Why is it so difficult to change careers in modern society?

In modern society, it is common to change careers! It is difficult to change careers and move on. This is almost the feeling of 99% people in the workplace. Many people say that it feels like this all my life.

When the industry is in an expansion period, it's okay. If you can't turn, you can't turn. However, when the industry suddenly encounters a devastating blow and you have to face the problem of changing careers, your head is big. People in tourism, education and real estate have almost lost their heads in recent years.

Anyway, why is it so difficult to change careers now? I have been thinking about this problem for a long time and summed up the following two main reasons.

1. With the development and progress of society, the social division of labor is becoming more and more detailed. Too fine division of labor is the main reason for the difficulty in job-hopping, which also explains why it is difficult for applicants to find jobs and recruiters to recruit people.

With the continuous progress of society and the rapid progress of science and technology, the social division of labor is becoming more and more refined. Some netizens recalled, "Before the 1980s, there were people in rural areas who could be carpenters, bricklayers, and slaughter pigs and sheep for farming. The contents of these jobs are relatively simple, and people with better understanding can learn everything. Not in the city factory. No one is different from pliers riveting. The skills required by the factory are complex and difficult. I think this is also one of the reasons why it is difficult to change careers. "

I am convinced. In retrospect, my parents' generation, all born in the 1950s, found it common to change careers and never heard that it was more difficult to change careers. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, the current division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, which is also the main reason why it is difficult for people in the workplace to change careers.

2, the cake is not enough, the labor force is surplus, and the foreign quantity is not experts.

Anyway, there are too many people. In Europe, America and Australia, where labor is relatively scarce, it is not so difficult to change careers here.

People who successfully change careers often find that many jobs do not require such high professional skills and experience, and they can get started with short-term familiarity and adaptation. In fact, many jobs, we have the ability to change careers, but people don't give you the opportunity to change careers. The reason is that there is too much labor force, and every time you recruit, you will always meet people who have a higher degree of matching with the position, so opportunities will not come from outside the industry.

In the current situation, whenever the worst tourism practitioners complain about unemployment, they will always say simply: You can change careers, why do you have to hang on this tree? Who doesn't understand the truth? Who wants to hang from a tourist tree? The problem is that it is easy to change careers.

Especially in the current overall economic downturn, most industries are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, with only one piece of cake. All walks of life were torn to pieces before they entered the business because of the crazy intervention of the epidemic. It is not easy to change careers.

Who is the hardest to change careers? People with too much occupational closure

There is a question that I have been thinking about for a long time. Although it is a common phenomenon that it is difficult to change careers, there are great differences in each occupation. In the same industry, it is easy for some people to change careers and find their next home, while it is more difficult for some people and quite difficult for others.

Take tourism as an example. Who is easy to change careers? I observed the circle of friends and found that my little friend who worked as a public relations officer in a travel agency jumped ship very early and found a new job. A small partner who is doing marketing and operation in OTA has jumped ship at the beginning of the epidemic. For them, it is not difficult to get out of the tourism industry. Who else in the tourism industry is more likely to change careers? Finance Department, Human Resource Management Department and IT Department. ...

Although these people work in travel companies, they are not tourists at all. Their occupations are public relations, Internet operation, accounting, human resources and IT engineers. They just applied their professional skills to tourism. The tourism industry has collapsed, so it would be nice to change industries. It's easy to change careers and you won't lose anything.

The above occupations are very open and the vocational skills are very versatile. In other words, these occupations are highly mobile. Transferability refers to the ability that you can reuse after changing from one job to another, or from one industry to another. It is a common ability in the workplace.

No matter what line of business financial accounting is engaged in, it uses general accounting standards, and the certified public accountant certificate obtained is suitable for any industry and company. Code farmers' skills of writing codes can be used anywhere. The six modules of HR human resource management, such as recruitment, salary and welfare, are common in all industries.

Take the business positions of travel companies as an example, sales are also easier to change careers. According to my observation, the original travel agency salespeople have basically changed careers, and the psychological gap after changing careers is not that big. Someone told me that everything is being sold anyway, everything is being sold. The most difficult, confusing and painful people for a travel company to change careers are operators, route designers and tour guides.

There are always people on the Internet who attribute the difficulty in changing careers to the fact that people engaged in tourism have low academic qualifications, poor level and no skills. I can't agree with this view anyway, so I will refute it once. In my opinion, the main reason is that most people in the tourism industry are closed and limited by professional scenes.

Jobs with strong occupational closure and limited by professional scenes do not only exist in the tourism industry. After 202 1 double-drop policy was introduced, the teaching and training industry was also devastated. People who teach training are also complaining about changing careers. After observing it on the internet, who is the most difficult to change careers in the teaching and training industry? Teachers, especially subject teachers. It is not difficult to do enrollment, customer service and marketing. It is also very, very difficult for teachers to change careers.

In addition, I also observed a phenomenon that many jobs are very important, which can be said to be at the core of this industry, but it is also the most difficult job to change careers.

Who is the most difficult to change careers in teaching and training? It's the teacher.

Who is the hardest thing for the civil aviation industry to change careers? A pilot, not a stewardess.

Who is the most difficult person in the travel agency industry to change careers? It is the design of tourism products, the operation of planning adjustment and the tour guide.

Is it difficult for these people to change careers because of their low academic qualifications, poor level and unskilled work? Are subject teachers with low academic qualifications? Is Liu Chuanjian, the captain of Sichuan Airlines who saved 1 19 passengers' lives poor?

Interestingly, the most difficult job to change careers is precisely the core position of these industries, directly providing products and services in this industry.

What is the core of the teaching and training industry? Is to impart knowledge to students.

What is the core of the civil aviation industry? Is to transport passengers safely and comfortably to their destination.

What is the core of tourism? Is to provide customers with travel services.

Horribly, these core positions in this industry do have some similar occupational defects, that is, the occupational scene is narrow and special, the work skills are single, the occupation is closed, and it has little connection with other occupations. It is of little value to other industries to exercise many years' experience and business ability in this position.

The work scene of the captain and the flight attendant is in the narrow cabin, and the work scene of the teacher is in the three-foot platform. In the face of natural and man-made disasters, if you lose the captain and flight attendant of the plane and the teacher at the podium, you will feel particularly painful, confused and anxious, just like losing the tourism product designer and tour guide in the tourism industry. You don't know what else you can do. It's hard to change careers and get re-employed.

The biggest embarrassment and sorrow for people in the workplace is the ability you have finally cultivated in this industry and this company. In this way, after going to another industry and another company, it is completely unsuitable.

Therefore, in today's fast-paced society, when young people choose jobs, they should carefully consider the openness of the industries and jobs they enter and the room for career growth. This is also a bloody lesson that the author has been engaged in outbound tourism for many years and was envied by many people as soon as he graduated.