I'm 35 years old, and I've submitted a lot of resumes, but no company wants them. How to break the workplace watershed?

0 135 years old has become a hurdle in the workplace. Last Sunday, I invited my friend Wang Han to dinner. The first thing he said when he saw me was: Why is it so difficult to find a job now?

Wang Han is 35 years old. He was dismissed from the company for three months. In order to find his next job, he submitted more than 200 resumes, all of which were rejected because he was 35 years old.

He said to me innocently: What happened at the age of 35? 35-year-old people also have to work to earn money to eat!

I understand his frustration. However, 35-year-old professionals have to face the "35-year-old phenomenon". When you re-enter, it becomes a hurdle in the workplace.

What is the phenomenon of 35 years old?

The "35-year-old phenomenon" means that many enterprises limit the threshold for recruiting people to 35 years old, and 35 years old has become the "life and death line" for people in the workplace.

I see. No wonder my friend can't find a job. But the question is, at this age, why 35?

Why is there a "35-year-old phenomenon"? If it is an individual enterprise, due to special reasons, it may be limited by the particularity of the industry and occupation if it does not recruit people over 35 years old. That's understandable.

But now many enterprises don't recruit people over the age of 35, which has become a "35-year-old phenomenon". There must be a reason!

In my opinion, there are two reasons:

The survival and development of enterprises themselves require employees to have the ability to work in the workplace. We will explain these two reasons in detail.

First of all, to meet the needs of enterprises' own survival and development, from the perspective of enterprises, every company has to face how to survive and develop in the fierce market competition and choose what kind of people to hire.

Management guru Peter? Drucker said: "The primary responsibility of enterprises is to live."

People are the most important factor for an enterprise to survive and live well. Only by using the right people can the company continue to develop.

35-year-old people are generally married, with old and young, and life pressure is great. It is a heavy economic burden to pay off the mortgage and the children's schooling every month. At this time, physical strength and energy are not as good as before, and the body begins to decline.

This leads to the contradiction between enterprises and employees: companies need employees to work overtime and devote themselves wholeheartedly to hard work, but people over 35 will feel overwhelmed, which is really beyond their power. People in this age group have more and more places to spend money in their lives and need higher and higher income.

This situation is very common, as can be seen from the following example.

In the first program of "You Are Me" on Tianjin Satellite TV, a 35-year-old candidate suggested that if he worked in Beijing, his salary would be 1000 yuan.

The hiring manager says you are incompetent and not worth the money!

The applicant replied, I need 10 thousand yuan, because I want to rent a house in Beijing and other living expenses.

The hiring manager said that this is your personal demand and cannot be the cost of the enterprise. The enterprise will give you a fee according to your ability.

Finally, the 35-year-old candidate was turned away by the boss, and no company was willing to recruit him.

The pressure of enterprise's survival and development makes it willing to recruit younger and more capable employees, and there is also a "35-year-old phenomenon".

There is something wrong with employees' ability to work in the workplace. Some employees lack initiative from the beginning. They just want to get by without making mistakes, but after years of work, they are still standing still, repeating their work and not forming their own skills.

There are also some employees who always change jobs frequently. I worked in this company for a few months, then jumped to that company for a few months, always wandering in the workplace and getting old. They can't find their own recognized enterprises, and they have never been recognized by various enterprises, and finally they are eliminated by enterprises.

Such employees, after entering the age of 35, will have a "35-year-old phenomenon" and face the workplace crisis helplessly.

At the beginning of the article, my friend Wang Han is an enterprising and muddled worker. As a result, when the company recruited a capable and responsible young man, he was fired.

The working status of employees in the workplace directly determines their performance and contribution to the company. If individuals don't work hard to grow up and can't create good performance for the company, it is easy to have a "35-year-old phenomenon".

This phenomenon is really heartbreaking, but it is not insoluble. Let's talk about the solution to the "35-year-old phenomenon".

Solve the "35-year-old phenomenon" with two curves and solve the workplace crisis. In this world, as long as there is a spear, there will be a shield. Since there is a "35-year-old phenomenon", there must be a solution to this problem. Although the problem of "35-year-old phenomenon" appears on the surface at the age of 35, its essence is not only caused by 35 years old.

"The Analects of Confucius Wei Linggong": "Confucius said,' If a man has no long-term worries, he will have near worries. " "

Logically, what Confucius said is that people are worried recently because they haven't thought for a long time before.

The emergence of the "35-year-old phenomenon" is actually the truth! Only by preventing the "35-year-old phenomenon" in the early stage can we effectively avoid the "35-year-old phenomenon".

1. Create a personal brand in the workplace, form your own professional barriers, and raise the first curve in the workplace.

The "35-year-old phenomenon" means that at the age of 35, you are worthless and anyone can replace you. When a person with lower salary, younger age and not bad ability appears, it means that you will leave your present job.

If it comes to this, don't blame anyone, blame yourself for not working hard in the past.

However, if you have a personal brand and your own expertise in the workplace, you will form certain professional barriers. This professional barrier is some professional skills you have alone, which makes you irreplaceable. Then you are valuable, and you will be the most needed talent in the company, because your ability will create value for the company. This is your first curve in the workplace. This curve should be beautiful and wonderful. Even if you are 35 years old, the "35-year-old phenomenon" has nothing to do with you, and your future and "money path" will be bright.

So how to build a personal brand at work, establish your own professional barriers, and wonderfully raise your first curve in the workplace?

First, establish the ability to match the age

If you start working after graduating from college at the age of 22, you will have 13 years by the age of 35. There are many professionals who have worked for 3-5 years, and their abilities are basically not much different from those who have worked for one year. Such employees should be alert to themselves. The "35-year-old phenomenon" will get closer and closer to you, just like a "time bomb", only the length of time is left.

As a person in the workplace, do you have to examine your current age every year and whether it matches your actual work ability? You can benchmark the outstanding employees of the same age in the benchmark company, look up to them, find out your current gap and the direction of efforts, participate in various studies and trainings, learn various skills by yourself, improve yourself purposefully, and match your age with your excellent ability, so that you will miss the "35-year-old phenomenon".

Lu Xun said: learning must be like a bee, picking many flowers to make honey.

Nowadays, many young people are taking part in various vocational skills classes in their spare time, in order to make their abilities stronger and stronger, make themselves irreplaceable at work, and prevent their abilities from losing to their peers, even surpassing their peers and becoming the learning objects of others.

B, find a good field to form professional barriers

If you want to establish your own personal brand in the workplace, you must find your own work field as soon as possible, intensively cultivate it, and then establish your own professional barriers.

Kenichi Ohmae, the "father of Japanese strategy", said professionally:

"What makes you win? Forging the core competitiveness that others cannot surpass? Your only dependence is professionalism. "

The major he said is a professional barrier formed by people in his field, just like Xiao Wang of our company.

Xiao Wang of our company's planning department won the praise of leaders and colleagues. He has been working in the planning department since he graduated from college. He likes and is good at this job, and he is fascinated by it. Usually he deeply studies the development strategy of our company and compares the best companies in the industry according to the future development direction of the company. How to carry out planning work? He absorbed the essence into his brain.

He gave up the rest day every month and devoted himself to the planning of the company. He worked overtime day and night, followed the development strategy of the general manager and put forward many unique and valuable ideas, which were adopted by the company. This effort is really touching. Everyone praises Xiao Wang as a man of doing things!

Xiao Wang, 29, has become one of the best employees in our company. His planning ideas have created outstanding achievements for the company, and attracted many colleagues to dig this outstanding young man, all of which were rejected by him. Xiao Wang's income has reached 20 thousand yuan a month, and he has successfully raised his first curve in the workplace.

2. Adopt the "second curve" theory to keep yourself on the "uphill road"

Friends who have seen Water Margin should know that Shi Naian said in Chapter 22 of Water Margin:

People are not as good as the sky, and flowers are not as good as the sky.

This sentence is also very suitable for professionals.

If a person only engages in one occupation all his life, then his career must be like this: his career development must go through four stages, namely "infancy, growth, maturity and decline". When he goes through maturity, he will enter recession, which is the law of development and no one can resist it.

To tell the truth, everyone hopes that his career will always be in full swing and will not go downhill. So what should we do? Charles Handy, a British management guru, put forward the "second curve" theory.

What is the "second curve" theory?

In other words, it must start before the peak of the first curve comes. Only in this way can we have enough resources to make up for the previous investment.

Zhang Ruimin of Haier Group said: Before the existing growth curve falls, we must create a new growth curve. Before reaching the peak, you should think that this road may go downhill, so you should take another road.

For professionals, adopting the "second curve" theory to develop themselves is an effective way to achieve a brilliant life.

From this point, we can see that the "second curve" theory can not only solve our "35-year-old phenomenon", but also solve our lifelong career development problem.

However, we must also clearly realize that it is not easy for a person to succeed in the "first curve" work in the workplace. If he can't find the starting point of his "second curve" and blindly starts a sideline and adds diagonal lines, he may turn his inner desire into a "Manchu banquet" in his career and a "mala Tang" in a street stall. Because his energy is scattered, he becomes a man who does everything.

Therefore, we need to find the starting point and open our "second curve" through the following four steps.

Step 1: Analyze your satisfaction with the "first curve" work in the workplace and evaluate your Excellence. If the satisfaction is high, you are already excellent, then go to the next step.

Step 2: Observe whether your current "first curve" is about to reach its peak. If there is still some distance from the top, this is not the starting point of your "second curve". If the answer is yes, let's go to the third step.

Step 3: Do you have enough time, money, energy and other resources to invest in the upcoming second curve? If you have money, time and energy, you can start the second curve.

Step 4: Make all kinds of plans in advance, especially when the second curve you started has an unexpected situation, which leads to unsatisfactory development. What adjustments will you make? Only by planning in advance can we cope with all kinds of changes and reduce all kinds of risks.

When the conditions are ripe, we can integrate all resources and start a new career of the second curve on the basis of winning the first curve.

When the second curve is successful, we can also open the third and fourth curves to keep our career on the uphill road.