Chapter 5 Bring your career map

George Bernard Shaw said: "The people who conquer the world will be those who first tried to find the paradise of their dreams, and when they couldn't find it, they created it with their own hands, just like you will be very happy before traveling abroad. It's like putting it on a map in nature." Personal career planning is the map that leads us through the fog and towards success. Only by relying on its guidance can we reach the other side of success smoothly.A person whose career goals are consistent with his life goals is happy, and career design is essentially the process of pursuing the best career.

Career career refers to the development path of a person's continuous work occupation and job position throughout his life.Successful career planning requires you to position yourself in a position where you can best use your strengths based on your own interests and characteristics, so that you can maximize your self-worth.Personal career planning should determine the career direction and goals suitable for oneself on the basis of self-understanding, and formulate corresponding plans to avoid blindness in employment, reduce the possibility of failure in employment, and provide the most effective path for individuals to achieve career success.

The well-known management expert Northwell defines the connotation of career planning as follows: individuals combine their own situation and immediate constraints to determine the direction of action, action time and action plan for their own career goals.There are three main benefits of career planning: First, it reduces many anxieties and mood swings (highs and lows). Second, it can make life and work more efficient and easier to achieve. Third, it can allow itself to concentrate superior resources, avoid all interference, and make it easier for itself to succeed. So, how can we do a good job in our career planning?

A successful life requires proper planning. In fact, it doesn't matter where you stand today, but it does matter where you move to next.An effective career design must be based on a full and correct understanding of one's own conditions and the relevant circumstances.The more thorough the understanding of oneself and the environment, the better the career design can be done.Because the purpose of career design is not only to help you achieve and realize your personal goals, but more importantly, to help you truly understand yourself. You need to look at yourself, know yourself, understand yourself, and make a self-assessment.Self-assessment includes one's own interests, strengths, personality, knowledge, skills, IQ, EQ, way of thinking, moral standards, and self in society.Estimate the advantages and limitations of the internal and external environment in detail, design your own reasonable and feasible career development direction, and find out your professional expertise and interests through the analysis of your past experience and experience. This is the first step in career design. step.

To understand ourselves, we can use the 5 self-questions to achieve this. This method relies on the zero-return thinking mode: start by asking who you are, and then go all the way.There are 5 questions in total: who am I? what do i want to do what will i do What does the environment support or allow me to do? What is my career and life plan? By answering these 5 questions and finding what they have in common, you can gain a clear understanding of yourself.If you are interested, you can try it now.First take out 5 sheets of white paper, a pencil, and an eraser.Write the above 5 questions on the top of each sheet of paper.Then, calm down, eliminate distractions, and think carefully about each question in order and independently.

For the first question "Who am I", the main point of the answer is: face yourself, and write down every answer that comes to mind; after writing, think about whether there are any omissions, and if there are indeed none, sort them by importance. For the second question "what do I want to do", you can go back to your childhood, starting from the first idea of ​​what you want to do in your life, and then as you grow older, recall what you really want to do, and Write them down one by one, and then think about whether there are any omissions after writing. If there are indeed none, then carefully sort them.

For the third question, "What can I do?", list out the proven abilities and the potentials that you think can be developed one by one, and sort them carefully if you think there is nothing missing. For the fourth question "what does the environment support or allow me to do", the answer needs to be analyzed a little bit: the environment includes the unit, the city, the province, the country and other countries. , should be within the scope of consideration; in these environments, think carefully about what support and permission you may get, and write them down one by one after you figure it out, and then arrange them in order of importance.

If you can successfully answer the fifth question "What is my career plan", you will have the final answer. The method is: line up the first four sheets and the fifth sheet, then carefully compare the answers on the first to fourth sheets, connect the answers with the same or similar content with a horizontal line, and you will get several A line that does not intersect with other lines and is at the top is the thing you should do most, and your career should be based on this.In this direction, take 3 years as a unit to propose short-term, medium-term and long-term goals; then propose this year's goals in the short-term goals; decompose this year's goals into quarterly goals, monthly goals, weekly goals, and daily goals. Target.

In this way, you can reflect on your goals before going to bed every day, summarize the achievements and mistakes, experience and lessons of the day, and correct the goals and methods for tomorrow.In this way, there is no plan that cannot be realized over time.It is worth noting that many people often think that choosing the most popular career means that they have the most future prospects. In this regard, relevant experts remind: the most important thing in choosing a career is to be able to correctly analyze yourself and find the most suitable major for you. Then strive to become the best in the industry.

If you don't know where you're going, you usually won't get anywhere.Establishing goals is the key to formulating career planning. Effective career design requires practical goals in order to eliminate unnecessary hesitation and interference and devote oneself to the realization of goals. Setting your own career goals is not as difficult as you think, just think about what you want to achieve in a few years, and then count back step by step.Goal setting should be based on information such as your best talents, your best personality, your greatest interests, and your most favorable environment.Usually goals are divided into short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals and life goals, but one thing is that you have to ensure that this goal is at least great in your own eyes.Without practical goals as the driving force, it is easy for people to compromise on the status quo.

Is your career helping you achieve your ultimate goals in life?Do you have a path to align your current career with your fundamental purpose in life?Just as a campaign or a football game needs to determine a combat plan, an effective career design also requires a career strategy plan that can be implemented. These specific and feasible action plans will help you move towards success step by step. Goals. Generally, the choice of career direction needs to consider the following three questions: Where do I want to develop? Where can I develop? Where can I develop? Therefore, today, our working methods are constantly innovating. In addition to learning new skills and knowledge, we also have to constantly examine our capital in life, realize its shortcomings, and constantly revise our goals in order to remain invincible Only in this way can we lead our team forward in unison.