Before we begin our journey of understanding, let's take a look at such data:
"According to Liu Dawei, deputy director of the Department of College Students of the Ministry of Education, the number of college graduates nationwide was 265,438+200,000 in 2003, increased to 2.8 million in 2004 and reached 3.38 million in 2005." The annual increase is around 600 thousand, and it will increase by hundreds of thousands in the next few years. Liu Dawei said, "In 2005, 9 million people were newly employed in China, of which 5 million were employed by laid-off and unemployed people, leaving only 4 million people. The number of newly-added urban laborers is still very large every year. All these show that the era of' the emperor's daughter' not worrying about marriage has passed. "
"In 2006, the number of college graduates nationwide reached 465,438+300,000, an increase of 750,000 over the previous year, an increase of about 22%, and the employment pressure further increased."
"In 2007, the number of college graduates nationwide reached 4.95 million, an increase of 820,000 or 20% over this year. At the end of the year, college students began to be busy looking for jobs. "
"In 2008, the number of college graduates nationwide will reach a record high of 5.59 million, an increase of 640,000 over 2007."
After reading such a set of data, I don't know if you can still laugh now, so let's think about such a phenomenon:
"Now the employment situation of college graduates is getting worse every year, and it is no longer a joke that graduation equals unemployment. In Jiangsu province alone, more than 40,000 college students registered as unemployed last year. The news of "college students competing for the position of gatekeeper", "female master becoming a medical representative" and "doctoral students competing for the position of assistant director of kindergarten" is frequently reported in newspapers. Even golf courses recruit caddies and enter famous colleges and universities, so many beautiful young female college students flock to them. Look at job fairs for college students all over the country. They are bustling, crowded and endless. When the masters who repeatedly hit the wall kneel down to their employers, the whole society should be sad and shed tears. "
"On the other hand, many companies are worried that they can't recruit suitable talents, and some skilled jobs have been' empty for a long time'. Even if they reluctantly accepted some "all-purpose oil" college students, they had to face the fate of elimination because of their weak hands-on ability, which formed the difficulty of secondary employment. "
"Why is this?" This kind of question has been recurring in my mind. I hope you can start thinking after reading the following questions.
Nowadays, it is more and more difficult for college graduates to find jobs. Good grades and good work cannot be equated. As a result, a defect in China's education system-career planning education, has become more and more obvious. Many college students have rarely or never heard of the word "career planning" before they really face the practical problem of finding a job. However, in developed countries such as Europe, the age of students entering university education is 18 years old, and the career research center set up by the local government will help people of this age to carry out career counseling.
On the other hand, at the beginning of our university, few schools offered suggestions on career planning, and most of them were military training and community life. The lack of career planning education has caused many college students to be confused and helpless in employment to some extent.
Looking back at ourselves, when did we really think about our future careers? How many people really care about their college career planning, can plan their college studies with a lifetime vision, and regard college as an organic part and an important preparation period for their life development. How much have we done?
Four years later, what about 20 1 1 year? What will we be like when we face graduation?
Graduation choice is so important that every college student cannot ignore it. As graduation approaches, you will find that even the laziest students are taking action, writing resumes, attending job fairs and asking for graduate enrollment information. However, there are too many confusions and misunderstandings when we choose.
At this critical moment in life, faced with so many choices, many people are at a loss. And more people follow suit and do what others say. People say that foreign companies are good, so they flock to foreign companies; Seeing that people are taking the postgraduate entrance examination, I feel that I am not willing to take the exam, so I also signed up; Seeing that everyone is "pinning" on going abroad, I feel that if I don't try, I will suffer, so I also bought a small red back word ... There are countless phenomena. Many people are asking: I will graduate soon. Where should I go? Without good planning and clear thinking, this question becomes more and more difficult to answer as the graduation date approaches.
Individuals have only a limited life, can only perform on the stage of life for decades, and can only be passers-by in human history. However, life of the same length will emit different light and heat. When they took the curtain call. As the great leader Chairman Mao Zedong said, some people are as light as a feather, while others are as heavy as Mount Tai.
It can be said that no matter what you did before, there is no essential difference between your freshmen at the same starting line, but in the same four-year university, some students have excellent prospects and some students have mediocre prospects. Four years later, if you look at the students around you, you can clearly see the difference. Why is there such a difference?
There are of course many reasons. Opportunities, software and hardware conditions, organizational support, family support, personal talent, etc. However, how to make effective use of various factors is the key to the problem, and to make effective use of various factors and even create conditions for development, we must plan ahead, that is, do a good job in career planning. This is a very urgent and necessary matter.
After reading so many data and questions, our theme "career planning" finally comes out.
So what is a career?
"Career": Career is often associated with life; English, "occupation": In Greece, the word occupation contains the spirit of crazy competition. At first, it is often used as a verb, such as riding a horse, and later it is extended to the road, that is, the development path of life, which can refer to the road experienced by people or things, or the development process of a person's life, or to a series of roles and positions played by an individual in his life.
Modern definition of "occupation": occupation is the evolution direction and course of various events in life, which combines various occupations and life roles in one's life, thus showing a unique self-development model of one. Career can be understood as a concept between life and occupation. Its extension is not equal to "life", but it is not equal to "occupation". Its content is relatively broad, with rich connotations and characteristics.
Career planning
Career design refers to combining personal development with organizational development, analyzing, summarizing and measuring the subjective and objective factors that determine a person's career, determining a person's career goal and choosing a career to achieve this career goal, making corresponding action plans for work, education and training, and making reasonable arrangements for the time, order and direction of each step.
Career design requires you to position yourself in a position that can give full play to your strengths according to your own interests and characteristics, so as to maximize your self-worth. Career design is essentially a process of pursuing the best career. In which direction a person's career will develop, what kind of occupation he will engage in and what kind of professional role he will play in life can be imagined and planned before this.
The purpose of planning
Of course, this is also the purpose of introducing these and holding the theme class meeting: to help everyone make a lifelong plan and incorporate college study, job hunting and even job hunting into their career planning; Planning university study with a lifelong vision, taking the university stage as an organic part and an important preparation period of life development;
Characteristics of good career planning:
1) Feasibility: Design should be based on facts, not "fantasy";
2) Timeliness: design is a prediction of the future, so when all major activities are completed, they should be arranged in time and constantly checked;
3) Adaptability: There are many variables involved, so its adaptability should be flexibly increased;
4) Sustainability: Every development stage of life should be connected coherently.
The significance of career planning;
1) Know yourself more accurately; 2) Discover your own opportunities; 3) Distinguish between opportunities and traps; 4) Self-motivation; 5) improve performance; 6) Improve the correlation between short-term performance and career goals; (Reference:
Maslow's hierarchy of needs theory)
Basic steps of career planning
1), set an ambition: if you don't know where you are going, you usually can't go anywhere. Ambition is the basic premise of career success. Without ambition, career success is impossible. Determination is the starting point of life, which reflects a common ambition, mind, taste and values, and affects a person's goals and achievements.
2) Accurate evaluation: Accurate evaluation includes two aspects, namely, self-evaluation and environmental evaluation, which is like "know yourself and know yourself" and "know yourself and know yourself" in Sun Tzu's Art of War, and is the most important step in career planning.
3) Choosing a job: through self-assessment and environmental assessment, you can know yourself and analyze the environment, and then choose a career or a target career. In other words, when choosing a career, we should fully consider our own characteristics and the influence of environmental factors on ourselves.
4), determine the career path: after choosing a career (or target career), you need to consider which path to develop. Is it to take the administrative route and develop to the administrative side? Or take the professional and technical route and develop into business? Wait a minute. Different development routes have different requirements for people in all aspects and cannot be ignored.
Therefore, even in the same occupation, there are different positions. Some people are suitable for administrative management and can show their talents in management and become an excellent management talent. Some people are suitable for research, but they can make breakthroughs in a certain field and become experts and scholars; Some people are suitable for business, they can make contributions in business and become management talents. If a person has no management skills but chooses the administrative route, it will be difficult for him to achieve his career. It can be seen that the choice of career path is also one of the important steps of career development success.
5) Setting career goals: Setting career goals is the core of career design. The success or failure of a person's career depends to a great extent on whether there are correct and appropriate goals. The setting of career goals is the choice of life goals after career choice and career route choice. His choice is based on his best talent, his best personality, his greatest interest and the most favorable environment. Usually goals are divided into short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals and life goals. Short-term goals are divided into daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, annual goals and medium-term goals, generally three to five years, and long-term goals are generally five to ten years. Effective career design needs practical goals, so as to eliminate unnecessary hesitation and interference and devote to the realization of the goals.
6) Make action plans and measures: After determining career goals, action becomes the key link. Without action to achieve the goal, it is impossible to achieve the goal, and it is impossible to talk about the success of the cause. The action referred to here refers to the specific lending to achieve the goal. It is the key to make a scientific and feasible personal plan and try to realize it.
7) Evaluation and feedback: As the saying goes, "Plans can't keep up with changes". There are many factors that affect career design, some of which are predictable and some are unpredictable. In this case, in order to make career design effective, it is necessary to constantly evaluate and modify career design. The revised contents include: career re-selection, career route selection, life goal modification, implementation measures and plan changes, etc.
Many of the above contents are in our career planning manual. Maybe many people think these are all theoretical things, which feel like a theoretical class and sound boring. Maybe it's because I don't speak well, or maybe it's because I know such a strange word for the first time. Never mind, our journey has just begun.
Life is a journey, not a destination;
Life is a process, not a destination.
A truly contemplative life is a process of self-discovery: a journey of self-deepening!