Carry out career planning

[Tang Yutao, editor's note from Tang Lei Studio] Graduate friends who are about to enter the society and face the colorful and complicated industries and positions, who are at a loss as to what to do, or have already People in the workplace who have entered the workplace but feel that their career path is getting narrower and narrower. Do they need to stop temporarily, seriously think about their workplace life, and make comprehensive and long-term plans for future career development? Are you seriously planning your career?

What is career planning? Career planning refers to a person's expectations and plans for the succession of positions he or she will undertake throughout his or her lifetime, including one's learning, productive contribution to a career or organization, and eventual retirement. It can be divided into two categories from different standpoints: individual career planning and employee career planning. Individual career planning is not a simple concept. It is closely related to the family, organization and society in which the individual lives. For an enterprise, it is a systematic and complex management project, because it involves the future development of the enterprise, the setup of the organizational structure, corporate culture, training mechanism, assessment mechanism and promotion mechanism, etc.; at the same time, with the individual values , family environment, work environment and social environment changes, everyone's career expectations have major or minor changes, so it is a process of dynamic change.

For individuals, the quality of career planning will definitely affect the entire life course. The success and failure we often mention are nothing more than the realization of the set goals. Goals are the key to success or failure. Individual life goals are diverse: quality of life goals, career development goals, influence on the outside world, interpersonal environment and other social goals... The factors in the entire goal system are intertwined and influence each other, and career development goals are intertwined with each other in the entire goal system. The center is at the center. Whether this goal is realized or not directly causes different feelings of achievement and frustration, happiness and unpleasantness, and affects the quality of life. For personal career planning, the following elements need to be paid attention to in the method:

→ 1. Determine the individual’s ideal living status;

→ 2. Understand the individual’s various qualities and characteristics and major indispensables. Change the social reality environment and revise the ideal state into a feasible goal;

→ 3. Determine career interests, ideal positions and suitable working atmosphere;

→ 4. Determine the steps to achieve the ideal career Feasible route, formulate short, medium and long-term career progress;

→ 5. Determine the gap between the current status and short-term goals, find an entry point, and start implementing career planning;

→ 6. Periodic summary, reflection, and scientific revision of your career design;

In today's increasingly fierce competition for talents, the human resources management of enterprises is also gradually improving, and they have begun to pay attention to Employee career planning, some companies have even begun to try to include employee career planning as a strategic component of department work to coordinate employees' personal career goals and corporate development vision, so as to form a more cohesive workforce and more Effectively mobilize employees' enthusiasm and creativity. However, employee career planning is a precise project. To do this project well requires not only experience, academic qualifications, enthusiasm, and responsibility, but also rigorous thinking, a scientific method system, and a large investment of time and energy. etc.

Based on the career design method system, the following understandings have been roughly formed:

→ 1. Measure and evaluate employees’ personality characteristics, tendencies and development potential;

→ 2 . On the basis of understanding the comprehensive quality of employees, formulate career development plans for employees and set goals (short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals and life goals), etc.;

→ 3. Regularly communicate with Career instructors and human resources experts conduct conversations and exchanges about employee career development, analyze cases, and listen to expert opinions;

→ 4. Carry out targeted training and development based on employee personality. These training and development are not limited to Skills training and knowledge training, and more importantly, on-the-job practical activities at the professional level, job work and employee career development should be consistent;

→ 5. Pay attention to workplace information and obtain information from institutions such as the talent market Contact us to learn about various career information and career development trends, such as career characteristics and requirements, employment demand status, etc.

Whether it is an individual or a company, when designing a career, it is very necessary to learn from and listen to the opinions of career planning experts, communicate closely with the parties involved, and understand the external workplace and social environment.

Why should we plan our careers?

I would like to share a short story with you first, hoping to inspire you to understand the importance of "career planning":

The earthworm's goal ladder

Earthworms have been my friends since childhood. Earthworm is not his original name. He got his name because he is dark, short and thin.

After we separated at the age of 18, I was wandering around for a living; but Earthworm went to college and everything went smoothly. During the ten years we were apart, we met almost every two or three years. I like to ask him the same question every time: What are your goals for the future?

The answers are always different. Recorded below are Earthworm’s original words every time he talks about his goals:

At the age of 18, at the high school graduation ceremony: I vowed to be Li Ka-shing’s second! I want to be the richest man in China (what a big statement)!

At the age of 20, at the reunion of old classmates during the Spring Festival: I want to start my own company and have assets of 20 million by the time I am 30.

23 years old, working as a technician in a factory, with a second career in stock trading: I am fighting to leave this factory, because working here is too hopeless. I will go all out to speculate in stocks and use 50,000 yuan to make 3 million yuan within three years (it seems somewhat possible).

At the age of 25, I was frustrated in stock trading but happy in love, and began to prepare for marriage: I hope to have 100,000 yuan in a year, so that I can get married in glory (a very realistic idea).

At the age of 26, at a not-so-glorious wedding ceremony: I want to have a fat boy and be a workshop director in the near future. I don’t want anything else (does marriage make a person mature).

At the age of 28, the efficiency of the factory where I worked was declining, which happened to be when my wife was ten months pregnant: I hope my name will never be included in the list of laid-off workers (what else can I say at this time).

As can be seen from the above short story, Earthworm obviously did not make a reasonable plan for his life. When he first started working as a technician, he did not study technology carefully, but went to stock trading, hoping to make money. to 3 million. Later, after failing in stock trading, he suddenly wanted to be a workshop director. In the end, he may not be very proficient in technology, and he was worried that his name would not be included in the laid-off list. His unplanned life is obviously prone to failure.

In fact, if we want to be successful in our future careers, we should first determine a realistic career positioning and career goals, decompose the goals, and then design a reasonable career plan, and Put it into action, through continuous efforts and adjustments, until we finally achieve our career development goals and achieve the greatest success in life.

Reference Reading: The Universal Formula for Success

If we want to achieve great success in our careers, we should first understand the general laws of success.

Anthony Robbins, the American success master, once proposed a universal formula for success:

Success = clear goals + detailed plans + immediate action + inspection and correction + persistence to the end.

We can see from this formula that if we want to succeed, generally we must first understand our goals and detailed plans. We do the same in the career field. We first choose an industry and job that is most suitable for our development, then determine our goals, and at the same time make a preliminary plan for our entire career, and finally put it into action, and often check and revise our goals and plans, and finally stick to them In the end, you will definitely achieve career success.

Several factors that graduates should consider when determining their career positioning

After years of study, the majority of fresh graduates are finally going to work. A problem that many students often face when looking for a job after graduation is that they were not able to study their favorite major when they were a freshman, or after several years of professional courses, they found that the major they originally chose was not suitable. Now that I am about to find a job after graduation, I don’t know whether I should give priority to a job that matches my major, or make a new choice and choose a job that suits me?

In addition, when many students are looking for a job after graduation, what often happens is that when looking for a job, they only consider whether the job is compatible with the major. As for whether the major they studied and the job they want to do are suitable for them. I have never considered it myself; or I blindly send out resumes regardless of company, industry, or job; or in the job intention column of my resume, I write that there are many jobs such as technology, sales, department manager, etc. that are just for, but for They do not have a clear position; some students are under employment pressure. As long as they encounter a unit that wants to hire them, they will quickly sign an employment agreement, regardless of whether the industry and job are suitable for them, and they may sign three contracts at once. Five years.

Of course, many times, due to employment pressure, the above practices are understandable. But at the same time, we should realize that all the above practices are blind to a certain extent and do not consider our employment issues from a comprehensive and long-term perspective. If we blindly make a choice without detailed analysis before looking for a job, then three or five years later, we are likely to find that we are still faced with the dilemma of choice: that is, continue to do the current job, and we feel that the job is not suitable I even feel that every day at work is boring or painful, and I have not made much achievements after working for several years; if I resign and choose another industry or career, it may mean giving up some of the professional knowledge I have accumulated now. Industry background and interpersonal relationships have to pay a very high "opportunity cost".

In fact, our more scientific and rational approach when choosing a career is: before starting to look for a job, we should first conduct a comprehensive understanding and detailed analysis of the outside world and our own situation, and then preliminarily determine our own situation. A career positioning and development direction, and then consciously search for it during the job search process.

From an outside perspective, it mainly refers to the current overall employment environment and employment trends, the current status and development prospects of various industries, some of the employment opportunities you face, and your own family environment and other factors;

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From my own perspective, the main factors to understand and analyze should include:

1. What do I like to do (mainly including professional interests, professional values, etc.);

2. What am I suitable for (mainly including professional personality, temperament, talents, IQ and EQ, etc.);

3. What am I good at (mainly including professional aptitudes, such as verbal expression, logical reasoning, etc.) , number calculations, etc.);

4. What can I do (mainly including my professional knowledge, skills, and work experience, etc.);

Finally, after analyzing the above factors Through comprehensive analysis and weighing, we can initially determine our career positioning and development direction, and during the employment process, we should consciously search for it according to our own career plan. Of course, the basis for "analyzing and weighing" the above factors is that we are familiar with and understand our own professional interests, professional personality and aptitudes.

If we ourselves are not very clear about the work we really like or are suitable for, then we can use the tool of "career assessment" to further discover and understand our career interests, aptitudes and other career characteristics and development potential.

At the same time, the above factors are just a few aspects that we should consider when making career choices. We cannot say which ones are important and which ones are not. Everyone’s situation is different, and everyone has to combine their own Consider the actual situation in detail. At the same time, it should be noted that when we are employed, we consciously look for the job that is most suitable for us. This does not mean that we must not do jobs that are not suitable for us. "Employ first, then choose a career", "Survive first, then make a career" The employment thinking of "development" will have strategic guiding significance for most fresh graduates to find jobs for a long time in the future. It is just that in the process of choosing a career, if we can be more scientific and rational under the premise of ensuring employment Some will undoubtedly be more beneficial to our future success.

How to carry out career planning

Career planning should fully consider the relationship between people, environment, occupation and successful career. So how to plan your career? Below are specific factors and steps you should consider when planning your career.

1. Determine your ambition. Ambition is the basic prerequisite for career success. Without ambition, career success is impossible. As the saying goes: "Without ambition, nothing can be accomplished in the world." Ambition is the starting point of life. It reflects a person's ideals, mind, interests and values, and affects a person's goals and achievements. Therefore, when formulating career planning, we must first establish ambitions, which is the key to formulating career planning.

2. Self-evaluation. The purpose of self-assessment is to know and understand yourself. Because only by knowing yourself can you make the right choice for your career, choose a career route that suits your development, and make the best decision for your career goals. Self-assessment includes one's own interests, talents, personality, knowledge, skills, IQ, emotional intelligence, way of thinking, thinking methods, moral standards and self in society, etc.

3. Assessment of career opportunities. The evaluation of career opportunities is mainly to evaluate the impact of various environmental factors on one's career development. Everyone is in a certain environment. Without this environment, they cannot survive and grow. Therefore, when formulating a personal career plan, it is necessary to analyze the characteristics of environmental conditions, the development and changes of the environment, the relationship between oneself and the environment, one's position in this environment, the requirements that the environment places on oneself, and the advantages of the environment that are beneficial to oneself. Conditions and disadvantages, etc. Only by fully understanding these environmental factors can you avoid disadvantages and seek advantages in a complex environment, making your career planning have practical significance.

Environmental factors assessment mainly includes:

(1) Organizational environment (2) Political environment (3) Social environment (4) Economic environment

4. Occupation choice. Whether the career choice is correct or not is directly related to the success or failure of life and career. According to statistics, 80% of people who choose the wrong career are career losers. As people say, "women are afraid of marrying the wrong man, and men are afraid of choosing the wrong line of work." This shows how important career choice is to life and career development.

How to choose the right career? At least the following points should be considered:

(1) Matching of personality and career;

(2) Interest and Matching of occupation;

(3) Matching of specialty and occupation;

(4) Adaptation of internal and external environment to occupation.

5. Choice of career route. After your career is determined, you have to make a choice as to which route to develop. That is, whether to develop towards the administrative route or the professional and technical route; whether to take the technical route first and then turn to the administrative route... Due to different development routes, the requirements for career development are also different. Therefore, in career planning, you must make choices so that your study, work, and various actions can move along your career route or predetermined direction.

Usually the choice of career route must consider the following three questions:

(1) Which route do I want to develop?

(2) Can I Which route can I develop?

(3) Which route can I develop?

Conduct a comprehensive analysis of the above three questions to determine my best career route.

6. Set career goals. The setting of career goals is the core of career planning. The success or failure of a person's career depends largely on whether he or she has correct and appropriate goals. Without a goal, it is like a lonely boat sailing into the sea. The fields are vast, there is no direction, and you don’t know where you are going. Only by setting a goal can you clarify the direction of your struggle. It is like a lighthouse in the ocean, guiding you to avoid dangerous rocks and dark rocks and move towards success.

Goal setting is a choice of life goals after career choice and career route selection. Their decisions are based on information such as their best abilities, best personality, greatest interests, and most favorable environment. Usually goals are divided into short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals and life goals. Short-term goals are generally one to two years, and short-term goals are divided into daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals, and annual goals. Medium-term goals are generally three to five years. Long-term goals are generally five to ten years.

7. Develop action plans and measures. After determining your career goals, action becomes the key link. Without actions to achieve goals, it will be difficult to achieve the goals, and there will be no success in your career. The actions referred to here refer to specific measures to implement the goals, which mainly include measures in work, training, education, job rotation, etc. For example, in order to achieve your goals, what measures do you plan to take at work to improve your work efficiency? In terms of business quality, what knowledge do you plan to learn and what skills do you plan to master to improve your business capabilities? In terms of potential development, what measures do you plan to take? Measures to develop your potential, etc., must have specific plans and clear measures. And these plans should be very specific so that they can be checked regularly.

8. Evaluation and feedback. As the saying goes: "Plans cannot keep up with changes." Yes, there are many factors that affect career planning. Some changing factors are predictable, while other changing factors are difficult to predict. Under this situation, in order to make career planning effective, career planning must be continuously evaluated and revised. The contents of the revision include: re-selection of career; choice of career route; revision of life goals; changes in implementation measures and plans, etc.