Chapter 6 Part 1: Bow down as a corporate bull

Dear Teacher Xu: I wrote to you once, I don't know if you still have an impression of me.I am Chai Jing, a student of the Accounting Department of the University of Finance and Economics in 1999, and I will graduate this summer. I started to think about going abroad in my third year of junior high school, but due to visa issues in the United States in the past two years, it has become more difficult to go abroad, especially MBA requires more than two years of work experience, and tuition fees are even more of a hindrance.The family can only be considered well-off, and the MBA fee of more than 1 million is still unaffordable.It is purely for the diploma, and the input-output rate is not high.So I finally chose the path of working for two years before applying to go abroad. (Xu Xiaoping's note: Even if there are a million people in the family who can burn, it should be like this.)

You also know that the employment situation this year is very bad, especially for students from other places.I don't think it is a problem to enter a famous brand company according to my own conditions, so I have been preparing hard.Here, I think you will definitely ask me whether I have applied to the Big Four accounting firms.Because I have seen that many applicants who go abroad have the background of working in the "Big Four", which is very beneficial to the application.I originally thought so too.Many of my brothers and sisters work in the "Big Four". From what they said, I feel that the "Big Four" are places where people are squeezed out. There is no training, no corporate culture, and it is purely "using men like animals. Women are men's envoys", I don't know if you have heard this.So I gave up the "Big Four" application and waited for other companies.

Who knows, except for the "big four" recruiting more people this year, well-known companies either don't recruit people, or they recruit a few people. It wasn't until mid-March this year that I received an offer from a multinational property management company. The company works in Fortune Building.I was hired after going through three of the hardest interviews I've ever had.My work salary is incomparable with the "Big Four".But I still value that this company is the global leader in this industry. They have entered China not long ago, and the Beijing office of my department has just been established, and the business has just started.Now besides me in the sales business, only the senior manager in charge of this department is left, so for me, there should be many development opportunities and challenges.

What I am most worried about is that working in real estate and property management has nothing to do with the accounting I studied as an undergraduate, so I also plan to apply for ACCA and make achievements in the management field in the future.An unfamiliar industry, three years, and an uncompetitive salary. For me, apart from valuing his development and self-challenge, I still feel a little uneasy. I even wanted to postpone my employment and concentrate on going abroad.Although there are no good jobs to find now.But I hesitated in my heart, because I believe in my own strength, and I can do a good job in this large international company that is new to China, and it will not be too late to go abroad after three years.

But when I went abroad at that time, would my work experience still be helpful to the business school I wanted to go to? How should I position myself during this turning point?Choose to work or be temporarily unemployed and stay at home and concentrate on going abroad?Or is there any other way?I believe you can also see my contradictory psychology from my words.Teacher Xu, I sincerely hope to get your reply and suggestions.I will be eagerly awaiting to hear from you. Your student, Chai Jing Dear Chai Jing: You made an absurd mistake by giving up your bid to get a job at a Big Four accounting firm.This mistake is based on your own wrong mentality, lack of a proper employment mentality and staff mentality.I don’t think there is anything wrong with being an ox or a horse in a modern enterprise—not to mention a company, if a person doesn’t treat himself as an animal, he can’t reclaim wasteland, plow fields, plant melons, and bear fruit.

Those who dare to give up the "big four" dare to refuse any success.Your hesitancy now is an attempt to turn down another job opportunity that seems to me to be a great one.If you don't correct your current mentality, if you join any job or any company (except state-owned companies, where everyone is the master, so everyone doesn't work), you will suffer major setbacks.Setbacks generally have two results. One kind of people learns from the failure and accepts the brand-new employment culture with bleeding wounds; By. Those who complain about others may be right, because in this rapidly developing society, the biggest changes that cause inadaptability are the "sky" for talent growth and "people" for vertical and horizontal markets.Countless "losers" are people who have not integrated with the new employment culture (that is, the employment culture represented by modern enterprises).

The corporate culture represented by the "Big Four" is a typical corporate culture of Fortune 500 companies.It is a culture that Chinese enterprises need to absorb and supplement. It is the two representatives of Chairman Jiang's "Three Represents": advanced culture and advanced productivity.Undoubtedly, without an "advanced culture", how could the Fortune 500 have produced the "advanced productive forces" that fascinate Chinese society! But you are rejecting this culture and avoiding these companies.How can I not let Mr. Xu, an old man, worry about your future!Now the company you found is in an industry that is not directly related to accounting work, but it is the front line of business, marketing, and management.According to you, it is still an international industry leader. I think this is a very good opportunity.It doesn't matter whether you get the position you expected. The important thing is that the choice you face will bring another new challenge to your mentality and career prospects.The result of this challenge is that you advance bravely and quickly integrate into this modern society and the modern corporate culture that makes this modern society flourish.

Property management is an important branch of real estate.The quality of this branch determines the follow-up value of the real estate itself.There are often fights between property owners and property owners in Beijing.This kind of thing usually only happens in primitive society, but it happened in Beijing, which I love the most.The owners are the masters of the property. In this society where the protection of private property is clearly not enough, the owners are often reduced to the slaves of the property and the prisoners of the developers.The upside-down property management world, how much we need future property management experts to turn it upside down!In this upside-down process, how many business opportunities, how many career prospects, how much room for development, how many good opportunities to make a lot of money are there!

Speaking of this, I think of a personal experience: the small restaurant I worked in Washington, USA in 1988 was managed by a small property company.The manager of the company came here regularly to collect the rent. When this person came here, after taking almost half a month's profit from the boss, he always had to eat and drink a lot.The boss often scolded him behind his back: This son of a bitch, he still has a Harvard MBA, shameless! I was surprised when I heard it, because I thought that Harvard MBAs were all working in the White House and the United Nations, but I didn't expect that they were just ordinary managers!This is America.If even property management was managed by MBAs from Harvard or other formal schools, the ridiculous phenomenon in this field would definitely not happen!The value of property in China will rise with the tide.

Welll, this is what makes China so exciting.In China, the phenomenon of backward management in various fields, including property management, is too much and too serious. You don’t need to graduate from Harvard. You can become a master and big name in the field of property management in China as long as you practice in a multinational company and temper yourself. And Tycoon too.While making great contributions to China's property management industry, I also earned a lot of money and established a big career. This is the secret of countless people's success in China: find the money that everyone envies in the backwardness that everyone complains about.For the contemporary young people who stand on the edge of the battlefield of life and are ready to go, such opportunities are not only in the field of property management...

You've already lost an opportunity to join the Big Four, and that's okay because there are similar opportunities all over the place.The most important thing is that you must know that your employment mentality is wrong. If it does not conform to the advanced corporate culture, it will not be able to survive and develop successfully in the modern society.If you invest in the talent market with this mentality, you will encounter a great crisis.Countless opportunities will pass you by, and you will sigh for the rest of your life if you miss it. Therefore, I encourage you to correct your mentality, not to be a parent, but to be a "horse", bravely put on the saddle of job responsibilities, passionately promote the company's business grinding, and sharpen your own in the promising field of property management. The whitest and finest success powder.When you can lead other calves and ponies to grind the mill quickly, or sit next to the mill and watch them run as fast as you did back then, an outstanding manager and an excellent entrepreneur will be born ! As for the question of going abroad—when to go, which country to go to, and what to study when you go out, you will naturally come to a conclusion in your work practice, and there is no point in guessing now.My suggestion is to do the work down-to-earth, and regard going abroad as a refueling process to continue to do a good job, and not to regard going abroad as an affair with work. If you don’t do it once, you will always feel unwilling.As a result, the professional "main wife" was heartbroken. Xu Xiaoping