Career: 10 Deadly mistakes you're making

This article is not a quantitative survey report, but I in the process of career planning consultation with the customer one-on-one in-depth contact after the summed up, more realistically reflect the minds of the professionals, is a more comprehensive qualitative summary. The errors listed in the article may be more than 90% people are facing. For most people, these problems seem to be commonplace, mundane, and overlooked by most people. However, as confirmed by a number of real-world cases, we find that it is these common mistakes that are likely to become fatal errors that affect your career progression and even the fate of your life.

　　Error One: Now do not worry, later encountered problems

Many people have just entered society and are not really aware of the existence of a crisis, or are now relatively stable, although they do not know what the future looks like, but at least the current job can feed the family, at least to ensure that survival is not a problem. They don't know what they're supposed to be like after five years, and they don't think about it in depth, because it's tiring. At least now the job can make it a very stable year, and as for the next year, they have not considered it at all. They always feel young should be the time to enjoy, so as not to live up to the good times. Even if they have problems now, they always say, "Don't worry now, you'll have problems later."

I have encountered such a case: a 35-year-old man, working 12 years, have a wife, have children, the only thing that is not, is stable work. For 12 years, an average of less than a year has been replaced by a job. Now the old age, the responsibility of the family is also big, want to find a job long-term stability, but found it difficult. I asked him, why didn't you think about it earlier? He said that at that time young, not sensible, now realize, but found difficulties, and deeply regret not earlier to do the plan.

Are you having a problem now? Are you wasting your youth in bewilderment and confusion? Compared to a year ago, is your year a progressive one, or is it a repetition of work? Is your job right for you? Do you know your path to career growth? Do you have a goal that you can at least fight for for 5 years? Do you know what it's like to grow up after a year and grow up after five years? Do you know how to achieve your goals? What's more deadly is, do you still hold the mentality of "say it later"? After reading this text, do you respond to the act immediately, or repeat the present state?

If all the questions are "later", then, I'm sure, within 5 years, you will encounter problems that can no longer be solved! To solve it, you have to pay the price of a geometric multiplier!

　　Error Two: Some things have to be experienced in person to know

Some people will be open-minded to learn from other people's experience and lessons, lest they go the wrong way, and some people say to make some mistakes, personally encountered some setbacks, will be sober. These people appear to be very strong, willing to temper themselves in difficulties, to grow themselves, but in fact, they are subconsciously deliberately shy away from what they are experiencing and are making mistakes, and from the bone is reluctant to admit and change the current reality. This kind of person is headstrong, go ahead, listen to other people's opinion, often on the way forward a lot of somersault.

Indeed, experiencing difficulties and setbacks can make a person grow. But not all the difficulties and setbacks you have to experience. If you can avoid it in advance, why do you have to try it yourself? No coffin, no tears. And when you see the coffin, it will be useless to drop more tears.

For young people, "trial and Error" is the stupidest way, even if you think you are young, you still have a chance, but in fact time is not as much as you think. Take the job in Beijing as an example. If you graduate from college 23 years old, plan to buy a house at the age of 30 marriage. The house is not too good, but in Beijing, at least 1 million. This is already the most conservative estimate in the case of soaring house prices. Down payment 200,000, decoration 20,000, home appliances 20,000, marriage 30,000, other reserve funds 30,000, this total will need 300,000. If you pay 100,000 a year, excluding rent, living expenses, phone calls, social gatherings and so on, 70,000 of your annual deposit, then you need at least 4 years. But for the new job, no 3 years of experience accumulated, it is impossible to get 100,000 of the monthly salary. In this way, even if you do not detour, from graduation to marriage, you have to like the winding of the same speed of operation, do not allow you to have time to do nothing or detours. And once a slight deviation, embark on 1, 2 years of detours (for many people, this is normal but), then for you, once the purchase of a house, will be on the brink of bankruptcy.

If you still want to try and experience some mistakes that you should be able to avoid, then you will have to pay more for your career.

Error three: When I have a problem, make a career plan.

Many people will think of career planning when they do not see the hope. Just like the one listed in the first error above. But what I want to tell you is: Career planning is not the lifeline of your desperate time!

Because successful career planning, its core is to help you find your career orientation, and build your core competencies in this direction, to ensure that you can grow smoothly in this direction. These two points are indispensable. If you are looking for a direction that doesn't take into account the possibility that the direction is being implemented in real life, then the plan doesn't make any sense. To ensure the possibility of career direction, it is necessary to consider the influence of external objective factors. The pressure of family, the gap of age, the imbalance of mentality caused by the bad work ... And so on, will affect the best implementation effect of career planning. Just like a doctor, if you are already terminally ill, then the wise doctor may not be Haiten.

For students in school, before the junior year to establish a direction, and then use the rest of the time to build their own knowledge system, after graduation can find a suitable job, for those who already work, in the work of three years to establish their own direction, although the cost of loss and costs, but still have the possibility of turning to success. If the work is not stable within three years or more, this time, career planning is much more difficult, not only because you have to bear greater losses, pay higher opportunity costs, at the same time, because of the instability of the work caused by the serious mental imbalance, is the biggest obstacle to your career growth. Take an average two-year detour for example, two years later to change careers, and others at a starting line, which means that your previous work is basically wasted. If you are 2500 a month, your direct material loss for two years is 60,000, the loss, at least 60-120 times your career plan (if you make your career plan early, you will spend up to 1-2 weeks of your salary). You lose at the same time, there are two years of growth opportunities, this time can never be remedied. At the same time, your mentality will become very negative, unable to actively face the new job, the loss is also impossible to estimate. More importantly, once you get used to the confusion, or become accustomed to job-hopping, then this loss will be extended to career planning investment more than 200 times times!

Many people who have worked for many years but still have no direction to come to us for consultation, after assessing their overall situation, if I feel that there is nothing I can do to give them the help they deserve, I will say to them, "Sorry, we can't solve your problem". Although this kind of thorny question is not many, but everybody best still warning, must plan early, do not wait for the desperate time to solve the problem again. At that time, you may be really desperate.

　　Error Four: Consider personality assessment as a career plan

Once chatting with a college friend, I asked him if he had made a career plan, and he said he had done it. I asked you what your career goal was and how you achieved it, and he said he didn't know. I'm just wondering, did you have a career plan? How come you don't know anything about these problems? Then he sent me a bunch of information, and I looked at it all in a variety of assessment reports. I asked him where these reports were done, he said on the school's website. I mean, can you read the results of these reports? He said he could not understand.

In the process of career planning consultation, such a situation occurs more than once, especially in the college student community. Whenever I encounter this situation, my heart is very tangled. Their knowledge of career planning is only at the level of assessment, and it is not known what these assessments mean to them, or how they can be used to guide their future career development.

Once in a Beijing university's career planning competition as a jury, also encountered such a situation. They also know to analyze themselves according to the results of the assessment, but to the final planning of the career direction, most of the criteria is "professional counterparts", and the results of almost no relationship. Although the university has set up a career planning course, but according to my understanding of the real situation is: these courses are usually very few people to listen to, only the test when the assault, take credit. I asked them, these courses for your future employment and growth has a great help, why not to listen carefully? The answer is this: The teacher on this course is completely scripted, does not know what the real workplace is like, not to mention the book theory in the actual workplace to carry out effective guidance and operation, this course has become a complete decoration. So, the confusion is still confused, the confused still confused.

Since the career planning that everyone touches at university is just a variety of assessment tools, it is also necessary to equate career planning with personality assessment. From an objective point of view, many people because of the work experience, social experience, thinking analysis ability and other aspects of the lack of (for college students and the first entry into the workplace, the problem is more obvious), simply do not understand the evaluation results. At the same time, the evaluation of the planning is also more serious theory, the results of the test is automatically generated by the computer, the results are provided by a certain kind of character has the "common" thing, completely do not know how to combine the real situation of the workplace to each person's "personality" for a targeted analysis. So, just stay in the theoretical level of planning, actual combat is poor, it is not difficult to understand.

Here's what to remind you: Personality assessment ≠ career planning. Many people think that they have done a personality assessment is tantamount to a career planning, in fact, this is a very serious misunderstanding. Personality assessment is only a means of understanding our personal character. When it comes to specific planning, it is necessary to make concrete conclusions according to individual career vision, advantages, professional skills, growth experience, professional values, political factors, economic factors, social factors and other situations. This requires a thorough understanding of your situation before the consultant can make a judgment, rather than relying solely on the results of the assessment tool. Taking the coaching career planning of the first Workplace forum as an example, in addition to the basic assessment, it takes 3 hours and the longest to reach 6 hours, the goal is to have a comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the consultants, and to verify the results of the assessment to fully and objectively understand the real situation of the consultants. If this is not done, then the effectiveness of the consultation will be greatly compromised.

　Error Five: Only set the direction, do not know the implementation path

Now that the personality assessment is not equal to career planning, what should be included in a complete career plan? Taking the coaching career planning of my first workplace forum as an example, the complete content of career planning should be "1+2+1" mode, that is, one core content, two supplementary content, one reinforcing content. A core content, refers to its own comprehensive situation, to carry out targeted analysis, tailor-made to establish the most suitable for its development career orientation. The first one is to evaluate the comprehensive quality, to make the career growth path, and to construct the corresponding knowledge system, and to correct the mistakes of the weaknesses in their character and the thoughts and actions in the past work experience, so as to avoid their repetition. To avoid the potential occupational risks arising from their own deficiencies to the fullest extent. An enhanced content refers to the career promotion-oriented soft power series training (based on the CCS10 10 force model developed exclusively in the first workplace), through training with practical skills and methods, to comprehensively enhance individual competitiveness, to achieve a faster pace of career development, Pull the distance from the average person.

Many people have clear goals, but in the process of implementation will encounter a lot of problems can not be effectively resolved, which ultimately affect the degree of implementation of professional goals. From this point of view, only to determine the direction of career orientation, and do not know the specific implementation path, especially in the course of implementation, which problems need to face directly, which problems need to bypass, the same will affect your career development.

Setting goals is only the first step in a successful career plan, the problem that "one core content" should be addressed, and whether the goal can be achieved depends on the effect of implementation and enforcement, which is also the meaning of "two complementary elements" and "an enhanced content". If the goal is established and the implementation path is not determined, then the plan is only 50% successful. In particular, the content of the reinforcement section is also a test of the level of a counselor place. People who know the theory without actual combat experience cannot do that.

　　Error VI: No ideas, heavy reliance on the views of the people around

Why do you want to graduate? Because people around are in the grind. Why do you want to enter the State enterprise? Because everyone said that the state-owned enterprises stable treatment. Why don't you want to change yourself? Because the people around you are in this state as well!

Many people also have their own ideas, but once their ideas get people around the opposition or questioning, his ideas will quickly dispel. Once there was a customer to ask me, he said his family wanted him to be a teacher, but he asked the people around, some people say that when the teacher good, and some people say when the teacher has no future, than into the enterprise. He himself is confused, do not know whether or not to be a teacher.

Everyone's values are different, so when you ask someone for advice, they just think about it based on their own values, not on your stand. Therefore, it is up to you to decide whether or not someone's opinion is right for you. This is also the case, the person who likes to be safe will certainly say that when a teacher is a good choice, and the person who likes the challenge will certainly say that when the teacher has no future.

Everyone has 250 friends, they appear in two different occasions, one is your wedding, one is a funeral, and these friends have 80% is not helpful to you, they usually do not give you positive, positive influence, when you desire to have any act, they usually will water you cold, Tell you all kinds of bad things and the possibility of failure. There are 20% of friends, they are more positive, will give you positive impact, and only 5% of the friends will help you, a major change in your life! So, you should not treat your friends equally, you should spend 80% of your time with those 5% friends who will greatly affect your life.

The way you are going, you are the only one responsible. Those who have given you advice, even after a few years to prove their advice is wrong, they do not have to take any responsibility for the original proposal. You must understand that your way is only in your own hands!

　Error Seven: The plan can't catch up with the change, so it's better

Many people will say that things are changeable, and rather than deliberately planning, let it be. It seems that the people are very "handsome", but once the problem comes to the eyes, I am afraid you will "Ann" can not. One is that you do not have the "root", will always be floating around, and can never live very solid; second, because you do not have "root", so you can not build your growth base, and on this basis to build your core competitiveness, so the occupation can never get growth; Wind "risk, you will not be able to foothold, because you do not have any ability to combat risk! Look at the people who have been laid off in the financial crisis. If you do not build any ability to adapt to the competition and to combat risk, then the next crisis is temporary (the crisis, perhaps the threat of others and competition, perhaps the restructuring of the Organization, perhaps the merger, perhaps the collapse, or perhaps a more violent economic crisis), you will be vulnerable, the first one to fall is you! I'm afraid the situation at that time will not be as "dashing" as you say today, right?

It is because your heart is escaping from reality, positive action, building your core competitiveness, you can also do status quo!

　　Error Eight: Higher education means more opportunities for development

A person with high education will surely have a better space for development? Not necessarily! Of all the consulting clients I have contacted, the most dynamic is the undergraduate group. And those graduate students are not even the most basic sense of competition. Many people belong to the "be" in a daze, they simply do not know what the actual purpose of the postgraduate examination, and even never thought of the problem. There are a large number of people who do not have the right to the professional, be transfer to not like the direction. Really have a definite goal of the postgraduate examination, belong to the career planning part of, and actively put into action, only accounted for 24%. I recently in the consultation of a client, if not postgraduate examination, his development will be better. And after reading the confusion, coupled with the goal is not clear the two-year detour, its loss is 180 times times the professional planning input!

Not all jobs require highly educated people. Those so-called highly educated people, in fact, the ability does not match the qualifications. When more and more enterprises are considering the pragmatic cost of employing, the high degree may not be taken seriously.

Education doesn't guarantee your success, it's just a piece of paper. What really makes you successful is whether you have real talent or not. If not, I'm sorry, all the companies are not charitable organizations.

　Error Nine: National units are relatively stable, development is guaranteed

The vast majority of people will have this understanding. Once met a customer,??? (save 3 words here, it is inconvenient to plainly, we go to the tacit) birth, work 10 years, finally boss promoted, met a promotion opportunity. With his ability in the unit, performance, he confidently thought he would get this opportunity, but unfortunately, he was defeated by a person who is not strong. The opportunity to wait ten years, so helplessly watched to slip away, so angrily resigned, vowed never to do???。 Remind those who want to enter the national unit, before entering these units, you must understand what the "establishment" means, "within the system" and "outside the system" and what is the difference between "Li gang" what is the difference. If you want stability, I will tell you: you will be very stable, stable to 10, 20 years or even a lifetime in a position, a level, there will be no change. If you crave this so-called "stability" and have no complaints, then I fully support your decision.

　　Error Ten: This society, it is too difficult to succeed.

Is success difficult? Totally wrong! Especially in the current environment, I even rejoice, because this is the most easy to succeed in an era! The reality of the workplace, work within 3 years to meet the professional problems, accounted for 77%, belong to the "hardest hit" career planning. To truly understand your career development goals and to know how to act, to improve and develop yourself, there is no problem with career planning that accounts for only 3%. In other words, if you have a complete career plan and are willing to act aggressively towards your goals, 97% of people are not your opponents, and you can totally ignore their existence. The rest of the 3%, you do not have to be afraid, because China's enterprises have enough space and opportunities, fully able to allow you to share with these 3% people. So, since success is so easy, why do so many people fail? Because, the most powerful opponent, in fact, you are yourself! If you don't have a forward-looking mind, look at your eyes, never think about the future, or just stay on the "think" level, and never really act, then you will always play to defeat this opponent! Your current state of failure will continue! Success, will never be with you!

Who are you? Where do you come from? Where do you want to go? How to go the way of the future? Who will bear the responsibility of the family? Do you want to be successful on your own, or do you want to be a member of the "old" or "Ant tribe"? Success and failure, how do you choose? And how do you guarantee success? Are you ready for positive action? When to act, is now, immediately, immediately, or want to live a chic, comfortable, waiting for "later?" ”

Your choices now determine your future growth. If you regret now, then, your previous path must be wrong, if you do not want to regret, then, from now on, it is necessary to seriously walk every step, not to live in the muddle! Otherwise, you will be the most defeated person!

Career: 10 Deadly mistakes you're making