What is your irreplaceability and core competitiveness?

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After starting work for a year or two, you may think about a problem: career planning. When it comes to career planning, you talk to leaders, friends discuss with you, and classmates think about it. In fact, if we want to talk about the basis of this problem, we must be clear about our irreplaceability and core competitiveness.

Why does the leader want to use you? What's so great about you? Can you do better than your colleagues? There are some things that your colleagues can't do and you can? What have you gained from the accumulation in your work?

Think about the above, look at your career path, and evaluate whether you can go further by relying on your existing abilities.

What is your irreplaceability and core competitiveness? How to improve your core competitiveness?

Irreplaceability is a comprehensive expression of personal knowledge and ability. This is a sign that you are different from others. Because of this irreplaceability, you get the corresponding treatment. This irreplaceability largely determines your position in the company, your position in the eyes of leaders and your future development direction.

Imagine, at work, if you have an urgent temporary leave, can the leader find someone to replace you as soon as possible, can the person who replaces you quickly master the relevant skills of your post and do better than you in a short time, or even, if a new person comes to your post, will he immediately come up with a better working method or make better work results than you?

If most of the above answers tend to be positive, then you should re-evaluate yourself and start to improve your core competitiveness.

Liu Weipeng mentioned in The Dark Age that core competitiveness is a unique combination of individual knowledge and experience, including: (1) uniqueness; (2) It has practical value; (3) Sustainable development.

Briefly explain:

Unique means that a person's skills or knowledge have one or more absolute advantages in the crowd, while a person's talents are scarce in a large range. For example, if a leader wants to make a plan, the first thing that comes to mind is you. If someone else does it, he is not at ease and dissatisfied. You can only do it.

In practice, it is valuable. Generally speaking, you can work, do things, don't be arrogant, don't just clap your chest and don't do practical things, use what you can and make achievements.

Sustainable development is an individual's learning attitude and learning ability. Some people may be short-lived after working for a period of time, their ability has bottomed out, they can't make any further progress, or they like to stay in the comfort zone, resulting in limited or degraded ability, and may eventually become old-fashioned.

So how is the knowledge and skills of core competitiveness combined?

First, professional skills. To enter a field, you must have professional skills and master certain tricks. This is the industry rule, and it is the most basic to ensure that you are qualified to enter this field.

Second, cross-professional skills. I think professional skills only account for 20% of core competitiveness. How far and how deep you can go in the field depends on your internal strength. Internal strength training will be outside the court. Cross-professional skills can be subdivided into the following aspects:

(1) problem-solving ability;

(2) communication skills;

(3) the ability to distinguish common sense;

(4) the ability to disperse thinking;

(5) Ability to judge and make decisions;

(6) written expression ability;

(7) the ability to think and summarize;

(8) the ability to share knowledge;

(9) ……

Third, learning ability. "Strictly speaking, learning ability is also a cross-disciplinary skill, but because it is so important that it can span any field, it needs independence. How to cultivate learning ability, the most effective way I know so far is to keep learning and thinking about new knowledge. "

Learning ability is often manifested in two aspects. At work, receiving company training and learning knowledge is passive learning; After work, teach yourself the necessary work skills. This is active learning. It must be noted that the learning ability mentioned here refers to the ability of active learning. I have mastered the skills of text typesetting, PPT production, logic training, communication skills, reading speed, writing ability and so on, which I have learned after work. Learning ability determines the depth and breadth of your professional skills and cross-professional skills.

Fourth, personality factors. This is something beyond one's ability, and it is the embodiment of one's character. Many unique qualities will also make a person's core competitiveness different. "The elements of personality include: concentration, persistence, introspection, self-confidence, humility, etc." If the first three skills are classified as "talent", then the personality element is "virtue". Jobs, for example, is a person with outstanding personality elements, and his distorted position in reality (believing in the power of will or making people believe and obey) is his core competitiveness.

5. Personal brand. It is to know what you can do, how much dry goods you have in your stomach, how dominant you are, and how to shape your appearance in others' hearts. When others mention your name, your good image will appear, and people who know you will praise you. Know what you want to achieve, form your own communication and influence, create your own personal style, express it clearly and firmly, share your knowledge, and know how to use your own personal brand to build a network. In this way, all the above abilities and personalities will be presented in a three-dimensional way, and this core competitiveness will be even stronger.

Reference reading: The Dark Ages ()