What should I do to prepare for the big homework in my career in college?

"Business can't be done without goals, too many goals can't be done, and goals always change. The processing methods of the target are: selecting, defining, decomposing, combining and adding time coordinates. "

People often regard career planning as the beginning of their career. Career planning, frog's advice is to do it as soon as possible, so that you will have enough time and space to make changes and adjustments according to your actual situation, so that you can start making your own career planning in college days.

To make career planning, we must first understand what career planning is. What are the elements?

Career planning is your vision for your future career, but this vision is based on your full and accurate knowledge and understanding of yourself and your career. The specific factors to be considered can be divided into internal factors and external factors.

l？ internal factor

1.？ What knowledge and skills do you have? What skills are you determined to learn and develop?

All plans are made on the basis of full self-knowledge.

Knowledge and skills are the basic basis for career choice and development, and are usually linked to their own majors. In the usual course study, in addition to accumulating relevant professional knowledge, you can also get a lot of extra skills. Give a few examples:

Architecture-painting, design

News-Photography, Writing, Office Software

Finance-calculation, data analysis

Advertising-photography, design, PPT

……

For applied disciplines, it is easy to get some extra skills from specialized courses, while for those basic arts and sciences majors, it may be difficult to get skills from specialized courses, so you can choose to study and cultivate some practical skills through other channels.

2.？ What are your interests and hobbies?

People often say to find a job that they love and are really interested in, but it is very difficult to do this. There are two difficulties. One is that the job you like may not be suitable for you, and the other is that you may not know your interests at all. Therefore, you can determine your interest direction first, and then make career planning. For example, if you like music but can't become a singer, then you can choose to go to a cultural media company or a music software /app company, or if you like playing games but can't become a professional player, then you can choose to enter a game company.

However, there are actually differences on this point. After a lot of experiments and practice, interest is not suitable as the first criterion for choosing a job (although most traditional career theories think so), and achievement motivation is the most important factor to consider.

Dan, a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and author of The Power of Irrationality, said.

Ariely and his colleagues conducted an interesting experiment. He posted an advertisement of "Happy Earning Cash" on campus, and many volunteers came soon. There are two control groups in this experiment, AB. Participants in group A were told to perform a task, that is, to form a standard robot with building blocks in their hands. The first finished product can get 2 dollars, and the second one can get 65438 dollars +0.89 dollars. In short, every robot can make money, but the amount reduced each time is 1 1 cent. Participants can stop at any time when they feel that it is not worth continuing. As for Group B, the rules are almost the same as those of Group A, the only difference is that every robot completed by Group A will be put away and kept (at least during the experiment), but when the participants in Group B start to assemble the second robot, the experimenters will announce that there are not enough building blocks, and they will take apart the first robot just completed in front of them. Both groups of volunteers claimed to be Lego fans, but the average person in Group A assembled 10.6 robots, and the income was 14.40 yuan. They all said in the questionnaire after the experiment that it was an interesting activity and they would like to participate again if given the opportunity. But poor group B got a completely different result. On average, everyone only completed 7.2, earning 1 1.52 yuan, and many people said in the questionnaire that this activity was not so good that there would be no next time. ? Obviously, work brings us not only physical needs, but also deeper spiritual satisfaction and fun. This not only explains the mouse's behavior of "getting something for nothing", but also explains the motivation behind some people who are still keen on work although they are rich. On the other hand, even if you are engaged in activities that you are interested in (such as taking Lego), you can really benefit from it, but if the work itself can't bring you a sense of accomplishment (the assembled building blocks will be dismantled immediately), it can't make you feel meaningful, and it is difficult to invest in it for a long time.

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In other words, if interest cannot be transformed into achievement motivation, then the job may still not be called "suitable job". Like professional players in the e-sports industry, playing games may be considered as a leisure hobby at first, but in repeated training and competitions, professional players have long regarded the trophies and glory of the event as the source of a sense of accomplishment, that is, turning ordinary leisure hobbies into achievement motivation.

Therefore, the key is to find your own achievement motivation, or turn leisure hobbies into achievement motivation.

3.？ What is your personality? Is it suitable for dealing with people or things?

Personality mainly determines what kind of environment you are suitable for working in. Generally speaking, extroversion is suitable for jobs dealing with people, such as human resources, public relations and sales, while introversion is suitable for jobs dealing with things, such as accounting and programming.

Roger Anderson, a famous American human resources consultant, found that 98% of successful people succeed because their careers suit their personalities. On the contrary, losers always want to succeed in areas where their personality is not suitable.

Therefore, when you plan your career, you should fully consider your personality factors. If you are not sure, you can also do some professional personality tests. (MBTI professional personality test: /lab/mbti/)

4.？ What are your hopes and expectations for your future career? What kind of life do you want?

Please imagine your ideal life in five, ten or even twenty years. Is it stable and leisurely, or successful?

There is no absolute choice between good and bad about outlook on life and values. You just need to constantly reflect on what you really want from your job. Is it money? Fame or a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction? Then you need to make phased goals and plans to achieve them step by step.

l？ external factor

1.？ In the current socio-economic environment, the development trend of various industries

2.？ Operating conditions and development prospects of different companies in the same industry

3.？ The rising space of different positions

4.？ Regional factors

5.？ Social environment (economy, policy, etc. )

External factors are actually the so-called realistic factors, which must be considered in career planning. For example, if you want to enter a hot industry like the Internet, you need to take the promotion of professional competitiveness into consideration when planning your career. For example, some jobs only have great room for development in first-tier cities, such as advertising and fashion industries; The same job has different nature in different companies, such as the public relations between Party A and Party B, but now there is a general trend of "going to Party B" in the public relations and advertising circles, which is also one of the realistic factors that have to be considered.

After considering and analyzing the above factors of career planning, students should make corresponding preparations as early as possible during their college years, explore and cultivate their career interests from various aspects, constantly enrich their resumes, and adjust and modify their career plans in time. Little frog can tell you a true case story.

John is a graduate student in the astronomy department of a 985 university and graduated in June this year. From undergraduate to graduation, he has been very self-disciplined and is gradually clarifying his career plan-although he is a science student, he hopes to return to his hometown of Guangdong after graduation to work in consulting management or market operation, which not only has salary expectations, but also needs the company's brand influence and social status.

Take his postgraduate stage as an example. From senior one to senior two, he has been the executive vice president of the Student Union, responsible for the operation and management of the WeChat public platform. 1 year, the number of followers jumped from 0 to 15000. By planning and organizing many large-scale activities, he learned many skills, such as video shooting and editing, programming, website construction, etc., which can provide more possibilities for his career choice. During the two summers of graduate students I and II, he went to Deloitte Management Consulting Company and Aon Hewitt Consulting Company for internship respectively, so as to accumulate relevant experience for his post-graduation work. In the end, he got the job opportunity as a product manager of Huawei, which is the first step to realize his career planning.

John said: "Huawei is the first step of my career planning, which is a springboard. In the future, I still hope to go to an Internet company to make products or engage in consulting management. However, at first, I had no idea about my future job choice. But in this series of students' work experience and internship experience, I found that my science students seem to have some uses in liberal arts and business, which is also in line with my personality. It can bring me a sense of accomplishment, and it can also be regarded as determining my career development direction step by step. "

So in fact, there are many choices in college life. You can choose to spend it step by step, just to graduate smoothly, as to what kind of job you can find; Like John, you can also take the initiative to enrich your college life, find and explore your career interests, and make preparations for your career planning as soon as possible.

During your college years, you can make the following preparations for your career planning:

l？ The experience of students' work and club activities is not dispensable, which can not only add luster to their resumes, but also be the most effective way to acquire additional skills. The most important thing is to have the opportunity to discover your hobbies or specialties by trying various types of jobs.

L Use your vacation time to practice and experience how attractive and satisfying a job is for you.

L Participate in social practice, exercise your ability and increase your experience and knowledge.

L Learn to collect information, including industry information, company information and position information.

L "hook up" with big cows in interested industries through social media (LinkedIn, Weibo, Zhihu, etc.). ), and you can ask them about the industry or occupation, which is the first-hand information you can refer to when making career planning.

l？ Consult professional job-hunting service agencies and get some suggestions to improve job-hunting competitiveness through training and counseling.

l？ Read more books and make up for the lack of experience with knowledge.

L do more things by yourself, such as taking part in competitions, publishing periodical papers, participating in tutor research projects and so on.

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Of course, the most important thing is to master some key career planning skills:

Goal orientation: What kind of life do you want, what kind of job you can achieve, and how can you spend it in college to get such a job?

Long-term, medium-term and short-term planning: From the development process of career, career is mainly divided into five stages: career preparation, career choice, career adaptation, career stability and career termination. For college students, it is necessary to consider three stages: career preparation, career choice and career adaptation. Specific and detailed goals and internship plans should be formulated in these three stages.

Self-orientation: you can refer to the career anchor for corresponding career matching (the "anchor theory" recognized in the field of career planning)

Technical or functional professional anchor: generally, there are engineering, technology, marketing, financial analysis, system analysis, enterprise planning and other directions.

Management-oriented professional anchor: Being responsible for the management field requires strong analytical skills, interpersonal skills and emotional control skills.

Creative professional anchor: it needs autonomy, management ability and even a certain artistic talent.

Independent career anchor: getting rid of organizational constraints and pursuing personal characteristics.

Security professional anchor: the characteristics of pursuing stability and security.

Service-oriented career anchor: the pursuit of helping others.

Challenge the professional anchor: choose a novel, changeable and difficult job.

Lifestyle professional anchor: I like the characteristics of relaxation and free time.

In short, career planning is not just a page, it is a way for you to fully understand yourself and your target industry, and it is a dynamic process. The most important thing is to have this process of constant reflection and timely adjustment, with the ultimate goal of self-improvement.

In the college days before entering the workplace, Little Frog hopes that all students can establish the awareness of career planning as soon as possible and make full preparations for their career as soon as possible!