Not sure about your career direction.

Not clear about their career direction, everyone wants to know what kind of career they are suitable for and what kind of development they will have in the future. However, many people are still confused about their career direction. Let's share it with you. What should I do if I don't know my career direction? Let's have a look.

Don't know your career direction 1 First, determine your career goals.

When considering your career direction, first judge your personality type and hobbies, find your own advantages, and then choose according to your own advantages, current market environment, industry and job development prospects.

1, know your own situation.

(1) Personality and interests

Personality refers to a person's way of doing things and behavior. Interest is what you like to do.

Knowing your own way of doing things and preferences will help you to deeply analyze which professional fields, industries and companies are most suitable for you.

For details, please refer to MBTI test and Dutch career interest test.

(2) life goals

Life goal, that is, what kind of life do you want in 10 years. For example, now that you are 25 years old, what will your ideal life be like when you are 35?

Career goals are closely related to life goals. What kind of life do you want? What kind of professional status can support your ideal life?

You can pick up a pen and keep an account according to the following table.

/kloc-What kind of life do you want in 0/0 years?

2. Analyze the external environment

(1) Industry Overview

If the whole industry goes downhill, then I believe it is difficult for individuals to develop well.

If the scale of an industry is large enough, it is on the rise and there are good development opportunities in your city, then this is an ideal state.

The way to know an industry is simple. The National Bureau of Statistics publishes an industry report every year.

You only need to pay attention to the industry type, industry volume, industry development trend, industry average salary, post salary and other related data.

(II) Post information

When choosing a position, you must abide by the following principles.

Principle 1: Give priority to positions that require certain creativity and are not easily replaced.

Creative work doesn't necessarily mean that you need strong creativity, but you should put forward targeted solutions according to specific situations.

Principle 2: Give priority to core positions.

In a company, the department that creates core value is the core position.

Second, make a scientific plan.

When you determine your career goals, you can clearly know what skills you need to master in order to achieve them.

Then, the next step is action.

However, sharpening the knife does not miss the woodcutter! Before taking action, we need to make a scientific plan to ensure the effective realization of our career goals.

So what is a "scientific" plan?

1, feasible

It means that the plan is not made up by the brain, but a plan based on your past performance.

For example, my monthly salary this year is 5000k, and my plan for next year is 50000k, so the chances of realizing this plan are relatively small.

Step 2 quantify

It means, describe your plan in as much detail as possible.

For example, "I want to be a knowledgeable person", it is better to "read 10 books, and write 1000 words+reading notes for each book".

3. Optimization of duplicate disks

The purpose of the resumption is to know where I have done better this year and where there are still defects, sum up the gains and losses, and then continue the cycle.

Third, execution! Execute! Execute!

No matter how appropriate the direction is, no matter how scientific the plan is, if it is not carried out continuously, it will eventually come to nothing.

I don't know my career direction. 1. Discover my professional advantages.

In the workplace, it is easy to appear such a phenomenon:

After working for several years, many people feel that their work is mediocre and face the risk of being eliminated at any time; And some people can be independent and become team leaders after working for less than a year.

In fact, many times, this is caused by whether a person works in his own advantageous field.

In the international nine-personality occupational test, people's occupational character can be divided into nine types, each of which has its own advantages.

Working at one's own strengths makes it easier to be top-notch; And working in areas that you are not good at, although you can do well, it is difficult to be top-notch.

Type 9 personality chart

For example, if a rational person is allowed to do academics or technology, the probability of achievement will be much greater than that of art.

If you still don't know where your strengths lie, I suggest you take a professional test of Type 9 personality, which is one of the most authoritative occupational test methods recommended by Stanford in the United States at present (online professional version is hard to find, so you can go to my official WeChat account "Xiao Qiang Workplace Theory" to test it, which is officially authorized by Type 9 personality).

Type 9 personality test

It may not give you enough advice, but it can make you clearly understand your own advantages and then combine them to find some favorable career directions.

For example, product managers have high requirements for a person's logical thinking ability and communication ability, which is more suitable for a personality with 5 high IQs;

Project management needs a person's leadership, communication and coordination skills, and emotional intelligence, which is very suitable for a person with high personality who leads No.3 or No.8..

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If you can give full play to your strengths in the workplace, you can easily make extraordinary achievements and even reach the top level.

In addition, about personal advantages, recommend another book. Now, find your advantages.

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Second, position your own industry direction.

Everything has a cycle, and so does our industry.

Industry life cycle

For example, the traditional PC computer, communication industry and construction industry are all very mature in China. Many people who entered this industry as early as the 1990s have already realized the freedom of wealth. But if they choose to enter again at this time, the dividend has disappeared and the growth rate will be much slower.

In fact, this is because the industry has reached a mature period or even a recession, and the growth rate has slowed down. The demand for talents will naturally decline, leaving fewer opportunities for newcomers.

In some industries that are just in the growth stage, it is easy to get "dividends" from some industries, which makes personal competitiveness and wealth grow rapidly. (For example, industries such as artificial intelligence and Internet of Things have reached the growth stage. )

Many seniors in traditional industries like to tell their younger generations how hard they worked in those years to get to their present position and wealth.

But in fact, the real reason is that most of their contemporaries, who entered the industry and persisted, actually lived very well.

Because this is a dividend brought by the development of the industry, it has little to do with personal efforts.

So I suggest that you try to find an industry that is rising at present (and may rise in the future), and then find ways to go to this industry, so as to maximize your growth.

When your career goes up, you don't have time to be confused, do you?

So how do you find these industries?

On the one hand, pay close attention to the support and importance of some industries in the news (for example, there are really many opportunities to pay attention to the important speeches of some leaders).

On the other hand, Zhaopin publishes some professional industry reports every year, from which you can basically understand the situation of some industries in the market.

Based on these reports, we can have a general understanding of the whole industry, and then determine our career direction on this basis.

Zhilian Recruitment Career Related Report

Third, determine your career orientation (by industry/company/position).

How to determine your' small direction' in a big industry?

1, after determining the target industry, you can choose to cut into the post in combination with the personal advantages in the first item.

For example, if you are good at communication, negotiation and team management, I suggest you start from a non-technical position;

If you are good at logical thinking and technical research, you can consider technical posts in new industries;

2. Determine the position according to whether it belongs to the core business.

Generally speaking, a company's jobs can be divided into service jobs, business jobs, support jobs and so on.

For example, administrative, human resources, financial and other positions, which belong to the professional field in a company, are all auxiliary positions. Although it is also very important, it does not involve specific business, and its growth rate is slower than that of business jobs.

Core business positions, such as marketing, growth, research and development, are easy to expand on a large scale when the company's business develops, and the promotion and salary increase are very fast.

Therefore, I personally suggest that when you choose a position, you should combine 1 and 2, and choose one that can give full play to your advantages and ensure that you have a good income.

When choosing a position, I can teach you a measurement method:

List the main factors you value when choosing a job in a table:

take for example

After listing all the factors, score different jobs, and finally get a total score (negative score means you are hard to accept), so you can easily calculate the weight of different jobs in your mind.

Of course, these scores are only your own subjective evaluation, such as company prospects and personal growth, which need some information in Article 2 as a supplement.

Fourth, continue to study (study)-enter the industry-dig deep and look for opportunities.

When you know what you want to do, the most important thing for you is not to submit a resume interview, but to study.

(Of course, fresh graduates can try to invest in unskilled jobs. )

But many jobs, especially technology development, marketing and human resources, actually have certain thresholds. If you want to enter the business directly with zero experience, there are only two ways:

1, take the time to briefly understand an industry, become an intern, and start as a handyman;

The premise of this method is that you have a basic understanding of this industry and the company is willing to take you.

The advantage is that the threshold is relatively low and you can get in touch with things about this position. The disadvantage is that they are basically doing odd jobs, but they can't grasp the core content of the post and grow slowly.

2, through a period of study (or training or through a mentor), directly into the industry, barbaric growth;

I recommend this method more, because it grows faster.

First of all, you learn directly, you have a certain foundation, and the content of your work can be mastered. Secondly, after studying, you can get higher salary, more personal rights than interns, and your personal growth will be faster.

Finally, companies generally pay more attention to matching than ability when recruiting people, so try to rely on their resumes to meet the company's requirements.

Don't know your career direction 3 How to know yourself-know your career direction.

First, first of all, summarize your talents, such as your hobbies, being good at a certain field, temperament, temper, comprehension ability and so on.

Many people choose their careers according to their preferences. Of course, there are many things that you don't like, but they are the most suitable, perhaps because of your personality or talent, but it is very happy to have a career that you like and succeed.

Second, know yourself, maybe you will avoid many detours, because you know it, and you will be familiar with it when you do it.

Comparing with others is not a subjective contest. Everyone has his advantages and disadvantages. Of course, we should discard his shortcomings, take its essence and discard its dross. While constantly improving yourself, find your own shortcomings, make corresponding comparisons, confirm your position and find your own value.

Third, in life, we often hear others' comments on ourselves. Obviously, they are often not face to face. Whether we praise, satirize or criticize, we can draw a certain conclusion. We still know ourselves in front of others, you don't know. At this point, we must achieve a certain benign cognition, and we can't regard this as others' contempt for ourselves. Sometimes it's the truest self. Of course, we can't deny ourselves because of this, but we should improve ourselves and make ourselves better while understanding our own shortcomings.

Fourth, find yourself a mentor-there must be a teacher in a threesome. Actively strive for the first place in the industry and get their evaluation and guidance, which will get twice the result with half the effort. Bystanders see clearly, but the authorities are confused. We all have stubborn times, it is difficult to achieve true self-awareness, and we will miss the opportunity because we are unwilling. If you get the advice of your tutor, you will quickly determine your own direction and get one step closer to success.

For those who want to start a business or work, it is necessary to know whether the environment in various fields is suitable for their integration. It is also necessary to know whether society and family have certain development trends in every field. The main reason for considering this factor is that "it is advantageous to get the moon first". If you have contact, you won't be unfamiliar. Naturally, you can work easily and get some help.

Sixth, know in entrepreneurship-it is never too old to learn. We all reflect on ourselves in the process of continuous creation, continuous improvement and continuous growth, and let us see ourselves in many ways, which has tempered us.

It is to witness some truths while constantly exploring, such as: we didn't understand at first, but dared to try; From the time when we encounter difficulties, we will constantly find ways to find new methods. This is our own growth.