Professional development direction of technical personnel-technical person

Almost every enterprise needs the support of technical personnel, manufacturing enterprises need on-site production control and process technology personnel; it and other High-tech industries need a large number of software development and maintenance of hardware engineers, real estate, construction engineering needs of architects, civil engineers and construction technicians. In addition, whether it is state-owned enterprises, private companies or foreign companies, the need for a large number of basic technical workers. Even many white-collar workers working in office space in luxury office work are related to technology.

However, a grim reality is that a large number of technical personnel on their career positioning and career planning seems very confused and confused. There is an old saying in China: Those who toil are treated, and the laborers are treated. Compared with management positions, technical staff are often looked down upon, although they are engaged in very important, cumbersome technical work, but more is playing the role of the hero behind the scenes. In the social status, the economic income and the unlimited level of management at all levels of the general gap, this reality has created a great psychological difference of the technical staff. The second cause of confusion in career planning is the limitations of some technical work. Take it industry, because of the speed of technology and knowledge update, software Open people are generally considered to eat "youth rice" position, who learn faster, who is more energetic, who can stay up late, who is more competitive, because the experience is no longer important. If more than 35 years old also engaged in software development, it will be difficult to make breakthroughs in their own positions.

So, for the technical staff, their career prospects are really so bleak. The fact is certainly not so pessimistic, do the technical work also has a very broad space, of course, the key point you want to make your vision more open, in the long-term perspective of the problem. According to my experience, the professional direction of technical personnel can have the following several choices:

Direction one, become project manager

It's a good job to develop a project manager for a lot of people who work in the technical field. Project management requires a solid technical background support, but also involves a wide range of management, the most suitable for those who are technically born but not willing to do only technical work personnel. Become the project manager, on the one hand, can give full play to the professional advantages of technical personnel, while at the same time in the team management, coordination of resources, internal and external communication and other work experience and play as managers role and role, so that their own value more fully realized and recognized. Excellent project management personnel, but also a very long time in the future a hot career direction.

Direction two, become the industry senior experts

If you really love technical work, but not good at and like to communicate with people, can be fully focused on their own areas, to develop into a senior industry experts as the direction and goal, of course, this development process may be relatively long, any one field of the top technical personnel need long-term industry experience and personal tireless input. However, one of the advantages of this kind of talent is that the older the more popular, when others began to worry about the rice bowls with the gradual increase in age, you get better and begin to enter the golden age of career development.

Third, become a research and development manager or technical Director

In fact, in some industries and enterprises, the status of technology research and development personnel is very high. For example, in Microsoft, Nokia, Huawei and other IT industries, technology support and research and development speed, become the most important source of profit growth, in these industries, technology research and Development Department is the main battlefield of enterprises. In many state-owned enterprises and government departments, also attaches great importance to technology and technical work, for example, I know the Guangzhou Municipal Gardening Bureau, there is a chief engineer, Deputy engineer and other technical positions, including the chief engineer of the job level equivalent to the deputy Bureau level, under the influence of this atmosphere, technical posts and administrative leadership are also respected. Therefore, in a respect and attach importance to technical work in the industry and enterprises, develop into a research and development manager, technical director or Chief Engineer is a good choice.

Direction four, do technical sales and service

The field of technical work is very broad, and if you feel that pure technical work has little potential for development, consider turning to sales or technical support. The sales staff of Huawei, ZTE and other communication technology companies rarely have professional and technical backgrounds, and the first step in marketing of software giants such as Oracle is often started by the sales engineers visiting the customers. This kind of high value, High-tech product sales promotion, very need to have a wealth of technical experience of the sales staff.

The technical staff turns to the Post-sale service, also very has the future. I know a friend of the university is a construction machinery major, after graduation has been in the municipal engineering industry to do trenchless Pipe jacking construction, in a few years of work has accumulated a wealth of underground jacking equipment application and maintenance experience, a suitable opportunity to switch to the famous top pipe equipment manufacturers-Germany Herrenknecht company, become its after-sales service engineers, Work is handy and income has increased by several times.

Direction five, turn to management position

There are always some people, although the science and engineering background, engaged in technical jobs, but they seem to be born with a management talent. These people will gradually show management potential and excellent leadership in their work, they tend to prefer to deal with people, and they prefer to communicate with the outside world. Under such conditions, based on the technical experience and relying on the appropriate supplement to learn some management knowledge, for example, can be part-time MBA, in time, can fully grow into a good professional manager.

Direction six, the senior technical operation personnel

The career direction that we talked about just now is suitable for many people who are from the University of Science and Technology, but for a large number of junior colleges and technical school graduates, the opportunity to become an industry technical expert or director of research and development is obviously very small. This group of professionals, the best technology development route is based on their own positions, become senior operational technical personnel.

Guangzhou 2006, the various types of post wage guidance prices, senior technicians employment wages than the doctor also 500 Yuan higher. The reason for this phenomenon is simple, from the national level, although the number of industrial workers is huge, but the proportion of senior technicians is very small, the lack of "senior technicians" has become a constraint on the development of many enterprises "bottlenecks." But along with the policy environment, the enterprise understanding angle and the cultivation mechanism aspect unceasing improvement, this phenomenon will gradually change, therefore becomes the medium senior technician to be a very promising career development direction.

Finally, I once again take it industry as an example to specifically talk about the professional track of technical personnel.

The classification of the IT (information Technology) industry is quite complex, and I'm only here to analyze the three most typical parts:

The first part is software development, popular is programming. In fact, I think the real software developers and the workers in the shoe factory are in a position to be the ultimate producer of enterprise products (there is no derogatory sense here, of course).

The second part is mis:management information Service/system (Management information System), mainly responsible for basic it construction, network, communication, software and hardware support, simple development and other functions, for the other departments of the company to provide it basic services.

The third part is Erp:enterprise Resource planning (Enterprise Resource planning system), mainly related to enterprise management software implementation, maintenance, management. Through the introduction of information technology in the enterprise reality to achieve the enterprise's resource management, coordinate the production and operation of various aspects of the enterprise, it has a great reliance on the business norms and the management mechanism of enterprises.

Let us take a look at the career development space of these three sections:

1. Developers

My view is that in small and medium-sized enterprises do pure software development is likely to embark on a one-way road, long-term development of the people generally do not have the ability to become a manager of the opportunity is not. And there is a more important problem is that China's current development industry environment is very bad, as I talked about the basic is eating young rice, 30 will be difficult to do. The 40-Year-old developer in the United States is a popular age. Although the business may be more refined, it may be farther away from it and develop to pure blue-collar workers.

If you really want to do development, should find a better platform, preferably into multinational enterprises or domestic leading enterprises. If the data technology is strong, you can consider turning to the Internet search direction, if you have advantages in electronic and communication equipment, can be from simple program development to the development of communication products.

2. MIS personnel

MIS content of a wide range, can be engaged in a lot of occupations: network management, technical support and so on, and through efforts can be promoted to become a small director (of course, have their own quality), and then become MIS Manager, but do MIS manager basic also end up, However, you can consider transferring to different industries or enterprises to do mis.

The same is done IT service, the position of IT department in different company is still very huge. As far as I know, Avon (China) Company's IT department has more than 100 people, in the corporate headquarters of the functional departments of the high position, and the Southern Airlines IT department has reached more than 800 people, this scale is far more than the average IT company, its IT department president is also an important member of the corporate decision-making. Therefore, in these companies do it technical support work, not only to avoid the pure programming software developers encounter the "age" of the passive situation, do not worry about it industry bubble burst the survival crisis.

3. ERP Type Personnel

Engaged in enterprise management software personnel General starting point is relatively high (the company's starting point is relatively high), the requirements of finance, production, sales and other processes have a clear understanding of the practitioners are not necessarily for it origin, and may be financial personnel or science and technology personnel, such as career change. It's rapid development and the continuous expansion of business areas, for the promotion and development of ERP has created a good space for development. In fact, a company engaged in enterprise management software technology can fully qualified for a business manager, in this field the prospect of technical personnel can be said to be very broad.

A friend of mine who is majoring in industrial equipment control after graduation has been engaged in ERP application promotion and management consulting, although he is not particularly deep understanding of it technology, but in the ERP system in the enterprise application experience is very rich, in other people's eyes he is more like a management consultant, It has been an expert in this field for five years and has been very impressive in terms of personal income.

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