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Misunderstanding 1. Mistaking ideals for goals

What is ideals? This is a very unfamiliar word in the eyes of college students. As they grow older, college students become more and more mature under the impact of real interests. They have already regarded ideals as the patent of children and kept them away from their own minds. Even if some people have ideals, they mistake them for goals.

The ideal should be the final expression of a result we pursue. The professional ideal in the profession is more expressed as a specific position. For example, if your professional ideal is the human resources director, then you should Working as a human resources specialist, personnel director, etc. is the career goal to achieve your career ideals. However, many college students only focus on their career ideals and do not realize the career goals at each stage, so the career ideals will not be realized. It's like you want to build ten floors, but when you actually implement it, you don't want to build the first nine floors. You think it is a waste, but when you dream of ten floors, your dream will come true.

Therefore, there are many college students who have various career ideals. For example, some people hope to become stars, scientists, the richest man in the world, and the president of the country... These may seem difficult to achieve. The ideal is not impossible to realize, because no one in this world is born to be the richest man in the world or the president of the country. (Except for very few. For example, in the UK, even if it is inherited, its ancestors started from scratch, and their descendants are just lucky.) Therefore, how big your heart is in career development, how big the stage is. But our college students regard their career ideals as just ideals, and many even turn their ideals into goals. Goals are what we can achieve and are the stages we use to achieve our professional ideals. Only by transforming grand career ideals into countless achievable goals can our professional ideals be finally realized. But the sad thing is that when our college students clamor all day long to realize their career ideals, they do not transform their ideals into career goals, let alone realize the transformed career goals. In the end, the grand career ideals turn into career fantasies.

Misunderstanding 2: Mistaking means for ends

We may have this experience. We decide to go to a restaurant to entertain our friends, so you will take pains to think about it. When thinking about what to eat with friends, you think and think, and you think and deny each one. You will put a lot of thought into this, but you have forgotten what the purpose of entertaining your friends is. You didn’t think about it in the first place. Is it just to exchange friendship? Eating is just a way to express friendship, but you have spent a lot of time and energy on it. This is not worth the gain!

In this regard, our college students will also make this seemingly simple but factual mistake that happens to college students.

After we transform our career ideals into career goals, we need to look at what means can be used to achieve our career goals. But in this process, the means to achieve our goals become the purpose of doing things. When we choose different operating methods with the mentality of achieving our goals, many people are already choosing operating methods for the sake of choosing operating methods. He forgets why we choose the means of operation, which leads to doing things without achieving the goal, or doing things for the sake of doing things. For example, we can make up for the lack of our professional knowledge through learning, but often many college students are just learning during the learning process, or they put a lot of effort into learning, how to learn, and when to learn, and they must continue to learn. Motivating himself to study rather than play, etc., all of these have deviated from his learning goals, and considering these irrelevant factors, they are no longer the purpose of his learning.

Misunderstanding 3: Mistaking the path for the result

There are many ways to achieve career goals. This path is the career path to achieve career ideals. There are many ways to achieve career ideals. Career paths, each career path is a combination of different career factors. Although these career paths can all realize career ideals, they have different differences in terms of time, timing, difficulty, etc. This is like, do you know how many paths there are? The road can lead to your career ideal, which is knowledge; and when you can choose a shortcut to advance towards your career ideal, this is wisdom.

Therefore, when we determine our career ideals, it is important to summarize different paths after comprehensively analyzing our own situation, and make the optimal choice based on factors such as the career environment and available resources. When choosing a career path, we must combine our own comprehensive factors to choose a path that is most suitable for us. Choosing the best path is to achieve our career goals faster and ultimately realize our career ideals.

Only realizing our professional ideals is the final result we need. As long as this final result is not realized for a day, we cannot slack off. For example, some students’ career ideal is sales director, and he chooses this promotion track: sales representative, salesman->sales supervisor? 》Regional Sales Manager-》Sales Manager-》Sales Director. Each stage of this path serves to achieve the result of Sales Director. However, some college students lose the awareness and motivation to become a regional sales manager after becoming a sales director. In the end, sales director becomes the career result they pursue, and their dream of being a sales director naturally comes to nothing.

Although it is said that "all roads lead to Rome" in the pursuit of professional ideals, we must find the shortest road to Rome!

Misunderstanding 4: Mistaken industry as job position

We can often see the resumes of many college students saying: job intention: architectural design institute, construction unit, municipal engineering The company is a company related to construction. In fact, he is looking for a job in the construction industry.

Actually we also know that he can’t do all the work in the construction industry? In fact, he can't do it at all. In fact, even he himself doesn't know what he can do or what he is best at. In the end, it was the specific company and specific position that hired him. It's okay to have no corporate goals, but if there are no job goals, what can he do? What can be done well? You must know that companies hire employees who are qualified for specific positions. If you do not have the qualifications for the position, how can the company hire you? When college students regard the industry as a position to apply for, it is more exposed that college students have no core competitiveness, let alone the awareness of forming core competitiveness. Therefore, when they apply for a job, they put more hope in "casting a wide net and fishing for money". "Big Fish", thinking that there will be more opportunities, but in fact, no one else knows what he can do, so how can they give him a chance?

From this experience, we can find that he actually does not understand the knowledge of the professional world at all, or even the common sense of the professional world. Industry and position are different. Industry is the largest national economic factor, and position is the specific position and specific position that college students want to work for. In fact, the employment of college students is based on specific positions. In other words, if college students are actually working in What needs to be solved is a specific job position. As long as college students master the work content of the specific position and are qualified for the job requirements, the employment problem can be solved. Of course, if you want to achieve greater development in this circle, then you need to know more about the dynamics of this industry and the dynamics of the first-class companies in this industry, so that you can achieve stable development in the circle.

Misunderstanding 5: Mistaking employment for career choice

The slogan “Employment first, career choice later” widely publicized on campus has misled college students’ career concepts to a great extent. We all know that The time of a person's career is limited. We cannot spend too much time on choosing a career and delay the time of fighting for a suitable career.

To put it simply, if we summarize the success of a person's career as choosing a suitable career and making a difference in his career, then the sum of these two factors is the total career time of a person. What about college students? Regarding this issue, college students do not put the choice of a suitable career more in college, but transfer it to after graduation, and college can and can completely solve this career choice problem, which invisibly prolongs the life of college students. It's time to achieve career success.

In fact, being able to realize your career ideals in our limited life journey does not depend on what you have done, but more on what you have not done. Only when you put all your energy, time, and resources into your career ideals can your career ideals be realized. That is to say, only if you don’t do something in career development will you do something!

After college students determine their career ideals, they will inevitably involve specific industries and occupations, and our development starts more from specific occupations. The unavoidable problem is that when we are seniors, When you graduate, should you get a job or choose a career first? From the perspective of realizing our professional ideals, the work we do must be closely related to our professional goals. Otherwise, the work we do will not support our professional ideals, and the date for realizing our professional ideals will be far away.

Therefore, we must choose jobs related to career goals. However, quite a few college students regard employment as career choice. They think that they will always learn something by doing work; in fact, this is not the case. At the level of career development, choice is more important than hard work! If we go in the wrong direction, wouldn’t the farther we go, the further away from our goal?

Misunderstanding 6: Mistaking career choice for major

We will see a misunderstanding when college students are employed, that is, they will stick to the major they studied when choosing a career. In fact, from the perspective of professional relevance, choosing a career that is relatively related to your major will of course provide great support and help for your career future. However, the problem that arises is that the major that college students choose at the beginning is not based on their own interests and other inherent characteristics. It is determined by adaptability, that is to say, the major that college students study during their four years of college may not be the most suitable for them. If the first choice is wrong, there is no need to insist on the second choice. It is a choice, otherwise it will be adding mistakes to mistakes.

In fact, only when our career ideals and career goals transformed from career ideals are highly related to the major we study, major is the key factor that affects our career choice. Otherwise, we don’t have to be educated. Limited by profession. There is no reason for us to go further and further down the wrong path.

The major referred to in career ideals is the knowledge you will have in your future career, so it may be the major you are studying now, or it may be the major you like, the major you changed to, etc. In short, it is the basic knowledge that can realize your career ideals. So when our career ideal is not the major we studied, we don't have to be bound by it. We must know that from the perspective of professional ideals, what we do is what we want, and what we want is what we like. Whether the so-called major is suitable or not is an issue that we need to consider only when it is connected with career ideals, rather than choosing the job we want to do based on the career prospects of the major we have studied.

If we chose the wrong major during the college entrance examination because we didn’t understand the rules, then choosing a career when we graduate from college is our second chance to discover ourselves as freshmen. Therefore, if the major we studied at the beginning cannot meet our ideals and pursuits, then we can give ourselves another choice that is close to our ideals when choosing a career after graduation.

Misunderstanding 7: Mistaking major for ability

When college students apply for jobs, their resumes will appear like this. In the ability or specialty column, the major and course they studied will be written. On the whole, an obvious misunderstanding reflected in this is that they regard the major they studied as one of their own abilities.

Actually, the major we study is just the choice we filled out during the college entrance examination, which contains our pursuit and interest, but more of it is blindness and helplessness.

Major is just a kind of knowledge, a systematic integration of theoretical knowledge and methods in a specific field of social division of labor, but it is not an ability, let alone what it can represent. Of course, there will be some solutions to practical operations in theoretical study, but this It is not all of your major, but only a very small part. In addition, the outdated teaching materials and rigid teaching methods have discounted the actual few abilities. Therefore, when college students are making a resume, don’t say what you learned in your major, let alone what you really learned in college. Instead, you should first check whether the major you studied is what you like and whether it is suitable for you in the future. To be engaged in.

Ability is a kind of wisdom you use to solve practical problems, but it does not mean that you have the ability to solve practical problems if you have a lot of professional knowledge. Understanding theoretical knowledge is at most a storehouse. Function, but how much you can take out and how much you use depends on your ability. Metaphorically speaking, no one knows more than the encyclopedia, but you don't see any specific problems it solves!

If your major is not what you want to engage in, no matter how well you learn your professional knowledge, it is not your ability, because it will not do anything to reduce the gap between your positions. function, let alone use your major to build the core competitiveness of your career ideals. Therefore, you should be careful when writing the courses you have studied in your major on your job resume. Because not the major you studied will support any job you are looking for, so don’t generally regard the major we studied as a weight when we apply for a job, not to mention that you are not familiar with the professional study. So proficient.

Misunderstanding 8: Mistaking knowledge for skills

This misunderstanding is that college students regard their mastery of foreign languages ??and computer theory as operational skills, or they confuse the difference between the two.

In fact, if you have CET-4 in foreign language and CET-2 in computer science, it only means that you have met some basic requirements in theory, especially under the education system with Chinese characteristics, the levels must be different. . When companies recruit, they pay more attention to your actual skills rather than the certificates you have obtained. Of course, without a certain skill level, you will not pass the exam and get the certificate. What we here emphasize is that in your resume, it is best to use actual numbers or examples to illustrate the level of theoretical certification. For example: you can describe your foreign language level as having translated some foreign language articles, or having interacted with foreign tourists. Conversation, etc., convert the computer level to 80 typing words per minute, which is a more convincing and straightforward statement that you can operate and create some office documents.

Therefore, when we apply for the target position, we should no longer regard the theoretical knowledge we have learned as the operational skills required by the position. In fact, to do any job, in addition to the theoretical knowledge you must have, you must also master the corresponding operational skills. And only when knowledge is transformed into skills can we settle down and seek greater development.

Knowledge is more manifested in what do you know? What do you understand? Skills are expressed as what can you do? What can be done well? We can survive in the world with a skill, but we can't survive with just knowledge, unless you regard knowledge as a weight for your development in the academic field. However, many college students currently lack the necessary operational skills required for their positions, and they are not aware of this problem. Therefore, when the company asks him what skills he has, he answers with the theoretical knowledge he has learned. As a result, he is naturally dismissed. Eliminated.