Mastering transferability is what the real world needs

Read the second part of the preface to "Capability Transfer"

First, real examples of capability transfer:

1) Those majoring in international relations can Be a project manager.

Because they understand the cultures of different countries and can deal with people from various cultural backgrounds.

As project managers, if they have transferable skills and interdisciplinary insights, they will be able to better handle interpersonal relationships, coordinate a good team, and get help from the outside world.

2) Those who majored in sociology can consider the audience’s perspective and promote new businesses.

He has the ability to do field research. When he goes to Asian countries, he can quickly master the local language and communicate freely with the locals.

Help companies that want to enter the local area to conduct business, conduct business negotiations, and promote cooperation.

He understood both local and Western culture, did a good job, and quickly became famous.

Later, a well-known foreign company invited him to promote blockchain-related businesses.

He can understand blockchain in a short period of time and clearly explain to laypeople what blockchain is.

He can explain both concepts and techniques clearly. What he talks about takes into account the audience's perspective.

Being able to do a good job because he fully understands his audience and is sensitive to the context of the conversation.

3) Philosopher in the investment community.

a) Nassim Taleb, the author of "Black Swan" and "Antifragile", is an options trader who can make money and write good books, and is regarded as a philosopher.

b) Financial tycoon Soros is a disciple of philosopher Karl Popper, but because he plays too much in finance, people still regard him as a trader.

4) Many people who work in finance are majoring in philosophy.

This includes: business founders, executives, and ordinary financial practitioners. Philosophy students will feel familiar with working on Wall Street.

Carl Icahn, mentioned in the book, studied philosophy before.

He said that one of the wisdoms of philosophy is whether you can make your own judgment in a chaotic and unclear situation, and whether you can move forward in a contradictory situation.

His preferred business model is to acquire promising but underperforming companies and reorganize them.

He told the management how to reform, and then sold it after making improvements.

He is good at looking at a problem from different perspectives. He sticks to his own point of view while respecting the opinions of others.

5) Successful investors possess two seemingly contradictory qualities at the same time:

a) Have insight and believe that their investment can be successful;?

b) Have a spirit of exploration, be able to accept new information at any time, and have the courage to overturn your previous decisions. Persistence and change are contradictory, but this is the temperament of a philosopher.

Second, 10 years after graduation, you may find that the wages of people with transferable abilities are gradually increasing. People with transferable abilities will have more stamina.

Third, use ability transfer to gain opportunities

1) Study in a school near a large company. At universities near Apple, their students usually have a lot of contact with people from the company. They work as interns and hold technical seminars. It is easy for everyone to communicate, they all know each other, and there are more opportunities.

2) Be at the right place at the right time and meet the right people. To get an interview opportunity, you can ask university teachers for recommendations, attend conferences in your industry, and contact relevant companies. Find an intermediary and introduce him to this company. For example, those university alumni who have graduated many years ago and are now doing well in society.

3) Use the alumni network (connection or network). This is mainly about information exchange. When there is internal information, we will inform you or introduce it to someone.

The alumni network is an information network, and the opportunity network can operate effectively between people who are not very familiar with each other.

Modern society is a world of strangers. Everyone works together for the same interests. Opportunity networks should gradually become normalized and systematized.

Alumni networks, letters of recommendation, and "internal recommendations" from company employees are all institutionalized incentives to use "one's own people." This approach improves the efficiency of information exchange.

Fourth, use storytelling to create opportunities.

1) There are many opportunities for people who can tell stories. When a company recruits people, it is not entirely based on the hard indicators of big data;

In the end, there must be a way for both parties to talk about things other than specific work outside of regular communication.

This is the opportunity to tell a story. As long as you tell the story well. Even if you have no relevant work experience, I believe you can learn it quickly.

2) Anders summarized the storytelling routine, which is five talking points.

a) Adversity, you can emphasize what kind of failures you have experienced during the interview. But be careful, the emphasis should be on how to overcome these difficulties.

b) Persuasion, have you ever convinced others? Have you ever tried your best to make things go according to your ideas? All persuasion problems are essentially leadership problems, and all leadership problems are essentially persuasion problems.

c) Business, do you know how to use commonly used statistical tools like sociology and psychology. The company will care about whether you can use it, which will give you an intuitive understanding of your business capabilities.

d) Co-production, the company hopes to recruit someone who can work together. You should have some knowledge of the job you are applying for, which depends on your research skills.

e) Achievements, compared with others, do you have anything that stands out?

Fifth, use experience points to create opportunities.

1) Not all new positions are advertised by employers who first think about the people they need and then list various conditions.

Many of them are positions created temporarily by bosses who meet the right people.

Some statistics say that at least one-sixth of new jobs are not planned - even the boss did not expect that the company needed such a position in advance;

Instead, he met a suitable person. people, temporarily created positions.

2) Consciously gain experience points. For example:

a) Try more, experience failures, and enrich your life experience;

b) Interact with more people, practice communication and organizational skills;

c) Learn some techniques and master some practical tools;

d) Be good at doing research and understand what is happening in your field;

e) Find opportunities to gain skills Achievements that make you stand out.

3) If he can really do this, even if you know that he is deliberately "brushing" the experience points, can you say that he is not a talent?

People with transferable abilities are needed in the real world.

1) Find recommendations from people with similar alumni networks;

2) Learn to tell stories;

3) Gain more experience points