Choices and values ??in career planning

Choices and values ??in career planning

Analysis of two key points about career planning.

1. The first point I want to express is that choice is more important than hard work. In fact, in life, the efforts of failed people and successful people are about the same. I even found that many people who have not been successful in their career development work very hard, but some people have smooth sailing, as if they have easily achieved success in the eyes of others. Successful people work hard for a few years and it becomes easy, and at most they develop more intellectually; losers also work hard because if they don't work hard, they will have nothing to eat.

The greatest happiness in a person's life lies in choosing the right two things. One is to find the right company, the right boss, and the right supervisor; the second thing is to find the right wife or husband. Why do you say that? When the sun rises we have sex with our bosses, and when the sun sets we hug our lovers.

The right choice is so important, but you will find that many people in real life are very hasty when faced with choices. It is a strange thing that a person spends much less energy on job choices that affect his future destiny than on buying clothes, especially when his future happiness and prosperity all depend on it. When doing this job. Almost no one thinks they are wrong—no one intentionally makes a decision that is not good for them. The reason why they make the wrong choice is often because they don't know how to choose. Many people think that they cannot understand what job they are suitable for, so they have to change jobs, hoping to find their interests in the process. However, many years have passed and they are still confused. Therefore, we must choose carefully, otherwise you will never know which land in the world is suitable for your growth and what kind of environment is suitable for your development. It is the same principle as enterprise development. Direction is more important than speed. Before choosing a clear direction, it is meaningless to simply talk about speed. Sometimes waiting is better than action. Actions without a clear choice are what we usually call messing around. The result of messing around is disorder and ineffectiveness.

In this world, there are more than tens of millions of roads to success, but you have to remember Live: All roads are not given by others, but the result of your own choice. What kind of choices you have will determine what kind of life you will have. What kind of career choice you have, what kind of career you have. Your current situation today is the result of your choices a few years ago. Your choices today determine your career status a few years from now. The difference between success and losers is that winners choose the right direction, while losers choose the wrong direction. Therefore, We often see people with similar foundations having completely different careers because they have chosen different directions. The problem is that when people make choices, almost no one thinks that they are wrong, because no one will deliberately make a wrong career choice that is not conducive to their future development. The reason why they made the wrong choice is because they have no ability. Making the correct answer is just like when we encounter multiple-choice questions that we don't know how to do in the examination room, we can only choose based on our own judgment. Just like our parents, they think that doing a certain job will be beneficial to us. Little did we know that it would push us into a professional trap.

When Sima Zhong, Emperor Hui of the Jin Dynasty, was emperor, there was a great famine one year. Officials reported to him that the people had no food to eat and many people starved to death. This famous idiot emperor in history asked in surprise: "Why don't they eat meat?" We, or so-called career planning experts, can easily prescribe other people's career choices. If you don't like the job you are currently doing, Then do what you like to do. It’s easy to talk about it, but for people who are confused about career development, just like the joke above, this kind of beautiful wish is difficult to realize in reality.

Workplace life is very realistic, which is why so many career planning theories have no substantive significance to us. My personal opinion is that we must think proactively based on reality and make full use of opportunities. Improve your career situation step by step. As I said at the beginning, career sailing and choice. In the process of career development, choice is a continuous process. It is difficult for you to make the right choice all at once, but you must learn to choose the right direction.

At the beginning of your career or when you encounter career difficulties, your personal choice is very narrow and you cannot make decisions completely independently. However, those with ambitions will find ways to do it, while those without ambitions will only find it difficult and difficult. No matter what, you will always be able to make decisions. There will be a certain amount of room for choice. It is very important to grasp effective choices and gradually guide your career path in the right direction. Only in this way will your path become wider and wider on the long march of career development. , your choices in the workplace will become wider and wider, and you will eventually achieve true career freedom.

So how to make a career choice? What is the basis for career choice? What are the key points to consider when making a choice?

2. Values ??in career planning

According to my personal experience, the deepest basis for selection is your values, and the superficial basis for selection is your career goals. Of course, for those who have no goals, the basis for selection is their personal understanding of interests. Key points to consider when making proactive choices include region, industry, enterprise and occupation. In other words, a very clear career goal should be described as how many years later I hope to work in a certain place (Beijing/Shanghai/New York/home county) in a certain industry (real estate/logistics/education and training, etc.) in a certain company (Top 500/ A person who is engaged in a certain occupation (human resources/finance/finance/management, etc. high/middle/low level) in a private enterprise/state-owned enterprise/government, etc.). I will discuss these points in detail later. I personally think they are also the most practical reference parts.

Judging from actual examples, our life values ??determine our attitude towards life, which determines our career orientation and leads us to make various career choices. This career choice determines Our professional status thus determines our lifestyle, which ultimately determines our happiness in life.

This aspect of values ??is easily overlooked by most of us, although it actually affects our decisions and then determines our lives, including careers. If a person wants to be a top person in the workplace, he must clearly know his own values ??and live his life in accordance with these values.

The people I have seen who have good career development are all because they adhere to their values, while some people who are not so successful are mostly confused in their thinking, either adhering to wrong values ??or Not at all, as public opinion swayed.

The importance of values ??can also be well revealed from the perspective of corporate personnel selection. Why are many McKinsey consultants not from management majors? Why can some students who are not outstanding academically outperform those with outstanding academic performance in highly competitive applications? Why do foreign companies always ask seemingly ordinary questions such as "What is your greatest achievement", "What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses" during interviews for recruiting trainees? In fact, I think they are all closely related to values. Because a person's professional values ??are closely related to his or her achievements. Compared with this, temporary academic performance becomes irrelevant.

From the perspective of values, the criterion for success or failure in career development is whether you get the life you want, and whether the lifestyle your career brings is in line with your values. If it does, you will feel very happy, even if your income is relatively low; if it does not, you will feel very miserable, even if you have a seemingly high annual salary. When I first started working, I was always envious of people I met with high salaries. Today, my mentality is relatively peaceful. I can understand when I meet people with higher salaries than myself, and sometimes even some of my friends with high salaries make people feel sympathy. For the high salary, they also lose a lot, such as family happiness and a certain degree of physical health, but they gain a sense of accomplishment. Therefore, I have always advocated that we do not need to envy others in terms of career development, because when you gain, you lose, and vice versa. You may get a high salary, but what you lose is time; you may not be a good leader, but you will become a good son. The key is that what you get is exactly what you want, and you don't mind what you lose. The real career pursuit is perfection and balance.

Career development cannot be judged by how much money we make. That should not be our career goal.

The truly successful professionals I have seen, even in the early stages of their careers, did not simply think about money but pursued their dreams and developed according to their own values. It should be said that such people will succeed. , money is a by-product of career development. When you pursue your dreams and succeed, all good things will come your way, including money. (Money is the result we get, not the purpose.)

Next I want to talk about the key points of choice. Let’s be practical.

3. There are four choices for career planning—region bears the brunt.

The first choice is to consider region. This is something that many people tend to overlook. The case of my high school classmates best illustrates the importance of geography to a person's career development. Most of our high school classmates are from rural areas, and some are from county towns. Our local education is not very developed. There are 50 classmates in the same class, including those who later repeated the course, and those who were later admitted to university, including undergraduates, junior colleges, and technical secondary schools, which is about 30 people. In the 10 years since I graduated from college, it should be said that everyone’s career development has been basically finalized. After graduating from college, most students chose more developed cities, but some students returned to their hometowns that were less developed. Especially the students who live in the county, because most of them were junior college or technical secondary schools at that time, and they basically went back. But two of the rural students who graduated with undergraduate degrees also chose to go back. Last year, when I went home for a class reunion during the Spring Festival, these two classmates regretted it because their so-called academic qualifications and abilities were of no use in backward counties and they lost their competitive advantage. There were no more than 5 slightly better companies in total. I thought. There is no place to change jobs. I want to go to a first-tier city. I have already lost my original edge, not to mention that I am already married and have children. On the contrary, most of my classmates who live in the county have developed well because their families have good interpersonal networks. What I say does not mean that I am against everyone going back to build their hometown, but that we must consider long-term development, because you cannot change your backward thinking, not to mention that you are immature at the beginning of your work. If you really have this intention, I suggest that you study in a more developed place first, and then return to your hometown or invest in your hometown to become a real professional in the future is a good way.

Geography may even become a bottleneck that limits a person’s development. If you are assigned to a county seat and enter politics, you will basically be the secretary of the county party committee, or at most a district commissioner, and you will have to be very lucky; if you are assigned to major ministries and commissions, you can still get involved if your luck is not too bad. Director, if you are a little better, you can become a director, but you accidentally become a minister. Of course, I am joking here, but in terms of probability, it is roughly the same.

When setting up a company, choose an area that matches your needs. Consulting companies are basically located in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen. These four places probably account for 80% of the country's consulting companies. There are also other places, but most of them are small in scale. There are also consulting companies in Jinan, Dalian, Qingdao and other places, but life in general is not as good as in the above four places. When choosing a factory, you must also consider supporting facilities, so factories are dotted in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta. To develop talents, we must also consider supporting facilities. If you go to an area that is more suitable for you, you will be able to get good supporting facilities, such as a better platform, better training, a broader vision, etc. Otherwise, there is a missing link, such as lack of training, narrow career, etc. It will be difficult for you to develop.

It is wrong to simply say that we should develop in big places or stick to one corner. Examples of development or development being blocked due to changing regions are common. I'm just telling you that this is a factor worth considering. Today, when career mobility is becoming more and more common, it is normal to work in several cities during a lifetime. My personal suggestion is to work in a more developed place as much as possible in the early stages of career development. When you have reached a certain level of career development, you can then consider a city where your life is more acceptable. I also do not recommend that you frequently work in a more developed place during the career development process. Changing cities, because the resources you accumulate in a certain city will greatly depreciate as the region changes, will invisibly increase a lot of your costs.

Some people think that competition in big cities is too fierce and the cost of living is too high and they don’t have the courage to face challenges; in fact, there is absolutely no need. Because on the other hand, there are more opportunities in big cities, and fierce competition can better stimulate personal potential, making it easier to reach higher professional heights.

In second- and third-tier cities, with an annual salary of 20,000 to 300,000 yuan, it is difficult to have room for improvement, but in Beijing and Shanghai, such a salary is nothing. The administrative secretary of my original company was very good. He studied architecture. He was 1.7cm tall and very elegant. He had a level 9 piano. He was transferred from Dalian to Shanghai due to work reasons. Later he switched to Steinway, a company that sells luxury pianos. She has brighter career prospects, but she will never have such an opportunity in Dalian.

When most people graduate, they naturally stay in the city where they studied, or go back to their hometown, etc. In fact, it is necessary to think deeply about which places are more suitable for their development. Even friends who are in the middle of their careers can consider jumping to a new platform by changing regions. ;