Why is it becoming more and more difficult to find a job during the epidemic? If the epidemic continues, how will the employment situation change?

It is indeed getting harder and harder to find a job.

Industries that require direct contact, such as catering, hotels, tourism, etc., are affected every three days. The entire industry is in recession and demand is naturally low.

In the construction industry, real estate dividends have disappeared. Many real estate-related jobs are difficult to do, and it is even harder to find a job.

Biological and environmental materials are traditionally a difficult field to find a job in.

Finance is also hard to find.

The Internet is originally the best way to find a job. The Internet should be the number one industry that solves employment problems (white-collar workers). Due to the epidemic and the general environment, large factories will also lay off employees.

This is the reality.

If you want to find a better job in this environment, you can only go all out and prepare early.

I wrote an article about whether the Internet can still be used, and I will post it here:

Whether you are already an employee of a certain factory, or you are planning to find a job in the Internet industry Young people must have been exposed to all kinds of negative information in recent times.

In the capital market, many Chinese Internet concept stocks have fallen back to "pre-liberation" in the past six months or so. Under the tightening of supervision and compliance policies, most of the "upstarts" dare not rush forward. After going public, many giants have even begun to "cut off their tails" and actively reduce their holdings of shares in other companies they control.

The labor market has been even more lively recently. This year, there are no hot searches for year-end bonuses from major companies, but there are a lot of news about layoffs. For example, news recently circulated on the Internet that a department with several thousand people in a large factory had laid off many people, and the ratio even reached 30%. However, this news has not been confirmed, so the company name is not listed here.

This article will talk to you about the news about layoffs. As an ordinary migrant worker, you should understand the status quo and trends of industry development in the post-epidemic environment and the inside story of layoffs in large factories, and share it with everyone. Something practical and relevant to career development.

1. Recognition and disrecognition in the general environment

The first thing to say is that in the face of the overall environment, no matter what industry, we must first say two words: "Recognize ”.

In the past, we have been accustomed to rapid growth, and even thought that it would continue to grow for granted. However, we did not know that on a global scale, especially in the post-epidemic era, compared with other countries, China’s economic growth rate in the past few years It's already amazing.

But these are all cyclical. The macroeconomy and even the Internet industry as a whole cannot maintain rapid growth all the time, and there will definitely be fluctuations. "Recognize" is to calm down and face this changing world rationally. But there must also be "disrecognition" of one's own situation.

“This is the best of times and the worst of times.” Young people in every era will encounter special problems in their specific background. We cannot control the development of the times, but we can The only one who changes is yourself.

Under the general environment, we will still have our own opportunities.

“Take a trip to the world and look at the sun.” Anyway, we have come here. In this big environment and background, why not take a closer look and find some small trends and small opportunities to let yourself toss again. one time.

Just like practitioners in the field of K12 education and training, when the entire industry situation changed last year, some people decided to change careers. This is actually the wisest choice. If you become anxious and miss various opportunities because others say it is a cold winter or the environment is bad, you will have to pay the final consequences, while others are just talking about it and are still working hard secretly.

Many people like to create anxiety because it makes it more topical. This article hopes to tell everyone the real situation and let everyone understand that the entire environment is not easy. Pure anxiety makes no sense. After all, for most ordinary people, no matter which direction we are engaged in or where we are, we always have to work.

No matter what kind of environment, we need to face it ourselves and work hard to find our own opportunities. For example, a classmate from Zhiqun worked in architecture for six years, then changed his profession to become a product manager, and is currently working on building informatization.

This does not mean that the construction industry has no opportunities at all. In the midst of changes, there will be opportunities wherever the efficiency of the industry can be improved. And if you are still doing what you were doing twenty years ago, then be careful.

You may become a "cost" in industry changes.

2. Why do major Internet companies lay off employees?

The era when big companies relied on war to support war has passed. Expansion-retrenchment is a common pattern.

First, let’s talk about the current stage of the big manufacturers. I still remember when the mobile Internet wave was in its ascendant, many companies would create a grand vision to subvert the industry and change the world.

However, major manufacturers have gone through an era of burning money and grabbing traffic with competing companies. Each giant is defending its own position. Everyone is facing the problem of slowing down the increase in traffic. At this time, it is good to be stable. It is no longer necessary to "fight to support war."

Think about this question by analogy: In an era when heroes competed in the Central Plains, how many soldiers should the emperor raise? When the world's interests have been determined and it is time to safely defend the land and recuperate, how many soldiers should the emperor raise? History tells us that once the momentum of the world stabilizes and the land in all directions is owned, the next core thing for the emperor to do is to prepare for generations to lie down and collect rent, and the right hand is to disarm and reduce vassal towns.

Corresponding to the current layoffs, it is also logical - large factories do not have so much new business and new growth. Some project departments of many leading companies even have a small number of formal employees + some interns + a large number of outsourcers to form a team to complete the task.

Let’s talk about the company’s internal expansion and contraction model. At the beginning of the year, major manufacturers have to make plans, and they will continue to try new directions in order to grow their business and strengthen their core business, so in the first half of the year you will see them frantically recruiting people and expanding their teams.

At the end of the year in the second half of the year, they will take a look at the output of the previous year's business expansion. If many businesses are too inefficient or even unnecessary, then they will start to control manpower. , began to tighten business.

Such expansion-deflation is an objective law within the company. It is almost difficult for any company to predict every wave of changes with extreme accuracy. It is all about crazy testing, trying to expand, and then closing in later. , and then try again.

In this process, marginal businesses and businesses with unclear development are naturally "optimized". This is why even in companies that are laying off employees or tightening recruitment, some departments are still working hard to recruit people. Some companies should not have so many people in the first place. There are too many people, human efficiency is reduced, and business progress is not enough.

Many people and low efficiency are acceptable at certain stages, euphemistically called development costs. For example, in the so-called "wind outlets" in the capital market, various capitals will rush to invest people and money here.

But at a certain stage, even if you have money and capital, you will be cautious, and the company will tend to be conservative. The next step is to reduce personnel, reduce costs, and ensure that the company is risk-free.

3. Will the Internet still have industry dividends?

Looking at the macro trends, informatization and digitalization are still the development directions of the future industry.

If you put your career choice on the highway of further digitalization and informatization of the entire society, then the entire electronic information technology industry, including the Internet industry in a narrow sense, is still full of opportunities and significance.

Look around you again. As long as there are still many people using mobile phones and various smart devices (such as smart cars, etc.) in the future, and using some tools and methods of the Internet to solve problems in various industries, the world will be Still not perfect, there is still a chance.

If we say that ten years ago in the golden age, the Internet grew 10 times, then in the silver age it grew 3 times, and in the iron age, it might only have grown 1.5 times, or even 1.1 times, or 1.01 times. .

But what does this 1.1-fold, 1.01-fold growth mean? This means it is much better than many industries.

As long as it is still growing, it has actually outperformed many industries.

Many industries are not growing at all, and are even shrinking. In other words, even the part that is growing is still in the field and stage that is combined with digitalization, informatization, and the Internet.

This is what was often called "Internet +" in the past. The development of the Internet industry has now greatly exceeded this scope. We should no longer talk about so-called "pure Internet companies" today. The Internet is increasingly becoming infrastructure and a tool to improve efficiency, or thinking patterns and methods, permeating all walks of life.

The term "Internet" is also one-sided. Digitalization, informatization, and Internetization must be major trends in various industries.

So if we really talk about the dividends of the Internet, we should consider the various new opportunities that have emerged in various industries after integrating with the Internet. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the Internet has visibly accelerated its generalization in various industries, and many new opportunities have arisen in this process of change.

On the whole, if a person can seize the opportunity and look for the 1.1 times and 1.01 times dividends combined with the Internet in various industries, there is a high probability that he can achieve rapid growth in his career development.