Wen: Blank Woman
In daily life I am most afraid of her friends asked question is: "I have almost 30 / I have been working for so many years, it still has time to change jobs will not be too late??
It came upon me like death proposition.
First, if I encouraged him, not later ah, do not want to change a little late, so I would assume major responsibility for this sentence, if the junior partner listened to me, confidence, big bang, naked speech, began to study at home waiting for a career change.
That for me, psychological pressure and remorse will be enveloped me, the final results are not satisfactory, they did not switch to the success of two to three years, savings exhausted, I was a big sinner.
If I say, ah, how old you are now 30, it is a little late. And then the junior partner living in a sunset industry, coworkers have to switch, the junior partner salary is no longer growing, and finally because the industry decline, companies eventually in his forty years old when he laid off. He was over forty years old, can not find the next job.
That would be the junior partner asked me why he thirties, I'll tell him later that he missed the best time for a career change. I also feel guilt and remorse.
So, in general, are not I will tell parties late / no later than this black and white answers.
Although I kept trying new industry, but in fact, throughout my whole career change lines, there are two keywords: Data, specialization
Because programming will analyze this data set foot outlet, because the data analysis will be done and digitization project into the top consulting, training due to highly specialized consulting company, so enter the investment bank.
My road is to switch to string together a line, rather than large-span switch.
I switch to a seemingly successful experience, so there is always beside a small partner to ask me what success is to change jobs?
First of all, I have to admit my experience is actually a set of favorable factors of small probability event, it is very difficult to copy.
If I tell you , "I can do it, you certainly can."
In fact, such a thing is very irresponsible poison chicken soup.
Honestly tell you, I decided degree of diligence and efforts fact, for me to change jobs may be only 10% of my home environment may account for 15% of my character may account for 25%, the remaining 50% of the total comes from luck .
a. I believe my hard work and diligence than many people have to go, I'm not in the traditional sense extremely hard worker.
b. My family supported me constantly toss, I do not worry if I lose my job, it will be on the streets.
But not every family situation like I do, it was in danger of being hurried rush to get married and have children, it was faced with pressure to save money to scrape together a down payment, it was faced with the burden of caring parents, it was facing difficulties at home with baby can not fly everywhere, some people liabilities faced at home, at the moment only the first bulkhead stable money to survive.
So you let me tell them, "I can, you can!" Will not be too weak a bit?
. c my character Why accounted for 25%, I belong naturally very cheerful, outgoing, willing to deal with all kinds of people, generous show themselves in the workplace; but not everyone is like me, you can have such a character, some introverted person is born, but mature, attentive, find other people is not easy to find the problem. Obviously very talented, is not likely to show themselves, people need to rely on mining and promoted. The so-called Maxima often the horses do not often. This character, if not a horses eye for excellence, is likely to become everyone's eyes, silently Officer but there is a sense that the very low. But the character is largely innate, it is not easy to change.
d. Many people are reluctant to admit luck factor, his success is mainly due to their intelligence and diligence.
Why would I transferred a 50% share of luck? Under careful review of my past, first of all the historical process from the point of view, I was riding the outlet data, entered this industry in the period that data barbaric industry growth. The election of the industry, which is luck; secondly, I met willing to take me all the way to cultivate my data director from data project a good leader, it is luck; Again, I met in my career bottleneck to lead me enter mentor advice, it is luck.
Including front 3:00, to a large extent, there are elements of luck.
I talk to her friends and workplace when some small partners, is encountered bad boss; some small partners, is to let you experience trouble back pan colleagues; some small partner, entered the first company, the first thing to learn is not precipitated, but was forced to stand in line.
So luck career development of each person is different, met a good leader, you can foot exhibition. Experience poor leadership, can only start tossing things change jobs, these are not "party" can decide, nor is it alone can be hard to resolve.
I knew he was lucky than the common people, so I will not tell you is that I can successfully change jobs, you can. This sounded very pale.
Return to the topic, when you think of their work for many years, for example, almost 30 years old and want to transition into the new industry will not feel too late? Or need to read a graduate student?
On this issue let everyone see my recording career change:
27 years old, turned consultant from the person in charge of data;
29 years old, I put down the work at hand to study read MBA;
30 years old, MBA stages, apply to enter the investment banking practice.
(I just turned 30 years old this year, and is constantly tossing in ...)
This question is not so much fast 30-year-old re-entered a new industry will not be too late, in fact, the underlying meaning is more willing to give up your experience once had, every success from scratch.
Here, we do not discuss "late" and "no later" it. I hope that if you want to change careers, first in a planned manner to determine whether they have sufficient conditions to enter new industries. After all, when a person feel tired bitter industry and they will never set foot in the industry is looking forward to, it seems that the unknown is always beautiful.
I have not entered the consulting industry, this kind of work always felt good advice on tall, dressed in business attire, out of a five-star hotel, but also particularly professional, unlike Internet analyst excruciating.
I did not enter the investment bank, the investment bank analysts feel is simply my Dream, industry research, sits CBD, high above, unlike consultants to run the same customers every day.
But in fact, after work, you will find all jumped into a pit to another pit Bale.
This world is not a perfect job, not a good way to go, we can only measure the standard pay and invest time.
Then I through my years of throwing a summary of ground gas switch schedule for everyone ( my spare time to help a lot of people sort out the successful transformation of the book, believe me!)
If you have worked for a few years, we want to change the industry to change jobs, you step by step how to achieve their own ends. Switch this thing is really learning a skill would take a study can be the perfect solution?
Let's make a hypothesis, for example, you are HR Kobayashi, wanted to become a data analyst, and also from the traditional industry to the electricity supplier industry, both to change career, but also for the industry, how would you do?
The following content structure and processes that apply to most of the career transition (such as product transfer operations, transfer of administrative operations, financial transfer data analysis, planning transfer market and so on)
The first step: to explore the underlying causes of heart
Why HR Kobayashi want to switch it? HR that wages are too low; think this industry is not promising; or simply just do not like the job.
To a large extent, a person does not like purely an existing job, or can not find a job when they graduate.
Therefore, the underlying causes must take heart tapped, if only that which the company is not good enough for you, then you are really ready to jump ship to change as long as the company can, absolutely no need to change business trip this muddy water;
If you feel that today's traditional industry is a sunset industry, it would change a sunrise industry do HR;
If you just think the existing work boring, then I think I'm very serious to tell you: all the work, you want to be five or six years will lose freshness. Better to try to go up for a promotion or a change of employer management, is OK;
That is the underlying causes your heart corresponds to a solution, this solution is not necessarily want to change the industry.
Step two: in-depth understanding of the industry you want to go
Suppose you think the work you have done for so many years, coupled with your industry is a sunset industry, wanted to quickly jump out. Or simply wish to enter this new industry, really like this new career.
Ok, on to follow this setting.
Perhaps you know almost see in a lot of people to share their work in the field of things, those described in detail by sharing your sense of longing.
I once read an article of fashion buyers: Work is to each of the world's fashion capital to choose goods; are living in five-star hotels, eat all Michelin restaurants, and occasionally participate in the brand conference. My God, this is my dream job, you do not need to buy their own clothes and shoes, but also to fly around the world. I wanted to quit myself watching this boring work day in front of the data, and quickly turned into happiness industry buyers to go.
But we must first understand an industry practitioners, the ratio of high to low is always in proportion to the pyramid, some people really do that glamorous, are very few. Design graduates who graduated from Central Saint Martins College in London, many of which are from the fashion assistants and worked to fashion buyers do plan. We do a lot of years to simmer succeed. Even so, most people are unable to reach everyone extent buyers of the bright lights of the eyes, at best, only a very ordinary fashion workers.
After you've thought about it, I had to give up the idea in this regard. The reason is simple:
1, I do not want to abandon the existing high-paying jobs, to start from a fashion assistant salary of only 5-6k;
2, I do not have any work experience associated with fashion;
3, as a layman totally not received professional learning, and I really could not think people want me to reason.
Look back, HR Kobayashi has in-depth understanding of data analysis in this profession: the need to deal with every day, and data; overtime is the norm; first aid business start pulling data from, slowly learning to enrich themselves before they can do a number of independent analysis.
She realized that the data analysis is full of interest, or even usually liked to see the data reported in some industries, but also more than willing to bear all the pressure, so she decided to try.
Saying wisdom: mankind's greatest inventions come from the words "try."
But in fact study of its heart, she was mainly concerned about the point is: the data analyst's salary is much higher than HR, I wanted to change the working future career prospects.
I think this reason is very ok, very real.
The third step: in-depth study of the hard and soft skills to new industries
Data analyst, for example, divided into two categories, hard skills and soft skills
Hard skills: Excel, SQL, python, Tableau, PPT and other tools
Soft skills: Business Sense, dismantling indicators, statistics, communication, collaboration, and summarizing ability
Hard to understand how the specific skills a job of it, particularly simple to see the recruitment JD description
Step Four: To your employer what is the reason
Suppose you have the hard skills Kenwan and master a variety of data analysis tools, so ready for delivery jobs. At this time written 5 years HR experience in your resume, work history, you are responsible for social issues and recruit school recruit.
So I regret to tell you that this will not be too basic resume resume screening.
Because there are many majors in college, and has many years of data analysis work experience in the delivery of the job, how do you compete over them?
Even if you allow the trade to help you change a very fit and JD resume by screening, you have confidence you can do the layers of the interview?
Your employer competent to stand another angle to think about, suddenly want to interview a sales HR positions, as the employer side would you agree?
So how do? Light skilled enough to give you a few methods can fall (this part is very important):
Method 1: seek internal job transfer
a. Generally as long as the medium-sized companies will have more specialized jobs data, analysts do not necessarily call data can also be tailor-made for personnel management reports, you accumulate through existing skills, HR data can also do some analysis. what? Data only a few hundred pieces, nothing can be analyzed? Then you can also do some visual thing.
Plus since you learn the skills of data analysis, there will be some job or project, go to work with these data the competent authorities of chat, advice under their own.
If rejected, even more than at present in his spare time to the HR department head job description, so that department heads can pass on some experience, you can even let you try your hand at some of the company's business data (which is more idealistic, some corporate data need to apply for permission), as department heads would be willing to see you in the emotional and friendship.
b. If the company is no data job, so much the better, you can rely on your own efforts to make the boss set up a dedicated ah.
We have a small partner, plus the boss and colleagues of micro letter, made a packet, and then on the weekends will be for tickets circle packet, send works some of the data analysis for the boss and co-workers to see the subtle influence of bosses and colleagues, tell the boss you data analysis will be very hard to learn, and there are results. If your company does not post data, it would make you a company most people will do the data analysis.
Small partner who is still working hours, to convene a number of interested colleagues analyzed data active learning and sharing. (A little low-point)
Well, this time he will be happy to share information and data analysis has been deeply imprinted in the minds of the boss.
A company in order to develop, will start with refined operation began. The basic fine is operational data. When the owner realized the need for such a post when you think certainly the first time. This is when you show its mettle up.
Small partner who waited nearly six months, the boss suddenly realized the need for such a job, so he got up this valuable opportunity ah.
With a year later in the company's data analysis experience coupled with the necessary data analysis skills, the junior partner to jump to the Internet for data analysts.
He said: It was deliberate, Quxianjiuguo ah!
In fact, internal job transfer springboard, then jumped into the career they want transformation, this road is the smoothest. In general generic profession can so operate, HR into operation, the operator transferred data analysis, sales transfer market, administrative transfer operations, and so on.
Method 2: Reading studies
For their career change was not confident, I want to read the related graduate students seeking a career change success.
HR Kobayashi going to read at home and abroad full-time statistical / data science. This you have to count the economic accounts.
If the special master is the two-year, full-time read, the loss of two years salary (count one month 8k) is 19.2w, plus your Master's tuition is approximately 8000-15000 year, we even 10000 / in it, plus living expenses 10,000 / year, plus two annual wage that is 232,000.
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So if you change jobs and to PubMed, PubMed is the cost paid / IELTS preparation time + large sums of money. Behind this is not the huge cost of a stable future, because the read graduate can not guarantee that will allow you to enter manufacturers to find a high-paying job data analyst, after all probabilities into giant is still relatively small. Unless you have the ability to code or superior than the common algorithm capability, but if you really have a very strong ability, in fact, you do not graduate also can enter through the agency recruit interview.
The results of the enormous cost manufacturers probably not enter after graduation, only access to ordinary companies, the gap we can weigh whether they can accept.
Of course, if you are very good economic conditions at home, and the starting point is just to upgrade their qualifications or want to experience student life, then I think graduate studies is a good thing.
Method 3: seek association points
Industry Background: I have seen the most amazing transformation little sister is a nurse, medical transformed into an Internet company's BI engineers, tens of thousands of annual salary also rose to 20, a lot more than when she was a nurse.
Not a day she worked in the so-called office, place of work before all hospitals. But the employer side saw her master tool in line with JD, while good communication skills, analysis of clear thinking. Coupled with the medical industry background, eventually let her come to the fore, successful transition.
If HR Kobayashi itself has been in the real estate company to do HR, then she can go to apply for a real estate company data analyst, but the premise is that we must make up industry knowledge. In general employment sector is very fancy business / industry background. In the interview, you have to understand and reflect the thinking of the company and the industry as employees in this industry, this is your core competitiveness compared to other people.
Similarly, if you make the market work in a FMCG company, then jumped into a FMCG company to do data analysis, as a springboard, to be a year or two, and then really jumped into the industry you want to go.
Soft skills: Data Analyst requires good communication skills and a written summary ability, presentation ability. You demonstrated a capacity in this area, attracted to the interviewer, the interviewer also needs just such an analyst, to help him settle business and products.
Although this interviewer will think you do not have relevant work experience, but for your soft skills, and enthusiasm for learning and to show the potential, he will think you are worth cultivating. So in this case, you are more likely to be phase, but it still requires you to the interview process, the interviewer and the exchange of information. Try to make yourself lively, confident that actively show their superiority.
Method 4: move + good luck
Kobayashi does not meet the above three points, rely on the skills already learned, wanted a hard transition. How to do?
I can only say to make adequate preparations + super good luck
1. Make sure the hard skills to meet the requirements;
2, currently working with the data table even if only to do some analysis, even if the amount of data is too small, do some visualization always be right, do this for yourself;
3, with data analysis work;
4, before the interview in-depth understanding of the company's business model, and thus write to understand some of the business model;
5, do some market sizing questions, such as Starbucks month turnover is how much Beijing summer high-heeled shoes sell many pairs?
6, told the interviewer, although they are HR, but because of how much the job will use data analysis, data analysis so full of love, will spare time to do some data analysis projects, it is also good to tell the interviewer why wanted to change jobs.
In general, only very lucky, you can be a hard transition to large-platform company to do data analyst.
So if you think you can endure a year or two, it would have to accept some small companies offer, then jump to the big platform. However, even small companies offer, you also need to coexistence of strength and luck.
And that transition every step of the plan again, and we analyzed with HR transformation Kobayashi data as an example. Of course, this plan's framework and process for most of career transition.
Back to the question itself, if you do not plan to analyze the pros and cons, it is equal to night walk, then I think it is 'late'.
But you fully think, done a study to switch to hard and soft skills, weigh the benefits and risks of a good career change, career change and made up my mind, in fact, what time is not late.
But you have to understand, it is not possible to switch to crash in the middle of the process must be bumpy, lonely, even suffering, as if you've been through the entrance, to the university, and ultimately to find a job like this the ups and downs only knew.
anyway, to not to change jobs you can start from this schedule, even if the final is not successful, the worst consequences just maintain the status quo.
Of course, now there is no work of a once and for all, even within the system, and now this is no longer the era just as stable in the past, we have to adapt to this rapidly changing era.
The next decade, I do not wish you smooth sailing, I wish you all the wind and waves - Wang
