Is the job you are looking for commensurate with your major?

Expert advice: Introduce career planning as early as possible to match employment majors.

Jiang Yuan, a reporter from Shenzhen Business Daily in Beijing, took the college entrance examination in 2005 just as the time to fill in the volunteers, and the students were more cautious about the choice of majors. But do you have to be professional when looking for a job? How many people are doing jobs that have nothing to do with their major now? How does your major affect your present job? According to the latest survey of Zhaopin. Com, half people think that employment is affected by major, and if they can choose again, 50% people want to choose a major again. For students who have not yet entered the university, career experts suggest introducing career planning and design in advance.

Electronic information majors are the most popular.

For "What is your most optimistic employment major category at present?" Electronic information accounts for the highest proportion, accounting for 18%, followed by management 16%, marketing 14%, logistics 9%, media information and biotechnology 8%, law, automobile, modern medicine and environmental energy 6%, and new materials 4%.

Career counselors believe that it is hard to say whether the current hot major will become an unpopular major in a few years. For example, nursing, teacher training, energy, environmental protection, logistics and other majors were not valued before, but now these talents are more popular than the once popular trade and accounting graduates. Perhaps the future Olympic Games and sports craze will bring about a shortage of sports management talents. All these have linked the seemingly simple major choice with the social and economic development, so that students now have a broader imagination space in their major choice.

Only 26% people have jobs and majors.

How many people are engaged in majors corresponding to what they have learned in school? According to the survey, only 26% are completely matched; The most popular choice is "related but non-professional counterpart work", accounting for 43%; The least is "it doesn't matter, but this is my hobby and specialty", with 9%; It doesn't matter at all, 22%.

Professional experts told reporters that there are two reasons for the highest proportion of "related but non-professional counterparts". First, with the continuous innovation of new occupations and the rapid development of science and technology, people's professional skills and knowledge are difficult to locate in a certain career direction as before.

Another reason for the lack of "connection" between major and work is that under severe employment pressure, hungry graduates are faced with rare employment opportunities and have little choice about whether their major is suitable or not.

If you start over, 50% will choose another major.

In "What major would you choose if you had the chance to start over?" In the question, 52% people choose to study another major, or only 14% people choose to study the current major; On the basis of this major, 34% took the second major.

According to experts' analysis, for most people, the professional interest formed after working for several years is stable. The formation of this interest may be cultivated by education during college study, and more is felt by professional experience. It is generally found that they are good at doing a certain kind of work, or get better and better, and get more and more subjective and objective returns, which has nothing to do with the major of university studies. So, if they have a chance to start over, they will start over.

expert opinion/advice

Career planning should start from freshman year.

The talent and personality that affect a person's career interest development were known before college. Career evaluation and planning can find a person's natural advantages, help you choose your major and reduce detours in career development. Career experts suggest that college students' career planning should begin with enrollment. College students should think about the future development of my major from the freshman year. What knowledge and ability do you need to master before you can go to those industries and enterprises? Do I like my future career, instead of simply starting their college study and life according to the teaching arrangement and textbooks?

1 If you can't do it, adjust your mentality and professional role in time.

Person: Wang Juan (graduated from electronic information major, now a network engineer).

After graduation, Wang Juan worked as a network engineer in the data center of a large securities company. After working for more than two years, the deepest feeling is "exhausted". On the one hand, the task is heavy and the pressure is great. She insists on training every day, but also "arranges" configuration, security, network management, wiring and other things, and there are countless projects in line.

Constantly working overtime on duty, there is almost no time at your disposal. On the other hand, due to the emergence of new technologies, it is necessary to constantly update the knowledge reserve, but the work is too tired and the time is not enough, so it is rare to have time to recharge yourself. Male colleagues work overtime to go home, and still stay up reading until two or three o'clock every day, but when they get home, their heads are heavy, and even if they are forced to read, their minds are blank. Therefore, in a competitive environment, she is often worried about being eliminated, which will inevitably affect her work mood.

Comments: Director of Jiyun Tailai Consulting Company

Judging from the current situation in Wang Juan, her psychological feelings have obviously affected her working state, and this unsatisfactory state will strengthen and expand her psychological pressure. Therefore, the first thing you have to do is to actively adjust your mentality. If you are engaged in technical work for two years, you will feel at a loss. Then you should consider whether you are incompetent, unable to bear high-intensity work or not fully adapted to society and work. If it is the former, it should be adjusted and transformed within the enterprise, and it can engage in some technical support or technology-related management work, such as testing, network management, pre-sales and after-sales services.

Management is not "active escape", and career breakthrough begins with a turning point.

Person: Li Yang (graduated from automation major, working in R&D)

It's only been a year and a half since Li Yang graduated and started working. When she graduated, she entered the workplace with trepidation in the horror descriptions of women engaged in technical work by her brothers and sisters.

In the process of research and development for more than a year, Li Yang felt that she had learned a lot, but the high-intensity work made her feel difficult to adapt. The idea of changing to management is getting stronger and stronger, but she thinks that she is still a newcomer in the workplace at present, and it is inevitable to escape from work before she has adapted to her current position, which makes people feel that she can't do this job. In addition, I have never found a breakthrough in turning to management, and I don't know how to develop in the direction of management.

Comments: Lei Huayu GCDF (global career planner) is a member of the China project team.

First, from Li Yang's point of view, it is wrong to regard transfer management as a way to escape pressure and high-intensity work. Technical management must also have the knowledge that technicians should have, and at the same time, they must have greater learning pressure, such as management art, interpersonal relationship handling and communication skills. If you don't change careers out of interest and love of management, you may find yourself unsuitable and enter a new vicious circle after entering this job.

Second, Li Yang believes that the idea of turning to management is "getting cold feet" and will limit his own development. Changing careers is a matter related to your future and a personal choice. You shouldn't care too much about other people's eyes and ideas. If you can't stand high-intensity work, you should consider whether you can persist. If you can't accept it, you still have to turn to some routine work.

Career planning for spontaneity

● Jiang Danhua graduated from computer science and is now the marketing manager of communication enterprises.

Although I majored in computer science in college, programming was too boring for me, and I thought my personality was suitable for people, so I later went to a communication company to do market development. My technical background has played a great role in my work, and my communication with customers is very smooth. So I think it is most important to make a good career plan.

The accuracy rate of popular career evaluation for college students in Beijing is about 80%.

June 30(th), 2005

Our reporter Zhang Xi 'an reported that "knowing your suitable job position can help you plan your career in advance." Wang Jingwei, a computer major student in beijing language and culture university University of Information Science, determined the career goal of "customer service" for himself through "career planning evaluation". In his junior year, he decided to "join the job" in advance from this summer vacation and enter the field of actual combat.

1/3 college students are at a loss for the future.

A few days ago, beijing language and culture university launched a set of "career planning evaluation system" to let students know their career potential in advance and make preparations in advance. At present, these measures have been gradually popularized in some famous schools such as Tsinghua University.

Huang of the North Language Student Office told reporters that this is mainly because many college students are at a loss about their career planning during their school days. According to his statistics, 1/3 of college students are blind to the future; 13 is ideal but unprepared, and only13 students have clear career goals and adequate preparatory study. "Many students are passive at school and even at a loss."

Sharla Cheung, a freshman at the school, estimates that "at most half of the students have clear plans for their careers, and even fewer can reserve knowledge in advance and cultivate targeted abilities."

Career planning is no longer the "last battle"

Sharla Cheung has just made a career planning assessment for herself. The career planning evaluation report gives Sharla Cheung the advantages, and suggests him to develop in nearly 20 professions such as "network editing", "logistics management" and "library management" in the future. Sharla Cheung commented on this report: "It is really accurate. Many of the occupations suggested in the report are my own interests, and many detailed suggestions are more valuable. "

He felt that this evaluation "exposed the characteristics of personality." Although his parents have reminded him many times before, he should pay attention to his stubborn personality and not be used to imposing his own standards on others. But he "never realized how much conflict this would have with his career." After the evaluation, the evaluation report on page 18 woke him up again. "Now I ask myself to consider the problem comprehensively and try something completely new. I am also learning to tolerate other people's objections and deal with people calmly."

The accuracy of 80% is for reference only.

Teacher Jin of Tsinghua University Student Employment Guidance Center told the reporter that the online evaluation system only has 187 psychological test questions, which only evaluates students' psychology and personality, and can only be used as a reference for college students' career planning. Finally, the choice of career depends on reality and personal hobbies.

Teacher Huang of Beiyu also believes that the accuracy of this evaluation system is only about 80%. However, he said: "As a guide for students' study and life at school and a reference for future career planning, we are ready to fully open up when freshmen enter school in September this year. "

My answer is not very relevant, just hope to have some guiding role for you! Good luck!