Fallout: How technicians get out of career confusion

What do you think of the problem of professional confusion that the technical staff are generally facing?

In my impression, working for two or three years of technical staff, is the most prone to encounter professional confusion. This time the technical staff, in the professional has some foundation, in the business also has a certain experience, the handling of daily work for him is a piece of cake, so the days are more comfortable, but a person most comfortable time is often its growth slowest time, for a motivated technical staff, What he felt might not be comfortable, but frustration. This may be the technical staff in the career development encountered the first bottleneck, this time people are very impetuous, lost enthusiasm for the work, the heart has a voice more and more strong: "I really do not want to be so mixed up", then the heart of the job-hopping. Groove is jumping, did not expect to start the same situation six months later. I am not opposed to job-hopping, but I oppose the blind job-hopping, if the problem in their own body, change the company is not solve the problem-job-hopping should be under the guidance of career planning.

In addition, career planning needs to be very clear, can not be a general conjecture. I often catch the people below me, talk about life talk about ideals by the way, the situation is often: ask him if he has a career plan, he said. Ask him what he is, he said it must go to a higher position. I went on to ask, what is the specific position, why do you choose this position, you think the position of the requirements, you and the target position of the gap between, how long you plan to use, how to improve their ability ... There is little that can be answered.

In addition, I always believe that to help subordinates clear career planning is the responsibility of the boss, excellent managers can not only help subordinates to develop career planning, but also actively for subordinates to strive for resources to meet their professional development requirements.

Why is career planning important?

For a ship without a direction, the wind in either direction is upwind. Similarly, for a person who has no career direction, he becomes a headless fly, and the feeling of being a headless fly is very bad, and career planning helps to solve the problem. A person has a clear career plan, he will be very clear about what he wants, he can focus on how to develop himself on the existing platform, he will no longer because of some of the bad things in the workplace, because that is really a waste of feelings, it is better to seize the time to get some growth, which is equivalent to the acquisition of a natural immune ability, This should be the legendary blunt force.

For the technician, how should they choose a suitable direction?

For technicians, the typical development direction is two: technical route and management route. The former is from the engineers to the scientist, is in the professional development, the latter is from the engineer to the CTO, is in the management development. Specific development lines, each enterprise may be due to their own business characteristics to adjust, but also similar. Whether it is the development of technical lines or management lines, the common requirement is to become a good engineer first, why? The process of good engineers is to find the right frame of reference process-we need two or three years to understand the target position, more importantly, to understand their own strengths and weaknesses and personal preferences, and then to do planning, it is more realistic. Second, if the role of the engineer is not good, even if you want to "climb up", I am afraid you can not get resources.

Then the question is, how do we choose? The most direct suggestion is that the "people" interest a little more, like to deal with people, the relationship between people have a higher sensitivity, you can prioritize the management of the route, the other hand, you can choose the technical route development.

Note that no matter what position, there is no way to avoid dealing with people, in this sense, whether you like it or not, should actively expand their interpersonal skills. A good architect is often very good at communication, but he prefers technology. This is with a good technical manager, must have a certain technical basis is the same, otherwise it will lead to the situation of amateur leadership professionals.

A large part of the engineers, who tend to take the technical line, are very worried that they will lose competitiveness after they are 30 years old. I think this is really not related to age, I know a lot of more than 30-year-old, technical line to go very good people. The key is that others have done five years of engineers, you are doing a year engineers repeat five times, that does not eliminate you, who eliminated?

What are some of the ways that technicians are more conducive to getting out of trouble when faced with confusion?

First of all, the most likely to help is the direct boss. The direct boss is the person who knows your situation best, he has a more comprehensive understanding of your career development, so he usually can give the most practical advice. Therefore, may wish to find the boss to communicate a bit, say oneself of confusion, ask your boss to give you some advice. Of course, there is a psychological barrier to overcome, is afraid to face the boss, think to the boss to tell the confusion is a very bad thing, perhaps also affect their boss in the mind of the image and so on. My view is that to help subordinates grow up is the responsibility of every boss, but also a part of the management work, belongs to the matter. If a boss, because you say your own confusion, and to You "", that such a boss is unqualified, proposed to apply for internal rotation, or direct job-hopping.

Second, is to find senior counterparts to consult. After all, there is pressure on the direct boss. Then our second choice, is to find and their own boss similar to the peer exchange. This person, preferably 35 years earlier than himself (if only a year or two earlier, he may not be clear), because there is no interest in the relevance of the communication will be more accessible.

Once again, do everything on your own. It is painful to be in a professional confusion, to eliminate confusion may be more painful, this more intense pain must be borne by themselves, which requires courage and determination. I have seen a lot of people are talking about, I clearly told him a number of specific practices, he is not as a. Such people are lack of self-discipline, is not willing to take responsibility for their growth, then the immortal can not save him.

In the process of career development, in addition to confusion, there is a special state called "not state", should be compared with the legendary aesthetic fatigue closer. What do you do when you're not in state? My advice is to do some "good physical work". For example, assuming that the main work is the usual management work, you can set their own manual labor is to study the open source framework, read code to write comments, although each time can not read much, but the accumulation of a year, but also can be studied a 7788. Such a framework, dedicated to spend time to study is very boring, and it is usually difficult to have the whole piece of time to study it. The benefits of doing this kind of physical labor are also obvious? One is that the smell of ammunition from time to time as a technology manager helps remind yourself not to be too far away from the battlefield, and secondly it's hard to say that someday there won't be a new career opportunity to ask you to contribute more to your architecture, especially in the domestic environment. Of course, everyone can define their own "good physical labor", as appropriate, according to their own circumstances.

How does a technician's career plan fall into the ground?

First of all, to understand the actual requirements of the target position, the same position in different company requirements is also different, so it is important to understand the actual requirements in a particular context. This is not difficult, look at the side of the good, I believe that every target position will have a living person, more to communicate with them, it is clear. After the requirements are clear, the next step is to find the gap, starting with the skills needed to upgrade. How to find it? There is a small way, you can imagine, if immediately let you do that position, you worry about what is the most, will not be convinced, why not convinced, these places may be you need to work hard place.

In the effort, there is a "block and Circle" theory is recommended to everyone: if a character's established responsibility is a block area, most people's actual performance is a inscribed circle (unintentional, more or less), and the opportunity is always for those who make circumscribed circle-the so-called opportunity is a bigger block, It is clear that circumscribed circle not only covers the small squares well, but also is closer to the area of the generous block. Then the question becomes whether you are a habitual inscribed circle, or trying to draw a bigger circumscribed circle.

There is also a "stepping foot" of the saying is also very interesting: in the support of the organizational structure, the crowd, we each stand in a small circle, some people try to step outside the foot, step on the reaction, sometimes they will step back, but there are always some feet shrink back, even that is a piece of empty space, So stepping on stepping on a path to the road-career development as a pioneering territory, a bit aggressive.

On the topic of career planning, I often in the team to share, we have some small pots of friends, the scene sounded excited, sleep at night before thinking of moving, the next day after work but motionless, how still how. Later a question, said is "can not find the right benchmark", where is not found, in fact, is not able to accept others than their excellent reality, technical staff easy to see high self, look down on others. If a person has no way to accept others than their own good reality, he will never be able to improve. If you accept it, it is easy to find a benchmark in your co-workers and then take out your more than sincerity and make friends with the benchmark. When the benchmark becomes your friend, it Jinzhuzhechi and howl.

What are the rules of the game that we need to follow in the workplace?

There are some places there are rivers and lakes, the workplace is also a river. Technical staff like the Knight of the River, for a knight, Kung Fu often decided to abide by the rules, he most need to abide by the rules, is to practice their kung fu. Of course, no matter how high it is, everything should be done under the premise of not terrible.

Two knight battle, who can beat who, in general depends on two aspects, one is to use what kind of moves, the other is the depth of internal force. Moves between the fits together, the key is to use properly, the same is the move some people called Huaquanxiutui, and some people are a recruit killed.
If two people use the same moves, then people with deep internal forces will have an advantage. We often see in the martial arts fiction, some people accidentally acquired a deep internal strength, even if do not know what moves can also defeating.

Moves and internal forces corresponding to the working field above refers to the professional ability and interpersonal skills, professional ability to say that you will do this thing, can produce performance, interpersonal skills is how much you can influence others to give you support and help, so that you better play your professional skills.

When it comes to interpersonal relationships, many people are prone to allergies, especially technicians, who are prone to political fantasies or conspiracy theories. In fact, in a complex and interdependent workplace environment, the response to one thing, the understanding of the worldly people and the innocence of the shock is no different, the extreme accident and the naïve are mentally immature, we ourselves do not become these two kinds of people, but also to accommodate the two people around us may appear, Because they are often the key to moving things forward--what I'm saying is that it's important to learn to work with people you don't like or dislike.

Finally, the ability to decide the seat, relationship decision development, the basis of workplace survival is good performance, and to further development, but also must have good interpersonal relationships.

Fallout: How technicians get out of career confusion