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Chapter 15 How the Wage Level Is Determined—The Economics of Factors of Production You Must Know (3)
Nowadays, when college students are looking for a job, they all want to find a professional counterpart, but often the result is not what they want, and they work in other industries by mistake.In fact, this seems normal in the eyes of those who have achieved success in their careers. "Zhu Yuanzhang started out as a monk, and finally became an emperor." Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai, who studied design, said this when faced with this problem. Although it is a joke, it is also thought-provoking. Perhaps from another perspective, if you do not stick to the professional , the eyes will be brighter, the world will be wider, and various new opportunities will "jump" out.

Liu Daoyu, a famous educator, believes that in the face of employment difficulties, college students should dialectically view their "counterparts".College students are suitable for any occupation, because four years of university is only a generalist education, and they can only learn the most basic knowledge, basic qualities and basic methods, and it is difficult to train experts.The growth of an expert requires at least 4 to 15 years of hard work in research practice after graduating from university.In this sense, job hunting and employment cannot be limited to the professional scope of one's own study.A large number of practical examples also show that among the past college graduates, there are countless examples of lateral growth.For example, those who study English become biologists, those who study economics become historians, those who study philosophy become lawyers, and those who study medicine become writers... If this point of view is established, then the employment and job hunting of college graduates The way of life is infinitely broad, and I have also mastered the initiative of self-design.

In general, the choice of career direction is determined by the major.The reality is that after graduation, many people cannot choose a job completely according to the major they have studied, and some even have nothing to do with their original major.It is not surprising that there are many situations where what you learn is not what you use, what you use is not what you have learned, and the major is not suitable for you.In this case, college graduates need to think carefully, choose a career that suits them, and the most important thing is to clarify their own advantages.

First of all, it is to clarify the size of one's ability, rate oneself, and see one's own strengths and weaknesses, which requires self-analysis.Self-analysis aims to gain a deep understanding of oneself, make choices based on past experience, and deduce possible future work directions and opportunities, so as to completely solve the problem of "what can I do".Only by proceeding from one's own reality, conforming to the social trend, and being targeted can one achieve success.Positioning is to show yourself a unique signboard, so that your talents can be better appreciated by recruiting units.The understanding and analysis of oneself must be comprehensive, objective, and profound, and never avoid shortcomings and shortcomings.

Secondly, we must discover our own deficiencies, such as the weakness of character, the lack of experience and experience, etc., take it seriously, be good at discovering it, and work hard to overcome and improve it.

Again, it is necessary to analyze the direction of the career, including:
First, social analysis.The society is progressing and changing, and we must be good at grasping the pulse of social development. This requires an analysis of the social environment: including the current social, political, and economic development trends; the distribution and demand status of social hot occupations; the professional demand situation; The position of the chosen occupation in the current and future society; the impact of social development on one's own development; the change of the unit one chooses in the future industry development, the position in the industry, market share and development trend, etc.

Second, organizational analysis.This should be the part of personal analysis, and the organization will be the stage for realizing personal ambitions.You should have a detailed understanding of all aspects of the organization you will be in. On the basis of knowing yourself and the enemy, only when the two have more in common can the organization and the individual accept each other.

Third, interpersonal relationship analysis.Individuals are in a social environment and inevitably have to deal with various people, so it is particularly necessary to analyze the status of interpersonal relationships.

Through the above self-analysis and understanding, it is clear what positioning direction you should choose, and solve the problem of "what do I choose to do".The direction of positioning directly determines the development of a person. The choice of positioning direction should be determined in accordance with the four basic principles of positioning—choose what you love, choose what you are good at, choose what you need, and choose what you benefit from, combined with your own reality. , Choose a career that is right for you and has development prospects.

Doing a job you love can give you a sense of satisfaction and make your career interesting; on the contrary, if you don't know what you want to do, you can't do anything well.Engaging in a job you like can give you a sense of satisfaction, and you will achieve something in the future; otherwise, not only will you suffer, but it will also be a waste and loss to the society.This requires us to have a clear head and avoid herd mentality.

Decompose the success factors and quickly grasp the workplace

Many people's career success has accidental factors, such as family background, place of birth, luck, opportunity, personality, etc. These accidental factors may have a significant impact on a person's career development.However, there is inevitability under any accidental factors, and any professional success is not obtained casually, and the law of inevitability is hidden in accidental factors.The existence of laws makes it possible for us to analyze the success of career development.For the convenience of analysis, we assume that there is only one criterion for measuring the success of career development: the amount of material wealth obtained.

We know that if a person wants to obtain as much utility as possible in the workplace, that is, to obtain more wealth, he must participate in social division of labor and cooperation, and must produce useful products or provide useful services for the society or others.The more he produces useful products or provides useful services to society or others, the more rewards he can get (white money), that is, the greater professional success he can achieve.Here comes the problem.So, what kind of conditions does a person have, so that he can produce more useful products or provide more useful services for society or others?The answer is simple: efficient posts and efficient labor.

The so-called high-efficiency post means that this post has the possibility of producing high-efficiency results.Let's make an analogy: a company commander and a corps commander.Their mission is the same, they all want to engage an enemy army.Who is more likely to win?Obviously the commander.Desiring a company commander to lead a company to defeat an army is undoubtedly a dream.And the army commander leads an army to fight against an enemy army, which obviously has the possibility of victory.In terms of effectiveness, the position of army commander is more efficient than that of company commander.

The so-called high-efficiency labor is the effort to achieve high efficiency.Let's continue with the above example. If the army commander does not have enough knowledge of war, he is like Zhao Kuo in the Battle of Changping, and subjectively he has not prepared and worked hard to win the war.We can judge that the probability of his winning is less than 50%.Because the opponent is more fully prepared for war than him, and has more firepower.At this time, we assume a situation: his superiors are dissatisfied with his preparations and remove him before the battle, in exchange for a capable general.As soon as the new general took office, he conducted multi-faceted analysis and reconnaissance of the war situation. Due to his hard work and hard work, God accidentally let him know that an ambush in a certain area would ensure his victory in the war.Compared with the previous army commander, the labor of the new general is efficient labor.

Efficient positions and efficient labor determine the height and speed of a person's career development success.We assume that human resources are only time resources, regardless of the impact of objective conditions such as working environment and technical equipment on work, then we can deduce the conditions for a person to achieve career success the fastest: occupying high-end positions and performing active and effective labor.This is why many people are keen to be promoted and run for president.They want to get more important positions and a bigger career stage to get more utility.

A position is a position, and a good position can make you get twice the result with half the effort.Take Fan Li as an example.

Fan Li, a politician, military strategist and economist in the late Spring and Autumn Period, entered Vietnam around 496 BC, assisted Goujian for more than 20 years, and finally made Goujian destroy Wu in 473 BC.Fan Li thought that it would be difficult to live for a long time under the great name, so he went across the sea by boat.Later to Qi, father and son worked hard to cultivate, resulting in hundreds of thousands of yields.The people of Qi heard about their talents and made them their prime ministers.Fan Li resigned from his post and settled in Tao (northwest of Dingtao, Shandong today). He accumulated huge funds in business and was called "Tao Zhu Gong".

There are economic reasons for Fan Li to settle in Tao.He believes that Tao lives in "the middle of the world" (Tao is adjacent to Qi and Lu in the east; Qin and Zheng in the west; Jin and Yan in the north; Chu and Yue in the south), and it is the best place to do business. (According to the season, climate, people's sentiments, customs, etc., people abandon me, others take me, let nature take its course, and wait for the opportunity to move) If you manage production, you will surely get rich.

Tao is Fan Li's "high-efficiency position".With efficient positions, efficient labor is also required.Let's see how Fan Li did it.

Before Fan Li settled in Tao, he did business in Qi State.He changed his name to Chiyi Zipi, and led his son and disciples to live in a hut by the sea.He worked hard to reclaim wasteland and farm, run a sideline business and do business, and within a few years, he accumulated tens of millions of property.

This shows that Fan Li is diligent, not lazy.Therefore, we have reason to believe that he, who was doing business in Tao, must also work efficiently and become rich in the world.

Anyone who wants to succeed in the workplace must not only rely on objective conditions (such as network resources, capital strength, efficient positions, etc.), but also rely on subjective efforts (such as proactive attitudes, peaceful minds, desire and pursuit of success, etc.) ).Generally speaking, those successful people have the following common characteristics:

(1) Choose a life orientation (goal and direction) that meets both social needs and one's own comparative advantages.The core key points of this sentence are: first of all, there must be goals, and those who have no goals will eventually achieve nothing; second, the positioning of their own goals must be reasonable, neither high-spirited nor self-deprecating; third, the goals must be satisfied in two aspects Requirements: meet social needs (cannot aspire to become a murderer), meet their own advantages and characteristics (don't let Jordan play football).

(2) Grasping opportunities well at all stages of life and choosing jobs with a higher level of specialization or higher efficiency.This requires anyone not to entertain themselves in the current position, but to make progress, strive for a higher position, and occupy a larger resource platform; to be good at using various promotion opportunities to improve themselves, rather than when opportunities knock on the door. Still unaware.

(3) Give full play to their enthusiasm and creativity in each job position.This includes not only correct concepts, strong desires, positive attitudes, etc., but also finding the right way to do things efficiently, and at the same time ensuring that what you do is the "right thing" to avoid getting nothing for nothing, or running counter to it .

(4) Choose an institutional and technical environment that is conducive to self-growth, and continue to learn, explore and summarize in the environment to continuously improve your own human capital.People's professional skills are dynamically changing.People without learning ability, even if they are ahead in technology at the beginning, will fall into a situation of being eliminated with the improvement and development of technology.On the contrary, people with a strong learning ability can always keep their work ability in a leading position.Everything can change in this world, the only constant is learning.

Increase investment and narrow wage gap

Xiao Yang and Xiao Li grew up together, and later they were admitted to the same university. After graduation, they joined the same company to work.

After working for one year, their salaries are very different: Xiao Yang's job has reached 1 yuan, while Xiao Li still has a salary of 8000 yuan.

On this day, their university teachers came to visit them.After communicating with the boss of the company, the teacher learned about the salary gap between the two, and expressed great doubts, so he asked the boss of the company: "When they were in school, their grades were similar. How can they be different after working for one year?" Is there such a big difference?"

After listening to the teacher's words, the boss didn't answer right away, but just smiled and said, "Teacher, wait a moment. I'm asking the two of them to do the same thing now. You can know the answer by observing their performance. "

(End of this chapter)