A few things you must know before changing jobs
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01 Once promised If you change, you will change
For many people, the workplace is a birthplace that allows them to reap money, dignity, and goodness for the rest of their lives.
But for Shaman (pseudonym), who has been in the workplace for eight years, this journey is more like a dream.
Xiaman, who graduated in chemical engineering from three universities eight years ago, chose this major because a relative at home told her that she could arrange a job after she graduated.
After entering college, Xiaman found that he didn’t like this major at all, and it was very difficult to learn. It is not too difficult to memorize the exam before passing the exam.
When Xia Man finally managed to graduate, relatives said that the friend who was able to help before changed the unit, and it was up to Xia Man to find a job.
Charman was completely panicked.
At the time of the interview, Xia Man found that his professional performance was too poor, and that he did not accumulate practical experience and abilities in the university, so that he was good at what he did and liked to do, etc., completely blank.
Several times, Shaman came to a company and became a clerk.
The clerk’s salary is low and the affairs are trivial. I heard that civil servants are treated well and stable, so she plunged into the civil servant’s examination review.
This test is five years, but unfortunately it didn’t produce any results.
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According to Xiaman’s reflection, she found that she underestimated the difficulty of civil servant examinations, and that the scope of application for the chemical major itself was narrow: either unlimited Professional posts, because of the lack of professional conditions, the competition in this part of the job is extremely fierce; or you can apply for related posts such as the Quality and Environmental Protection Administration of Drug Administration, and this part of the job is not very interesting.
In the fifth year, Shaman ’s dream of a civil servant was gradually broken. She felt that she might not be expected to be a civil servant. At the same time, Shaman ’s company had also been dissolved. In the past five years, she hasn’t improved her salary or position in the past five years.
When Charman returned to the talent market to find a job again, he found that he was almost the same as when he was out of school. Confusion and anxiety are increasing day by day.
NoneHowever, Charman switched to telemarketing.
However, Shaman did not expect that high income is accompanied by high pressure and high intensity. The income from telephone sales is mainly based on commissions. If a salesperson does not place an order for six months in a row, he will be eliminated.
Shalman came to the talent market again with his resume six months later.
In such a stumble, Xiaman did a lot of work during the eight years: in addition to the first clerk working longer, the remaining experience was half a year and short one month. There was no connection between the occupations before and after, See no signs of development.
02 To establish a direction Understand common career paths
In fact, in many majors, including chemical engineering, the common career paths are broadly classified as follows:
I. Development in a professional or industry (technical career direction)
In this direction, it can be further subdivided into three roads, namely academic courses, technical courses and business routes.
1. Academic course
Suitable for those who really love the profession, which is manifested by a strong desire for knowledge and exploration of this profession, can actively read professional books and is willing to think, you can consider developing this way.
If you can read the boring and complicated Chinese and foreign literatures alone, and love to study and discuss problems, and you can stand the loneliness and loneliness, you can read a doctor all the way.
After you have completed your PhD, your career path is relatively narrow. You can also understand that after purgatory reading practice, all you can stay is true love.
The most common occupation destination of these people is universities, research institutes or large enterprises, while foreign doctors continue to squeeze the living space of local doctors. Therefore, if one is really determined to take the academic path, it is best to go to a well-known overseas university Stay for a few years, or you will face fierce competition in the future.
2. Technical route
Some people have neither love nor dislike for this major, but they do n’t like to study too much theoretical knowledge, and do n’t like to spend time and energy to do a lot of experiments and trial and error. It ’s better to be in a familiar professional field (at least exam To pass) Start from the application-oriented direction and choose a field that you prefer.
In the field of application, for example, psychology mainly involves the direction of counseling and treatment and human resource management, including personnel psychology, labor psychology, consumer psychology, advertising psychology, engineering psychology, environmental psychology, sports training psychology, etc. .
Therefore, if a graduate of psychology major is not so passionate about this major but is willing to develop in this field, TA can consider going to a company to do HR, an advertising company to do copywriting planning, promotion operations and other related positions.
Of course, this route is more accumulative. Based on a professional background,It is even more necessary to improve technical skills. For example, if graduates of psychology major are engaged in the advertising industry, TA should know how to write moving copywriting than graduates of other majors.
After many years, the achievements in this field are not like the first line measured by scientific research results, but by project results, such as what successful projects you have done, and so on.
3. Business routes
Some people are outgoing, love to communicate, and are not interested in academic or technical fields, so it is a good way to choose product sales related to this specialty.
Take the example of the chemical profession studied by Xiaman. Chemical raw materials are the basis of many manufacturing industries and an important source of many consumer goods. Therefore, the market for chemical products is quite large, and many products are closely related to our lives.
Not only do you need to deal with others, but you must also be proficient in using PPT, E-sheet and other software for analysis reports, and you cannot evade the professional knowledge of the product.
If sales are done well, you can switch to marketing planning, you can also engage in management or training, or use your accumulated contacts and channels to start your own business and completely end your working life.
Second, non-technical career direction
This path depends more on personal interests and abilities.
Here are just three directions in combination with Xiaman’s chemical specialty.
1. Patent Attorney / Intellectual Property Attorney
Patent agencies have high professional requirements. They need to have a certain professional background and intellectual property knowledge to be competent.
The main business of this post is to help clients successfully apply for patents until they are authorized, and even deal with litigation.
It has strong requirements for writing ability.
Because of the need to write a report, there are no requirements for technology and experiments. The difficulty is that the pass rate of the qualification certificate is low (about 15%). Before you can obtain a certificate, you can only fight for it. After you have the certificate, you can go to the patent office With some experience, if you have a lawyer’s card, you can engage in litigation agency for intellectual property rights.
2. Inspection engineer, certification engineer
Because of the wide variety of chemical products and the large market, there is a great demand for engineers in the field of chemical inspection and testing (mainly referring to professional inspection and testing enterprises).
This part needs to master different inspection standards and quality management systems according to your specific industry and product needs. Of course, this is also a field that is accumulated over time, and it depends on actual experience and qualifications.
3.Web editor or industry information officer
This is mainly for online media posts, focusing on websites, forums, and WeChat public accounts.
Large platforms such as NetEase and Fenghuang.com have their own technology channels. Network editors or journalists with engineering backgrounds are required. They have higher requirements for text and information collection capabilities.
Other industriesWebsites such as China Chemical Industry Network also need professional background information workers and editors; there are also some chemical public accounts, which also need people with professional background to operate, preferably with Internet thinking, and so on.
03 A career direction that suits you Half the success of the workplace
Xiaman told me that many of her classmates have achieved good development. Now it seems that they all have a common characteristic, which is to choose the direction that suits them, and then continue to exert force in one direction.
Sharman’s class leader followed the academic path.
The monitor is very fond of this major. He studied hard. After graduating from undergraduate, he was admitted to a well-known university. After graduating from there, he graduated with outstanding grades. He was promoted to be the youngest associate professor in the school.
Aning (a pseudonym), a slow-moving classmate, is taking a technical path.
Aning went to a private company engaged in production management after graduating from undergraduate school, and then worked all the way to workshop management. This coincided with the company’s preparation for the establishment of a new factory, and Aning was promoted to be the director of the branch factory.
Xiao Liang, a cheerful cultural and entertainment commissioner, has become very popular in the business field.
Xiao Liang graduated with a master’s degree, and then entered a foreign company for sales. He changed several companies in the middle and slowly won some product agency rights. Now he is preparing for entrepreneurship and is full of confidence.
……
As Xiao Man said, her classmates may not have made any amazing achievements, but in the category of ordinary people, they all live well.
Only Xiaoman, has not improved for years.
If time can go back in time, Xiaoman should make a comprehensive evaluation of herself when she finds her first job, and check one by one from will to ability, and finally determine a career direction that suits her, accumulated over eight years, I should also have a good result.
Rather than like now, it is like a duckweed wandering around, unable to take root in a field, and naturally it cannot be said that it will blossom.
To Xiaoman now, first of all, he needs to accept the status quo, secondly, he needs to re-evaluate himself, and finally find a direction and start again. It is not impossible.
After some consultation, Xiaoman finally established his career direction.
At the same time, I hope very much that Xiao Man’s story will not repeat itself.
After all, life is only a few decades, and career development opportunities are not necessarily there. It is better to start the career as soon as possible.
-
We must know that the value of life lies in choice. Our thoughts and efforts in terms of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and self-discipline are far away.Much more than self-awareness and exploration, this is a great sorrow, and it is the deep cause of many people’s professional confusion.
What’s more terrible is that if we have always lacked the awareness of self-recognition and choice, for a long time, our lives will be flooded with large sections of confusion. I am afraid we will never find ourselves again.
About the author
Zhao Xiaoli, senior career planner, national psychological consultant, workplace writer. Author of the best-selling book “Stop Blind Efforts: Your Life Needs Redesign”, based on career analysis case analysis, has become one of the few practical consulting and personal development books in the field of career planning. The new book “From Minimalist to Extreme: Be a Good Person in Your Field of Excellence” in the 2018 career planning and work methods dry goods category was named the top ten best books in economics and management in 2018. WeChat public account “丽 语 职 美人” (crystal_words), Sina Weibo @ 赵晓 璃.
According to Xiaman’s reflection, she found that she underestimated the difficulty of civil servant examinations, and that the scope of application for the chemical major itself was narrow: either unlimited Professional posts, because of the lack of professional conditions, the competition in this part of the job is extremely fierce; or you can apply for related posts such as the Quality and Environmental Protection Administration of Drug Administration, and this part of the job is not very interesting.
In the fifth year, Shaman ’s dream of a civil servant was gradually broken. She felt that she might not be expected to be a civil servant. At the same time, Shaman ’s company had also been dissolved. In the past five years, she hasn’t improved her salary or position in the past five years.
When Charman returned to the talent market to find a job again, he found that he was almost the same as when he was out of school. Confusion and anxiety are increasing day by day.
NoneHowever, Charman switched to telemarketing.
However, Shaman did not expect that high income is accompanied by high pressure and high intensity. The income from telephone sales is mainly based on commissions. If a salesperson does not place an order for six months in a row, he will be eliminated.
Shalman came to the talent market again with his resume six months later.
In such a stumble, Xiaman did a lot of work during the eight years: in addition to the first clerk working longer, the remaining experience was half a year and short one month. There was no connection between the occupations before and after, See no signs of development.
02 To establish a direction Understand common career paths
In fact, in many majors, including chemical engineering, the common career paths are broadly classified as follows:
I. Development in a professional or industry (technical career direction)
In this direction, it can be further subdivided into three roads, namely academic courses, technical courses and business routes.
1. Academic course
Suitable for those who really love the profession, which is manifested by a strong desire for knowledge and exploration of this profession, can actively read professional books and is willing to think, you can consider developing this way.
If you can read the boring and complicated Chinese and foreign literatures alone, and love to study and discuss problems, and you can stand the loneliness and loneliness, you can read a doctor all the way.
After you have completed your PhD, your career path is relatively narrow. You can also understand that after purgatory reading practice, all you can stay is true love.
The most common occupation destination of these people is universities, research institutes or large enterprises, while foreign doctors continue to squeeze the living space of local doctors. Therefore, if one is really determined to take the academic path, it is best to go to a well-known overseas university Stay for a few years, or you will face fierce competition in the future.
2. Technical route
Some people have neither love nor dislike for this major, but they do n’t like to study too much theoretical knowledge, and do n’t like to spend time and energy to do a lot of experiments and trial and error. It ’s better to be in a familiar professional field (at least exam To pass) Start from the application-oriented direction and choose a field that you prefer.
In the field of application, for example, psychology mainly involves the direction of counseling and treatment and human resource management, including personnel psychology, labor psychology, consumer psychology, advertising psychology, engineering psychology, environmental psychology, sports training psychology, etc. .
Therefore, if a graduate of psychology major is not so passionate about this major but is willing to develop in this field, TA can consider going to a company to do HR, an advertising company to do copywriting planning, promotion operations and other related positions.
Of course, this route is more accumulative. Based on a professional background,It is even more necessary to improve technical skills. For example, if graduates of psychology major are engaged in the advertising industry, TA should know how to write moving copywriting than graduates of other majors.
After many years, the achievements in this field are not like the first line measured by scientific research results, but by project results, such as what successful projects you have done, and so on.
3. Business routes
Some people are outgoing, love to communicate, and are not interested in academic or technical fields, so it is a good way to choose product sales related to this specialty.
Take the example of the chemical profession studied by Xiaman. Chemical raw materials are the basis of many manufacturing industries and an important source of many consumer goods. Therefore, the market for chemical products is quite large, and many products are closely related to our lives.
Not only do you need to deal with others, but you must also be proficient in using PPT, E-sheet and other software for analysis reports, and you cannot evade the professional knowledge of the product.
If sales are done well, you can switch to marketing planning, you can also engage in management or training, or use your accumulated contacts and channels to start your own business and completely end your working life.
Second, non-technical career direction
This path depends more on personal interests and abilities.
Here are just three directions in combination with Xiaman’s chemical specialty.
1. Patent Attorney / Intellectual Property Attorney
Patent agencies have high professional requirements. They need to have a certain professional background and intellectual property knowledge to be competent.
The main business of this post is to help clients successfully apply for patents until they are authorized, and even deal with litigation.
It has strong requirements for writing ability.
Because of the need to write a report, there are no requirements for technology and experiments. The difficulty is that the pass rate of the qualification certificate is low (about 15%). Before you can obtain a certificate, you can only fight for it. After you have the certificate, you can go to the patent office With some experience, if you have a lawyer’s card, you can engage in litigation agency for intellectual property rights.
2. Inspection engineer, certification engineer
Because of the wide variety of chemical products and the large market, there is a great demand for engineers in the field of chemical inspection and testing (mainly referring to professional inspection and testing enterprises).
This part needs to master different inspection standards and quality management systems according to your specific industry and product needs. Of course, this is also a field that is accumulated over time, and it depends on actual experience and qualifications.
3.Web editor or industry information officer
This is mainly for online media posts, focusing on websites, forums, and WeChat public accounts.
Large platforms such as NetEase and Fenghuang.com have their own technology channels. Network editors or journalists with engineering backgrounds are required. They have higher requirements for text and information collection capabilities.
Other industriesWebsites such as China Chemical Industry Network also need professional background information workers and editors; there are also some chemical public accounts, which also need people with professional background to operate, preferably with Internet thinking, and so on.
03 A career direction that suits you Half the success of the workplace
Xiaman told me that many of her classmates have achieved good development. Now it seems that they all have a common characteristic, which is to choose the direction that suits them, and then continue to exert force in one direction.
Sharman’s class leader followed the academic path.
The monitor is very fond of this major. He studied hard. After graduating from undergraduate, he was admitted to a well-known university. After graduating from there, he graduated with outstanding grades. He was promoted to be the youngest associate professor in the school.
Aning (a pseudonym), a slow-moving classmate, is taking a technical path.
Aning went to a private company engaged in production management after graduating from undergraduate school, and then worked all the way to workshop management. This coincided with the company’s preparation for the establishment of a new factory, and Aning was promoted to be the director of the branch factory.
Xiao Liang, a cheerful cultural and entertainment commissioner, has become very popular in the business field.
Xiao Liang graduated with a master’s degree, and then entered a foreign company for sales. He changed several companies in the middle and slowly won some product agency rights. Now he is preparing for entrepreneurship and is full of confidence.
……
As Xiao Man said, her classmates may not have made any amazing achievements, but in the category of ordinary people, they all live well.
Only Xiaoman, has not improved for years.
If time can go back in time, Xiaoman should make a comprehensive evaluation of herself when she finds her first job, and check one by one from will to ability, and finally determine a career direction that suits her, accumulated over eight years, I should also have a good result.
Rather than like now, it is like a duckweed wandering around, unable to take root in a field, and naturally it cannot be said that it will blossom.
To Xiaoman now, first of all, he needs to accept the status quo, secondly, he needs to re-evaluate himself, and finally find a direction and start again. It is not impossible.
After some consultation, Xiaoman finally established his career direction.
At the same time, I hope very much that Xiao Man’s story will not repeat itself.
After all, life is only a few decades, and career development opportunities are not necessarily there. It is better to start the career as soon as possible.
-
We must know that the value of life lies in choice. Our thoughts and efforts in terms of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and self-discipline are far away.Much more than self-awareness and exploration, this is a great sorrow, and it is the deep cause of many people’s professional confusion.
What’s more terrible is that if we have always lacked the awareness of self-recognition and choice, for a long time, our lives will be flooded with large sections of confusion. I am afraid we will never find ourselves again.
About the author
Zhao Xiaoli, senior career planner, national psychological consultant, workplace writer. Author of the best-selling book “Stop Blind Efforts: Your Life Needs Redesign”, based on career analysis case analysis, has become one of the few practical consulting and personal development books in the field of career planning. The new book “From Minimalist to Extreme: Be a Good Person in Your Field of Excellence” in the 2018 career planning and work methods dry goods category was named the top ten best books in economics and management in 2018. WeChat public account “丽 语 职 美人” (crystal_words), Sina Weibo @ 赵晓 璃.
Xiaman told me that many of her classmates have achieved good development. Now it seems that they all have a common characteristic, which is to choose the direction that suits them, and then continue to exert force in one direction.
Sharman’s class leader followed the academic path.
The monitor is very fond of this major. He studied hard. After graduating from undergraduate, he was admitted to a well-known university. After graduating from there, he graduated with outstanding grades. He was promoted to be the youngest associate professor in the school.
Aning (a pseudonym), a slow-moving classmate, is taking a technical path.
Aning went to a private company engaged in production management after graduating from undergraduate school, and then worked all the way to workshop management. This coincided with the company’s preparation for the establishment of a new factory, and Aning was promoted to be the director of the branch factory.
Xiao Liang, a cheerful cultural and entertainment commissioner, has become very popular in the business field.
Xiao Liang graduated with a master’s degree, and then entered a foreign company for sales. He changed several companies in the middle and slowly won some product agency rights. Now he is preparing for entrepreneurship and is full of confidence.
……
As Xiao Man said, her classmates may not have made any amazing achievements, but in the category of ordinary people, they all live well.
Only Xiaoman, has not improved for years.
If time can go back in time, Xiaoman should make a comprehensive evaluation of herself when she finds her first job, and check one by one from will to ability, and finally determine a career direction that suits her, accumulated over eight years, I should also have a good result.
Rather than like now, it is like a duckweed wandering around, unable to take root in a field, and naturally it cannot be said that it will blossom.
To Xiaoman now, first of all, he needs to accept the status quo, secondly, he needs to re-evaluate himself, and finally find a direction and start again. It is not impossible.
After some consultation, Xiaoman finally established his career direction.
At the same time, I hope very much that Xiao Man’s story will not repeat itself.
After all, life is only a few decades, and career development opportunities are not necessarily there. It is better to start the career as soon as possible.
-
We must know that the value of life lies in choice. Our thoughts and efforts in terms of cost-effectiveness, efficiency, and self-discipline are far away.Much more than self-awareness and exploration, this is a great sorrow, and it is the deep cause of many people’s professional confusion.
What’s more terrible is that if we have always lacked the awareness of self-recognition and choice, for a long time, our lives will be flooded with large sections of confusion. I am afraid we will never find ourselves again.
About the author
Zhao Xiaoli, senior career planner, national psychological consultant, workplace writer. Author of the best-selling book “Stop Blind Efforts: Your Life Needs Redesign”, based on career analysis case analysis, has become one of the few practical consulting and personal development books in the field of career planning. The new book “From Minimalist to Extreme: Be a Good Person in Your Field of Excellence” in the 2018 career planning and work methods dry goods category was named the top ten best books in economics and management in 2018. WeChat public account “丽 语 职 美人” (crystal_words), Sina Weibo @ 赵晓 璃.