Not everyone in the counsellors is unclear about their career direction.
On the other hand, some people feel that they know exactly what they want to do, but seem to have strayed from their original intentions and come to seek help.
Xi Ying (pseudonym) has always wanted to do personnel work, but it seems that "fate" is arranged. What the hell is going on with her keeping going off the beaten track?
Determination of career goals
Xi Ying majored in digital ** in college, and because she was an art student in the college entrance examination at that time, she didn't think too much about future employment.
When I was about to graduate, I saw that my classmates around me had found design-related jobs one after another, and I seemed to feel that I was interested in design.
I sit there every day and continue to express my ideas through various software. Xi Ying felt that it was not the state of work she wanted.
But what do you do when you leave your profession? Xi Ying was confused.
At this time, it happened that one of the roommates' sisters in the dormitory came to their dormitory and invited all the roommates to have a meal.
At the dinner table, Xi Ying learned that this sister works as a personnel manager in a large company, has a stable job, has weekends off, and has a good income.
When asked what the specific job is, my sister replied that she was in charge of the company's personnel related recruitment, salary, and training ......Wait a minute.
Xi Ying didn't have any thoughts about what to eat later, and her mind was full of the calmness and calmness that her sister was talking about when she talked about her work. and the sentence she said also deeply touched Xi Ying, until it affected her until now.
Personnel work is required by any company, and it is relatively stable. As long as you do your best, you will definitely be able to do well.
For Xi Ying, who didn't know what to do at the time, such words were undoubtedly a lifesaver. So, without doing more research and understanding, she took personnel as her career goal.
For many job seekers who are about to leave school or have just stepped out of schoolWhat kind of occupation you do, you hear it from the people around you.
What the people around us are doing gives us an idea.
If you don't know what to do, just look at the careers of the people around you and find inspiration. But there are thousands of faces, and everyone has a different understanding of the profession.
It's not enough to just listen to one person. You'll also need to do more research on the profession and do some necessary assessments of yourself before deciding whether to do it or not.
Take personnel work, for example
You can start with six modules and do vertical extensions. Such as recruitment, training, salary, ......Module segmentation, which tends to be more common in larger companies. However, the requirements for people are often higher, and they generally require graduates from relevant majors and relevant qualifications.
You can also choose to do the whole human resources from a small and medium-sized company, at this time a person is an all-rounder, various functions need to be able to know, use a few years to grow into a manager.
It is also possible to enter the business department and do HRBP to support the human resources work of the business department from a professional point of view.
Nowadays, there are different development paths such as organizational development and talent development......
Therefore, in the same way as personnel, what kind of personnel you want to do, how to prepare for future development, and what industry and company you are going to enter when applying for a job, you must understand clearly before applying for a job.
And, is your personality a good fit? Prepare how to improve your abilities in all aspects. Personnel is the work of people, understand people's hearts, and keep the company's personnel stable. The quality requirements for practitioners are not low.
And Xi Ying didn't prepare for these things in depth, but she insisted in her heart that she had to keep doing personnel work.
02 The ideal is very plump, and the reality is very skinny
With good wishes for the future, Xi Ying found her first job.
But he is not doing personnel, but as a marketing specialist in a foreign trade company, responsible for the company's publicity activities, new operation and promotion, etc.
The reason found is relatively simple, to interview personnel, the other company after listening to her experience, feel that she is more suitable to do new ** operations.
asked if he could accept this position. It seems that the salary is still more than the personnel, and if you think about such a good opportunity, you can't miss it, so just accept it.
So I started the related work of marketing, doing *** and short**, and doing the production of various promotional materials ......
Although it is okay to do, but".Personnel are more stableSuch thoughts always appear in Xi Ying's mind from time to time, making her feel that she still has to go back to the career goals she has set.
How many people's career goals are replaced by "good opportunities" that come easily, in fact, it is not uncommon in the real workplace.
The problem is that at this time, many people have heard from each other that this development is good, and they feel that they want to seize this opportunity and easily give up their original career goals, but in fact, they have not been able to do some better planning or necessary research and development for the new goals.
After working for a year, although the market work was not bad, Xi Ying still felt that she should go back to find a personnel job, so she resigned, and it took about 2 months to finally find a commercial center to work as a personnel specialist. It's finally on the side of personnel.
However, in addition to personnel recruitment, other jobs are all about cultural construction, project cooperation and other things, and it is not a pure personnel job.
For Xi Ying, who wants to do a pure personnel job, it is undoubtedly not so satisfactory. So after almost 2 years of this job, she jumped to a new energy company to work as a human resources.
Unexpectedly, I said that I would do personnel work during the interview, but after I actually joined the company, I arranged all the work related to publicity and marketing for Xi Ying.
Shoot corporate videos, company document writing, marketing, event planning, ......
Every time I ask my superiors, I say that if you recruit someone, you will be asked to do personnel.
Xi Ying looked at her work for a few years and the resume of her three jobs, in order to avoid the impression of always changing jobs, she gritted her teeth and persevered. But seeing that there are two people in the personnel department, I have been working in the personnel department to do propaganda work without clear identity.
When she found me, I was still on a business trip because I was filming a corporate promotional video, and it was almost the Chinese New Year.
03 Where do I go from here?
Speaking of her past career experience, she has been looking for personnel, but she has always been in the name of personnel and doing market operations, what is the reason for Xi Ying's current situation?
First of all, you don't know much about the goal
When we give ourselves goals, the more we know, the easier it is to guide our actions.
Xi Ying just wanted to work in personnel, and did not do a more in-depth exploration of the future development of the position, what kind of company she wanted to go to, and whether her characteristics, advantages, and abilities were suitable.
As a result, he has always been pushed by the outside world, and the indecisive side of his personality is also afraid to fight for himself when his boss arranges unreasonable work, and he is always in the passive acceptance stage of his own development.
Second, being too obsessed with career goals
Our life stages are different, and career goals will change depending on your abilities and experiences.
If you don't have a fixed goal, it's easy to put yourself in a box and ignore the reality that you should grasp more in front of you.
Finally, there is a lack of clarity about oneself
I have always wanted to do personnel in my heart, but I do marketing work, and the reason why Xi Ying is getting more and more confused is also because of her unclear understanding of herself.
I don't know what I like, what I'm good at, what advantages I have in doing personnel, and what I do well in the market.
Recognizing my own problems, I took Xi Ying to reorganize her personality, abilities and advantages.
And after a feasibility analysis of the environment she is in now and the opportunities around her, Xi Ying finally found a direction that is more suitable for her future career development.
Next, through systematic job preparation, she finally found a job in market operation two months later, and this time she can finally be purely herself, in a position more suitable for herself, and give full play to her strengths.
Through Xi Ying's case, it also tells us:
First of all, when setting career goals, don't just listen to others, beConduct a comprehensive self and professional career research analysisto make sure that you are on the right path.
Secondly, she applied for a job according to her own goals, on the other hand, every time Xi Ying applied for a job, she was looking for personnel, but in the end it became a hodgepodge. In fact, it is also caused by the lack of in-depth interpretation of the content of each career opportunity in the job search stage.
In some companies, if you set up a job but the content is not full, you will add a lot of extra work. If you have a clear career goal, you should evaluate the requirements of the job when you apply for a jobIf the proportion of one's own work is too small, it is easy to find this"Hodgepodge".Job.
During the interview, you should also pay special attention to the job content that the interviewer said, and pay attention to "you may be arranged to do ** work after joining". If you find that it has gone against your original intention, you must actively refuse.
Finally, if you find that there is a deviation from your own goals in your work, you should make a comprehensive assessment, adjust your goals in time, or fight with your superiors in an effective way, instead of enduring it and wasting your time in chaos.
Your time is precious, and you should cherish it!