In career planning consultation, we meet many people who ask for help, which makes them suffer from career confusion. If you have the same experience, you certainly don't like it. If you haven't experienced it, you can imagine the following situation and experience it again. In fact, the following situations are very likely to be encountered in your career. If you understand it now, you are ready to deal with it later and know what to do next.

1, just graduated from college, ready to find the job you want but can't find it. I don't know what career to choose. Can you find a suitable job without looking for a job?

2. Newly employed financial practitioners found that they listened to their parents' arrangement before studying and choosing a career. He is unhappy and leads a life that others demand. Where is his role?

3.35-year-old technical R&D personnel saw the adjustment of the company's business direction, and their colleagues were dismissed one after another. He was completely enveloped by the tension in the company. What should he prepare for what might happen?

4. The 38-year-old supervisor has no hope of promotion, his career is stagnant and his mood is low. Where is his way out in order to meet the needs of himself and his family?

The mechanic who worked for 20 years lost his job because of the company's layoffs, and his confidence in his career success and ability began to waver.

The above situation is only a few cases in the unstable economic, technological and employment market environment. In today's rapidly changing and uncertain era of economic life, only those individuals who know themselves, know how to deal with this environmental change, create opportunities for themselves and learn from their mistakes are most likely to get a satisfactory career and achieve professional success.

For lost professionals, the following five simple steps are your way out. If the previous steps have passed, then the next step is the measures you are taking to deal with the career dilemma; Otherwise, we can start from the first step.

1, collecting information about yourself and all walks of life in the job market;

2. Find out your natural abilities, personality, interests, inner needs, and which occupations and organizations you want to choose;

3. According to these analyses, establish career planning objectives;

4. Formulate and implement strategies to achieve the goals;

5. Get feedback about the strategy and objectives, make an evaluation, and return to the above steps.

These steps are your best guide when you are confused in your career. They are short processes of career planning management; It is a process that lasts for a lifetime and will appear in cycles. Need to be reminded that only you are the person in charge of your own career. From the difficulties listed above, you can find that neither parents, companies, superiors nor the government can be responsible for you. Even if you ask the career planner for help, they will help you to do the above steps scientifically, and you will be ultimately responsible for your career planning.

The reason is that you are confused about your career goals, hobbies, core career advantages and career development goals and paths. In your career, you generally don't know what you want to do, what you can do, and where your professional advantages are.

Generally speaking, in a person's career, there are at least four periods that are easy to fall into the confusion of "unclear development path":

The first phase is 14-22 years old. At this stage, individuals assume the dual roles of students and job seekers. The main question is: "Who am I?" "What can I do?" The main reason for confusion is that I don't understand myself and my career.

The second period is 22-28 years old. At this time, individuals enter the field of work, gradually become familiar with organizational culture, understand society and establish a preliminary interpersonal network. After a period of time, they began to reflect on whether their professional experience suits them.

The third period is 28-35 years old. The main question at this stage is: "Why have I accomplished nothing for so many years?" The reasons for confusion mainly come from the frustration caused by work and dissatisfaction with the current job.

The fourth period is 35-45 years old. The main question is: "What should we do in the next few years?" Faced with opportunities, many people dare not make hasty decisions because they understand the limitations of life psychologically. Between the ages of 35 and 45, career crises often occur.

Career guidance: career planning, how to do it more effectively?

Everyone is eager for success, whether it is a student who has entered the society to find a job or a student who is still studying, but few people know how to choose a job. When the entrepreneurial craze prevailed, some people without business talent devoted themselves to starting companies. College graduates also give priority to economically developed areas and well-known enterprises before considering their professional and personal strength. This hasty mode of career choice, lacking an understanding of its own characteristics and environment, often leads to a career dilemma, let alone a positive career development in the future.

Six stages of career development

Personal career development is closely related to life planning. These variables include schooling, marriage, having children and retirement. Personal career goals can be set as two years, 2-5 years, 5- 10 years, respectively, as short, medium and long-term goals, and different roles undertake different tasks. Personal career and main goals can be divided into the following six stages:

First, the exploration stage: students. The main goal of this stage is to discover interests, learn knowledge, develop skills needed for work, and also develop values, motivations and ambitions.

Second, enter the stage: candidates. The main goal of this stage is to enter the workplace, get a job and become a new employee of the unit.

Third, the novice stage: interns, junior staff. Learn to do things by yourself, learn to be accepted by colleagues, learn to face failure, learn to deal with chaos, competition and conflict, and learn to be independent. The main goal of this stage is to understand the unit, be familiar with the operation process, accept the organizational culture, learn to get along with people, take responsibility, develop and display skills and expertise, meet the challenges of work, form skills in a certain field, and develop creativity and innovative spirit.

Fourth, the continuous stage: incumbents and supervisors. Personal performance may improve, or it may remain the same or decline. At this stage, the main goal is to choose a major or enter the management department, maintain competitiveness, continue learning, and strive to become an expert or professional manager; Or the ability to update, train and guide technology, transfer to new jobs that need new skills, and open up broader work horizons.

Verb (abbreviation for verb) bottleneck stage: senior manager. At this stage, it has reached the top. The main goal at this time is to re-evaluate one's talents, motivations and values, further clarify one's career aspirations and personal future, accept the status quo or strive for higher development, establish interpersonal relationships with others, become mentors, learn to exert influence and guidance, expand, develop or deepen skills, and select and train successors.

The intransitive verb leaves the stage of work in a hurry: those who continue to develop can cope with it safely, and those whose career development is stagnant or declining will face difficulties. The main goal of this stage is to learn to accept the decline of power, responsibility and status, accept the new role changed by it, cultivate interests outside work, find new sources of satisfaction, evaluate one's career and plan to retire. They can change from a power role to a consulting role and find self-unity in activities outside the company.

Strategy is choice and trade-off, and the path chosen by everyone is not necessarily the same as others. Therefore, analyzing your needs, long-term and short-term goals, finding the obstacles encountered in the meeting, such as your knowledge base, ideas, ways of thinking, skills and psychological quality, making your own promotion plan and seeking outside help are all conducive to personal career planning.

Three steps of career choice

If you don't know yourself and analyze your needs first, it will be difficult to plan your career development. Self-analysis and orientation are the prerequisites for determining your strategic choice in life. According to the key, we should proceed from the following three orders in order to choose the right direction and go the right way.

Personal talent is the first consideration. Talent is an innate characteristic of human beings, which is different from the interest in development that can be cultivated the day after tomorrow, but we often don't know where our talent is, so that we can't stand out. The advantage theory developed by Gallup Company appropriately confirms this view. Different occupations have different talent requirements, which also determines the performance of each employee, which can be clearly seen from the performance of athletes and musicians. If you are a rigorous person, you pay more attention to the accuracy of every link and detail in the work process, are willing to follow a set of plans and steps, and tend to work strictly and diligently to see the effect of your excellent work. This personality is suitable for accountants, auditors, archivists, etc.

Secondly, it is the interest factor. The main reason why most people change jobs is that they can't find pleasure in their work. Some people like to engage in certain jobs, hoping to see the fruits of their labor soon and get satisfaction from the finished products, so they are very suitable for indoor decoration, gardening, beauty, hairdressing, manual production, mechanical maintenance, cooking and so on. On the other hand, if they only participate in the process of homework and can't get the evaluation work in a short time, they will gradually lose motivation in the absence of motivation. In the book "Choosing the Right Pond to Catch Big Fish", the author Ryan? Gilson compared "fishing" and "career planning". He gave an example: you just graduated from college and have two jobs in front of you. One has a high salary, but it doesn't match your interests. The other has a low salary, but you like it. How do you choose? Most people's answer is: "I will choose my favorite job." However, once we face the reality, when the income gap exceeds our psychological endurance, most people will be psychologically unbalanced. On the contrary, most people really think: "It's not too late to accept a well-paid job and not be interested in it, and then pursue your hobbies after accumulating a certain amount of wealth." In my opinion, it is really stupid to let us give up the opportunity to choose the right direction just for a little gap. In fact, low salary itself is a test of personal mentality. In order to get a well-paid job, many people often habitually blur their pursuit and interest, forcing themselves and others to believe that this is the best choice.

The last factor is a person's major. However, for a fresh person who has just stepped into the workplace, it is useless to learn professional knowledge in school for several years. At best, it is only basic knowledge, and more tacit knowledge should be gradually accumulated in his work. In order to accommodate majors, sometimes more opportunity costs will be lost. After all, the professional categories in the actual work are much richer than some majors in the school, but seeing the trees without the forest will miss many opportunities. When entering a new job, IQ is really important, and it is the only indicator to accept you when the other person is not familiar with you. EQ is the key to the promotion, which has nothing to do with the major and the working environment, proving that psychological quality and personality are more worthy of attention than professional performance.

Make good use of the law of target path

Through some career orientation tests, we can initially understand the subjective factors affecting career choice. To achieve career goals, it is necessary to assess the gap between personal goals and the status quo in order to make an effective action plan. The following is a simple target path method for readers' reference:

First, put your resume aside, prepare a blank sheet of paper, draw a form on it, and fill in the time, company name, job title, job responsibilities, required knowledge and skills, and your current job content, and then fill in the content carefully. This is your present situation. In addition, draw a form on another piece of white paper, fill in the time, company name, job name, required ability, knowledge and skills, work content, fill in the time column according to your own life planning time, collect the work information you are interested in from recruitment websites or newspaper advertisements, and fill in other columns. This is your planning goal.

Now these three pieces of paper in your hand are regarded as three points, the origin is your resume, and now your position is the status quo table, and the target points of each stage are on your plan target table. We began to write about how much time you have spent since the beginning and what abilities, knowledge and skills you have added. Similarly, we wrote down how long it will take you to get from the current situation to the planned goal, and what abilities, knowledge and skills you need to supplement. We wrote down an analysis table of the gap between the past and the future. From this gap table, review whether there is a big gap in time, work, ability, knowledge and skills, or there is deviation or lag, and re-examine the contents of the plan target table. Fill the gaps in job-hopping, including the qualifications and abilities that need to be strengthened in the status table, and adjust the expected time limit.

Only by completing this gap list through the target path method can we make a reliable action plan after feedback and correction. Mentality, basic ability (basic knowledge, professional knowledge, practical knowledge and skills), business ability (understanding, judgment, planning, development, expression, negotiation, coordination, guidance, supervision, command, execution, etc. ), quality ability (intellectual quality, physical quality, personality, attitude, self-values, etc. ) provide some warm tips to friends who have already gone to work, so as to strive for organizational resources and make use of the training system of the enterprise; Look for mentors or people close to the core of power, participate in organizational learning, and update skills and attitudes; Or take advantage of the company's internal job rotation system, strive for opportunities for horizontal mobility and job rotation, and carry out cross-industry learning, effectively reducing the investment cost of individuals in learning.

How to do a good job in personal career planning, the author does not suggest completely denying yourself and the past, but should really evaluate personal characteristics and advantages based on existing achievements, and evaluate the gap between personal goals and the status quo, accurately locate the career direction, re-recognize your own value and increase value to find new career opportunities, and remember to link your personal career with your family so as not to become an unfavorable variable for career development.

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