Many newcomers to the workplace are very entangled when looking for a job, and they don't know whether to go to a large company or a small company. Is it necessarily good to go to a big company? Isn't it necessarily bad if you don't go to a big company? How do you choose? Let's take a look at it today.
I compared large companies and small companies in 13 dimensions, specifically referring to Figure 1 below, and found that large companies have advantages in 10 aspects, such as salary and benefits, brand influence, and company environment, but do not have advantages in terms of uncertainty of personal development, promotion development, and personal comprehensive ability.
Don't enter just for the aura of a big company, or it will be this aura that will make you miserable in the future. Many people think that the people with high names in large companies are very capable, but in fact, it is not necessarily, the strong ability is always a small number of people, most of them just bear the honor halo of large companies, and most of them are the platform that has made him, not his ability to make him. The advantages of a large company are easy to understand, so let's take a look at its disadvantages::
1 Uncertainty in personal development
In a large company, the uncertainty of your personal development is relatively low, that is to say, it is very stable, your job is stable, your future is also "stable", your promotion and development are visible, there will be no big ups and downs, no rapid promotion, and of course no rapid demotion.
Unless you catch up with the development bonus period of a certain project, it is unlikely that you will still be a first-line manager this year and become the general manager of a branch next year. It's hard to say in a small company, and there is a high probability that this situation will occur.
2 Promotion and development
In large companies, promotion and development are relatively slow, unlike small companies that are more flexible and fast. In a large company, your performance is only one aspect, but also in accordance with a very strict process to initiate an application, layer by layer of approval and assessment, only through all the assessment, can be promoted.
And there won't be many opportunities for promotion, it's basically a turnip and a pit, and if the people on it don't get promoted, it's hard for you to climb up. In a small company, you may be promoted to management in a year, but in a large company, you may not have many opportunities in three years.
3. Personal comprehensive ability
It can also be seen from Figure 1 that the employees of large companies are generally full-time, which means that you only need to do what you do, and you don't need to do other things.
Large companies mainly rely on the system to operate, it will modularize and standardize your responsibilities, if you leave and leave, the company can immediately recruit people to the top, and it will not have any impact on the enterprise.
Because of this, in a large enterprise you can easily become a screw, substitutable is very strong, unless you do a particularly outstanding job, otherwise once the company's performance is not good, you may be eliminated at any time.
Because you're doing the same thing all the time, and there's very little else involved, you're only going to do this job, and generally speaking, you're more likely to be a specialist in a small field but harder to be a generalist. But in a small company, you may be a multi-task, you not only have to do your own work, but also do a good job in other jobs arranged by the leader temporarily, as long as you are attentive enough, hard enough, your various abilities will soon develop, comprehensive ability.
So how do you choose? There is a useful and simple method of comparison for you to use, and the principle is "the lesser of two evils, and the better of two evils".
You can list the benefits of going to a large company and a small company, and analyze which one you want to get more? Then list the disadvantages of the two, and analyze which disadvantage you can accept better? The answer will be much clearer.
Above we are thinking from the present, and now we are making a change and thinking from the future.
Before you think, you need to answer 2 questions:
First, do you want a good job now or a good future in the future?
Second, do you want a future that can be ** or do you want an uncertain future?
Years of experience have taught us that you should never choose to join a company just because it pays well, and it never seems that the salary of your first job does not matter at all, the most important thing is the speed of personal growth that your first job brings you.
If your first job pays 20% more than others, but there is no progress, no growth, and after three or five years of work, you are still stuck in the same place, then this job is not only not a good job for you, but the worst job.
It's almost impossible for you to make a fortune from the salary of your first job, what makes you rich is your ability to grow quickly. With super ability, you are likely to have more contacts and other resources, and with these resources, you are likely to achieve a career.
In this era, you can't get rich by saving money, you have to get rich by making money, and the first step to making money and getting rich is to improve your ability. The first job must allow you to grow quickly and develop good professional habits. Whether you choose a large company or a small company, an important principle is that "you must choose a growth company", which must be growing rapidly, not stagnation or slow development.
No matter what industry, the key point of choice is "growth", let the company grow with you. When you enter the company, the size and size of the company are not the most important, the most important thing is your position, whether your position can achieve rapid growth, and whether you can understand the whole industry in the shortest possible time is a very important thing. If the company is growing fast and you are not growing, it doesn't help.
I have a colleague who joined a start-up Internet company as soon as he graduated from university, and after only 3 years of working in this company, he was promoted to the position of sales director, which is a rocket-like development speed. There are many people who have struggled in this industry for 5 or 7 years and have not become directors. You must be wondering, why did he get promoted so quickly? Is it because of a relationship, or is it because of super ability? He didn't have any resource relationship in this company, he didn't know anyone when he entered, and he started from front-line sales.
Since it doesn't matter, it must be that his ability is super strong, but in fact, it is not very strong. His ability can only be said to be good, but it is not super strong. The most important reason why he was able to develop rapidly was the need for rapid development of the company. When he joined, the company had only a few hundred people, but in just over three years, it has grown to tens of thousands of people, and the market valuation has jumped to tens of billions of dollars.
During this period, other sales have been transferred and resigned, and there are fewer old employees, but the business is developing rapidly, and when the company needs to promote managers, it will naturally think of him, and his performance is really good, so he continues to get promotion opportunities, from sales to sales supervisor, to sales manager, and then to sales director.
Summary,
In the workplace, choice must be greater than effort, and your current choice determines your future development. So, be careful when choosing. Of course, don't be too entangled, when you really can't make a choice, follow your heart, choose a job to do first, and then say, think while doing, and maybe you will suddenly open up.