Under the background of exam-oriented education in China, many college students have no sense of career planning, blindly choose majors, go to school blindly and choose jobs blindly.
Ignorant newcomers plunge into the society, and many "initial intentions" are naive or even wrong, especially those who have not undergone rational thinking, systematic and professional investigation and scientific design.
Many newcomers in the workplace just "find a good job", "earn a lot of money" and "be sure to get ahead", but what is a good job, how to earn a lot of money and what are the criteria for getting ahead are all vague.
In the most critical first decade after employment, I was pushed by the environment and could not take the initiative to control my own development. It was not until I reached the critical point of my career at the age of 35 that I found myself in a dilemma.
What does this typical state of separation of "knowledge" and "line" mean?
The human heart is the most difficult to predict, and the initial heart is the easiest to change. This requires everyone to remind themselves from time to time in career change and planning that it is most important to achieve themselves, but how to start their own hearts is not important.
A person's career development is closely related to industry environment, family life and personal fit. It is necessary for a person who is determined to achieve something in his career to understand his situation objectively and calmly at any time, control the development of the environment and judge the development of the trend.
1, career planning principles
The basic principle of career planning is: under the premise of change, keep asking three questions about life.
If a person has to work for 30 years in his life, the first ten years are the most important stage of career planning. Far more important than the past twenty years. If the first decade is planning and revision, the middle decade can only be adjustment and repair, and the next decade can only be homeopathy and acceptance.
Of course, there are exceptions, such as Chu Shijian, who can start over in his eighties. But I'm talking about rules. What's more, the old and new occupation is also the place where the Rightists were exiled when they were young, and they have not deviated from the career path-"the same field and different industries"
Three questions in life:
Who am I?
This is a question of self-orientation: seriously evaluate yourself and your environment, and rationally analyze the degree of fit between yourself and your environment.
where am I going?
This is a question of goal setting: re-examine your goals and evaluate whether you are deviating from them at present.
How can I get there?
This is the problem of the development path: if there is a distance, how to speed up; If there is any deviation, how to correct it.
Adhere to the three questions of life, stop loss in time, correct at any time, quickly step into the formal in the young days that can be tossed up, and find the right position. The next years are deep precipitation and addition.
If we let nature develop, constantly compromise with our own inertia, and wait for time to invest to a certain extent, no matter how far away from our own planning, we may be unable to bear it. Because time cost is the most expensive in career planning.
2. Several important tips for career planning
(1) Choose the relatively optimal scheme among many schemes, but you can't cover everything.
In the field of psychology, career choice belongs to conflict avoidance, which means that you have to choose a certain goal, but you want to avoid the unwilling problem brought by choosing this goal. So if you choose the advantages of an item, you have to accept its disadvantages. Perfect career planning does not exist.
For example, if you want to choose a first-tier city for employment, you must face a fast-paced life and a high cost of living;
For example, if you want to choose a high-paying sales job, you have to accept the pressure of performance indicators or business trips;
For example, if you want to choose a stable nine-to-five job, you have to accept the anxiety of average income and slow promotion;
etc
The key is to understand what you want most, choose it, embrace it, and then face and overcome its relative disadvantages and shortcomings. Instead of avoiding first and then choosing.
(2) Work experience should have a core theme to be more valuable: either different occupations in the same industry or the same occupation in different industries.
This is a problem that many people in the workplace tend to ignore during the unstable period of the first three years. Be sure to cherish your work experience and don't be impulsive, because every job-hopping will leave a mark on your resume.
Personally, I feel that several unplanned work experiences will make me feel insecure when selecting and employing people. No matter how well you did in the interview, I can't help wondering if he will be like the old Jobs ...?
I have seen many such cases. For example, after graduating from college, in order to make money quickly, I opened a tea shop with no employment. After working at a loss for a few days, I was under great pressure, and then I went to find a job with a salary of less than 3 thousand. After working for half a year, I was tired and changed to a general job. After working for a while, I don't know what to do. What is the future development path of such a resume?
There are still six or seven jobs in three years, and there is no connection. It's really curious. What kind of life does such a workplace white pursue?
Experience is meaningless and relevant to a person's workplace value, and the precipitated experience is the most important thing for an employer. The core theme is a very important part of your career planning.
For example, you can do the sales, operation and production of FMCG company, then you are an expert in FMCG field;
For example, you can do the finance of fund companies or securities insurance business, so you are a financial expert in the financial field; (the same is true for HR)
For example, you can do hair design, fashion design, jewelry design, etc., so that you have a certain say in the field of fashion design;
If you are engaged in different occupations in a certain industry, or you are engaged in the same occupation in different industries, all your resumes will not take detours, and every step will be a plus item. That is, it avoids the risk of long-term single development in one post and the embarrassment of starting from scratch in another place.
Such a resume is golden in front of HR. The road to professionalism will be wider and wider, and personal value will be heavier and heavier.
Remind young friends again to be careful about their work experience during the unstable period of their careers. Think it over, and then bear it. At least the days you have endured have increased the employment time of this paragraph on your resume, which is also a plus item, which is better than starting from scratch on impulse.
(3) Make clear your occupational character and choose the career development direction of "eight-character combination".
According to career planning, a person's occupational character has more than a dozen types, which are more complicated. If simplified, there are two personality characteristics: innovative personality and repetitive personality. (No matter how careful the job matching is, you need to do a special personality test to compare. )
Innovative: like adventure, can coexist with pressure, don't care much about working hours, are willing to contact different people and things every day, are willing to play a subjective initiative to solve problems, like applause and praise, and are willing to stand in the center of the stage instead of behind the scenes. Suitable for sales, management, entrepreneurship and so on.
Repetition: unwilling to face the changing daily life, like controllable people and things, willing to step by step, do not mind repetitive work, do not want to show off, avoid becoming the focus of attention, and are very afraid of entertainment and crisis management. Suitable for teachers, doctors, backup, operation, data support and finance.
(Note: Civil servants are incomparable, so civil servants under the national conditions of China are really not suitable for analysis as a profession. )
If a person can't analyze his personality in the workplace well and choose a career development direction with "incompatible personality", he will either adapt himself to work or change the runway because of "emotional breakdown". Neither taste will be very comfortable.
(4) The necessity of 4)SWOT analysis.
For career planning, we must master SWOT as an analytical tool. After extensive investigation and understanding, it is very helpful to analyze the external and internal factors in place for rational and objective career planning.
S (strength) advantage.
In what areas do individuals have obvious advantages, and what are the career paths that these advantages match? It can help us to choose career development more intuitively.
W (weakness) disadvantage.
Knowing your own disadvantages and deficiencies can not only avoid reluctant career choices, but also make up for them in future career development.
O (opportunity) opportunity.
External analysis mainly refers to industry analysis. This part is to evaluate the potential of the industry and whether there are opportunities suitable for you in the industry.
T (threat) threat.
Threats from competitors, competitive industries, alternative occupations, etc.
(5) Do a lot of investigation and evidence collection on the planning objectives, rehearse the future and verify whether your planning is appropriate.
For such an important event as career planning, we must be as cautious as choosing a lifelong partner. Especially in the university, I will start to establish my own industry and position, do a lot of research in this field, get familiar with the environment in advance, and understand the potential of promotion and the ceiling of development.
Internship is also a good preview. My best friend's daughter spent her four-year college vacation in an internship, starting with a simple and easy job and finally working as an intern in a German software company. Because of her rich experience and solid professionalism, she just had a recruitment opportunity and stood out through layer-by-layer interviews. She got the offer before she graduated, and she became a full member as soon as her diploma arrived. She caught up with two salary increases in more than a year, and now her annual salary is150 thousand. Moreover, the German boss was very satisfied with her, and just gave her a red envelope of 1000 last month.
3. Three ways of career planning
(1) self-planning and analysis
According to the future method, carefully analyze the plan, clearly listen to your inner voice, try not to change people's ideas, and have herd mentality.
(2) Advanced consultation and career investigation
After I have a preliminary framework, I will find many teachers, brothers, sisters, relatives and friends who can learn from me according to the planning direction, make a comparative summary, fine-tune or revise it.
It is also very necessary to investigate and understand before job-hopping, so as not to sigh that "the world is as black as a crow".
(3) Career counseling and expert analysis
Career counseling is a good way when it is really difficult to choose or break the situation. To sum up, all can be consulted, such as confusion, indecision, dilemma, burnout bottleneck, family opinion conflict and so on. If you want to make a systematic plan in career orientation, development path and value precipitation, expert analysis is also necessary.
However, no matter what suggestions and plans others have for you, you must be clear that the real career planner must be yourself. Only when you really know what you want can you really control your life, let your career accumulate, the future will become calmer and calmer, and your professional value will become higher and higher.
Postscript: The two most important things in life-career and marriage and family. Occupation gives us economic security and value recognition, and marriage and family give us spiritual comfort and rest harbor. Career needs planning and management, so does marriage and family. Successful career and happy family are not waiting or fate. Planning, revision, awareness and management can ensure that these two major events in our lives continue to operate on a normal track and get better and better.
I wish you all success in your career and happiness in your family.
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