Reflections on personal career

Personal career thinking, for newcomers who just graduated, if you want to make a clear direction, you need to make a career plan for yourself, which can make you move forward more smoothly. The following is the thinking content about personal career, I hope it will help everyone!

Reflections on personal career 1 Work is not equal to career. Work is just a special position of a person in an organization. Maybe people are proud of it and work hard for it. But work does not necessarily provide a broad perspective on things, nor does it necessarily mean that someone has made progress because of this work. Occupation refers to the collection of work done by a person in his life and his attitude towards the work he is engaged in; Occupation includes a person's life in the working environment, which means psychological integration, so people with occupation will expand themselves beyond the requirements of a certain job.

Most occupations go through four stages, and each stage faces different problems and tasks.

The first stage: exploration and attempt. This stage generally occurs between 15-25 years old. For most people, after a period of intensive study, the problem of finding a job as an employee began to be taken seriously, and the first stage of their career began. This is a learning stage, including many firsts: the first interview, the first part-time job, the first full-time job and so on. This stage will also make people feel the challenges brought by work.

The second stage: the progressive stage. This stage takes place between the ages of 25 and 35. When people start their first real job, they will experience success, failure, promotion or transfer. At this stage, many people begin to measure and make their own career plans, and they begin to determine a special field in the hope of long-term success. At this stage, you will also face opportunities provided by other fields or other organizations.

The third stage: the middle of career. It happens between the ages of 35 and 50, and most people begin to face a turning point. There are three development directions at this stage: upward, downward and horizontal development. If it is upward development, individuals will be appreciated by the organization, promoted and take on greater responsibilities, which is the result of strengthening your skills and continuous learning. If it is horizontal development, individuals will be transferred instead of promoted, which may still be very safe, but there is no hope of promotion. At this time, individuals should consider changing careers. If it is downhill, then individuals are redundant, insecure and even frustrated in the organization. Individuals should try another company. Obviously, this stage is crucial. In today's business environment, it is difficult for companies to tolerate that there is no room for personal skills and career development, so it is very important to constantly improve themselves.

The fourth stage: the later stage of career. It happens between the age of 50 and retirement. For those who are on the rise in the previous stage, this stage means the peak of their career. His value lies in his judgment, his experience and his ability to share knowledge with others. They are the coaches of the next generation of managers.

The influence of the change of occupational environment on career.

In recent years, great changes have taken place in the professional environment, and the relationship between companies and employees has also changed. The era of lifelong employment has ended, and it has been replaced by "the ability to be employed for life". Companies and employees should share the responsibility, employers have the obligation to provide employees with opportunities for self-improvement, and employees must also grasp their own career.

With the rapid development of economy and industry, no company can know what it will be like in a year or a few years. In order to win competitiveness, measures such as layoffs, reorganization, business outsourcing, team formation and decentralization are changing the face of work and workshop, which also brings harm to employees' career. Process reengineering makes the original career path disappear, and middle managers lose the promotion channel. The company narrowed its business scope and outsourced non-core business. As a result, this work has become a contracting-subcontracting model, which is no longer vertical integration.

For professional managers, the information is clear, the rules have changed, they are looking for opportunities rather than guarantees, and planning their career achievements rather than positions. Occupation will be defined less and less by companies (for example, "I work at IBM") and more and more by specialization (for example, "I am a professional manager").

Here are seven rules on how to succeed in a changing environment, which also reflects the changes in the economic environment:

1, don't rely on convention, the road to success in the past may not be as successful as it is today.

2. Always pay attention to the influence of globalization, which is full of competition and opportunities. Success comes from quickness, decisiveness and flexibility.

3. Turn to small companies or private companies and stay away from those big companies and government agencies.

4. Not only management, but also leadership. Managers only respond to changes, and leaders can make changes.

5. Never stop making progress. Lifelong learning is indispensable for success.

6. Improve their own motivation, motivate employees to work hard and strive for the highest return.

7. Strong bargaining power, courage to take risks and look for opportunities.

The new rules triggered by these new environments make career planning and control particularly important.

The process of career planning

You are personally responsible for your career. It is not enough to work hard and do your job well. Only those who plan their career well have a chance of long-term success.

Career planning is a process from defining how to develop your desired career to making plans and implementing them. It links personal needs and skills with career goals, which is also a systematic and gradual process. The steps of career planning are as follows:

Self assessment. You need to collect all-round information such as your values, hobbies, skills and experience. (for example, what do you think is the most important, what makes you happy at work, and what kind of remuneration do you want most) Make clear your existing abilities and advantages. Today's requirements for a manager are: independence, flexibility, ability to lead a team, good at learning, self-confidence and courage to change. Do you have these abilities? In the whole career, this kind of self-assessment should be carried out frequently to determine whether it is suitable for the development of organizational goals and whether it is necessary to supplement new skills. In this process, it is very important to avoid being "behind the times" in your own ability. "Out of date" means that he can't finish his work and reach his goal. For example, in the process of organizational process reengineering, team management replaces vertical management, which makes managers unable to rely solely on personal performance; If outsourcing is involved, managers can only be eliminated without learning new skills.

Explore opportunities and options. At the beginning of your career, you have to determine several questions: What are the future prospects of your industry? What career opportunities exist? What kind of job can I get? What is the job related to occupation? In the middle of a career, the focus should shift to measuring opportunities inside and outside the organization: what is the future of the company? What positions are available for competition? What technology does the company rely on? What training and development can I get? When and who will be promoted? What about the external labor market? This step is particularly important in flat and team-managed organizations. The answer to each of the above questions changes almost every day, so you should learn to analyze comprehensively, be flexible and find all kinds of signs that may bring trouble to your career. If you can't tell what you have learned in the past six months, or what you will learn next, be on your guard; If you can't learn anything from your field, you should leave. If your job is open recruitment, can you win the recruitment? You should constantly adjust your skill structure. What would you do if your present job disappeared tomorrow? Therefore, you should have the marketing ability to promote yourself.

Set goals. Once the opportunity is clear, we should set short-term and long-term goals. Here are two important questions to consider: What do you want to do before you retire? What field do you want to set foot in? For the latter question, because everyone's abilities and hobbies are more or less only suitable for certain industries, and in the future development, the prospects of each industry are different. As for the former question, it is better to put it another way: that is, you should consider the products or services you want to produce like an operator, which involves whether you specialize in one field or choose to be a generalist. The traditional view is that generalist is a wise choice, and choosing to be a specialist is undoubtedly putting all the eggs in the same basket; On the other hand, choosing to be a generalist is also risky, because some companies treat professionals (scarce resources) better than cross-industry talents. After analyzing these problems, it is necessary to be clear: what knowledge and skills to learn; What kind of work or experience do you need to achieve your career goals? Who and what resources are needed to achieve the goal? What is the work distribution method recognized by the organization?

The above three steps involve the process of socialization: all organizations are unique and have their own unique methods, values and salary systems. You must be clear: what abilities the organization recognizes, what behaviors, and how to motivate employees. You must accept the organization and be accepted by the organization. This process is socialization: new employees not only get information about the organization's values, policies, habits, procedures, but also know who has power, what behavioral restrictions, and how to survive and develop.

Organizational psychologists divide this process into three stages: candidates form their initial impressions and expectations of the organization; New employees match their needs with those of the organization; Mutual recognition between organizations and employees. Not all employees can go through the last two stages. When faced with too many contradictions and compromises, they may not be able to adapt and will choose to leave or be eliminated. After the completion of these three stages, the organization and individual employees enter a psychological contract stage: that is, employees reach an invisible agreement on how much to pay and how much to get based on their experience, commitment and observation of organizational operation. This consistency is the result of the interaction between employees' first experience with bosses, colleagues and employees and the organization's enhanced experience of certain behaviors of employees. Fairness, equality and mutual trust between employees and bosses.

Therefore, socialization provides individuals with an opportunity to understand the organization and clarify what the organization respects. For example, what ability is associated with development? What behavior is valuable? Make an action plan. Establish a timetable, whether through formal study or in the form of training courses.

Implement and evaluate the plan. In the process of implementation, the plan should be revised at any time with the changes of internal and external conditions of the organization.

Ask yourself at any time: Do your abilities match those recognized by the organization? Do I have these abilities? Do you need other preparatory work (such as education)?

Everyone has his own career plan, which is not a once-and-for-all process. Only by analyzing the industry development and organizational characteristics under the economic environment and combining with our own comprehensive quality can we constantly improve our career planning in the highly competitive workplace!

Reflections on personal career

Recently, I occasionally read Teacher Jing's article "A 40-year-old manager's 10" on career thinking, and combined with this job search process, I made another reflection on my career. Teacher Jing's article is excellent, complete in induction and full of rationality. Now I'm going to make a further analysis from the perspective of science and technology, and try to find more instructive methods on the time axis.

Strictly speaking, everyone in our society is a professional, including employees inside and outside the ordinary system, small entrepreneurs and even monks. Of course, there was once a great virtue who claimed to be a monk and denounced the opposition. All of us are facing the inevitable decline of our careers in the passage of time. Everything has a solution, only time.

In the process of this inevitable decline, have we had mathematical thinking and philosophical summary? Is there a good way to face this inevitable process? In a family of ordinary employees and small bosses, we won't be unemployed for long. For a long time, enterprises can't make ends meet, which makes a family with old people and small ones in a dilemma?

We choose the time period of 1980-2050 in the time dimension, because looking at history, we know that people in China society have just enough food and clothing in the first place in the country, and the second place can start to move freely. Third, the real market economy has opened most people's careers. As for the rapid development of AI in 2050, the future society in 2050 is really uncertain.

We choose 95% people, professionals and small entrepreneurs, starting from gaussian curve. If you are in a summer vacation, your children can fly 30,000 kilometers, drink coffee in Switzerland, watch lions in South Africa, dive in Australia and row boats in the icy lake in the Rocky Mountains. You don't need to read this article. You are no longer the group I want to discuss.

We build a model with ordinary families as the core and men as the core. After graduating from college, we are 23 years old, 12 to 35 years old, and then 12 to 47 years old. The career wealth curve is generally like this. The difference between inside and outside the system is the difference of curvature. The vertical axis represents the rise and fall of wealth, and the horizontal axis represents the time in years. The difference between personal wealth and corporate wealth is small and long.

Among the family members, the male owner's father is supposed to give birth at the age of 30, the male owner is 35 and the employee's father retires at the age of 65. The farmer's father is not easy to go out to work to earn income, so he is retired. The father of the male owner also has such a career curve. We assume that the income after the age of 65 is very low relative to the normal work, so we don't consider the special situation of retirement and reemployment and the age of 65 or the main force of the construction site, and my design model doesn't consider the high retirement salary.

Among the family members, it is speculated that the man is just 30 years old and has children. 35 years old, children are 5 years old and 47 years old, and children are preparing for the college entrance examination.

Then the total family income curve of the man is the superposition of the income curves of the man and his father. When the man is 35 years old, his children are 5 years old, and his father retires at the age of 65, losing his professional income and his health is also declining. When children begin to prepare for preschool, the total family income begins to decline. When the man is 47 years old, the child 17 years old, and the man's father is 77. At this time, the hospital. With the sharp increase of nursing expenditure, children's college education and insurance investment, the total family expenditure began to rise sharply and the total family wealth declined rapidly. The curves of the other two members of the family, the woman and the mother, are similar, so the total wealth curve of the family after the superposition of these two or four pictures is close to the standard gaussian curve, so the age of 35 is an inevitable watershed in my career.

Great gaussian curve, he is the mathematical expression of natural philosophy, and our model conforms to him.

If the female host is the core, or the undergraduate course graduates sooner or later, it will not affect this change. If you graduate with a master's degree, the watershed just shifts to the right.

Second, the method

1. Resist the inevitable decline of career by changing jobs;

Personal career lifeline

Average age of top 500 enterprises in China 10 years old.

Then the ideal job-hopping mode is to keep job-hopping for 3-6 years before an individual is 23-47 years old. That is to say, if you have worked in an enterprise for 3 years, you should examine yourself that you can't stay in this position anyway. Is it safe? Is there room for improvement? Ideally, if you change jobs every three years, you can copy the fastest rising period of the enterprise. At the age of 40, it is necessary to plan whether the landing site at the age of 47 can be smoother.

This is an ideal job-hopping model. At the age of 23, with the rapid growth of enterprise A, I jumped to growth enterprise B before the decline of enterprise A, and jumped to growth enterprise C before the decline of enterprise B. I spent my personal career recession in a bigger enterprise C from 47 to 65, but on the way, I saw that there was still 18 years between 47 and 65, which exceeded the complete cycle of an enterprise, so this job-hopping at the age of 47 was very challenging and required courage.

2, through the second income to resist the inevitable decline of career:

The second income should not affect the first income, at least not let the first income fall, such as renting a house, renting a license plate, and opening a tea shop. It is better to have a stable and simple model. After all the family members are unemployed, there are still more than 654.38+100000 monthly income. At least your heart is relatively stable and your family is warm, or you can cover your mortgage, car loan and other expenses, as well as surplus grain.

Grandpa Bud said that if you don't find a way to make money when you sleep, you will work until you die. He found it, but it seems that he will work to death, but his job may be purely a hobby.

3. Reverse the inevitable decline of career through entrepreneurship.

The average age of start-ups in China is 2.5 years old [sohu finance]. You can see if most of your start-ups can have further development after 1 year. If you don't have a particularly good chance of winning in the three dimensions of product, organization and capital, you need to decide whether to change or retreat immediately, so you can choose 65,438+02 start-ups from the age of 23 to 35, and it is best not to choose start-ups after 47.

4. Reverse the inevitable decline of career through investment.

Through analysis, before the age of 35, you can choose high risk and big investment, and if you fail, you have the opportunity to turn over; After the age of 47, it is suitable for stability, small scale and diversification to reduce the risk of bankruptcy.

Third, summary.

1, the most important node in my career is around 35 years old. It is best not to seek fame and fortune, but to seek stability.

2. The second node of career is about 47 years old. Without financial freedom, you will retreat steadily.

The achievement of personal career is closely related to the status of parents, depending on how high they go and your status when you are about 23 years old.

Finally, the topic of professional life ends with the words of the United States Army Code. Observation, analysis, decision and action require constant struggle to get rid of.