ten minutes. You have to cry for three hours before you can comfort others with a tear. I am willing to pay this price, and don't miss the experience of life. I hope that the practice of introspection can be directly transformed into resources and induce strong empathy. Finally get a perfect, unified and happy self. People often ask me, do you learn psychology well? And then what? Bobby, which one of you studies well? I will answer that I am not good at learning. Psychology is everyone's inner strength, not learned, only knowledge and experience can be learned. Psychological counseling is a kind of practice, and knowledge and experience are not enough. Practice is to mold knowledge and experience into personality, and then sublimate the power of the soul. This practice is endless. I have always been a passer-by in my exploration, and the psychological resources of anyone else are the content of my study and the angle of practice. I've been through a little cleverness. I hope that through the practice of psychological counseling, these little cleverness will be melted into great wisdom. This day will be a great task for me, and it will be my happy and self-interested life practice.
On career planning, the first problem to be solved is to determine what you want to do most and what you are good at. What you are best at is related to thinking structure, knowledge structure and ability structure, but what you want to do most is not necessarily what you are best at. If they don't agree, it depends on whether you pursue what you want to do most as always. If you have this passion and courage, you should stick to it. Of course, if what you want to do is exactly the same as what you are good at, you can be lucky to use the advantages of both to complete your career plan.
To plan step by step, we must first determine our own conditions. Everyone has a different talent. Only when you do the same thing repeatedly, happily and successfully, ability is the advantage, and the ultimate advantage field is the biggest growth space for people. In addition to determining what you are best at, you should also analyze your weaknesses. Some things will make you feel depressed, unhappy and have average grades. These are your weaknesses. Next, what are the threats to our current industries, enterprises and jobs? What are the opportunities? At any time and anywhere, opportunities and threats coexist and can be transformed into each other. Then it is to determine the target. Set career goals within your ideal framework and break them down into stage goals. According to the goal, the overall career planning can be regarded as a programmatic long-term planning; You can do career planning for 3 to 5 years as a medium-term development plan; 1 year career planning can be used as a short-term planning, with strong operability and little change.
Career planning will make people get twice the result with half the effort and achieve the greatest achievement in the shortest time. Especially those who are engaged in consulting and management industries need management by objectives more. Career planning for long-term consultants usually follows the following points:
Choose what you like. Do what you like. When the job itself can give you a sense of satisfaction, then this career will become interesting from now on. The survey shows that there is an obvious positive correlation between interest and success probability. At the same time, we must pay attention to the design of career planning: consider our own characteristics and cherish our interests.
Choose your strengths. Any occupation requires practitioners to master certain skills and have certain ability conditions. And it is impossible for a person to master all the skills in his life. Therefore, when choosing a job, you must choose what you are good at, so as to give full play to your advantages.
Choose the world. Social needs are constantly developing, old needs are constantly disappearing and new needs are constantly emerging. Yesterday's hot goods may become unpopular today. Therefore, when planning your career, you must analyze the social needs and choose the world needs.
Choose your own interests. Occupation is a means for individuals to make a living, and its ultimate goal is to pursue personal happiness. Therefore, when choosing a career, the first consideration is to maximize one's expected income and personal happiness (Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory). Wisely choose the career orientation of maximizing personal interests, choose between social perspective and personal intention, so as to find a maximum value in the function composed of variables such as income and social status. This is the principle of maximizing income.
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What is a consulting company?
A consulting company refers to a company engaged in soft science research and development and selling "wisdom", also known as "consulting company". This kind of company is a commercial company, which receives the intentions and requirements of clients, uses specialized knowledge and experience, and provides specific services with mental labor.
Consulting company is an independent and professional consulting service organization, which helps enterprises and entrepreneurs to identify and seize new opportunities, strengthen learning and implement changes by solving management and operation problems, so as to achieve enterprise goals. It is composed of experts with rich management knowledge and experience, goes deep into the enterprise site, closely cooperates with enterprise managers, uses various scientific methods to find out the main problems existing in management, makes quantitative and qualitative analysis, finds out the causes of the problems, puts forward feasible improvement plans and guides their implementation, so as to seek the steady development of enterprises, and is a service company to improve the management level of enterprises.
What is the task of the consulting company?
Its tasks mainly include:
First, help enterprises find the main problems in production and operation management, find out the reasons and make feasible improvement plans;
The second is to guide the implementation of the improvement plan;
Third, teach management theory and scientific methods, train management cadres at all levels in enterprises, and fundamentally improve quality of enterprise.
World famous consulting companies (vault.com20 1 1 ranking)
Bain Consulting Company. Boston, Massachusetts company
Boston Consulting Group, Boston, Massachusetts.
3 McKinsey & Company; New york, N.Y. Company
4 Boston, Massachusetts Analytical Group Co., Ltd.
Cambridge Group, Chicago, Illinois
6 Deloitte Consulting Company, LLP, New York
No.7 Aowei, new york, New York
Kearney Company, Chicago, Illinois
9 Triage Consulting Group, San Francisco, California
10 DC Censeo consulting group, Washington
1 1 Simon Luo Partners, Chicago, Illinois
12 cornerstone research company in San Francisco, California
13 LLP PricewaterhouseCoopers (consulting business)
14 á lvarez & Marshall, new york, NY
15 trinity partnership co., ltd., waltham, Massachusetts
16 boss company. New york, N.Y. Company
17 Milliman Company, Seattle, Washington
18 Palo alto, California strategic decision-making group
19 PRTM waltham, Massachusetts
Gallup Consulting, DC, Washington.
2 1 PricewaterhouseCoopers Diamond Consulting Services, Chicago, Illinois
22 Weston, Massachusetts Health Progress Co., Ltd.
23 Strategos, Chicago, Illinois
Blatter Group, Cambridge, Massachusetts.
25 Cambridge Monitoring Group, Massachusetts
Comparison of some consulting companies:
(1) McKinsey
McKinsey is one of the most powerful consulting firms in the world. Its offices and offices are all over the world, providing enterprise management consulting services. McKinsey's arrogant reputation doubles the value of consultants.