Autumn job-hopping manual for financial elites: Is it always fun to keep changing jobs?

There are two golden recruitment periods in a year, one is the past "Golden Three and Silver Four" and the other is the upcoming "Golden Nine and Silver Ten". For financial elites, a new employer selection cycle is about to begin.

A friend in the financial circle works in a securities company. The company is neither big nor small, the position is neither high nor low. The salary he earns is not enough to buy a house, but he cannot live hungry. An annual salary of 150,000 yuan is a decent figure.

The annual salary increase of less than 10% seems just right--it will neither make people ecstatic nor disappointed. There is one function, and that is to maintain this regularity.

But the idea of ??job-hopping often crosses my friends’ minds. Every year, there are several people who quit the company. They either go to foreign investment banks, domestic fund companies, or emerging Internet finance companies. Companies, some have changed careers. This information can always get into the ears of friends through various gaps, and the idea of ????changing jobs is stimulated more and more intensely.

1. Why should you change jobs?

Before deciding to change jobs, you must first ask yourself, why do you want to change jobs?

Is it for the purpose of having more development opportunities?

Is it to pursue better salary and benefits?

Is it to invest in a new industry field?

Is it to have a larger platform for improvement?

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If you are changing jobs just to be angry for a while, I advise you to calm down. After all, there is no company that you can have the final say.

If job-hopping is a carefully considered decision, then in principle, as long as it meets one of your requirements, other aspects will not be reduced or remain unchanged.

In addition, when considering whether to change jobs, there are indeed some far-reaching soft factors that are easily overlooked by us.

These factors are related to the smoothness and happiness of your future career development. After all, every work experience will leave a mark on your resume.

Many people change jobs because they value the salary and position of that job. But life is a marathon with no end. Every time we change the track, it should be to run farther, faster and more steadily, not to make the track shorter.

2. How long does it take to change jobs?

Some people believe that if you really don’t like your job, you should leave. It's your life, you just have to live by your own rules, other people's rules have nothing to do with you.

However, if a person changes three jobs within four years, this will arouse the vigilance of the CEO or HR. Either you like the new and dislike the old too easily and cannot persevere, or you are fired because of poor performance, or because you are not loyal enough and are ready to change jobs at any time, etc. This will cause great damage to the company's team culture and productivity. This cannot be tolerated by any business, especially small businesses.

At present, the fact of the industry is that most young people may work for more than a year, and some even want to change jobs after less than a year.

Actually, if you calm down and think about it, what can you learn in one year? Those who do equity in investment banks may not be able to complete a complete project, and those who do debt may not be able to complete one project. , and there may not be any project bonuses.

In such a short period of time, all you can see is what is floating on the surface, which is useless!

Young people may be unhappy in their original workplace, do not want to wrong themselves, and imagine that they will have a better life in their new workplace, so they frequently change jobs. As everyone knows, jumping around like this will lead to: It’s fun to change jobs for a while, and it’s always fun to keep changing jobs, but it’s not fun for you, but it’s the headhunter who earns head fees.

According to common sense, when a person enters a new working environment, the first year is often a "soy sauce" familiarization process; only in the second year can he slowly enter the role and truly integrate into the corporate culture; After the accumulation in the first two years, results are really achieved in the third year. Of course, this is also a critical period for job and salary improvements.

Therefore, it is recommended that young people work steadily for three or four years before thinking about changing jobs.

3. How much salary increase is reasonable?

The financial industry is different from other industries. Its salary structure is based on a base salary and high commission. Therefore, when changing jobs, those experienced practitioners are more concerned about the company's commission distribution method, and The reliability and stability of this distribution method.

As for the basic salary, there is actually very little room for negotiation. On the one hand, large financial institutions will have their own salary standards. Your years of employment and work experience, especially the number of years of employment, will correspond to a basic salary range. .

As for small and medium-sized financial institutions, although there is no fixed standard, they will be set according to your KPI. In the end, the wool will come from the sheep, and if you are too obsessed with the basic salary, the company may feel that you are not right. Lack of confidence in completing future tasks.

So, there is nothing reasonable or unreasonable about the issue of "salary increase". It mainly depends on what type of company you are talking to.

4. What is the career direction of job-hopping?

First of all, make it clear that whoever contributes more income to the company will be valued for that position. Don't listen to what some people say about potential jobs. The financial industry is very realistic.

When financial industry practitioners change career paths (such as brokerage, private equity, trust, etc.), how should they adjust their direction?

Priority will be given to new occupations or new positions that match the original occupation or position.

The financial industry has its own particularities. Different subdivisions are quite different from each other. For example, if you are a primary investment banker and a secondary seller, switching between each other will require a long transition period to adapt. However, if you work in a first-tier investment bank and change positions within the first-tier scope, you can easily adapt to the new environment, and your past accumulation may be put to use, both professionally and with clients.

Similarly, practitioners in the secondary market also recommend giving priority to track conversion in the secondary market.

As for those friends who think that the industry environment they are engaged in is not good and are thinking of switching to other industries, first consider whether it is the financial environment or your own reasons. Even if it is due to the financial environment, as long as you stay in the financial industry, you will be affected by the environment, so it is better to aim at one place and persist in accumulating yourself, so that you can survive the winter more easily.

5. Job-hopping is a technical job and needs to be treated rationally

Job-hopping is a technical job. It's not just two words spoken at the moment of opening one's mouth, nor is it just a simple turn around on impulse. The connection between before and after job-hopping is a serialization process. For example, job-hopping plans, predictions, self-evaluations, job recognition, headhunting, interview preparation, salary negotiations, resignation procedures, career planning, career path growth

In actual work, we can start from The four dimensions of fun, learning influence, and rewards are considered.

1. Fun

Happiness is the most important thing in life! Doing what you like is happy and relaxing, especially in a long career. in this way.

With the development of society, social division of labor has become more professional and refined. Work, from another level, is an effective way for each of us to realize our self-worth.

If your current job always makes you unmotivated, without any sense of satisfaction or excitement, then you really need to consider changing jobs.

2. Learning ability and influence

The most basic need for work is of course to solve the problem of food and clothing. But when this need is met, promotion and salary increase become the normal pursuit of every working person.

However, things often backfired, and I spent year after year on a dead salary with no hope of promotion.

At this time, you need to carefully consider your career plan, which can be roughly divided into two stages:

The vertical axis development period focuses on improving learning ability. Refers to the first few years in the workplace.

At this time, you have to compare yourself with yourself, improve yourself, increase your work ability, and strive to take the lead in the industry.

The horizontal axis development period focuses on improving influence. This stage is generally for people in the workplace who have worked for more than 5 years. At this time, your work ability has reached a certain level and you have certain qualifications in the industry. You can start to develop horizontally and compare with others.

If you are in the vertical development period, you might as well persist, persist, and persist, focusing on tempering yourself.

If you are in the horizontal development stage, your upward path is single, you have reached the ceiling, and it is difficult to get promoted, then you can carefully consider job-hopping.

3. Rewards

The rewards mentioned here refer to the added value in the workplace in addition to salary, which mainly include the following aspects:

Having a broad vision and broad vision A well-structured corporate culture can expand one's cognitive boundaries;

A working atmosphere with great people, and excellent mentors as one's guides;

High-quality network, you can Significantly improve your own structure and so on.

Therefore, in the evaluation of career value, in addition to considering money, the reward dimension should also focus more on the added value of the workplace.

Another important reality is that if you want to change jobs, others must be willing to hire you!

In addition to your academic qualifications, experience, personal abilities and other factors, a CFA certificate is also a very important bonus, and this seems to have become an "unspoken rule" in the financial circle.

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