35-year-olds in the workplace: This article is dedicated to O & M colleagues.

In this world, & ldquo; the only thing that is unstoppable is time, which is like a sharp blade, silently cutting everything hard and soft and moving forward steadily, nothing can make its progress bumpy, but it changes everything. & Rdquo; I always believe in one sentence: Come out and get it back sooner or later. Although you and I are all mortal and only common members of all sentient beings, I still hope that everyone's life can be in this world. "The only thing that is unstoppable is time, like a blade, it silently cut everything hard and soft, and steadily advances forward, nothing can make it travel, but it changes everything." I always believe in one sentence: Come out and get it back sooner or later. Although you and I are all mortal and only common members of all beings, I still hope that everyone's life will blossom in the sun. Whether you can understand the meaning of this passage based on your current experience, please write it down first. I believe that one day you will understand. Because time can explain everything, time can prove everything, and time can solve everything. During my career planning consultation in the past year, I clearly felt the urgency of the people over 35 years old for their career planning needs. From these cases, we have been able to clearly understand that the grasp of time points plays a decisive role in the growth of a person. In our customers, we often encounter two types of extreme cases: first, we have achieved a certain level-at least at the head office level or above, and have a certain position in the company, people with an annual salary of not less than 0.2 million; the other is working for many years, but still in a relatively low position, whether at the position level and material return, or personal value, can not get high approval. Although these two cases are extreme, they provide us with ideas that can be used for reference. Through comparison, we find that all those who have achieved certain success in their career development share a common feature, that is, in the fields they are familiar with and good, it has been intensive for at least 10 years. Those who cannot find their position in the workplace often change direction every one or two years and never accumulate further in a certain direction. Of course, in addition to frequent job-hopping, there is another factor, that is, the accumulation has been deeply accumulated in one direction, but this accumulation is repetitive and has not risen, as a result, career development remains unchanged. Whether you admit it or not, you must pay attention to the 35-year-old phenomenon ". Many enterprises explicitly stipulate that they are under 35 years of age when recruiting talents. If you are 35 years old but are still posting resumes on the recruitment website, you should reflect on what you did wrong. Of course, based on our practical consulting experience, if you think about this problem at the age of 35 or higher, you may be unable to solve this problem, many practical difficulties will make you feel powerless and helpless. At this time, many people will regret it because of their original choices, but they will not cry. Therefore, whether you want to avoid more detours or achieve greater success, you must think ahead of your future path to earning a living. There are already too many cases to prove that a rainy day is much more useful than a temporary one. A considerable number of our customers are post-80s, which are also high-risk areas with career planning problems. After the age of 80, the age of the largest batch has already reached the age of thirty. However, a considerable number of 80 s are on their way to thirty. If you say that you are young, you still have time to make up for the money that God has given you. But if you have reached the 20th, such capital will no longer be your patent. From college graduation to your career, this time is long enough to give you enough opportunities to understand society, adapt to society, and reflect on your own growth. From the age of 30 to the age of 35, five years in total. If you have enough time to make mistakes, you should set a clear goal at least at the age of 30 to prevent your career from getting messy after the age of 35, and use five years to catch up. This may be the final time for your growth. If you miss this opportunity, you will no longer be young, and society will no longer forgive you with an inclusive mind. Otherwise, if you take the wrong step, you must make up for it at ten times in the future. From the age of 30 to the age of 35, you should learn to accumulate more thickness for your full life, so that you will not spend the rest of your life in regret or regret, "If everything can be done again. 30: The first problem you have to face is the family and responsibility issue. Do not think you are still young. Do not think that some problems are far from yourself. Whether it's decadent or busy, your time is quickly passing away, and you feel like you are growing older. Some problems, whether you are willing to face them or not, but your growth stage determines that you must bear the responsibilities that match your age. Most people in this age group must consider family issues. If you have already established a career, you must be aware of how your career develops to ensure that you can support the burden on your entire family? This includes not only your lover, but also your children and your parents (especially when both parties are only children, you have to bear the support of the four elderly people on both sides ). At this stage, your pressure will multiply, but if your career growth cannot multiply, or even regresses in some form, your future career development will face more pressure. This kind of pressure, more often, will make you do not have the opportunity to seek better development. Many people tend to have a big worry when they change jobs: If I do, if my income is not as high as my current job, will I continue to work easily? Even more rude: Do I dare to move again easily? Do I still have the guts and courage? Therefore, if you want to take actions, you should take the initiative to fight and make full effort when you have not carried the family burden. This is your only choice. Never enjoy ease at this time. Otherwise, you will always be "comfortable" in the rest of your life. The second problem is the matching degree between capacity and age. Why do many companies explicitly require 5 years of experience, 10 years of experience, and other similar work experience when recruiting talents? Because working hours mean the matching level of capability. In the same job, 5 years of experience and 10 years of experience have different abilities and responsibilities. The longer you work, the more powerful your ability is. There is a positive doubling between the two. However, if you violate this relationship, you will not be able to gain the recognition of the employer, and thus lose a better career development opportunity. Among our many customers, one of the more difficult cases is the mismatch between ability and age. Many people who have worked for three or five years, or even one year, do not have much difference in their abilities. So when they want to make a breakthrough in their career, there will be a lot of resistance. There are two reasons for this: frequent job hopping, lack of accumulation in one direction, and lack of skill; and long-term accumulation in one direction, however, only the first year is growth, and the remaining years are repetitive work. Therefore, for those 30-year-olds, from now on, you must carefully examine the question: How many years have I worked since I graduated? Does my abilities match my age? If they do not match, you must establish a sense of crisis as soon as possible and run forward to make up for the gap with those precognition and ensure that you will not be overwhelmed by others during the competition. The third problem is the construction and improvement of the knowledge structure. We once served a customer, made sales in year 56, and accumulated a wealth of practical operation experience. I once switched to apply for the position of regional marketing manager for a well-known FMCG company. During the interview, he was able to answer all questions about the specific operation layer, but his mind was blank when he rose to the system level and strategic level. I believe that people who have worked in the workplace in year 56 will feel this kind of feeling: at the operational level, they can master the process, skills, and methods; however, if you look at the problem from a higher perspective, you often do not know how to start. People in different positions in the workplace do different things. They have the same vision and thinking model. A basic salesman is thinking about how to maintain the terminal. This is a tactical thing and his responsibilities. But if a marketing director is such a role, he is also thinking about how to deal with the terminal boss every day like a salesman, that is, his dereliction of duty. Every enterprise's operation is composed of strategy and tactics. Large strategies will be subdivided into small strategies, and small strategies will be subdivided into execution tactics, which will be put into practice by grass-roots personnel. People at different levels are responsible for different levels of work and perform their respective duties, which is also the significance of team collaboration. Similarly, different levels of people have different knowledge structures. The higher the level, the higher your vision and thinking of the problem, and the higher the level of your overall knowledge structure. Otherwise, your abilities will always be able to stay at the specific operation layer at the grass-roots level. There will be no major development, and your position will not be able to rise. In addition, in terms of communication, the higher your position, the closer you are to the boss, and the more opportunities you have to contact the company's top leaders. If you cannot maintain a high degree of consistency with the bosses, your abilities will not be recognized. In this case, you are unlikely to be promoted, and your career will stop. Before the age of 30: it is an important time to lay a solid foundation for the age of 30. Before conducting career planning consultation, we will have an evaluation stage to systematically evaluate the comprehensive foundation of our customers and see if they are suitable for career planning. One of the most important criteria is age, with a focus on the age of about 30. If you haven't accumulated much before the age of 30, it is very difficult to make a breakthrough in your career after the age of 30. There are many practical problems that cannot be solved. This is a severe injury. We can only say "Sorry, we can't do anything ." Therefore, if you want to survive your 30-Year-Old career without regret, you need to take responsibility for yourself before you are 30 years old. The first thing you need to do is find a target that can be used for five, ten, or more years. This is an ideal state. With a clear goal, you can build your career around one point, and this accumulation of accumulated experience is also a bargaining chip for your future promotion and salary increase. Although experience is not necessarily related to ability, if you do not have experience, your ability will not be improved. The question about the goal and core competitiveness-the so-called core competitiveness must have a core. With this core, you can build your competitiveness. The core is your career goal-what kind of people do I want to be? This problem has been solved, and the direction is clear. Even if you are slow, you can go faster than those who are detours, because you have a clear goal, you have been moving toward your goal, and you are taking a straight line. What are shortcuts? A shortcut is a straight line without detours. We consulted a customer last year and changed 6 companies in seven years. According to the general understanding, people often think that this person's career development is very bad. Actually not. This person's current post-tax monthly salary is 10 thousand yuan, which is a good level. You may wonder why a person who frequently changes jobs has such a career development level? Some may think that he is lucky and lucky. Actually not. Observing his growth experience, we found that there is only one reason: Every job-hopping, he has not deviated from the established direction. As long as the direction is good, his every step of action is approaching this direction, and he is accumulating more chips for future career development. The thickness you have accumulated will ultimately determine your future development height. As housing prices and prices are so high, the survival pressure of many people suddenly increases, which also leads many people to become impetuous and follow the trend due to the pressure of survival. A job may not last for a few months. If you don't think you can see your hopes or raise your salary, you may choose to change jobs. But in fact, Job hopping cannot fundamentally solve the problem. The current employers have become very pragmatic. How much do they do, how much money they spend, and what they mean (of course, the privileged class is not covered in the discussion ). If you cannot contribute more value to the company's development, but want to get more returns, then no one is willing to do the business without making any compensation. How much you contribute to the company depends on how powerful your capabilities are. The accumulation of capabilities stems from long-term persistence in one direction. Those who seem to be excited and those who are still growing. The short-cut success and short-cut benefits that you want to make up for losses in a very short period of time due to a detour will only make you lose more things. You may have heard of the 10000-hour law: Whether you want to succeed in any field, you must spend at least 10000 hours training. Macolm Gladwell said in his new book "heterogeneous: Successful stories", whether it's the best athletes, entrepreneurs, musicians or scientists, after investigation, you will find that they have been paying for at least ten years, and they have only emerged after no less than three hours of effort every day. Here is an example: the 34-Year-Old World's top violator, Maxim ventgrouch, was born in Siberia and came into contact with the first violin when he was 4 years old, since then, we have demonstrated extraordinary talents. However, his talent is proportional to his engagement. He exercises 7 hours a day, holds a solo meeting at the age of 5, and wins an international prize at the age of 15. "My mother returned home at every night and taught me the violin after dinner. For a 4-year-old child, this is simply torture, but two years later I became a violator ." Many people complain that there is no chance. This is not the case. Frank Fredy, a professor of sociology at the University of Kent, believes that people who have invested a lot of time to practice will naturally have their own luck: "They work very hard. When luck comes, they have prepared for a long time." This is due to the old saying in China: "The opportunity is only for the sake of preparation ." If you don't have a chance, don't complain. First, you need to reflect on yourself. What are your preparations? Based on our experience, you can only get a return if you stick to it for at least five years in one direction, in addition, this kind of return will have a relatively long impact on your future career development. At the same time, it is such a long period of accumulation that makes your foundation very solid and solid, and your pace will be more stable. In the workplace, there are only two things to do: one is to do things and the other is to be human. If the goal is to accumulate more core skills and do things better, learning to be a human is the second major consideration for your career development. We even think that being human is a hundred times more important than doing things. Finding a proper career goal may not be easy for many people who are confused, it is a kind of professional qualities that you can cultivate in any company and at any time. Even if you do not have much breakthrough and growth in your career skills, good professionalism will increase your career development chips from another level. We also met many clients with poor abilities, but good attitude and positive attitude. They successfully conquered the interviewer with their excellent professional qualities and got a good development opportunity. There is a saying that we must do things first. If you are not competent, You can cultivate your skills slowly. However, if you are not a human, you will become a street mouse in any organization. In practice, there are four elements that can have a fatal impact on your future career development: first, your interpersonal relationship processing capabilities. This includes the relationship with your boss and your colleagues. A poor relationship with your boss directly determines your promotion. So I often say this to our customers: "If your relationship with your boss is not good, it basically means that your career in this company ends ." The relationship with colleagues is not good. Even if you become a leader on a promotion day, you will be overcharged due to the lack of "mass base, your subordinates do not violate your rules, or are deliberately provocative. You will find that the leadership position is actually difficult to sit down. The second element is to establish the capability of continuous learning. We should pay attention to the importance of learning. We met a customer last year who was nearly 40 years old and has been accounting for 14 years. However, we are still only a job as a grassroots supervisor, in the company, there are still no opportunities for promotion, and there have been no salary increases for many years. We asked him a question: "Have you been trained, trained, or charged in any other way during the past 14 years ?" He said, "No ". "Never ?" "Never ." This is an extremely extreme example, but it is quite common in the workplace. As for your learning and growth, you may wish to ask yourself a few questions: Have I significantly improved my professional skills compared with a year ago? Do I have my own unique opinions on theory and practice? If I encounter something within my responsibilities, Can I handle it independently and be able to handle it independently? The thickness determines the height. Therefore, you have accumulated thickness because of your continuous learning ability. Without learning, your career development will be on its own. You think that you have not regressed, but in fact, the gap between you and others has been opened without knowing it, and you have regressed. The third factor is to establish professionalism. Whether you have any goals or whether you are willing to do this job, you should do everything well as long as you are in this position. It is the minimum kind of professionalism and an indispensable professional spirit in any position. In this position, your responsibilities require you to do a good job. If you don't want to do a good job, you should leave. Don't waste your time here. Good professionalism is sometimes more important than ability itself. A good professionalism is essential for many excellent people to succeed. Even if you do not like this job, do not treat it in a negative way, because you are not only wasting your company's time, but also wasting your time. In the workplace, you can get nothing more than two things: first, return, and second, growth. Before you have a clear goal, you can make the most of your current tasks and strive for everything you can get in this position with your best efforts. If you treat your work with a negative attitude, you will be empty-handed and get nothing. The fourth element is to have a strong heart. Many of the people I have met are actually very fragile in my heart and cannot withstand the sufferings that have come along the long journey of life. Everyone's growth is not smooth sailing. Even Jesus, why can't they suffer from bitter baptism? A strong heart allows a person to see hope in despair, and negative pessimism only gives you a chance to make a mistake in front of hope. Xiao shenke's salvation contains the following line: "I hope the soul of a prisoner can feel freedom. Strong self-help, holy one ferry. You have no ability to become the Holy One, but you must become a strong person. "Competing for things, survival of the fittest ." Survival of the fittest is always the eternal law of natural progress. Only by adapting to this rule can you survive in a highly competitive society. After the age of 30: how to achieve a qualitative breakthrough after the age of 30 career development, should not be a standing position, stagnant state. If you want to achieve a great development in your career after the age of 35, you should make good use of the five years from the age of 30 to prepare the following three crucial things: the first thing is to build your professional brand. How to build your own brand. When you reach the age of 30, frequent job-hopping will definitely not work. The biggest disadvantage is that your professional knowledge will always be at a relatively low level, this will affect your job promotion and salary growth. What should I do? At this time, I should have a clear and clear positioning and use the remaining five years to accumulate. Otherwise, the "35-year-old phenomenon" will definitely be staged on you. In his monograph "professionalism", "Father of Japanese strategy", I also put forward this idea: "Why did you win? In the future, competition among individuals will affect the world's overall trend. Can it dominate the world stage and forge the core competitiveness that others cannot surpass? You are the only professional ." Are you a top-notch business person or a common office worker? The difference is here! Providing a professional positioning for yourself and setting up your own brand image will increase more valuable chips for your future career development. We once met 13 job hopping in five years and more than 10 customers in the industry. If you do, there will be no professionalism. Of course, in order to support your "professional" brand image, you still need to make efforts in the following two aspects: the first one is the knowledge structure we mentioned earlier, instead of looking at problems at the operation layer, you must take a longer and farther look at the problem and become a person with a vision rather than a mouse. You need to align with the best people in the industry and take them as their goals as an example for self-cultivation and growth, and make up for the gap with excellence step by step. At this time, in-service learning, training, and so on all need to be put on the agenda, learning to enrich your mind with new knowledge. The second aspect is to establish your own influence in the industry. Excellent Talents in every industry have their own circles. For example, Harvard Business Review Network, professional manager network, and business personnel network are all places where relevant talents gather. Why does it take tens of thousands of people to attend a class? Why can some people use their own power to promote the development of an industry? The reason is that they are too influential. To become a good person in the workplace, you must be in line with the best people, establish an influence in the industry, and use your ideas to influence others. We met a very good guy last year and are very impressed. He is a printing Major. After graduation, he went to the printing factory for sales. In some people's opinion, this major and this position have nothing special. However, it is such a job that seems to have no gold content that he builds his own influence in his own unique way. He made a decision for himself: He wrote an article every month and published it in the most influential magazine in the industry. Of course, not every article can achieve the quality of posting, but every month, we must ensure the quality of writing an article. The first advantage of this is to establish your influence in this industry; the second is to allow you to form your own knowledge structure. We have mentioned the issue of knowledge structure. We need to emphasize it here. The knowledge you get through learning, training, and other means is ultimately owned by others, not your own. To form your own knowledge structure, you need to apply this external knowledge to your work practice. In the process of practice, the same knowledge theory, in different circumstances, is different from everyone's feelings and experiences. The process of writing an article is the process of summing up and reflecting on your own insights and experiences in practice. The knowledge structure formed in this process can truly be called your "own" knowledge. The second thing is to train yourself into a good manager (this refers to middle-level managers and your first manager goal ). In addition to those who are very keen on technology, if you want to gain more space in the workplace, the promotion of positions is essential. Some may say that I don't want to be a leader. I just want to do my part well and I will be satisfied. For those who have such ideas, I can only say sorry, this is not your choice. The reason is simple: when you are 25 years old, you can be a basic employee; when you are 30 years old, you can also be a basic employee; but when you are over 35 years old, if you only want to be a basic employee, it is unrealistic. We have mentioned the 35-year-old phenomenon ". If a 35-year-old person is limited to a basic position, such a person is of little value (of course, except for lagging state-owned enterprises and public institutions ). Therefore, whether you are willing or not, you must promote your position as an important goal and strive for it. Taking the managerial position is a key step in your career growth. The future development space is inseparable from this promotion. But not everyone can sit down. Galop once conducted a survey and found that the reason why basic employees leave their jobs frequently is that the problem is not the company, but the company's boss-the company's middle-level managers. In our career planning consulting experience, we often encounter this problem: it is because of poor middle-level management that it has a very negative impact on the development and growth of subordinate employees, as a result, their career development neither in professional competence nor in professional cultivation can be effectively developed. For the time being, we will not discuss how important the "middle-level crisis" is to the company's development. Just from an early stage, you must be aware that your management, it may change the fate of your subordinates for life. It is your incorrect management method that may hurt your subordinates and force them to leave the company. When recruiting employees, managers are deeply frustrated by frequent job-hopping. But as a bystander, I have to say: When you complain about the disloyalty and low quality of job seekers, have you considered establishing a benign talent growth mechanism, so that everyone can grow? While complaining about the shortage of talent, have you considered how to cultivate talent seriously? Many companies will say that we have trained, but we can't keep it. In the end, we will all get married for others. This is not worth the candle, so we are not so keen on talent training. But the problem is exactly here: Why can't you keep people? If every company does not cultivate talent and wants to eat "ready-made", the final consequence will be that all enterprises will face the situation of no one available! When your growth is hindered by your boss, this is your misfortune. You can choose to vote with your feet. When you become a manager one day, we do not want to pass on this misfortune. Only in this way can the cultivation of talents enter a positive cycle, so that everyone can find their place in the workplace. There are a lot of difficulties in this process, but I hope that people with ideals will continue to work hard to change it all. The third thing is to find a growing company that grows along with it for a relatively long time. In the process of growth, it is very important to find a company with growth potential and space. First, you can witness the growth of a company from small to large, from weak to strong, and have a deeper understanding of the company's operations, you can also understand the position and role of your role in the company's growth. Second, during the company's growth process, your value will have more room to play and be displayed more easily. Many people tend to look for large companies when looking for a job. This is understandable, but it is actually a better choice to quickly grow and find companies that are not very large. In the process of growth, the demand for talent will be more urgent, and your job will be promoted faster. Third, your loyalty will bring more rewards for your development. Enterprise personnel, the most important of which is loyalty. No company is fond of employees. Especially in the context of a large number of enterprises, loyalty has become a very valuable professional spirit. Whether you are "three" or on the "three" Road, please always warn yourself: Do not waste your time and seize all the time you can seize, accumulate more thickness for the lives of numerous beings. When you get older, think back to your life. Do you want to live a happy life, or regret and annoyance? Finally, I use my favorite quotations from Steve Jobs as the end of this article. "A person cannot do too many things in his life, so everything must be wonderful. You have limited time, so do not live for others. Do not be limited by dogma, and do not live in others' ideas. Do not let others' opinions influence your inner voice. The most important thing is to be brave enough to follow your own mind and intuition. Only your own mind and intuition will know your own real thoughts, and everything else will be secondary ." When you feel that your income is inferior to that of others, do not compare it with others, because you will never know what others have paid behind their income. Similarly, when we live a worse life than others, you do not need to envy us because we have created our own quality of life through hard work. If you feel that your life is not good enough, your efforts are not enough. In fact, we only need to stick to it. It is easy to stick to it for three days. What's hard is to stick to it all the time!