What are the new talents of the 21st century?

New talents are not a specific name, but a general term. It refers to talents with certain qualities in the 21st century

The talents most needed in the 21st century

Integration

Focus on innovation

Combining innovation with practice

Experts

Cross-field comprehensive talent IQ

IQ + EQ + SQ Personal ability

Communication and cooperation ability Choose a popular job

Engage in a job you love

Discipline, prudence

Positiveness, optimism

This does not mean that the talent traits emphasized in the 20th century, such as diligence and steadfastness, are no longer important. In fact, in the 21st century, talents are no longer important. The requirements will also be based on these most basic individual qualities and behavioral norms. However, the requirements for talents in the 21st century are more comprehensive and richer. The perspective of examining talents has also shifted from a single individual level to integrating multiple dimensions such as individuals, teams, organizations, society and even the environment, covering learning, innovation, cooperation, and practice. stereoscopic perspective and many other factors.

Whether it is for those students who aspire to become pillars or for those colleges and universities committed to cultivating outstanding and practical talents, can we use the three-dimensional perspective of the 21st century to more comprehensively and thoroughly understand Understanding the talent standards of the new century is a necessary prerequisite for whether we can better adapt to the international competitive environment of the 21st century and better leverage our talent advantages.

7 Talent Traits for the 21st Century

1. The Masterful One

One of the key points of mastery is having clear and flexible thinking. When some software companies recruit R&D personnel, in addition to testing the candidates' basic programming abilities, algorithm knowledge and project experience, they often use some seemingly bizarre "thinking challenge questions" (for example: "Why are the sewer lids round?" "" Please comment on the human-machine interface of the elevator you just used."). These questions are not "intelligence tests" or "brain teasers" as many people think. Their real purpose is to test the candidates' logic and flexibility in independent thinking. If a candidate answers several questions, it further proves that he is an active thinker. If a person's answer is illogical, or he simply cannot answer it, or if he insists that there is only one correct answer after answering, then even if he has achieved excellent results in school examinations, we will doubt whether he is a person who can only endorse and People who take exams but are not good at being flexible and comprehensive.

Mastering means that you must be good at applying the knowledge you have learned into practice. If you want to master it, you must first practice more. In the IT field, many successful companies hope that graduates who join the company have more than 100,000 lines of programming experience (for example, at Google, most candidates who fail to pass the interview are due to lack of practical ability), but many Chinese Students told me that in the four years they were in school, they had never actually written more than a thousand lines of programs. On the one hand, this shows that some schools do not pay attention to the cultivation of students' practical ability when teaching. On the other hand, it also shows that many students only know how to learn "dead" knowledge, but do not know how to find or create opportunities to use the knowledge they have learned. in specific practice.

Being comprehensive also means that you must learn to solve problems that you have never seen before and for which there are no definite answers, and learn to use creative thinking to analyze and solve problems. During the recruitment process at Google, I found that there are some very good students who are very good at answering certain questions with clear descriptions and clear answers (for example, "How to traverse an undirected graph or a directed graph", etc.), but when they encounter When it comes to slightly vague questions that require further abstraction and clarification (for example, "How to apply commonly used graph algorithms to interpersonal modeling and analysis", etc.), it is difficult to focus your thinking in the right direction. , it is also difficult to choose the most appropriate solution based on the specific situation. You must know that in actual work, almost every problem is vague and uncertain. It is impossible for your boss and colleagues to help you simplify the problem into an abstract form like in a book in advance. Everything needs to be done by yourself, and it needs to be done in advance. Solve problems creatively on the basis of comprehensive understanding.

2. Innovative Practitioners

Innovation guides practice, and practice supports innovation.

Practice and innovation are indispensable, just like people who only know the principles of mechanics and people who only know how to lay bricks and tiles cannot build a skyscraper independently. Similarly, in the new century, only those who are good at combining innovation and practice are likely to achieve the greatest success.

3. Cross-field integrators

Future work requires cross-field knowledge and practice, the ability to quickly enter and master new fields of learning, and more importantly, cross-field comprehensive talents. Of course, this does not mean that we no longer need to seriously learn a certain professional knowledge - but too much research may lose the opportunity for innovative practice. Combining the latest ideas from different majors and doing something that is both creative and practical may be the opportunity with the most room for growth. What the 21st century needs are comprehensive talents who can not only have an in-depth understanding of a certain professional field, but also take into account the development of related fields and be good at cooperating with other fields. If you're studying a major you don't like, don't worry too much about it, and you can spend your time looking for "cross-field" opportunities in your major and your passions.

4． Those with the highest three quotients (IQ + EQ + SQ)

1. High IQ (Intelligence Quotient): High IQ not only represents intelligence, but also creativity, and is good at independent thinking and problem solving . The integration, innovation time, and cross-field thinking mentioned earlier are all representatives of high IQ in the "21st century".

2. High emotional intelligence (EQ, Emotional Quotient): Emotional intelligence is a general term for personal abilities related to understanding oneself, controlling emotions, motivating oneself, handling interpersonal relationships, participating in teamwork, etc. Among senior managers, emotional intelligence is nine times more important than IQ.

3. Spiritual Quotient (SQ, Spiritual Quotient): A high Spiritual Quotient represents having correct values, being able to distinguish right from wrong, and distinguish authenticity from falsehood. Those who are not guided by correct values ??and cannot distinguish right from wrong, the stronger their abilities in other aspects, the greater the harm to others.

5. Communicator and collaborator

Highly effective collaborators are good at finding their proper position in the team, can quickly distinguish the responsibilities and cooperative relationships between themselves and other team members, and actively help others or cooperate with others at work. Others share their work experiences.

6. Love workers

In the global competition, everyone must give full play to their own strengths. Only in this way can talents and the teams where they work show unique value that is different from competitors. The best way to use your talents is to find your favorite. Doing work that you love will not only make you more engaged and happier, but you will also get the best results because of your engagement and happiness.

7． Positive Optimist

1. Take responsibility for everything and control your own destiny: We must realize that not solving a problem is also a solution, and not making a decision is also a decision.

2. Silence is not golden: If you want to seize the fleeting opportunity, you must learn to persuade others, sell yourself to others, and show your views.

3. Don’t wait for opportunities, but be fully prepared: Don’t wait for opportunities to come to you, because that is a negative approach. In other words, before the opportunity comes, you should work hard and do your best. When opportunities have not yet appeared, in addition to always being prepared, we should also take the initiative to create opportunities for ourselves. We cannot always wait and wait for opportunities to come to us.