Career orientation, knowing yourself+knowing yourself.
Do you know your interests and personality when choosing a major?
A survey shows that when filling in the college entrance examination volunteers, 42% of the respondents choose their majors according to their own dominant wishes, 26% follow their parents' decisions, and the remaining 32% follow the teachers' opinions or obey the distribution; When asked "How would you choose if you had a second chance", 52% people said they would choose another major. More than half of people voted against it. This has to make us think deeply: how much do you know about your interests and majors when making the first important choice in life?
Mr. Xu graduated from a university in Shanghai majoring in thermal energy and power engineering. He said: "I didn't know what it was when I was a major, but I didn't find it interesting until I went to college." What I am doing now is computer network engineering. Unfortunately, it would be nice to choose the right major at the beginning. " One of the primary reasons for this phenomenon is that parents' awareness of professional interests is weak, which directly leads children to find that their interests and majors cannot be integrated after entering colleges and universities. In some countries, many parents will consult professional organizations to analyze their children's personality and help them determine their career preferences when they are in the second year of high school. "
Students stand at the crossroads of choosing their future career path, and parents' awareness of personality orientation is very important. Similarly, for people from all walks of life who are on the verge of choosing a career direction, the first thing to do before looking for a job or jumping ship is to recognize their personality preferences.
What job suits you? It is the best match between personality and position.
Experts suggest that when choosing a career direction, we should fully understand and know our own personality and the major we will choose, and choose the right direction to reduce the rate of career "breaking the contract". Otherwise, it will waste your time and energy as well as your educational resources.
When looking for a job, do you know what your major can do?
From the professional field of human resources, we advocate that college students begin to practice, tutor or do other jobs in their sophomore year, mainly to get in touch with society; In my senior year, I will go to the company for an internship to understand the specific work content of the post.
If the school can give students employment guidance as soon as possible and help them understand the details of their work, it will be very helpful for them to determine the specific career direction in the future.
Compared with the specific work in the workplace, any major in the university is a very broad concept. Taking the marketing major as an example, only in the market, the positions are subdivided into research, product positioning, customer communication, promotional materials production and other categories, and each specific job has different requirements in terms of professional quality and personality matching.
Experts remind: College students should learn about various professional subdivisions and know what their major can do in the end through internships and some employment guidance of the school, so that they can position themselves more accurately when looking for a job.
Occupational Relief: Finding the Intersection
Scientific research major → Don't worry.
Narrator: Miss Chen, majoring in bioengineering, as a science student majoring in biology, undergraduate, female, and other reasons, her job search is very limited. Biology is a scientific research major, and my score was quite high when I first took the exam. However, if you don't plan to continue studying for a master's degree and take the road of research, it will be a bit troublesome to find a job. I am interested in biology, and I want to do something related to my major. I have submitted several resumes, but I am not very satisfied. The Offer I have now have little to do with my major, and the work has not yet been implemented.
Expert advice: since you know your interests, don't give up your major easily. Compared with some popular majors, it may take a long time for graduates of this major to find a job, but don't worry, calm down and take your time. Miss Chen's situation is the most unbearable. Seeing that others had made up their minds, she also made a hasty decision in a hurry. At the same time, we should pay more attention to communication with brothers and sisters, understand the industry they are engaged in, and lock in as the key breakthrough target when necessary. You can often consult some websites of this major at ordinary times, and you may find useful information.
Unpopular major → Looking for the intersection of major and industry.
Narrator: Miss Zhang, I study history. After graduation, I'm afraid I won't have any real professional job except as a teacher. I tried to apply for some management positions, but there was no news. I think many majors in liberal arts can communicate, but when it comes to secretarial work, others will look for Chinese majors first; Editors, journalists and employers mostly recruit journalism majors or have other professional backgrounds such as economics. I don't know what I can do now.
Expert advice: Graduates whose professional employment situation is not very good are advised to find the intersection with other industries as much as possible. Miss Zhang Can tries to work in a publishing house. In fact, many industries need historical talents. The key is whether you have explored them or not. Another example is philosophy. In practice, we find that there are many similarities between philosophy and psychology. People majoring in philosophy can also engage in human resources work.
"I seem to have gone astray" → Planning my career with stage goals.
Narrator: xu teacher, my major is computer technology. When I was looking for a job, I accidentally got an Offer from a world-famous multinational company. At that time, I felt that the treatment was good and the brand rang, so I left. But because I am not an IT company, my daily job is to maintain computers and do things without division of labor, so I have become an out-and-out logistics staff, and my original major is basically useless. IT industry is a rapidly changing industry. If you leave your professional post for a long time, you will soon be eliminated by this industry. It's very contradictory now.
Experts suggest that everyone has different career goals at different stages of life. Since xu teacher has entered the non-IT industry, it is necessary to adjust its psychological orientation in time. People engaged in the IT industry are divided into two categories, one is professional IT personnel, and the other is IT related personnel. Professional IT personnel develop into professional technical posts, and IT related personnel develop into professional managers. In the classification of occupations, HR people only use the word "occupational group" instead of "occupation", because any occupation has many subdivisions, so the career choice should be open, not just staring at one or two positions, so as to create more opportunities for themselves. Therefore, it is suggested that Mr. Xu Can develop into an information technology manager.
Students at school → make up for the shortcomings with practical experience.
Narrator: xu teacher, majoring in thermal energy and power engineering, didn't know much about this major when he filled in his volunteer. He didn't like it until he went to college, but he was very interested in computers.
I usually find some books in this field, and I also help schools and internet cafes do some network things. Later, I found an internship in a network engineering company through the school. Although I study heat energy, and my grades in professional courses are not bad, I don't know much about my major yet. What books learn is actually superficial and of little use to reality; Experience is the most important thing, no matter how much you learn, it is better to watch and do it.
Expert advice: it is relatively easy for friends who have a clear interest in college to change careers. You can gain more practical experience by auditing courses and finding an internship in a company. When looking for a job, although not a professional, HR pays more attention to practice than book knowledge. Make up for the shortage of your major as soon as possible during your study at school, and it will be much easier to change careers after graduation.
Working people → Looking for resource transfer from within.
Narrator: Miss Wang, a civil servant of a company. I graduated from the Chinese Department and later worked as a secretary in the company. But after working for two years, I found that I don't like this job more and more. On the contrary, I am very interested in tags and want to do something related to them. I applied to several companies, and many of them thought that I had no market experience and didn't hire me. Now I'm confused about my career direction.
Experts suggest that if people who have worked for several years have the idea of changing careers, they must first know whether they are really interested, and the cost of blind decision-making will be higher. After careful consideration, you can look for opportunities within our company first.
From the perspective of human resources, internal transfer is more reasonable, because the company knows its employees better and everyone is familiar with them, and will consider giving you some opportunities. Therefore, if Miss Wang's company has a marketing department, she can make use of various opportunities to communicate with the employees in this department, understand their specific work contents and create conditions for her career change. Because if a company hires a person without relevant work experience and professional background from outside, the cost and risk will be greater, and most companies will not.
In fact, for any job seeker, there is no absolute professional counterpart and mismatch; Anyone with a professional background, as long as he learns to find the intersection, construct his own career path according to the specific situation of each stage of life, and get through career choices, he can find a job that suits him.