What are the truths behind the biggest hurdle in the workplace, the "35-year-old phenomenon"?

It broke the biggest obstacle on the career path: the "35-year-old phenomenon" in the workplace.

"35-year-old phenomenon" in the workplace that can not be ignored

I obviously feel the urgency of career planning for people over 35. We are soberly aware that the grasp of time plays a decisive role in a person's growth.

Among the customers I met, there are two extreme cases:

One is people who have reached a certain level, above the director level, have a certain position in the company, and have an annual salary of not less than 200,000.

The other is that they have worked for many years, but their positions are still relatively low, and their positions and wages have not improved.

By comparison, we find that those who have successfully developed their careers have a common feature, that is, they have been intensively cultivating their fields that they are familiar with and good at for at least 10 years.

Those who can't find a position in the workplace often change their direction every year or two and never accumulate in a certain direction. Of course, in addition to frequent job hopping, there is another factor, that is, accumulation in one direction, but this accumulation belongs to repetitive work, which makes career development stagnate.

Whether you admit it or not, you must pay attention to the "35-year-old phenomenon". Many companies clearly stipulate that they are under 35 when recruiting people. If you are 35 years old, but you still keep changing jobs through the recruitment website, then you should reflect on what you did wrong.

Of course, according to our experience, if you really don't think about it until you are 35 years old, you will probably be at the end of your rope by then. Therefore, it is much more useful to plan ahead than to cram for the Buddha's feet.

Many of my clients are post-80s generation, which is also a high incidence area of career planning problems. The oldest batch of post-80s generation has "stood at 30"; But there are still some post-80s, and they are turning 30. When you are young, you have the capital to make mistakes, but by the age of 30, this capital is no longer your patent. In order not to mess up your career after the age of 35, you should set clear goals at the age of 30, no matter how late.

30 years old: Three major problems you have to face.

Why is 30 so important and special? Because here, you will face three major problems.

One: the question of family and responsibility

Don't think you are still young. Don't think that some problems are far away from you. Whether you are decadent or busy, your time is passing by quickly.

Most people at this age have to consider family problems. If you have a family, you must be soberly aware: how can your career develop to support the burden of the whole family? This includes not only your lover, but also your children and parents (especially when both are only children, you have to bear the support of four old people on both sides).

Second, the matching degree between ability and age.

Why do many companies clearly stipulate that they need 5 years 10 experience when recruiting people? Because working hours mean the ability to match it. For the same job, the ability to accumulate five years' experience and 10 years' experience is different. The longer the working hours, the stronger the ability, which is a positive multiplication relationship. But if you violate this relationship, you will not be recognized by the employer and lose better career development opportunities.

In fact, many people are facing this problem. Many people who have worked for 3 years or 5 years are no different in ability from those who have worked for 1 year, so when they want to make a breakthrough in their careers, they will encounter a lot of resistance. There are two reasons: first, frequent job hopping, no accumulation in one direction, no skills; Second, although it has accumulated in one direction for a long time, it has only increased in the first year, and the remaining years are doing repetitive work and marking time.

Third, the construction and promotion of knowledge structure.

There was once a customer who worked as an accountant for five or six years and accumulated quite rich experience. Once, he applied for the financial manager of a well-known fast-moving enterprise. During the interview, he can answer specific operational questions, but when it comes to system and strategy, his mind is blank.

In the workplace, people in different positions do different things and need different modes of thinking. What a grass-roots accountant thinks is how to handle the accounts well, which is his duty; But if a CFO still thinks about how to deal with reports every day, it is his dereliction of duty.

Therefore, your vision and thinking should be constantly developed and broken through. Otherwise, you will always stay at the operational level, there will be no big development, and it will be difficult for your position to rise.

Before the age of 30: how to lay a good foundation

30 years old is an age that connects the past with the future. If you have hardly accumulated before the age of 30, your career after 30 may be very difficult. This is a serious injury. Therefore, if you want to pass the 30-year-old hurdle smoothly, you need to be responsible for yourself before you turn 30 and plan ahead.

The first thing you should do is to find a goal for which you can strive for 5 years, 10 years or even longer. Clear goals can make your career grow around one point and accumulate experience, which is also your bargaining chip for future promotion and salary increase. Clear direction, even if you walk slowly, you can walk faster than people who take detours.

I once interviewed a client and changed six companies in seven years. It stands to reason that people will think that this person's career development is very bad. Actually, it is not. This person's current monthly salary after tax is 6,543,800 yuan, which is a good level. You may wonder: Why do people who change jobs frequently have such a level of career development?

Observing his growth experience, we find that there is only one reason, that is, every time he changes jobs, he never deviates from the established direction. As long as the direction is good, then every step of his action is approaching in this direction, accumulating more chips for future career development. The thickness you accumulate will ultimately determine your future development height.

Now that house prices and prices are so high, the pressure of many people's survival suddenly increases, causing everyone to become impetuous and drift with the flow under the pressure of survival. Some people insisted on a job for several months, feeling hopeless and unable to raise their salary, so they chose to resign. But in fact, job-hopping can't fundamentally solve the problem.

People in the workplace, how many things to do, how much money to take, for granted. If you can't contribute more value to the company, but want to get more returns, do you think the company is stupid? How much value you have contributed to the company depends on your ability. The accumulation of ability stems from long-term adherence to one direction. Even those successful people who look enviable need to practice and grow up over time.

There are only two things in the workplace: doing things and being a man.

If finding the right goal is to accumulate core skills and do things better, then learning to be a man is the second important thing to consider in your career development.

In the practice of being a man, there are four elements that can have a fatal impact on your future career development:

The first element: interpersonal skills.

This includes relationships with your boss and colleagues. A bad relationship with your boss directly determines your promotion. So I often say, "If you have a bad relationship with your boss, it basically means that your career in the company is over."

And I don't have a good relationship with my colleagues. Even if one day you are promoted to their leader, your power will be shelved because of the lack of "mass base". Your subordinates either don't listen to you or deliberately provoke you, and you will find that leading this position is actually very uncomfortable.

The second element: the ability to keep learning.

We should pay attention to the importance of study. I once met a client who was nearly 40 years old. He has been an accountant for 14 years. He is just a grass-roots supervisor and can't see any promotion opportunities in the company. He hasn't got a raise for many years.

We asked him a question, "During the period of 14, did you receive any training, further study or other forms of charging?" He said, "No.""Never?" "Never." This is an extreme example, but this phenomenon is not uncommon in the workplace.

Ask yourself a few questions about learning and growth:

Compared with a year ago, has my professional ability improved significantly?

Do I have my own unique views in theory and practice?

Can I handle things within my responsibility alone?

Without study, your career development will stagnate. You think you haven't regressed, but everyone else is making progress. The gap between you and others has widened unconsciously, so you regressed.

The third element: professionalism.

Whether you have a goal or not, whether you want to do this job or not, as long as you are in this position, you must do things well. Getting a job in his post is a minimum professional accomplishment and an indispensable professional spirit in any post.

If you don't want to do it well, then leave and don't waste everyone's time here. Good professional quality is sometimes more important than ability itself.

The fourth element: a strong heart.

Many people in the workplace are actually very fragile at heart and can't stand all kinds of hardships on the long road of life. You know, everyone's growth is not smooth sailing. A strong heart can make people see hope in despair, and negative pessimism will only make you miss the opportunity in front of hope.

"Natural selection, survival of the fittest." Survival of the fittest is always the law of natural progress. Only by adapting to this rule can you gain a place in such a competitive society.

After 30 years old: how to achieve a qualitative breakthrough

If you want to make great progress in your career after the age of 35, you should make good use of the five years from the age of 30 and prepare the following three crucial things.

The first thing: complete your professional brand building.

How to build your own personal brand? After the age of 30, you must not change jobs frequently. The biggest disadvantage is that your professional knowledge growth will always stay at a relatively low level, which will affect your promotion and salary growth. What should I do? What suits me? At this time, I should have a clear position and use the remaining five years to accumulate. Otherwise, the "35-year-old phenomenon" will definitely be staged on you.

In order to support your "professional" brand image, you need to work hard in the following two aspects.

First, the knowledge structure mentioned above should be divorced from the specific operational problems. You should look at the problem higher and further and become a "visionary" rather than a "short-sighted" person. At this time, on-the-job study, further study and so on need to be put on the agenda, and learn to enrich your mind with new knowledge.

The second is to establish their own influence in the industry. Why do some people need tens of thousands to go out and give a lecture? Why can some people use their own strength to promote the development of an industry? The reason is that their influence is too great. If you want to be an excellent person in the workplace, you must also establish your influence in this industry and influence others with your thoughts.

The second thing: cultivate yourself into an excellent manager.

In addition to those professional and technical personnel, if you want to get more space in the workplace, job promotion is essential. Becoming a manager is a key step in your career development. But not everyone can sit firmly in this seat. Gallup once conducted a survey and found that basic employees frequently leave their jobs. Many times, the problem is not the company, but the boss.

Therefore, as a middle-level manager, you must realize that your management may change the lifelong fate of your subordinates, and it is likely that your wrong management style will hurt your subordinates unconsciously and force them to leave the company.

The third thing: find a growing company and grow with it.

In the process of your growth, it is very important to find a company with growth potential and grow with it.

First, you can witness the growth process of a company from small to large and from weak to strong, and have a deeper understanding of the company's operation.

Second, in the process of the company's growth, your value will have more room to play and be more easily displayed. It is understandable that many people tend to look for big companies when looking for jobs, but in order to grow rapidly, it is actually a better choice to find a growth company with a smaller scale. Because in the process of growth, the demand for talents is more urgent, and your position will be promoted faster.

Third, your loyalty will bring more returns to your development. The most important thing for enterprises to employ people is loyalty. No enterprise likes its employees to change their minds frequently. Especially now the job-hopping rate and turnover rate are so high, loyalty has become a very valuable professional spirit.

No matter whether you are "grade three" or "grade three", please always tell yourself: don't waste your good years, seize all the time you can and accumulate more thickness for your life. When you get old, look back on your life. Do you want to live a happy life or a life of regret?

Finally, I will end my speech with my favorite quotation from Jobs:

"People can't do too many things in this life, so everything should be done brilliantly. Your time is limited, don't live for others. Don't be limited by dogma, don't live in other people's thoughts. Don't let other people's opinions affect your inner voice. The most important thing is to follow your heart and intuition bravely. Only your heart and intuition can know what you really think. "

Life is long, you * * * encourage!