Talking about career

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原文: 谈谈职业生涯

所谓职业生涯,是一个人一生的工作经历,特别是职业、职位的变动及工作理想实现的整个过程。所以在很多时候,我们习惯上又把职业生涯称为职业发展,它是个人一生工作中的不同时期、阶段的综合体。职业生涯的规划与管理是职业人士所必须面对的一个重要题目,它直接反映个人对自己职业远景的规划和对自身资源的配置情况。在个人职业过程中,很多人总是“好高骛远”,不能认清自己的实际情况,在追求发展的同时不断的失去机会。

要讲职业生涯,我们先从胜任开始。所谓胜任,是指个人的素质、技能、绩效等能满足某岗位的最低要求。在没有满足自己现在岗位要求的时候,是不适合做这个岗位的。现实的生活中,我们常常看到这样一个现象——刚毕业不久的大学生,为了所谓自己的职业发展,不停的跳槽。也可以看到另外一种现象——刚毕业不久的大学生,在一个单位里被迅速的提拔,短短两、三年时间就做到了公司中层。以上两种现象在职业发展里都是不合常理的。

先说第一种情况,新入司人员的不停跳槽。追求个人的发展,不断的调整自己的奋斗之路是我们每一个有理想员工所应该做的事情。但是要有一个前提,那就是要目标明确。在方向明确的前提下,逐步的调整自己的阶段性行为和方法,才能较快的达到自己的目标。跳槽,作为一种追求个人发展的方式,只有在几种很无奈的情况下才会被采用。“出于个人职业发展考虑”而跳槽的占了第一位,“对原公司的薪资福利不满意”是跳槽的第二大动因;“对公司发展前景不满意”,抱怨“原公司没有足够的学习和培训机会”是引发个人跳槽的第三、第四大因素。而新大学生,新进入职业道路的员工,往往还没有对公司完全了解,没有清晰定义自己的发展道路就要跳槽,岂不是很盲目?还有假如某个人在一个公司遇到了以上的几种很无奈因素中的一个而不得不跳槽,是不是到别的公司就一定会一帆风顺呢?

再说第二种情况,被提拔太快。也许在多数人的眼里,这是很令人兴奋的事情。殊不知这样的作法对个人会产生很大的不良后果。许多年轻的干部,在迅速升职后往往飘飘然忘乎所以,把握不住自己的位置,在很大程度上限制了自己以后的发展。许多人是由于公司的迅速发展而被提升的,他们没有得到足够的经验,没有成熟的解决问题的能力,有些甚至没有学会最基础的待人处世的方法。试想,他们能胜任新岗位的工作吗?其结果必然是其绩效在同等级的人群中很低,对自己、对公司都造成不良的影响。又有人说了,我们不可以一边做一边学吗?可以,当然可以。可是我们有时候不得不想,做了中层的干部,由谁还能再去做比较初级的事情呢?有多少人还有时间去提升那些比较初级但工作中不可缺少的基础能力呢?所以说人可以跳跃发展,但一定要把握速度,职业规划就是用来掌控自己职业发展的.

职业生涯的道路上,我们强调的不是目前所处的位置,而是迈出下一步的方向。现在所在的职位是一种存在,是对以后发展的积累。职业生涯强调的重点是个人应该朝那个方向发展,是个人的未来取向。当然还要确定实现人生目标的地点,以及目标级别。这定向、定点和定位就是所谓的“三定”原则。职业生涯要按照一个顺序来做,就是先要建立自己的目标,然后制定自己的职业生涯简历,对自己进行现状分析,最后是制定出规划,并严格的按照计划执行。以后我们会陆续的进行职业生涯制定的探讨。

译文: Talking about career

Career refers to ones whole life working experience, especially the whole process of varies in profession and position and the realization of one’s target. In most times, we treat a career as a career development, which represents for the experience in different time and stages in one’s life. Career planning is a very important issue for every professional. It directly reflects the personal planning of one’s career and the arrangement for self-resources. Lots of people may look for things beyond their grasp in the process of career planning. Because of lacking of self-awareness, they keep missing chances during their pursuit of self-developing.
 

Therefore, talking about a career, let’s start with competence. As is concerned, competence is the personal skills, techniques etc. to meet the lowest requirements of the position. Without it, someone is not fit for the position. In daily life, it’s very common that a graduate keeps job-hopping for the reason of so-called self-developing. And also there is another phenomenon; a graduate is quickly promoted as a middle level in an organization in two or three years after graduation. The both above are abnormal in career developing.

 

Firstly, let’s talk about a rookie keeps job-hopping after he enters a company. Keep adjusting the direction one struggles for is the right thing for everyone with lofty ideals. But all these are based on the premise that one should have a clear aim. With a clear aim, gradually adjust one’s periodic actions and methods, can a guy achieve his target quickly. Job-hopping, as one of the ways to pursuit self-developing, is adopted only in those very difficult situations with no alternative. Consideration for self-development is the most common excuse for job-hopping, while the discontent with compensation and welfare stand in the second place. The dissatisfaction with the company’s future prospects and the complaint about not enough training are the third and fourth factors for job-hopping. But for a new graduate, as a freshman in his career, it’s rather blind for him to start another career-hop before he can obtain a well understanding of the company and define his direction. Besides, there is one more thing that needs to be taken into account, that is, if the guy meets such difficulty as mentioned above has to perform a job-hopping, can he be assured to proceed smoothly without a hitch in his new company?

 

Then let’s come to the next, to be promoted immediately. Maybe to most people, this is rather an amazing thing, while in fact it can do a lot of harm to someone himself. For many young leaders, it’s such a big excitement that he could hardly remember who he is and then fail to have the right definition for him which may limit his future development greatly. As many of them are promoted so immediately that they cannot accumulate enough experience and obtain a well-round ability to solve problems, some even haven’t grasped the basis of dealing with people. Imagine, are such people able to be competent with the work in their new post? All these will definitely come to a low appraisal among the same level and bad influences to the company and himself. Some may question, why he can’t grow experienced while working. Of course yes. But sometimes we have to face the fact that, as a middle-level leader, he has very few chances to do those basic things which may help to develop those basic but essential competencies in daily work. So here we come to a conclusion, development by leaps and bounds is good, but please be patient. A proper career-plan will benefit a lot in one’s career.

 

In one’s career, it doesn’t matter that the position where you are, what we concern is the direction of the next step you will make. The current position you stay at is more an accumulation to the future development than merely an existence. As to career, the point is the direction and the selection you make for the future. With the identification of the place and level to achieve the target, these three factors are so-called the “direction-place-level” standard. A career should be designed in a right Sequence. Firstly, establish your aim; secondly, design a career resume and use self-analysis; finally, make out a career plan and strictly carry it out. We will involve more details on how to make a career plan bit by bit in the future.