Why is it so difficult to change careers?

In modern society, it is a common phenomenon that it is difficult to change careers! It's hard to change careers, but it's hard to move on. This is almost the same feeling of 99% people in the workplace. Many people say that it feels like they have to do this for the rest of their lives.

when the industry is in the expansion period, it's okay. If it can't turn, it won't turn. However, when the industry suddenly encounters a devastating blow and you have to face the problem of changing careers, your head is big. People in tourism, teaching and training, and real estate have almost lost their heads in recent years.

anyway, why is it so difficult to change careers these days? I have been thinking about this problem for a long time and summed up the following two main reasons.

1. With the development and progress of society, the social division of labor is becoming more and more detailed. Too fine division of labor is the main reason for the difficulty in changing jobs, which also explains why applicants find it difficult to find jobs, while recruiters find it difficult to recruit people.

with the continuous progress of society and the rapid improvement of science and technology, the division of labor in society is becoming more and more refined. Some netizens recalled, "Before the 198s, there were people who could both work as carpenters and bricklayers in rural areas, as well as slaughter pigs and sheep for farming. The content of these jobs is relatively simple, and people with better understanding can learn everything. Not in the city factory. No one will be different from the pliers riveting welding. The skills required by the factory are complex and difficult. I think this is one of the reasons why it is difficult to change careers. "

I think so. In retrospect, my parents' generation, who were born in the 195s, found it very common to change careers and jobs, and I never heard that it was even more difficult to change careers. With the development of society and the progress of science and technology, the current professional division of labor is becoming more and more detailed, which is the main reason why it is difficult for people in the workplace to change careers.

2. The cake is not divided enough, and the labor force is abundant. The foreign rolls are not expert.

in short, there are too many people. In Europe, America and Australia, where the labor force is relatively short, it is not so difficult to change careers here.

people who have successfully changed careers often find that many jobs actually don't require so much professional skills and experience, and they can get used to it after a short period of familiarity and adaptation. In fact, for many jobs, we have the ability to change careers, but people just don't give you the opportunity to change careers. The reason is that there is too much labor force, and every time you recruit, you will always meet someone who has a higher degree of matching with the position, so the opportunity will not come from outside the industry.

In the current situation, whenever the worst tourism practitioners complain about unemployment, there is always an understatement: You can change careers, why do you have to hang on this tree? Who doesn't understand the truth? Who wants to hang from the tree of tourism? The question is, it's easy to change careers.

Especially in the current overall economic depression environment, most industries are shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye, and there is only one piece of cake. All walks of life are madly involved because of the epidemic, and it is hard to change careers before they enter the industry.

who is the most difficult to change careers? People with too closed careers

have a question that I have been thinking about for a long time. Although it is a common phenomenon that it is difficult to change careers, there are great differences in each occupation. In the same industry, it is easy for some people to change careers and find their next home, while others are more difficult, while others are quite difficult.

Take the tourism industry as an example. Who are the people who change careers easily? I observed the circle of friends, and found that the small partners who worked as public relations in travel agencies switched jobs very early and found new jobs. The small partners who worked as marketing and operation in OTA changed jobs at the beginning of the epidemic. It is not difficult for them to move out of the tourism industry. Who else is easier to change careers in the tourism industry? Finance department, human resources management department, IT department ...

Although these people work in tourism companies, they are not tourists at all. Their occupations are public relations, Internet operation, accounting, HR and IT engineers. They just applied their professional skills to the tourism industry. When the tourism industry collapses, just change to another industry. It's easy to change careers without losing anything.

The occupations mentioned above are very open and the vocational skills are very versatile. In other words, these occupations are highly mobile. Transferability refers to the ability that you can reuse after changing from one job to another, or from one industry to another. It is a common ability in the workplace.

No matter what line of business financial accountants are engaged in, they all use general accounting standards, and the CPA certificate they have passed is applicable to any industry and any company. Code farmers' skills in writing codes can be used anywhere. The six modules of HR human resource management, such as recruitment, salary and benefits, are common in all industries.

For business jobs in travel companies, it is easier for sales to change careers. According to my observation, the original travel agency salespeople have basically changed careers, and their psychological gap after changing careers is not that big. Someone told me that everything is selling anyway, and everything is selling. The most difficult, confusing and painful people for a travel company to change careers are the operators, route designers and tour guides.

There are always people on the Internet who attribute the difficulty of changing careers to the fact that people engaged in tourism have low academic qualifications, poor level and little skills. I can't agree with this view anyway, and I will refute it once. In my opinion, the main reason is that most people in the tourism industry are strongly closed and restricted by professional scenes.

jobs with strong occupational isolation and strong restrictions by occupational scenes are not only in the tourism industry. After the introduction of the double reduction policy in 221, the teaching and training industry was also devastated. Teaching and training people are also complaining about changing careers. After observing on the Internet, I found out who is the most difficult to change careers in the teaching and training industry? Teachers, especially subject teachers. Those who do enrollment, customer service and marketing are not difficult. It is also very, very difficult for teachers to change careers.

in addition, I have observed a phenomenon that there are many jobs that are very important and can be said to be in the core position in this industry, but they are also the most difficult jobs to change careers.

who is the most difficult to change careers in teaching and training? It's a teacher.

who is the most difficult to change careers in civil aviation? It's a pilot, not a stewardess.

who is the most difficult to change careers in the travel agency industry? It is the design of tourism products, the operation of planning and adjustment, and the tour guide.

Is it difficult for these people to change careers because of their low academic qualifications, poor level and unskilled jobs? Are the academic qualifications of subject teachers low? Is Liu Chuanjian, the captain of Sichuan Airlines who saved the lives of 119 passengers, poor?

interestingly, the most difficult jobs to change careers are the core positions in these industries, which directly provide products and services in this industry.

what is the core of the teaching and training industry? It is to impart knowledge to students.

what is the core of the civil aviation industry? It is to transport passengers safely and comfortably to their destination.

what is the core of the tourism industry? Is to provide customers with travel and travel services.

what's terrible is that these core jobs in this industry do have some similar occupational defects, that is, the professional scene is narrow and special, the work skills are single, the occupation is closed, and it has little correlation with other occupations. The experience and business ability of training and exercising in this position for many years are of little value to other industries.

the working scene of the captain and the flight attendant is in the narrow cabin, and the working scene of the teacher is on the three-foot platform. In case of natural and man-made disasters, if you lose the captain and flight attendant of the plane and the teacher of the podium, you will feel particularly painful, confused and anxious, just like the tourism product designers and tour guides who have lost the tourism industry. You don't know what else you can do, and it is very difficult to change careers and re-employment.

the biggest embarrassment and sadness for people in the workplace is the ability you have finally cultivated in this industry and this company, and the result is that it is completely inapplicable after going to another industry and another company.

Therefore, in today's fast-moving society, young people should carefully consider the openness of the industries and jobs they enter and the growth space of the profession when choosing a job. This is also the blood and tears lesson that the author summed up after many years of engaging in outbound tourism that many people envy as soon as he graduated.