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People always say that 30 years old is a line between life and death in the workplace.
This is by no means alarmist.
Except for a few talented wizards, most people reach the age of 30 and their career development is basically fixed.
According to the general career trajectory, it took 22-year-old college graduates eight years to work hard in the workplace until they were 30 years old.
If the strategy is properly deployed and closely deployed, eight years is enough to fight a war of resistance;
In personal career, if a person doesn't know what he can do at the age of 30, fails to find or even form his core competitiveness, and still bumps around like a headless fly, what is the prospect of being 35?
The answer is self-evident.
First, the truth of the workplace: what we want is experience and experience, not age!
Consultant Xiao Jing (pseudonym) has been very upset recently.
After graduating from Xiaojing University eight years ago, I tried several industries, but every time I tried, I gave up halfway.
Almost thirty, she began to panic at the thought that she seemed to have accomplished nothing for so many years.
Counting these industries and jobs, no one is good at it; I think I have obtained many certificates in these years, such as psychological counselor, accounting qualification certificate, human resource certificate and so on. But I still don't have any great ability.
Xiao Jing suddenly found herself less and less competitive in the talent market.
Once Xiao Jing took a fancy to a foreign company. During the interview, several questions left Xiao Jing speechless. The interviewer said, "You are almost 30 years old. I didn't expect your experience and experience to be too shallow. You have been doing the most basic work, which is inconsistent with the age of eight years in the workplace. We are now recruiting employees of your age. What we value is experience and experience, not age. "
Xiao Jing felt a stabbing pain in her chest. She went back to think hard, but never found the answer, so she decided to ask for help.
Second, in the future, what do we rely on to gain a foothold in the workplace?
If we observe carefully, it is not difficult to find that any valuable work is knowledge work: physical strength alone is doomed to fail to achieve long-term development in the workplace, and brain power is the primary ability to determine a person's future career development.
What is knowledge?
There are many college students who graduated from famous schools in society. Working hard in the workplace for many years may not be able to develop well. Therefore, a diploma does not mean knowledge, and even the amount of knowledge you have is not equal to knowledge.
Knowledge is a kind of structure and system. Teacher Tian Zhigang, an expert in knowledge management, pointed out: "Knowledge refers to the process that a person constantly determines his own professional direction, and quickly learns, shares, applies and innovates knowledge and creates value with the change of environment."
It is not difficult to know from this picture that Xiao Jing's previous practice (studying hard in his spare time) was on the first floor, that is, learning basic knowledge, but from the second floor, it was almost blank.
This is a typical "skimming" learning: this kind of learning itself just works hard at the level of basic knowledge and obtains a bunch of certificates. It seems that I have learned a lot, but the effect is limited and I lack a main line. As a result, I wasted a lot of time and finally got nothing.
This is the crux of the confusion of the professionals represented by Xiao Jing: they seem to have a little knowledge of anything, but only the most basic one. If we go deeper, they are in a state of "ignorance" in the application, sharing and innovation of knowledge.
3. What is the gap between people in the workplace?
Knowledge is divided into explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge.
The so-called explicit knowledge refers to the knowledge that can be clearly expressed in words and words; Tacit knowledge refers to knowledge that you know how to do, but you can't tell others or understand.
Most of the knowledge we learn in the classroom is explicit knowledge, but according to the survey of Delphi Group, most of the knowledge in enterprises is tacit knowledge in employees' minds.
We often say that designers need a sense of space, writers need a sense of words, actors need a sense of lens and so on. But it is actually tacit knowledge: you will find that there is no book like this on the market to tell you how to cultivate your feelings, because this kind of thing can't be explained clearly and can only be understood without words.
Anyone with a little common sense will know that tacit knowledge often plays a greater role than explicit knowledge in order to have a thorough study of a field.
This tacit knowledge is an important factor to widen the gap between adults.
In the workplace, even if the same boring work content is repeated, the ability and efficiency of some employees to process information and knowledge are obviously superior to others: these people can often get great satisfaction and sense of accomplishment in specific affairs, and they can often do a job for a long time, climb from the grassroots level until they become managers who lead the team (share knowledge), and even become top coffee makers who have made great achievements (innovative knowledge) in this field.
Most people in the workplace like Xiao Jing, due to lack of comprehensive knowledge, can't realize that they have a large number of "ignorant fields" and mistakenly regard textual research as the whole of promotion; At the same time, due to the lack of goals, this knowledge is scattered and has no direction and trend.
By the age of 30 or 40, with the dividend of age no longer existing, these problems will gradually appear, and confusion and confusion will be further aggravated.
At this time, you will find that you have no advantage in the original manual labor. At this time, if your knowledge and ability don't keep up, you can't handle information and knowledge independently, you can't put forward profound and powerful opinions, and you can't solve intractable diseases in practice. This kind of workplace experience is undoubtedly like being watered by time, except for being much older, which is tantamount to "a blank sheet of paper"!
If you are the boss, will you hire these employees who are getting older, grumpy and demanding, but their abilities have not improved at all?
Three tasks to be completed before the age of forty or thirty.
In everyone's career, different people face different problems, but some sexual problems deserve our great attention.
Here, I sorted out these sexual problems and summarized the following three points:
1, what is more important than how to learn is what to learn.
In fact, the "major" set up in our university is nothing more than some professional basic courses, but the basic knowledge you need to engage in this major: if you don't apply it in practice, this knowledge can't be transformed into your ability in reality and can't bring you value.
Just like Xiao Jing mentioned above, although she has obtained many certificates in her spare time, there is no application environment in reality. You think the knowledge you have can be easily obtained by searching online, so how can you be competitive?
The so-called "career goal" is to combine your knowledge structure and characteristics, find a suitable environment and soil, and then further study how to do it better.
Unless you have a special preference and have tried it, and it is quite successful, it is not recommended to transfer easily.
What is more important than studying is to find your own characteristics. ?
There was a consultant who majored in mechanical engineering. After graduation, he was forced to work in marketing. He was very angry at one time. Later, he found that he was engaged in real estate sales, which had nothing to do with his basic knowledge and could not give full play to his professional knowledge.
Later, I suggested that he should focus as much as possible on the goal and find some sales jobs related to machinery: in the sales field, he has the basic knowledge of machinery, and then he will popularize this knowledge so that customers who don't understand can understand it. With the necessary sharing, he will gradually become an expert in the field of sales and gradually build his own core competitiveness.
Don't neglect the enjoyment and transmission of knowledge.
It is not enough that you have the ability. The key is to let people know that you have this ability, so that you can have more opportunities.
In career counseling, I often meet many people who complain that they are frustrated: why can he get more opportunities than me at the same level?
For this kind of question, we need to reflect deeply: Is your level or ability known and recognized by others? Have you consciously written down what you know and shared it with more people? Are you willing to help others? Are you worried that even if you say it, the other party won't understand?
It is not difficult to find that many people are doing one thing: talking about a certain problem in a certain field (holding a lecture), writing it out (compiling it into a book), and getting everyone's approval, t a may become a well-known expert in this field.
At the same time, you will find that once you want to speak out and write out, you need to systematize the previous sporadic knowledge, which requires further practice and summary, which in turn can promote your understanding and application of knowledge and form a positive accumulation, thus building your own core competitiveness.
5. Nothing can be done overnight. The most important thing is to do it! Do it! Do it!
Over the past 40 years of reform and opening up, countless industries, enterprises and institutions have closed down, and almost every once in a while, people will face the embarrassing situation of being laid off or laid off.
It is precisely because of the seemingly prosperous and stable industries that some people always have the illusion that they can sit back and relax, and even think that they are "indispensable."
However, the market is the most cruel and the fairest.
Do you believe that before the crisis comes, a person's ability reserve, professionalism, knowledge renewal and self-growth will be stimulated overnight?
I see more reality. However, once a person gets used to ease, he gradually loses his courage and sobriety, slowly becomes "disabled", and finally goes to the edge of self-bankruptcy and becomes a person abandoned by the times.
About the author: Zhao Xiaoli, a professional writer, career counselor, national third-class psychological counselor, LinkedIn China columnist and invited author of 36Kr. He is the author of "Fear of trouble is your biggest obstacle", "Please stop ineffective efforts" and "Stop blind efforts: your life needs to be redesigned".