First of all, the lost lamb

Many professionals usually work hard at full capacity, and one day (often at the end of the year, which is a phenomenon of professional psychological cycle), they suddenly feel very tired, stop to review, and feel that they have changed from ability and income to life. ...

Everything seems to have remained unchanged for a year or even years. I am at a loss and full of lofty sentiments. The goal I once promised collapsed like an avalanche, and I wanted to rest and jump ship, but the uncertain future gave birth to myself.

Fear and loss ... suddenly looking back, I found myself a lost lamb in my career. ...

Based on the long-term accumulation and investigation in the past, the author found that the main reasons can be attributed to five puzzling problems:

1, the income is not as good as expected.

For example, I hope the monthly salary will rise to 5000 this year, but it will still be 4000 by the end of the year; With the growth of age, the pressure of mortgage payment is high and so on.

2, the pressure of education and qualifications

Afraid that college education has no advantage; The chief financial officer can't get the qualification certificate of certified public accountant; Working while studying is too stressful; The company seems to attach great importance to academic qualifications and may not be promoted or even eliminated within two years.

3. The advantages are not obvious and there are too many defects.

For example, I know technology but I don't know management. ...

There is no hope of promotion

For example, I had a chance to be promoted, but the performance of my superiors was not outstanding, but it was not bad. He kept his position as director, and I had no chance of promotion.

My colleagues or friends have become better than me, but in fact I may not be worse than them.

For example, Peter, a former classmate with average ability, has bought a car for the building or worked as a regional manager in a company. And I am still a small clerk with low income.

Time is advancing, but my present situation has not changed.

Second, the "three minutes a day" of career.

The so-called "seven minutes and three days", what is the "three days" of career? To solve the problem of confusion, we must first plan ourselves from three career-related destiny themes.

1, birth background

Whether you were born in the cradle of the richest man in the world or in a barren cave in Africa, you are doomed to a different starting point of your career. This is the fate you have to believe in, and we can't change it! Never complain, it's no use. You should face up to this fact and use it as a starting point for planning your career.

2. temperament (psychology), that is, the "character" in the sentence "character determines fate"

For example, if you are dumb and inarticulate, then don't try to make yourself outstanding in sales, negotiation, debate and other fields. If you are a designer who goes your own way, don't try to "I'm not good at design."

Wrong, change your HR job and develop yourself. "Of course, don't equate your attitude towards life with your personality. Personality only affects the way you do things, and attitude affects the result. The so-called negative and positive, not personality.

The result is the result of attitude.

3, talent, characteristics

In everyone's brain area, there is an optimal potential area-the theme of destiny that we can discover, explore and grasp. For example, in school, we found that some students are good at Chinese, but always poor at math, and some are just the opposite. Some people have great sports talent and skills, almost born, while some people can't shoot well no matter how they train. This is our innate intellectual structure.

Don't blindly believe in career planning training that "planning can change your life". Only by knowing your "three minutes" can you get twice the result with half the effort when you go all out.

Third, the definition of "cause" (explicit problems, superficial phenomena)

Understand the three themes of fate, but also clearly know the thematic significance of the cause.

Location: location, location

Industry: industry, specialty, company

Health: The essence of livelihood is "income". One of the core points of the theme.

Ya: Time and time period are also an additional theme.

This seemingly absurd interpretation of word splitting can clearly expose the contradictions of many job seekers. For example, do you choose a higher position or are you only interested in a certain position? When you choose a career, you are.

Pay attention to choosing industry, major or company first? The three are often not unified. Choosing the right industry may not be in line with your major. The company whose position is in line with your major and interest is not necessarily the company you want to go to.

Type ... and vice versa. Among the elements of "company", going to a big company or a small company is often a contradiction of choice. And income is definitely the core issue, even if your choice is mainly to "develop yourself in a big company."

It doesn't matter how much you earn from a certain ability, but at least you must have a bottom line and a plan and desire to increase your income (maybe you will ask yourself: What is the purpose of developing a certain ability? You will find the final answer, and gold.

Money matters.

Time is an important theme factor, which is often neglected in self-planning. Because we find that our present situation has not changed, the fact is that we have become better because we have not changed with time. you

You must first determine how long you are willing to work in a company, an industry, a field and a position before you can plan all the action plans and the next direction. Many job seekers are often stereotyped on these issues.

Paste, still can't choose accurately, because I don't know what is the correct basis for choosing. (See analysis 7 below for the correct selection basis. )

Fourth, the fear from "marathon"

If any aspect of your career has not changed with time, it is a "horror marathon". To eliminate terror, we must clearly answer 10 questions:

1. Is your present job so boring from the beginning? (If the answer is no, it may be that you have your own problems, such as stagnant ability progress. )

2. Do colleagues in the same position also find this job boring? (If not, it may be an attitude problem; Yes, there is a problem with the company's human resources management)

3. Is there room for learning and growth at work? (If yes, don't jump ship easily)

If you choose a new position, what job do you want to do most? (Is it interest and trait or "novelty"? )

5. Is it possible to change the runway while staying in the original company? (If you have, don't jump ship easily, but even if you have, you should consider whether it is conducive to the development of your core competence. )

6. Is it possible to change the runway for another company? (This possibility is not probabilistic; But based on the understanding of one's own abilities)

7. What is the biggest reason for Friends' success in changing the runway? (For those who are fascinated by the authorities, please refer to them.)

8. Do you have the capital (expertise or interest) to change the runway? If the answer is no, don't consider it. )

9. What do you want to learn most if you have the opportunity to further your studies? Why? (Make up for your own shortcomings, and also strengthen the areas where your ability is excellent)

10, what does it look like in my imagination after a period of time (1 3, 10)? (future positioning)

The core of these problems is whether it is clear what "opportunity cost" will be paid by "choice" and how to choose "capital ability". It is the instinct of human curiosity to like the new and hate the old; And "choice" is the cause of fear, and people will be afraid to choose because of fear of opportunity cost.

Everything has to end. In the choice of job-hopping, you must know the answers to 10 questions before making a decision.

V. Wrong traditional career path

But before making a decision, we should be clear that many popular professional concepts are wrong. At present, there are two popular "career paths" in society, which I think are both wrong, because many incorrect job-hopping phenomena and the failure of most people's careers are related to the misleading of these two concepts:

1, climb to the top of the pyramid (position, qualifications)

2. March towards the single-plank bridge (a single direction most directly related to a certain major, experience or background)

Reasons for misuse:

A. There is only one piece of gold at the top of the pyramid-if the company tells you to provide broad development space for every employee, it is only a political lie; If you think this sentence means "you can be promoted", then you have a one-sided understanding and wrong thinking, and only one or two employees will get this space in the end.

The correct meaning is: space may be the space of your ability and potential, not the space of your position. For positions, companies can only provide opportunities (and most companies' opportunities are not equal to everyone on the surface), not space.

B. All roads lead to Rome-everything in modern society is changeable. The characteristics of modern human resource management have changed from "pursuing lifelong employment" to "pursuing lifelong employment ability".

Sixth, talk about the misunderstanding and correct direction of career planning from one's own experience;

Myth: Promotion constitutes a part of career success, and all work (study) is for a successful life resume. Cause of error: I care about others' comments in order to show others my success.

Correct: Performance or post achievement is a sign of career success; Working happily and full of achievements (or gains and a sense of accomplishment) is a successful career. (the right reason: live for yourself. Care about your feelings)

For many years, the author has been committed to promoting the human capital strategy of role positioning and building a role culture in the company. Although the position has experienced continuous promotion from ordinary employee to HR director, it is not allowed for other companies.

It is lured by higher vocational education of management, because it is not for high positions or high salaries, but for achievements and achievements in a certain field (management field). On the contrary, it has been continuously improved because of this professional concept; Another example is that,

In the department in charge of the author, the salaries of some department heads have always been higher than those of the author, because the role orientation has made them grow into the "top leaders" in the field of responsibility, and I can't do better than them in this field; Similarly, it does not represent his salary.

Gao can certainly replace me. Because the salary is also designed according to the role orientation. It's not hard to understand the role positioning by seeing that the salary of the top sales staff in most companies may be higher than that of the boss. At present, many

Generally, the principle of "several companies" is only implemented in the sales department (due to objective laws, these companies all have such management awareness and human role capital positioning), but in the future, role positioning will definitely become a trend in career planning.

Potential. Therefore, employees should strive to be top-notch and irreplaceable in their own excellent aspects. Not for promotion. When positioning the role of your career, an important issue is to know yourself clearly.

The definition of success.

What is your definition of success? (About the hidden problem of occupation, the essential problem)

1. What advantages do you have to help you succeed?

2. What disadvantages hinder your success?

Earning10 million in three years is success; A stable job with high income and high social status is successful; Owning your own company is called success ... everyone has their own definition of success, and around this goal, find ways to achieve it.

The quality of the goal determines that the above third problem-all kinds of contradictions and priorities in career choice will be solved easily. Because all kinds of career planning and choices are for themselves.

Some kind of success.

Eight, focus on

(1) "Location"!

The concept of "being the best in the industry"-the most potential field determines the field where you may do well and excel. "Efforts" may not necessarily have results. Efforts can be done "very well", but if they are not their own potential, they cannot be "excellent". For example, no matter how hard Einstein tried, he might not be a good boxer.

1, role orientation

Employees should change from the past concept of professional orientation, professional orientation, industry orientation and work orientation to the concept of role orientation: what role are you playing, what role can you play and what role do you want to play in the team, in the company, in the society and around the life circle?

2. Behavior changes

A, position the role from the perspective of dominance theory, and don't dream unrealistic dreams. The principle of "orientation" conforms to the law of social division of labor. The most potential area has become the main development area, but if a short board becomes an obstacle, we must try our best to remove it.

B, from constantly trying to change their own shortcomings to give play to their own advantages (80% energy to give play to their own advantages, 20% energy to change their own shortcomings).

C, the core of successful role positioning: irreplaceable. Irreplaceability requires perfection in one's role positioning.

D, the treatment of role positioning: the salary of the manager may be lower than a certain role in the department, which is the trend. For example, excellent business stars in the marketing department. Therefore, no matter what position or business you are in, as long as it suits your potential, you must strive to be outstanding and irreplaceable and become the "No.1 scholar". Don't aim at positions that don't fit your potential structure.

(two) the distinction between knowledge (education), experience, skills and characteristics.

Knowledge, experience and skills can be accumulated, but they can only be accumulated according to their own characteristics and grow into excellent roles. So HR managers use trait elements to recruit, and job seekers use trait elements to position themselves.

How to distinguish features? Trait is the essence of superiority potential. The following situations of doing one thing show your characteristics:

1, fast learning speed, high understanding, not easy to make mistakes;

2. Do you think you have natural advantages in some aspects?

3. It can usually make you feel great satisfaction, accomplishment and fulfillment;

Nine, how to test your accurate career orientation?

With the understanding of the above eight aspects, you can test your career orientation through the following 10 questions.

1. What are you most satisfied with your current job? What are the most dissatisfied? What do you think is the ideal job? (including position, industry, treatment, etc. )

2. What do you think is your success?

What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?

4. What is your future self-image and orientation? Is there any capital to reach this position? Does this positioning conform to its own characteristics and advantages?

Do you think the role you are playing now is obvious?

6. What is your highest achievement, reward and satisfaction? Why do you think it is the highest?

7. What are your future growth goals and career goals? Planning to learn some skills? Are you willing to experience some kind of challenge? What are the immediate short-term goals?

8. Do you have the opportunity to use your strengths and advantages to work every day?

9. In the past year, did you have the opportunity to learn and grow at work?

10, in your impression, what kind of opinions you put forward are usually the most valued by the company?

X. Ways to understand strengths and weaknesses

If you have answered the above questions and haven't clearly judged your position, then you may not know your own characteristics. You can know your strengths and weaknesses and judge your own characteristics in the following ways:

1. Write down the new knowledge you learn, the new skills you master and the new experience you gain every day-→ professional capital.

2. Write down your achievements, the affirmations you get, and the things that you find most rewarding and fulfilling (not only at work, for example, you are good at mediating the contradictions of your friends in your daily life, indicating that you may have the characteristics suitable for HR work)-→ Clear advantages.

3. Write down your small mistakes and things you hate (limited to what you do)-→ recognize the shortcomings and try to correct them. If you find that you can't change them, you unconsciously make mistakes, do badly, and hate them many times, you should pay attention. This is your weakness-→ recognize your weakness.

The above three aspects have accumulated for more than half a year, so make a classified summary to understand which areas have independent advantages and which areas have dependent advantages (that is, advantages that need teamwork). Do you often?

If you miscalculate the numbers, but instinctively have the ability to find out the laws between the data, then you need an excellent statistician to make a successful analysis report. In what areas are you constantly strengthening and doing well?

Potential application fields; What are the non-potential areas that you spend a lot of energy on, but rarely take the initiative to use or play poorly in practice; What shortcomings do you have that must be improved, and what shortcomings can be improved; Is there anything you have to do and not do?

The weak link of legal perfection; What areas of behavior you have to give up, but you still have to face up to them, which is also an existing area of your personal characteristics.

Remember: there is no shortage of gold, and no one is perfect. Strive to play and strengthen their own advantages and reflect them in action!