Why choose your first job carefully?

Why choose your first job carefully? Don't judge the quality of your first job easily according to your hobbies. Once you work hard and have fun, a job that you are not interested in may be very suitable for you. Let's see why we should be cautious in choosing our first job.

Why did you choose your first job carefully? 1 Enter August. Most of the fresh graduates have been working, and some may have been working for a month or two. With the transformation of fresh graduates to newcomers in the workplace, the problems they face also follow.

Some people may choose "flash jump" at the beginning of their careers because "reality and ideal are too far away". The survey shows that most newcomers' "flash jump" occurs within two years after joining the company. During this period, freshness and confusion coexist, and curiosity and excitement coexist. When there is a gap between the job at hand and the original career expectation, going and staying is just a matter of thought.

"Should I change my job?"

Since the decision to come to Guangzhou, the life of 20 13 college graduate Chen Ran (a pseudonym) has become dramatic. Chen Ran graduated from an ordinary university in the Mainland and found a good internship unit in Guangzhou in his senior year. Later, she came across a good job opportunity. In May and June, when others were still busy filming "graduation photo", she had already put herself into work. Work is easy, it's all uploaded. It is not difficult to write occasionally and arrange a venue. Although the salary of 3000 yuan is a bit low, it is already a very "high-profile" job compared with her school, and the future is bright. Wages may double in a few years.

But this "beautiful job" is "idle job" in Chen Ran's eyes. Because the company is a semi-public and semi-private enterprise, everyone is old and there is a young supervisor in the department, but I also heard that I will resign recently. The supervisor told her a lot of "no" in the company, and she wavered: "Should I change my job?"

Chen Ran submitted his resume privately and got an interview. There is even a company that is very eager to give her an internship. Just asking, the so-called "heart water" is just a matter of course. Reality is far from ideal. Now, Chen Ran has resisted the desire to change jobs and decided to work hard for a while.

"Applicability takes time to test"

Some newcomers who have just entered the workplace lose their freshness after working for a few days, and then they have the idea of "starting over". In fact, it takes time to review whether the quality of your first job is suitable for you. Please give the company some time and give yourself some time.

It is easy for newcomers to make two mistakes in judging the quality of their first job. The first is to compare my previous internship experience and think that if I do well during the internship, the first similar job will be done well, and if I don't do well during the internship, the first similar job will not be done well. In fact, this judgment is sometimes "nine Niu Yi hairs, a thousand miles away."

The second is to easily judge the quality of your first job according to your hobbies. For newcomers in the workplace, jobs that they are not interested in are sometimes misunderstood because they don't understand. Once you get into the job and have fun, the job you were not interested in may be very suitable for you.

Mr. Chen, who has worked for many years, still has deep feelings when reviewing his choices when he graduated. At that time, he applied for a media, and took the initiative to apply for "entertainment records", because the teacher he followed during his internship was running entertainment, interviewed many stars and had some star resources. At that time, this choice seemed correct, but now looking back is extremely wrong, because Mr. Chen understands that there is no entertainment spirit in his bones. Fortunately, he didn't enter the business at that time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

Job-hopping intention is the highest in the second year of employment

The first two years after the newcomers started working were an uneasy period. According to the survey results of employment and salary trends of enterprises recently released by CIIC Salary, among more than 300 Shanghai enterprises that participated in the survey, 20% of the newcomers left their jobs within two years, of which 14. 1% voluntarily offered to leave their jobs, and 6. 1% was dismissed.

Especially in the second year of employment, newcomers have the highest intention to change jobs. According to institutional research, more than half of the newcomers who jumped ship in the previous two years have more than three work experiences. In other words, once a newcomer changes jobs, there is a great possibility of frequent "flash jumps".

What kind of newcomers will jump ship? First of all, the first job doesn't match the career expectation, that is, the reality is too different from the ideal. According to the data of the third-party survey agency Michaels, 44% of the college graduates in the 20th/Kloc-0th/2nd class think that their current jobs meet their career expectations, including 47% of undergraduates and 40% of higher vocational students. According to the survey, among the 56% graduates in the 20th12nd class, 35% think that their jobs do not match their career expectations, 22% think that they do not match their career development plans, and 22% think that they do not match their hobbies.

Secondly, the first job has nothing to do with the major, which is also the reason why many newcomers in the workplace quit. Among the 20 13 graduates surveyed, the correlation between the work and specialty of master graduates is 85%, that of undergraduate graduates is 73%, and that of higher vocational graduates is 67%. Among the graduates who signed contracts in 20 13 years, the average monthly salary of graduates with major-related jobs is 4,743 yuan, which is 59 1 yuan higher than that of graduates without major-related jobs (4 152 yuan). The average monthly salary of undergraduate graduates with major-related work is 3090 yuan, which is 3 14 yuan higher than that of graduates without major-related work (2776 yuan). The average monthly salary of vocational college graduates whose major is related is 2563 yuan, which is slightly higher than that of graduates whose major is not related (2452 yuan).

Newcomers in the workplace after the "flash jump" are more troubled.

Although everyone's first job is different, the form of flash jump is mostly the same. Some people classify and summarize the job-hopping phenomenon of newcomers in the post-90s workplace into three categories, namely "leaving without saying anything", "naked resignation, caught in a strange circle of trial and error" and "constantly asking for leave, but in fact, it is a hidden job-hopping". In fact, "flash jump" is not a shortcut to solve the career development of newcomers. Sometimes, it's more troublesome after the "flash jump". The 20 12 graduate of Sun Yat-sen University once published a thought-provoking article on a job website, in which she told about her resignation after working in the first company for seven months. Because I lost my status as a fresh graduate and lacked enough social work experience, I ran into a wall everywhere in campus recruitment and was repeatedly despised, which was quite "hard".

Based on her own experience, she advises college graduates to choose their first job carefully and not to resign easily, otherwise you will not only waste your energy and precious opportunities to accumulate work experience, but also be a non-fresh graduate and you will run into a wall when choosing a new job. She hopes that the students who are looking for a job now can recognize their own direction, find their first job with confidence and perseverance and stick to it. In short, her lesson is: don't change careers easily and resign in a short time.

Why choose your first job carefully? 2. Kill a chicken with a knife.

Dr. Wu Jun, who has worked in Google and Tencent for many years and recruited many well-paid employees, revealed to us Google's recruitment philosophy in his new book Insight: for very important positions, Google will offer a salary twice the market price, so that the company can select the best people, not the best people among several companies, so that the best and most dedicated people can be used quickly. Facts have proved that by employing the best elites in this way, they can create miracles that ordinary people can't.

More than ten years ago, Wu Jun wanted to do machine translation in Google. He found that if he studied this new problem from the beginning, I'm afraid that Google has no advantage and may never surpass companies such as IBM. What shall we do? He asked himself, who is the best at doing this in the world? The answer is also clear. This person is Dr. FranzOch, who was teaching at the University of Southern California at that time. The next thing is simple. He found Dr. Oak and gave him a salary package (referring to the sum of salary, bonus, welfare, stock, etc. ) much higher than his expectations, and promised that he would be the person in charge after coming to Google. Everyone reports to him. In order to further satisfy him, he even told him that he must report it on the day when the company submitted the listing application report, because the stock price was very low at that time, and then allowed him to take a long vacation and go back to college.

This gave Dr. Oko enough confidence to give up teaching and join Google, which had only a few thousand people at that time. Many of Google's projects to change the world were completed in this way. So the secret of Google's success in engineering is actually a word, "kill the chicken with a cow knife." Today, companies such as Alibaba are also learning from Google.

Not everyone is an auction.

The first-class talents are auctioned, but the differences between people are often orders of magnitude. Not everyone is an auction, although there is a big difference between using a first-class person and a third-rate person for key positions. But this kind of key position is rare for a company, and the first-class talents in society only account for a small part. Therefore, for most employees, especially young people who have just entered the society, they can only make an ordinary commodity first.

In this case, the company will not give these people any treatment higher than the market price, and sometimes the treatment may be lower than that of competitors. Some people may say, "Aren't you a bully?" Not really! Because a company does not offer higher salary, but it will give young people more room for growth. Those who are really interested should pay more attention to the latter. At this point, we will return to the theme-young people, don't care too much about the salary of your first job.

Few people get rich on the salary of their first job. If you can recognize this reality, you can realize that it is meaningless to pay 20% more for your first job, because you spent as much as you earned at that stage. Give a simple example and you will understand:

My best friend graduated from a famous university in Beijing and went to a very good company with an annual salary of 300 thousand. It is estimated that most people will agree that this is a high salary, but if anyone wants to use this salary to save money to buy a decent house in a good school district in Beijing, there is no way.

He calculated an account for me carefully. Although the annual salary of 300,000 seems a lot, 1/5 is gone after tax and social security expenses are deducted. Renting a house for dinner, I'm afraid it will cost1/5 again; Make a girlfriend, buy her some gifts, and go out to play with two people, and remove1/5; Honor your parents on holidays, and spend 10% if you have a little hobby. Well, if you can save 40 thousand to 50 thousand a year, you are already a living person ...

I gave him a hypothesis. If another company is willing to give him an extra 50 thousand yuan a year (the difference between different companies in the same industry can only be so small), will he save all his after-tax income?

He made it clear that I'm afraid not. In this case, he just upgraded the Xiaomi mobile phone originally given to his girlfriend to an Apple mobile phone. He originally bought her Maybelline cosmetics, but now he has upgraded to Lancome or Shiseido, and spent an extra 20,000 yuan to rent a house every year, that's all. Even if you are very self-disciplined, you can save 70,000 to 80,000 yuan a year if you save more than one year, which is the price of a square meter house next to the Fifth Ring Road in Beijing. The rising rate of house prices exceeds the rising rate of wages.

Therefore, this little arrogant child who studied hard in the 16 cold window, graduated from a prestigious school, and has a high opinion of himself, expects this job and can't afford to buy a house for life. That is the reality. What shall we do? A person's first job is very important. It will definitely help you earn three to five times the income of your peers or classmates in 10 years, so that you can afford to buy a house in Beijing. The first job must enable you to grow up quickly, develop good professional habits, and get to know the whole industry in the shortest time. You also need to grow as actively as possible through the first job.

The important thing in life is to really go up the stairs.

If he is lucky and hard-working, he may become the person that the company is willing to pay twice the price. People who make a fortune through official career are all in this category. If these people start a business in the future, their chances of success are much higher than others.

Of course, many people will say that these companies and universities you mentioned are beyond my dreams. What should I do? This is just a well-known example. Everyone has their own starting point. Compared with yourself and people with the same conditions, it is very important to really reach a higher level every few years.

On the other hand, if the first job seems to earn a little more money, but he didn't learn anything and didn't have a chance, then he may find himself standing still after 10. Many people who have graduated from Peking University in Tsinghua and wandered around outside find that their level is not much higher than that of recent graduates, and they have also developed a bunch of bad habits. Such people usually choose a company that can pay 20% more at first. The first few steps in life, even if you earn more money, are not necessarily good things, not to mention once you form bad habits in your first job, it will affect your life development.

You may also have a question, what if everyone squeezes into a very good company with lower income? You really don't have to worry about this. Through years of observation, Wu Jun found that no matter in China or the United States, there are always more people who care about 20% salary than those who pay attention to their own growth, thus leaving opportunities for ambitious people.