We scraped recruitment data to restore a real 35-year-old workplace.
Editor’s note: This article comes from WeChat public account “DT Finance” (ID: DTcaijing) < / a>, Author | Luo Yujing, Editor | Xiao Tang, Data Support | Zhilian Recruitment, Design | Zhang Zihao, Zhao Yun.
In the “Star Detective-MGQ Fashion Situation” aired the previous two weeks, the program team designed a case related to the middle-aged crisis:
Sabine plays a 40-year-old fashion editor of the magazine “Old, Old, Dogs” in this episode. Although the monthly income is 12w, he goes to home loan, car loan, son tuition class After the cost, the cost of parental health care and various household expenses, there is only 1 yuan left. After being unreasonably dismissed by the editor, he was too late to find a new job because he was too old. Under the control of the family’s economic burden, he was murderous to the boss …
The setting in the show is a bit exaggerated, but the script is derived from real life emotions. A series of sighs of “Too South” in 2019 are full of the bitterness and bitterness of middle-aged professionals.
Some topics such as # 35 岁 以上 工作 人 去 哪儿 #, # 35 岁 定律 # on Weibo, rushed to hot search, and you can easily get nearly 100 million readings. Know, friends, headlines … everywhere Filled with answers and articles on how to deal with the 35-year-old crisis, “35-year-old crisis” has become a well-known term.
(Picture: “35-year-old crisis” entry in Baidu Encyclopedia)
This makes DT Jun, who is less than 35 years old, somewhat anxious inside: Is it really hard for 35-year-old workers to get a job? What kind of middle-aged crisis do they face? Is there really nowhere other than selling insurance?
DT Finance and Zhilian Recruitment jointly conducted a small study to look at the actual survival of 35-year-old workers through the data of recruiters and candidates.
Is it really hard for 35?
First, we want to know, is 35-year-old really facing a more cruel world?
Roughly judging from the broader demographics, the competition faced by contemporary middle-aged people is not as fierce as their predecessors or juniors.
According to the data of the sixth national census of 2010, the number of middle-aged people aged 34-43 in China will be 198 million by 2019, while the number of people aged 44-53 will be 242 million and the number of people aged 24-33 will be 2.27 Billion.
That is to say, Middle-aged people in the past or in the future are much stronger than the labor force now clamoring for the middle-aged crisis, and what they are facing is not high-speed development gold. ten years.
So why is the topic of the 35-year-old crisis so endless?
Recruiters’ description of job requirements can reflect the changing trend of the workplace to a certain extent.
From the perspective of recruitment needs, of all recruitment positions in the third quarter of 2019, only 5% explicitly require job applicants to be younger than 35.
This proportion does not seem to be high, it may not fully explain the real demand situation of the market. After all, judging from everyone’s daily voicing and our small-scale survey, many companies have harsh requirements on age. The principle of not talking is not written in the job profile.
But we have noticed a changing trend, which clearly requires that the proportion of job seekers under 35 years of age has increased by 2 percentage points compared with two years ago, and the increase is actually quite large (60%). This actually shows that the situation faced by the 35-year-old workplace is indeed more difficult than two years ago.
Taking this 5% of the recruitment positions under the age of 35 as a research sample, we have roughly studied the friendliness of middle-aged workers in different places.
In all kinds of enterprises, the highest percentage of jobs under 35 are state-owned enterprises, while private companies are relatively moderate in job requirements for 35-year-old job seekers.
In terms of company size, The larger the company, the higher the percentage of jobs under 35. Oversized companies with more than 10,000 employees exceeded 6% in 2017; the proportion of large companies with 500-999 shoulders was only 2.1% two years ago, but increased by nearly 4 percentage points to 6% in two years.
Which industries value the 35-year-old age line more?
The proportion of jobs under 35 is getting higher and higher, in fact, it is related to the employment environment and the development of emerging industries.
Linda works as a HR in a big data startup. She told DT Jun: “When recruiting people in the past two years, it will indeed give priority to young people under 35, even young people under 30, especially 18 years of layoffs. After the tide, everyone is really upset. Generally, people who are 35 years of age have more important positions in the company, and our big data belongs to the emerging industry. The company’s business changes quickly, and there are not so many commanders in the exploration stage. , We need more creative and actionable warriors.
Linda ’s words mean that it is important to find a lifelong business before the age of 35.
However, finding a company that can make you fight for life at the age of 35 is just as unreliable as finding a good-looking partner at the age of 20. At this time, selection is critical to the industry.
DT Jun compiled the industries that require the highest and lowest percentage of jobs under 35 in the recruitment requirements for 2019.
We found that, among many industries, the banking, outsourcing services, intermediary services, insurance, and communications industries have the largest age restrictions . In other words, there are relatively more jobs in these industries that require only a young and strong workforce.
But there are also industries such as computer industry, inspection and testing, IT services, academic research, and education and training. The recruitment requirements are relatively forgiving to workers over 35 years old.
If you look at the inherent impressions of these industries, we can think that The industries that value the 35-year-old line more in recruitment are mostly traditional industries that everyone thinks of; and the proportion of posts under 35 is required Among the lowest teams, the proportion of emerging industries will be higher.
In terms of position, business supermarkets and health care, Banking, real estate, community and other basic posts with lower technical thresholds, the highest percentage of jobs requiring less than 35 years of age in recruitment.
To sum up, jobs with simpler work content or lower requirements for intellectual skills will favor young people. After all, people who are middle-aged cannot compare their energy and physical strength to young people. For employers, instead of recruiting a middle-aged employee with a higher cost, it is better to recruit a few fresh college students, be young and strong, and be more productive.
And among the 10 positions that require the lowest percentage of posts under the age of 35, IT, software, hardware development, IT management, Internet products, IT operation and maintenance, etc. account for most of the Internet / technical positions. Innovation requires higher industry positions. At least in terms of recruitment needs, they don’t place too much emphasis on age.
Obviously, this is not consistent with our daily feelings.
The 35-year-old topic is the most frequently talked about, and it is precisely these job practitioners who do not emphasize the age, and those who have more age restrictions in the recruitment needs, the existence is not very strong.
What the hell is this?
Why do you feel “too south” at the age of 35?
We need to be clear that a less restrictive age in an industry or position does not mean that middle-aged job seekers will be favored.
The 35-year-old job seeker has the advantage of having more experience and skills accumulation, while the disadvantage is the lack of physical strength and energy. Competitiveness.
Even if we assume that jobs that do not draw a line at the age of 35 do not require manual labor, it does not mean that experience, accumulation and experience in these positions will have a relatively large value-added effect-if age Buffs cannot be effective, and employers will naturally hire younger, lower-paying job seekers.
So, the key point is whether middle-aged workers have entered their own advantageous industries.
According to the data of the third quarter of 2019 of Zhilian Recruitment, Internet, real estate, education and training, professional services, computer software and other industries crowded out job seekers aged 35 and over, and < strong> Administration / Logistics, Sales Operations, Finance / Audit / Tax, Human Resources and Software / InteractionNetworked development / system integration etc. are the posts they post the most.
We calculated the ratio of the number of resume submissions to the number of final hires in various industries and positions, and named it the competition index to measure the intensity of the competition.
We found that the Internet, real estate, computer software, and IT services industry competition is extremely fierce, and from the job point of view, the competition index of software / Internet development / system integration is even worse. Chen, 97 people participated in the prize, and only 1 person could get an offer. In addition, the competition index of finance / audit / tax, human resources, and administrative positions was also very high.
This means that in the above positions, Middle-aged workers must compete not only with their peers, but also with young people.
So, in these positions, can middle-aged workers get an age bonus to stand out?
We have counted the number of positions that require more than 10 years of work experience in each position. The higher the number, the higher the demand for experience and experience in this position, and the middle-aged workforce will have a comparative advantage .
From the results, the positions that require the most work experience for more than 10 years can be divided into two categories. One is management-oriented, including senior management with the largest proportion, and sales management, production management, and project management. , Quality management and other management posts; the first category is professional, including civil construction, financial auditing, hospital medical, mechanical design, and so on.
The aforementioned fiercely competitive positions in finance / audit / tax, human resources and real estate have the highest demand for work experience, and middle-aged professionals have more capital on these tracks.
But I believe you also noticed that Internet / IT / technology-related jobs filled with job seekers over 35 years of age do not require as much work experience. Although this is a typical high-paying matchRoad, but age does not bring a bonus effect to middle-aged job seekers. If the salary requirements are relatively high, it is difficult to compete with young people who have everything except experience.
We summarize the above analysis. The core problem plagued by the 35-year-old crisis may be that the “ideal” salary and job expectations are different from the “real” competitiveness. The Internet, IT services, and computers Differences in industries such as software are even more serious.
Chen Bin, 38, once worked as a new media operator in an Internet company and now runs a foreign trade company with a friend. He also agrees that some middle-aged job seekers do not match their ideals with reality: “I have seen all walks of life in various industries. Middle-aged job seekers have high salary requirements, but when asked about their core competitiveness, they can’t tell why, and they don’t have any clear plans for their future. “
He has also experienced 35 years old, and believes that there is no 35-year-old crisis, Inability to have crises in every age group: “Football players generally cut salaries by the age of 30. I think the 35-year-old ordinary workplace should accept this fact. You do n’t accept that the beatings of society will keep you awake. Do n’t be arrogant, work hard to improve yourself, at the same time do a good job of managing expectations, and less listen to the media.
This is quite cruel. But the best way to escape from the “35-year-old crisis” is indeed to find the gap between the “ideal” and the “reality” at the root of the problem, and it really shortens it.
Of course, for middle-aged people who already have family bonds and are trying to maintain their quality of life, this is another process of constantly lamenting “Tainan”.
Write here, we suddenly want to end with a passage from “Golden Age”:
“That day I was twenty-one years old, in the golden age of my life. I have a lot of extravagant hopes. I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to become a half-dark cloud in the sky in a flash. Later I knew Life is a slow process of being hammered. People grow old day by day, their luxury hopes disappear day by day, and they finally become like a bull that has been hammered. But I did not foresee this when I was twenty-first birthday. I think I will continue to be fierce forever, nothing can hammer me. “
(At the request of the interviewee, Linda and Chen Bin are pseudonyms)
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We need to be clear that a less restrictive age in an industry or position does not mean that middle-aged job seekers will be favored.
The 35-year-old job seeker has the advantage of having more experience and skills accumulation, while the disadvantage is the lack of physical strength and energy. Competitiveness.
Even if we assume that jobs that do not draw a line at the age of 35 do not require manual labor, it does not mean that experience, accumulation and experience in these positions will have a relatively large value-added effect-if age Buffs cannot be effective, and employers will naturally hire younger, lower-paying job seekers.
So, the key point is whether middle-aged workers have entered their own advantageous industries.
According to the data of the third quarter of 2019 of Zhilian Recruitment, Internet, real estate, education and training, professional services, computer software and other industries crowded out job seekers aged 35 and over, and < strong> Administration / Logistics, Sales Operations, Finance / Audit / Tax, Human Resources and Software / InteractionNetworked development / system integration etc. are the posts they post the most.
We calculated the ratio of the number of resume submissions to the number of final hires in various industries and positions, and named it the competition index to measure the intensity of the competition.
We found that the Internet, real estate, computer software, and IT services industry competition is extremely fierce, and from the job point of view, the competition index of software / Internet development / system integration is even worse. Chen, 97 people participated in the prize, and only 1 person could get an offer. In addition, the competition index of finance / audit / tax, human resources, and administrative positions was also very high.
This means that in the above positions, Middle-aged workers must compete not only with their peers, but also with young people.
So, in these positions, can middle-aged workers get an age bonus to stand out?
We have counted the number of positions that require more than 10 years of work experience in each position. The higher the number, the higher the demand for experience and experience in this position, and the middle-aged workforce will have a comparative advantage .
From the results, the positions that require the most work experience for more than 10 years can be divided into two categories. One is management-oriented, including senior management with the largest proportion, and sales management, production management, and project management. , Quality management and other management posts; the first category is professional, including civil construction, financial auditing, hospital medical, mechanical design, and so on.
The aforementioned fiercely competitive positions in finance / audit / tax, human resources and real estate have the highest demand for work experience, and middle-aged professionals have more capital on these tracks.
But I believe you also noticed that Internet / IT / technology-related jobs filled with job seekers over 35 years of age do not require as much work experience. Although this is a typical high-paying matchRoad, but age does not bring a bonus effect to middle-aged job seekers. If the salary requirements are relatively high, it is difficult to compete with young people who have everything except experience.
We summarize the above analysis. The core problem plagued by the 35-year-old crisis may be that the “ideal” salary and job expectations are different from the “real” competitiveness. The Internet, IT services, and computers Differences in industries such as software are even more serious.
Chen Bin, 38, once worked as a new media operator in an Internet company and now runs a foreign trade company with a friend. He also agrees that some middle-aged job seekers do not match their ideals with reality: “I have seen all walks of life in various industries. Middle-aged job seekers have high salary requirements, but when asked about their core competitiveness, they can’t tell why, and they don’t have any clear plans for their future. “
He has also experienced 35 years old, and believes that there is no 35-year-old crisis, Inability to have crises in every age group: “Football players generally cut salaries by the age of 30. I think the 35-year-old ordinary workplace should accept this fact. You do n’t accept that the beatings of society will keep you awake. Do n’t be arrogant, work hard to improve yourself, at the same time do a good job of managing expectations, and less listen to the media.
This is quite cruel. But the best way to escape from the “35-year-old crisis” is indeed to find the gap between the “ideal” and the “reality” at the root of the problem, and it really shortens it.
Of course, for middle-aged people who already have family bonds and are trying to maintain their quality of life, this is another process of constantly lamenting “Tainan”.
Write here, we suddenly want to end with a passage from “Golden Age”:
“That day I was twenty-one years old, in the golden age of my life. I have a lot of extravagant hopes. I want to love, I want to eat, and I want to become a half-dark cloud in the sky in a flash. Later I knew Life is a slow process of being hammered. People grow old day by day, their luxury hopes disappear day by day, and they finally become like a bull that has been hammered. But I did not foresee this when I was twenty-first birthday. I think I will continue to be fierce forever, nothing can hammer me. “
(At the request of the interviewee, Linda and Chen Bin are pseudonyms)
Cover image from pexels