How do you plan your career?

We are about to enter the society, facing colorful and complicated industries and posts, graduates who are at a loss, or people who have entered the workplace but feel that their career path is getting narrower and narrower. Do you need to stop for a while, seriously think about your career and make a comprehensive and long-term plan for your future career development? Carefully plan your career?

What is career planning? Career planning refers to a person's expectation and plan for the continuous process of his responsibilities in his life, including a person's study, productive contribution to a profession or organization and eventual retirement. According to different positions, it can be divided into two categories: personal career planning and employee career planning. Personal career planning is not a simple concept, it is closely related to the family, organization and society where individuals live. For enterprises, it is a systematic and complex management project, because it involves the future development of enterprises, the setting of organizational structure, corporate culture, training mechanism, assessment mechanism, promotion mechanism and so on. At the same time, with the changes of personal values, family environment, working environment and social environment, everyone's career expectations have changed greatly or slightly, so it is a dynamic process.

For individuals, the quality of career planning will definitely affect the whole life course. We often say that success and failure are only the realization of established goals, and goals are the key to success or failure. Personal life goals are diverse: quality of life goals, career development goals, social goals such as the impact on the outside world, interpersonal environment, etc ... All kinds of factors in the whole goal system are intertwined, and career development goals occupy a central position in the whole goal system. Whether this goal is achieved or not directly leads to different feelings of achievement and frustration, happiness and unhappiness, and affects the quality of life. For personal career planning, we should pay attention to the following elements in methods:

→ 1, to determine the ideal life state of the individual;

→ 2. Understand the individual's various quality characteristics and the big unchangeable social reality environment, and correct the ideal state into a feasible goal;

→ 3. Determine professional interests, ideal positions and suitable working atmosphere;

→ 4. Determine the feasible route to realize the ideal career and work out the short, medium and long-term career process;

→ 5. Determine the gap between the current state and short-term goals, find the breakthrough point, and start to implement career planning;

→ 6. Summarize and reflect in stages, and scientifically revise your career design;

In today's increasingly fierce competition for talents, the human resource management of enterprises has gradually improved, and the career planning of employees has begun to receive attention. Some companies have even begun to try to take employee career planning as a strategic part of departmental work, so as to coordinate employees' personal career goals and enterprise development vision, thus forming a more cohesive workforce and effectively mobilizing employees' enthusiasm and creativity. However, employee career planning is an accurate project. Doing this project well requires not only experience, education, enthusiasm and responsibility, but also rigorous thinking, scientific method system, a lot of time and energy investment and so on. The system of the other party's career design method has roughly formed the following understanding:

→ 1. Measure and evaluate employees' personality characteristics, tendencies and development potential;

→ 2. On the basis of understanding the comprehensive quality of employees, make career development plans for employees and set goals (short-term, medium-term, long-term and life goals);

→ 3. Conduct regular dialogues and exchanges with teacher occupation and human resources experts on employee career development, evaluate cases and listen to expert opinions;

→ 4. Conduct targeted training and development according to employees' personalities. These trainings and developments are not limited to skills training and knowledge training, but more importantly, professional post practice activities, and post work should be consistent with employees' career development;

→ 5. Pay attention to workplace information, contact institutions such as the talent market, and understand all kinds of career information and career development trends, such as career characteristics and requirements, employment needs, etc.

Whether individuals or enterprises, it is very necessary to learn from and listen to the opinions of career planning experts, communicate closely with the parties and understand the external workplace and social environment when designing their careers.

Why plan your career?

First of all, I want to share a short story with you here, hoping to inspire the importance of "career planning":

Earthworm target ladder

Earthworms are my childhood friends. Earthworm is not its real name, because it is black, short and thin, so it is named.

After I was separated from Kloc-0/8 years old, I wandered around for a living. Earthworms went to college and everything went well. In this separated decade, we met almost every two or three years. Every time I like to ask him the same question: what is your future goal?

The answer is always different. The following records are the original words of the earthworm every time he talks about the target:

18 years old, high school graduation ceremony: I vowed to be the second in Li Ka-shing! I want to be the richest man in China (what a big breath)!

20 years old, Spring Festival reunion of old classmates: I want to start my own company. I am 30 years old, with assets of 20 million.

I am 23 years old, working as a technician in a factory, and my second occupation is stock trading: I am struggling to leave this factory because it is hopeless to work here. I will try my best to speculate in stocks, with 50 thousand yuan, and I will speculate to 3 million in three years (it seems possible).

25-year-old, frustrated in stock trading, proud in love, and ready to get married: I hope there will be 65438+ million in one year, so I can get married smartly (realistic idea).

26 years old, not a very beautiful wedding ceremony: if you want to have a fat man, just be a workshop director in the near future, and nothing else (whether marriage will make people mature).

At the age of 28, the efficiency of the factory where I work is declining, just as my wife is pregnant in October: I hope my name will never appear on the laid-off list (what can I say at this time).

As can be seen from the above story, the earthworm obviously didn't make a reasonable plan for his life. At the beginning, he became a technician, but he didn't study technology seriously. Instead, he went to stock trading and earned 3 million yuan. Later, I failed in stock trading and suddenly wanted to be a workshop director. Finally, he may not be very proficient in technology and worry that his name is not on the laid-off list. His unplanned life is obviously easy to fail.

In fact, if we want to succeed in our future career, we should first determine a realistic career orientation and career goals, then decompose the goals, and then design a reasonable career plan and put it into action. After continuous efforts and adjustments, I finally achieved my career development goals and achieved the greatest success in my life.

Reference reading: a universal formula for success

If you want to achieve great success in your career, you must first understand the general law of success. American success master Anthony? Robbins once put forward a successful universal formula:

Success = clear goal+detailed plan+immediate action+inspection and correction+persistence.

From this formula, we can see that if we want to succeed, usually we must first understand our goals and detailed plans. We are the same in the field of career. We first choose an industry and work that is most suitable for our own development, then determine our own goals, and at the same time make a preliminary plan for our entire career. Finally, we put it into action, constantly check and revise our goals and plans, and finally stick to it, and we will certainly succeed in our career.

Several factors that should be considered when graduates determine their career direction

After years of study, most fresh graduates are finally going to work. When many students are looking for a job after graduation, they often face a problem: when they were freshmen, they failed to learn their favorite major, or after studying professional courses for several years, they found that their original major was not suitable for them, and now they are facing the problem of finding a job after graduation, and they don't know whether to give priority to their major counterparts or re-choose a job that suits them.

In addition, when many students look for jobs after graduation, it often happens that they only consider whether the job and major are suitable, and never consider whether the major they have studied and the job they want to engage in are suitable for them; Or blindly submit job resumes regardless of enterprises, industries and positions; Or in the column of job-seeking intention of job-seeking resume, it is written that many things such as technology, sales and department manager are only for themselves, but they have not given themselves a clear positioning; Some students, under the pressure of employment, signed an employment agreement as soon as they met a company that wanted to hire themselves, regardless of whether the industry and work were suitable for them, perhaps for three to five years at once.

Of course, many times, under the pressure of employment, the above practice is understandable. But at the same time, we should see that all the above practices are blind and incomplete, and we should consider our employment problem from a long-term perspective. If we choose blindly without detailed analysis before looking for a job, then three to five years later, we are likely to find that we are still faced with the dilemma of choice: that is, we continue to do our current job, and we feel that this job is not suitable for us, and even feel that every day's work is boring or painful, and we have not achieved much after working for several years; If you resign and choose another industry or occupation, it is likely to mean giving up some professional knowledge, industry background and interpersonal relationships accumulated now and having to pay a very high "opportunity cost".

In fact, it is more scientific and rational for us to choose a job: before we start looking for a job, we should make a comprehensive understanding and detailed analysis of the outside world and our own situation, then preliminarily determine our career orientation and development direction, and then consciously look for it in the process of looking for a job.

Externally, it is mainly the current overall employment environment and employment trend, the present situation and development prospects of all walks of life, some employment opportunities faced, and their own family environment.

From their own point of view, the main factors of understanding and analysis should include:

1, what do I like to do (mainly including professional interests, professional values, etc. );

2. What am I suitable for (mainly including occupational character, temperament, talent, IQ, EQ, etc.). );

3. What am I good at (mainly including professional ability tendency, such as verbal expression, logical reasoning, numerical operation, etc.). );

4. What can I do (mainly including my professional knowledge, skills and work experience);

Finally, through the comprehensive analysis and balance of the above factors, I initially determine my career orientation and development direction, and consciously look for it according to my career plan in the process of employment. Of course, the basis of "analyzing and weighing" the above factors is our familiarity and understanding of our professional interest, occupational character and ability tendency. If we don't even know what we really like or are suitable to do, then we can use the tool of "career assessment" to further discover and understand our career characteristics and development potential such as career interests and ability tendencies.

At the same time, the above factors are just a few aspects that we should focus on when choosing a job. We can't say which is important and which is not. Everyone's situation is different, and everyone should consider it in combination with their own actual situation. At the same time, it should be noted that we consciously look for the most suitable job when we are employed, which does not mean that we must not do the job that is not suitable for us. The employment ideas of "employment first, then choosing a job" and "survival first, then developing" will have strategic guiding significance for most fresh graduates to find jobs for a long time to come, but we can be more scientific in the process of choosing a job on the premise of ensuring employment.

How to carry out career planning

Career planning should fully consider the relationship between people, environment, occupation and successful occupation. So how do you plan your career? Career planning should consider the following specific factors and steps.

1, determine the ambition. Ambition is the basic premise of career success. Without ambition, career success is impossible. As the saying goes, "Nothing can be done without will." Determination is the starting point of life, which reflects a person's ideals, mind, interests and values, and affects a person's goals and achievements. Therefore, when making career planning, we must first establish our own ambitions, which is the key to making career planning.

2. Self-assessment. The purpose of self-assessment is to know yourself and know yourself. Because only by knowing yourself can we make a correct choice for our career, choose a career path suitable for our own development and make the best choice for our career goals. Self-evaluation includes one's own interests, specialties, personality, knowledge, skills, IQ, EQ, thinking mode, thinking method, moral standards and self in society.

3. Career opportunity assessment. The evaluation of career opportunities is mainly to evaluate the influence of various environmental factors on their career development. Everyone is in a certain environment. Without this environment, we can't survive and grow. Therefore, when making personal career planning, we should analyze the characteristics of environmental conditions, the development and changes of the environment, our relationship with the environment, our position in this environment, the requirements put forward by the environment, and the favorable and unfavorable conditions of the environment. Only by fully understanding these environmental factors can you seek advantages and avoid disadvantages in a complex environment and make your career planning feasible.

Environmental factor assessment mainly includes:

(1) Organizational environment (2) Political environment (3) Social environment (4) Economic environment

4. Career choice. Whether the career choice is correct or not is directly related to the success or failure of life and career. According to statistics, 80% of people who choose the wrong career are career losers. As people say, "women are afraid of marrying the wrong person, and men are afraid of choosing the wrong line." This shows how important career choice is for the development of life and career.

How can I choose a suitable career? At least the following points should be considered:

(1) Matching between personality and occupation;

(2) the matching of interests and occupations;

(3) the matching of major and occupation;

(4) The internal and external environment adapts to the occupation.

5. Choice of career path. After the career is determined, which route to develop, this time we must make a choice. That is, to develop the administrative route or to develop the professional and technical route; It is to take the technical route first, and then turn to the administrative route ... because the development route is different, the requirements for career development are different. Therefore, in career planning, we must make choices so that our study, work and various actions can advance along our own career line or predetermined direction.

Usually, when choosing a career path, you must consider the following three questions:

(1) Which route do I want to develop?

(2) Which route can I take?

(3) Which route can I take?

Make a comprehensive analysis of the above three questions to determine your best career path.

6. Set career goals. Setting career goals is the core of career planning. The success or failure of a person's career depends to a great extent on whether there are correct and appropriate goals. Without a goal, it is like a ship sailing into the sea. The field is vast, there is no direction, and I don't know where I am going. Only by setting a goal can we define the direction of struggle, just like a lighthouse in the ocean, guiding you to avoid dangerous beaches and lead you to success.

Goal setting is the choice of life goals after career choice and career route choice. Their choice is based on their best talents, their best personalities, their greatest interests, the most favorable environment and other information. Usually goals are divided into short-term goals, medium-term goals, long-term goals and life goals. Short-term goals are generally one to two years. Short-term goals are divided into daily goals, weekly goals, monthly goals and annual goals. The medium-term goal is generally three to five years. The long-term goal is generally five to ten years.

7. Formulate action plans and measures. After determining the career goals, action becomes the key link. Without the action to achieve the goal, it will be difficult to achieve the goal, and it will be impossible to talk about the success of the cause. The actions mentioned here refer to specific measures to achieve the goal, mainly including measures in work, training, education, job rotation and so on. For example, what measures are you going to take to improve your work efficiency in order to achieve your goals? In terms of professional quality, what knowledge and skills are you going to learn and master to improve your professional ability? In terms of potential development, what measures should be taken to develop one's own potential, etc. There must be specific plans and clear measures. These plans should be particularly specific to facilitate regular inspection.

8. Assessment and feedback. As the saying goes, "plans can't keep up with changes." Yes, there are many factors that affect career planning. Some variables are predictable, while others are difficult to predict. In this case, in order to make career planning effective, it is necessary to constantly evaluate and revise career planning. The revised contents include: re-selecting occupations; The choice of career route; Revision of life goals; Changes in implementation measures and plans, etc.