The external crisis is the internal motivation
Editor’s note: This article comes from the WeChat public account “Chaotic University” (ID: hundun-university), author of the blue sea.
The giant cedar tree in the western United States, every fire makes it reborn, the experience of the flame makes its vitality more tenacious, and the low shrub swallowed by the flame becomes its nutrient, thus it becomes Giant trees.
Poverty traps
According to the Global Food Security and Nutrition Issues report published by several UN agencies, the number of hungry people in the world reached 821 million in 2018, showing an upward trend for three consecutive years. This means that one in every nine people in the world is hungry.
The 2019 Nobel Prize winners Abigit Benaji and Esther Devero described the formation of poverty traps in The Essence of Poverty:
Parker Sorin lives in a small village in Bandung province, Indonesia. He has 12 children in his family to earn a temporary job for local farmers, earning 10,000 Indonesian rupiah a day (purchasing power parity of $2). However, as fertilizer and fuel prices rose, farmers were forced to save money, leading to Parker Sorin’s unemployment.
After losing his job, he has not found a job. There are three main reasons. First, for Parker, who is over 40 years old, he can’t do most of his physical work because of hunger. In the middle of the week, he only eats two meals a day for four days, and only eats one meal a day for the remaining three days. Second, he lacks experience for those highly skilled jobs. Third, it is too late to re-learn the craft and compete with young people.
Parker believes that farmers who own land decide to dismiss workers instead of lowering wages because they believe that in the case of food price increases, lowering wages will allow workers to eat Eat enough to reduce their productivity in the field. This is why I can’t find a job.
Goodbye, the age of generous money burning
From the Indonesian farm to the city’s workplace, since 2018, with the US group, Jingdong, Zhihu, Sina and other companies began to lay off employees, many people in the middle-aged workplace lamented that work is not easy, Oracle, Amazon and other foreign companies Exiting the Chinese market seems to make the market worse.
Maybe many people have the same question, why do companies choose to lay off employees instead of pay cuts? Why do some companies clearly make money and lay off employees?
We will first look at the discussion of users in Shuimu community:
@goodLoveLi
Colleagues are being laid off in large numbers and it is difficult to find a home. Choosing a pay cut can always be a good one. In the case of layoffs, many of them are old and small, and they also carry a lot of loans.
@BirdFans
You think about it from the perspective of the employee, and the company layoffs are based on the company’s interests. If you lower your salary, you will not be able to retain good talents. The final result is to leave a group of mediocre mixed people. How can the company compete with others?
@quenii
Reduction is a one-time solution. On the one hand, pay cuts are illegal, and on the other hand, they do not significantly reduce expenditures.
A collaborative study by Christopher T. Stanton (Harvard Business School), Jason Sandvik and Nathan Seggot (University of Utah) and Richard Saumma (Michigan State University) found that When a company lowers its salary, the best-performing employees will leave the company first and often join a competitor’s team, which in turn will exacerbate the company’s financial crisis.
In contrast, if the company chooses to reduce the number of employees, the leadership can take the initiative to let the inefficient employees leave.
Over 2018, global trade friction has escalated, external demand has weakened, domestic demand is insufficient, and industrial development prospects are uncertain. Regardless of sunset-type enterprises or emerging enterprises, they have to “shut down and turn” some business units to optimize their business. The purpose of the structure.
For example, Samsung announced the closure of its Chinese factory. HTC announced that it will temporarily withdraw from the mainland mobile phone business. Storm Sports has laid off nearly 50% of its employees, and only retains a small number of people such as finance, IT, and technology.
As the capital market returns to rationality, stable, cash flow is sufficient, the business that continues to bring benefits to the enterprise can become the starting point of future business operations, and those emerging, selling concepts without profit model will be Cut off. As Mike Welson, chief US equity strategist at Morgan Stanley, said after the failure of the listing of WeWork, “The days of generous funding for companies that have not made a profit are over.”
What do you think of many companies, while recruiting and laying off employees? There are mainly the following reasons:
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To recruit better talents through internal salary or even lower salary, to achieve internal staff optimization.
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Business line adjustment, some lines of business layoffs, someBusiness line recruitment.
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“Cut out what you will say, recruit to do it“. Some employees have been in the business for a long time and become old fritters. These people stay in the comfort zone and do not think about making progress and reduce the efficiency of the company. At this time, the company will “one pot” these people, and recruit “three high crowds” with high enthusiasm, high efficiency and high level of business.
▍Technology and the market, “visible future”
Many people believe that a large number of corporate layoffs will also make the recruitment market face a cold winter. Not necessarily.
According to the “2019 Third Quarter Recruitment Trend Research Report” published by the Global Career Development Center, the number of recruiting companies in most parts of the country is flat, about 50%-60%. Among them, the expansion of the South China region accounted for the most (24%), the least in East China (16%).
Since you are still hiring, why do many people in the workplace feel that their work is not easy to find?
The hiring trend is stable and does not mean that the demand position has a high degree of matching with employees.
This report also shows that the order of business needs for each position is: Business class (37.1%)>< /strong>Technology (34.7%)>Operating class(13.3%)>Market Class (9.7%) >Administrative (5.3%), this can be understood as business positions can be brought directly to the company Come to profit, and Technical positions can provide strong support for the business. Coincidentally, regardless of the size of the company and the region, the demand for business and technology is strong, and the ratio is around 30%-40%.
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In addition, according to Zhongzhi Consulting’s “2019 Graduate Student Recruitment and Incentive Research Report”, among the new students of different types of jobs, the main increase in recruitment demand in 2019 is technology and product development< Strong>/Development, Software Development and Sales Jobs.
From the starting salary standards of popular technology masters, the algorithm is the highest, followed by artificial intelligence. In recent years, the annual salary of artificial intelligence-type talents has risen by more than 20%, especially for scarce doctoral students, whose annual salary has increased by as much as 30%.
It can be seen that the two positions of technology and market are “visible future“.
Some companies are already aware of this trend. Recently, PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that it will implement a program called “Newworld.Newskills.” for a period of four years with a total investment of US$3 billion to help employees improve their digital skills and prepare for the digital age.
Maybe you will ask, if I don’t have a technical foundation, look at statistics like a book, and there is no salesman’s cleverness and ambiguity, what should I do? Especially when I am 35 years old, what can I do?
External crisis is an intrinsic motivation
In fact, unemployment at the age of 35 is nonsense. Let’s take a look at what is going on at all ages at all ages.
1960The person born in the year,1995Year35Year. The wave of laid-off was a major event in the 1990s. From 1993 to 2001, tens of millions of state-owned enterprise workers were laid off and a large number of township enterprises closed down. Feng Lanrui, president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, once said that during the Ninth Five-Year Plan period, the domestic unemployment rate may reach an astonishing figure.
But after the layoff, a large number of workers went to work south and poured into Shenzhen and Dongguan. In 1996, Shenzhen, with a collective income of more than 100 million yuan, has gradually become a regional manufacturing production base with high technology as the forerunner. However, the skills are still the shortcomings of some laid-off workers. The “person” and “post” cannot be accurately matched, resulting in some laid-off workers experiencing serious difficulties in finding a job.
All this, as China joined the WTO in 2001, the unemployment wave turned to labor shortage. On the other hand, state-owned small and medium-sized enterprises have turned into private enterprises, and a family company has sprung up, which has also provided new job opportunities for laid-off workers.
1970Year of the year,2005Year35 years old. At the beginning of the 21st century, the first Internet bubble burst. Microsoft’s monopoly case, Microsoft’s biggest single-day decline, announced the beginning of the Internet bubble burst. The share price of high-tech companies began to fall, and Sina, Sohu, and NetEase stocks even broke. This has made Chinese investment institutions far away on the other side of the ocean frightened and afraid to invest in Internet companies, leading to the bankruptcy and bankruptcy of countless companies that rely on financing.
Being alive, you will become a giant in the future.
In 2015, Chinese netizens exceeded 100 million for the first time and became the Internet power after the United States. In this year, Baidu landed on US stocks, Ma Yun founded Taobao, and Ma Huateng attacked MSN. A new economic format is in the ascendant nationwide, and “grass entrepreneurship” has become a trend. These people are all tossing and growing up.
1980Year of the year,2015Year35 Years old. In this year, nearly 4,000 factories in Dongguan closed down, and the manufacturing industry led by the electronics industry collapsed in batches – Nokia shut down the Dongguan factory, Baocheng moved to Southeast Asia, Foxconn set up India and so on. China’s industrial transformation is imminent, and talents are being upgraded.In August 2015, Dongguan issued the “Dongguan High-tech Enterprise “Afforestation and Afforestation Action Plan” to support the development of high-tech industries. By 2017, Dongguan has reduced the tax amount for high-tech enterprises by about 2.803 billion yuan. On the one hand, the influx of high-tech talents, the reshuffle of the first- and second-tier cities, and the return of employment to the workers on the other hand, spurred the sinking market.
From the age of 35 in 1960, 1970, and 1980, it can be seen that there is often silver light on the edge of the crisis. Some industries have declined and some industries have risen. Behind every crisis, there is a stronger force to rise.
Personally, external crises can also be internal motivations. In the face of setbacks, some people will go around, but in fact, the setbacks you encounter in this company, if you do not change your attitude, do not improve professional skills, and will not get along with others, it may not help to change a company.
Conversely, if you take frustration as your own experience, let yourself be better than yourself, and then increase your energy level. The curve of life may continue to rise and eventually build sustainable competitiveness.
Finally, I will provide you with some small tips to deal with the uncertain living environment:
1.Learn the difference between layoffs and optimization. Many companies will lay off about 10% of their employees at the end of the year. Every year, this is a normal personnel optimization. Therefore, there is no need to be afraid of anxiety, and every day is in anxiety, as if the enterprise is not going to work. You only have to do things well in the company, even if the business line is adjusted, the company will leave a capable person.
2.Don’t be lucky. In fact, most companies have signs before the layoffs. For example, the development of the business is unfavorable, and the employees have not worked for a long time. As a profitable organization, enterprises cannot always have idlers. Too busy, it means you are not important. In this world, busy people are busier, idle people are more leisurely, and the company will not let a person who is “busy” “free”.
3.Don’t say“Yes“. Everything means that you can’t do it. Some employees may say, “The company lets me do what I do, just don’t let me float.” In fact, it is not the company that lets you do it, but what you can do to bring benefits to the company. Only by improving your own competitiveness can you “live” uninvited. Some things are not for you. At this time, you will gain a foothold and become the backbone of the company.
4.Recognize that in this uncertain era, “reduction” and “reduction” are the normal rules of corporate development. Even one day, your work and life are notAs you wish, you should also maintain an optimistic attitude. Many people are pessimistic optimists. Peace is a short-term emotional catharsis; optimism is an affirmation of one’s own strength.
5.Focus on personal development. Maybe some people will say that I have to go deep into one, continue to drill and become an expert. This situation is a choice when you know what you like, what you are good at, and what can bring you income. Note the keywords here, revenue. If a job can’t meet your basic survival needs, then stick to your feelings and follow the trend.
Now, many industries are shuffling and the experience of the original industry is useless. Ma Yun once said, Don’t go to work that can be easily replaced by machines, those work skills that can only be learned through repetitive exercises will be replaced by AI in the future. At this time, you must decisively give up the first curve, and continue to learn, explore new knowledge, and explore the second curve. (End)
References:
1.21 Century Business Report: 820 million people are starving! United Nations: Hunger levels in Africa rose nearly 20% last year
2 interface Journalist:.. RachelLayne, translation: Lu Yuhan. Is the company in a difficult time a layoff or a pay cut? The study found that layoffs are better
3.CMKT Consulting Circle: PricewaterhouseCoopers has changed significantly! Spending 20 billion emergency training staff, this skill will not be eliminated!
4. Tencent.com: There are 8.6 million graduates this year, and I can’t even recruit one person
5. Hunting Talent Officer: Hunting Big Data|The 2018 Third Quarter Recruitment Trend Research Report
6. The investment community: the first China Internet entrepreneurial bubble: the first year, may die every day, the second year, may die every month, the third year may die every quarter | A Brief History of Venture Capital