Three suggestions to teach you how to survive the 35-year crisis in the workplace

Recently, I encountered several consulting cases of 35-year-old+encountering workplace bottlenecks or crises.

As a person over 35 years old, I transformed into a career consultant before the crisis. Sometimes I see peers who are dismissed from the workplace without being prepared in advance. I really sympathize with them in my heart and hope to help them as much as I can.

Retirement at 35 and retirement at 40 is nothing new.

Because some people have turned a good hand into a bad hand, and now they want to make changes, but they don't know where to start. The reality is so cruel; Some people have spent a comfortable 10 year in a stable workplace, thinking that they can guarantee your retirement, but one day they were asked by the company to leave, and they were completely out of shape. I don't know what to do.

Mr. A, logistics director of a foreign company, is 37 years old. He found that he couldn't adapt to the new company's culture after he recently jumped to a new company. He doesn't get along well with the leaders. He is depressed every day and wants to change his job. However, the position of director of a foreign company is not random, it depends on the opportunity.

Mr. B, who works as an operation planner in an Internet company, is 36 years old and has a strong sense of workplace crisis. He wanted to go for an interview in a different environment and found that the CEOs of many Internet companies were born after 90.

Ms. C, 38, vice president of a state-owned enterprise, has been in this state-owned enterprise for 10 years. Some time ago, she was asked out because of a high-rise earthquake. She never thought of such a situation. She was completely caught off guard and wanted to start a business, but she didn't know how to start a business, so she faced an embarrassing situation when looking for a job.

Then why is there a 35-year-old crisis in the workplace? I think the reasons are divided into internal and external environment.

From the external environment, we have encountered a turbulent era of change, and the change is getting faster and faster. Traditional industries and foreign companies are gradually declining, and new trends such as the Internet and artificial intelligence account for more and more. The social demand for personnel is undergoing great changes, as are civil servants and state-owned enterprises, which were once regarded as iron rice bowls. This society no longer has the "so-called security" iron rice bowl. If in this era, if you still insist on your self-styled and don't learn new things, you will soon be eliminated by this era.

In addition, according to the career theory, most people's career development line is divided into three stages, rising-maintaining-falling. The development cycle of different occupations is different, but generally in enterprises, the rising period of career development is between 25 and 35 years old, the speed of career development is very fast, and the career income is rising very fast. After the age of 35, it gradually entered the maintenance period, and entered the middle and senior management at the age of 35-45, with a gentle upward trend and finally reached the peak of career development. During the maintenance period after the age of 35, the upward trend of career development will be relatively flat, so some crises come from their own hearts. Because from the rising period to the maintenance period, many people feel that they are no longer rising, so they feel anxious.

After the age of 35+, as your position gets higher and higher, there will be less and less demand for positions at the top of the pyramid, such as senior managers, directors and vice presidents. At this time, job-hopping is not just a jump, but also depends on whether there are corresponding opportunities.

In the past, in the era of our parents, even if we stopped growing after the age of 35, we could use the experience of the past ten years to overcome the workplace crisis, but now, the past experience is worthless. Because knowledge changes too fast, to be honest, there are fewer and fewer industries with valuable experience. For example, what about Internet programmers with decades of experience? When a new language comes out, they still learn it again with reading glasses. Moreover, the emergence of artificial intelligence may completely make an industry disappear from our eyes.

From the internal environment, I found some similarities among these 35-year-old visitors facing the workplace crisis.

First, there is nothing wrong with their professional ability, but they only cared about their work before and didn't take care of their personal resources.

Second, keep two points and one line all the year round. Apart from work, I have never kept myself in close contact with the outside world and kept myself curious.

Third, I have worked in a company for more than 5 years, even more than 10 years, or I have never skipped the slot in my career. This company is the whole of his career, because he has never been in contact with other companies or other environments before, and he lacks understanding of the outside world and is full of fear.

Anyway, the crisis at the age of 35 (or 40) in the future is a high probability event. How do we get through these crises?

If you haven't reached the age of 35, or haven't encountered a career crisis, I hope you can prepare in advance from now on.

1) Establish your own circle of contacts, attend more industry or industry external meetings, and establish your own influence.

After the age of 35, if you are still looking for a job through your resume on the recruitment website Haitou, then you must re-examine yourself. The best job-hopping method is internal recommendation or headhunter recommendation, and internal recommendation takes into account your contacts. Circle, both inside and outside the industry need you to manage with your heart.

It is also important to update your resume regularly even if you don't change jobs. Updating resume is a process of reviewing past professional experience and a way to test professional competitiveness. If HR or headhunters in other companies don't contact you actively after updating their resumes, you really need to take stock of your professional competitiveness in advance, find a few familiar headhunters and keep in touch regularly.

2) Don't stop learning, including professional knowledge learning and life learning.

Now we have entered an era of lifelong learning. The concept of illiteracy doesn't just refer to those who can't read. In addition, learning resources are so rich and easy to obtain. In order not to be eliminated by society, continuous learning must be our essential ability.

If you are old, you should study more. How long has it been since you read a book or learned something new?

3) Keep the ability to choose at any time.

You can stay in a company for a long time, and you don't have to choose to change jobs, but you should always keep your choice. Because there is no so-called stable job in the world, we will all face this problem in the end.

Compared with slash youth, we should be slash middle-aged. Besides your own work, you must have your own slash label. If you don't have it now, you must find out what you are good at in your hobbies and cultivate slash ability, such as children's photographers, Tik Tok experts, business experts, career consultants, professional trainers, financial consultants, illustrators, flower arrangers, baking experts and so on.

If you have experienced a 35-year career crisis, you should keep a stable attitude and meet this unprecedented challenge.

1) acceptance status

This is not all our fault, nor is it because we are not working hard enough, but we are facing such a rapidly changing era. The solution of all problems begins with accepting the status quo.

2) Self-exploration and correct attitude.

In fact, the 35-year career crisis is an opportunity that we don't want to face but will eventually face. Through this crisis, we all have to make up a course called "self-exploration", which fell behind from a very young age until we were in our thirties, and we still didn't know our interests, abilities and values. Early self-exploration can increase your understanding of yourself and improve your chances of finding yourself again. (You can find a professional career counselor to sort it out)

If family conditions permit, you can also take this opportunity to slow yourself down for a while, get to know yourself and explore yourself.

The biggest difficulty of the 35-year-old crisis lies in her own mentality. For example, at the end of Desperate Housewives, Lynette returned to the workplace and suddenly found that the big boss she served was her own intern. Now, we are likely to face such embarrassment. Even in such a situation, we should be modest and flexible. Although it is difficult, you must make changes yourself.

3) Organize your personal network resources and start learning new knowledge and skills, so that you can make up lessons.

The lessons left behind will be made up sooner or later. If you haven't learned new knowledge and skills before, you don't know much about the present society, so you need to accumulate these knowledge and skills. In fact, many abilities accumulated in the past ten years can be directly migrated to new industries or new jobs, which will shorten the migration time.

And carefully sort out your personal network resources for more than ten years to see if there are any personal network resources that can be used, including colleague circle, peer circle and classmate circle.

The crisis of middle age in the workplace is one of many crises in life. Only by giving up outdated concepts and habits can we get through the crisis and smoothly enter the next stage of life.

Many people dare not face the reality, can't overcome the psychological and spiritual crisis, can only stop and can't enjoy the next new life.

But as long as we face it bravely and don't give up, we can start a new second life.

The rest of your life is long, so don't panic, accept the reality and move forward bravely.