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Knowing that there is a question called “How important is the choice of the first job? What needs to be considered?” When I saw this question, I suddenly remembered that there was a “Xi Zhaofeng” in the fifth season of Qi Wei. The teacher gave an example.

There is a saying in the economics world that he thinks it is the first verse, says economist Irving Fisher: “Investment is a balanced consumption in the time dimension.”

Different occupations, different lifestyles, and different income rhythms.

If you divide the income rhythm into three types, you can divide it into:

1. Plain and faint: Some people work for youth and retire in their later years. The income is basically unchanged and relatively stable;

2, juvenile dedication: young people’s income is very high, but immediately turned sharply;

3, big machine late molding: When young, life is very bitter, and after middle age, income begins to increase.

Economy tells us that no one is the best, and we are pursuing the maximization of life-cycle income in the life cycle. What we ask for is the largest area under the curve.

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According to the above theory, we can get at least three conclusions:

First, the “occupation type” determines the “revenue rhythm”;

Second, we must pursue the maximization of income in life, rather than maximizing the income of the moment;

Three, long life, in order to maximize. So in any case, maintaining good health is the first priority, whether you are young or not. (Unless, you have the privilege of choosing a “Junior Dedication” type of work, but unfortunately it is particularly short-lived…so you don’t know if this is “fortunate” or “unfortunate”)

Of course, these three types of income rhythms do not include career types in all situations, but at least we can also know that:

Our career development is “non-linear.”

Nonlinear means that the career development of most people may beTake two steps, step back, take three steps, and take two steps.

So our expectations for career development become more reasonable: a job can hardly directly influence the direction of your overall career development.

For example, I knew a friend and graduated from an ordinary undergraduate English major. After graduation, I entered a foreign company in Shanghai and lived a “small-funded pension” life of “9 to 5”. The job content is a simple and repeated department assistant job, which is to process various orders, reports and translate some documents every day.

The monthly salary is 6000. The salary change is a fixed salary increase of 5%-10% per year. The relative welfare of foreign companies is relatively good. One radish is a pit, it is very stable, and the basic promotion is hopeless.

After two years, I changed jobs again, but since I have not accumulated “core skills” in the past few years, I have found similar jobs and “alternatively strong” work.

Even some jobs “can be done by individuals”, without showing any personal value, and for another year, the salary will remain at 8K, and they will not be able to mention it.

After being recommended by a friend, I accidentally entered a game industry to do market work, only to find that I like the job, and can do well, can bring benefits to the enterprise.

In the blink of an eye for 2 years, it has become the head of a department. The monthly salary has risen from 5K at the beginning to 15K, and the future can be expected.

A five-year career before her graduation, it can be said that it is not a smooth sailing, and has experienced a long period of exploration and shock, in order to find a suitable development direction.

Now, look back at the first half of the question: “How important is the choice of the first job?” If you understand that “everyone’s career development is non-linear,” you know, The first job is important, but it doesn’t matter to determine your entire career.

When many large companies are recruiting, there are clear rules for the resignation frequency of people who have graduated for five years: they cannot change three jobs within five years, the average work time is not less than two years, or one job is For more than three years, the first job just graduated can be no more than two years.

It is obvious that even large companies are very tolerant of the short working hours of the first job.

For my high school classmates, I have wasted a lot of time for so many years. If someone tells her earlier how to choose the industry, how to find a position, or how to “organize the trial and error,” she will already In this industry, there is a longer period of continuous accumulation, and the development will be better.

If you only hit the job that suits you by changing your job, it will not only consume time, but also reach middle age in a blink of an eye, and you will not compete with young people for “primary positions.” Qualifications.

So, how important is the first job, we needKnow the following conclusions:

1. Although the first job is important, it is not important to determine your entire career. Even if it is wrong, it is normal, but we need to know how to correct our decisions in a timely manner.

2. The important thing about the first job is to choose a job that suits you as early as possible.

It will shorten your trial and error cycle, reduce your trial and error costs, and have a high continuity of professional development. You will have more time to accumulate in the same industry than others, and become an industry expert earlier.

3. The profession itself is non-linear, the career is very long, and the environment changes very quickly. Therefore, it is necessary to adjust the strategy of career development according to the changes of the environment and its own situation.

There is no one-size-fits-all career plan.

4. Work is only part of life, and life is conclusive.

5. The sooner you do career planning, the better, you need to know how to choose the industry, company and position, and know yourself.

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Although everyone can be the one who is “big late”, the company can accept the first job for a short time, but after all, choosing a “reliable” job from the beginning can really make us Take a lot of detours.

So I came to the second half of the question: What should I consider when looking for my first job?

If we are pursuing the maximization of income in our lives (at least the maximization of income at each stage of the career), then we have to focus on the following two principles when choosing a job:

One is to understand the “revenue rhythm” of different “work types”.

The second is not to pursue the maximization of immediate income, but to choose a career in the medium and long-term time dimension.

First, what is the “revenue rhythm” of different types of work?

Understand the “revenue rhythm” of different “work types”, in other words, to understand the income rhythm of different positions in different industries. (The side can reflect the difficulty of entering the industry/post, the marketability of developability and personal ability).

Why is the choice of industry important?

Because of the track in an industry, the size of the volatility, the difficulty of joining, and the development prospects directly affect the prospects of your career development.

The warm stone had a student 3 years ago. After working in Guangzhou for six years, she made up her mind to switch from traditional paper media to new Internet media and changed three companies.

After more than 4 months in a company, from ordinary employees to the backbone of the company, the most important thing is that the salary also has a triple jump in the process, from the annual salary of 80,000 to the boss’s active salary increase. 200,000 / year (this is still three years ago).

Google CEO Schmidt said: If someone gives you a rocketFor a position, then don’t worry about the location, go up and talk.

This is exactly the same as what Lei Jun said, “Standing on the wind, the pigs can take off.” The essence is the same, meaning: first select the trend, then adjust the position.

From an industry choice point of view, the most intuitive need to understand at least the following aspects of information, past, present and future:

1. What is the development background of the industry (past)? The development background refers to what is the stage of development of this industry and the reasons for its development.

2. What is the current state of development of the industry (now). Including industry scale, business model, industry drivers, user groups, employees and so on.

With this information, you basically have a big concept of the development of the entire industry, including understanding the situation of some practitioners, but also to understand, join you into the industry, your future development What might be.

3. Understand the future development trend of the industry (future).

This is easy to understand. I know the development background of the industry, the current situation of the industry, and know the future development trend. I basically have a clear understanding of the overall situation of this industry.

So, it doesn’t exist anymore, you said, you don’t understand the situation, don’t know how to choose.

So you may have the following two questions:

1. I just graduated and I am not a practitioner in this industry. How can I get this information?

Answer: Check. Where to check? Go to some professional industry research websites, such as: iResearch, Yiou think tank, easy view industry insight, Aurora big data and so on.

2, the industry is so much, I want to investigate all?

Answer: Combine the following two points to do research:

(1) Find 3 industries you are interested in to investigate

(2) Select according to the salary distribution of each industry

The three things we need to know about the position are:

1. The choice of position and company depends entirely on the lifestyle you are pursuing. For those who are motivated and desire, and those who want to be comfortable, are two people from different worlds.

The biggest mistake is to let a person who wants to be comfortable have to be self-motivated and desire; to step on the feet of those who have ambition and desire, and to extinguish his desires.

There is no right or wrong between the two, but the choice is different, depending on who you are. The position is the same as that of the company. There is relatively little security pressure, and there is pressure and growth.

2, posts can be roughly divided into three categories:

• Technology:

  Programmer (front, backstage development, operation and maintenance, testing), products – professional, technicalHigh background requirements

• Business:

  Market, operation, sales – the threshold is relatively low, the challenge is relatively large

• Support post:

  Finance, human resources (recruitment, administration), legal affairs – stable, more repetitive, partial paperwork

3. Understand the trend of salary changes in different positions within five years.

(The same report can be found online, and the search results are not presented here)

Combined with the above three points, basically you have a general understanding of “what position to choose in any industry”, the rest is to carefully study the work content of the post, find a way to apply for success, this is another The problem is.

Second, what should you pay attention to when choosing a career in the medium- and long-term time dimension?

Into a company, almost everyone’s appeals are all reflected in two aspects: one is the increase in salary, and the other is personal growth.

I suggest that for those who are new to the workplace, don’t just focus on the high salary at the moment, and ignore the improvement of the really important personal ability.

The personal growth here is divided into other people to teach you, and to exercise and learn.

So, the person who gets the most out of your work is your immediate leader. In the workplace, “following people” is almost the most important thing.

Especially in the stage of entering the workplace, the personality and style of your direct leadership directly affects the development of your professionalism, habits, ways of thinking, working methods, etc., and will also guide you to avoid many detours.

His level, on the side, reflects the level you might reach in the next few years.