After one or two years of employment, young technology developers often face the first dilemma in their careers: living step by step every day , the chances of promotion seem to be small, and the future seems very slim... How to deal with this? Yu Bo, the project director of Kubao Information Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., will give you some advice.
What do you think of the career confusion that technicians generally face?
In my impression, technicians who have worked for two or three years are the most likely to encounter career confusion. At this time, the technicians have some professional foundation and certain experience in business. It is a piece of cake for him to deal with daily work, so he lives more comfortably. However, when a person is most comfortable is often the time when his growth is slowest, for a motivated technician, he may not feel comfortable, but depression. This may be the first bottleneck encountered by technicians in their career development. At this time, people are very impetuous, lose enthusiasm for work, and then have the desire to change jobs. The slot was jumped, and I didn't expect the same situation to occur after half a year. I'm not against job-hopping, but I'm against blindly changing jobs. If the problem is with me, changing companies can't solve the problem - job-hopping should be done under the guidance of career planning.
Why is career planning important?
Because for a ship without direction, the wind in either direction is a headwind. Likewise, for a person who has no direction in his career, he becomes a headless fly, and career planning can help solve this problem. If a person has a clear career plan, he will be very clear about what he wants, and he will be able to focus on how to develop himself on the existing platform, and he will no longer be violent because of some bad things in the workplace, because it is a waste of emotion. It is better to seize the time to get more growth, which is equivalent to gaining a natural immunity, which should be the legendary insensitivity.
How should technicians choose the appropriate development direction?
For technicians, there are two typical development directions: technical route and management route. The former is from engineer to scientist, which is professional development, and the latter is from engineer to CTO, which is management development. The specific development route varies from company to company. Whether it is the technical line or the management line, the common requirement is to turn yourself into an excellent engineer first. Why? The process of being a good engineer is a process of finding a suitable frame of reference - we need two or three years to understand the target position, and more importantly, we can understand ourselves, and slowly realize our own strengths and weaknesses and hobbies, and then do it. Planning is more realistic. Secondly, if you can't do a role like an engineer well, then even if you want to "climb up", I'm afraid you won't be able to get resources. So how do we choose? The most direct suggestion is that those who are more interested in "people", like to deal with people, and have a high sensitivity to the relationship between people, can choose the management route first, otherwise, they can choose the technical route for development. Note that no matter what position it is, there is no way to avoid dealing with people. In this sense, whether you like it or not, you should actively expand your interpersonal skills.
When technicians face confusion, which ways are more conducive to getting out of the predicament?
First, the person most likely to help should be the direct supervisor. The direct supervisor is the person who understands your situation best. He has a more comprehensive understanding of your career development and can usually give the most practical advice. Of course, there is a psychological obstacle to overcome here, that is, the fear of facing the boss, the feeling that speaking out of confusion will affect your image in the boss's mind and so on. My opinion is that helping subordinates to grow is the responsibility of every boss. If a boss "looks at you differently" because you express your confusion, then such a boss is not qualified, you can consider applying for internal Rotate, or simply jump ship.
The second is to ask senior colleagues for advice. It is best for this person to work three or five years earlier than himself (if it is only one or two years earlier, he may not be able to make a fuss himself), because there is no correlation in interests, it may be more accessible when communicating.
In the end, it's all up to you. Being in occupational confusion is painful, and eliminating confusion may be even more painful. This more intense pain must be endured by oneself, which requires courage and determination. I've seen many people just talk about it. I've clearly told him several specific practices, but he still doesn't do anything. This kind of person lacks self-discipline and is unwilling to take responsibility for his own growth, so the gods can't save him.