Being made redundant or taking a pay cut to find a job, you must have your own plan or it will be worse than redundancy!

In the market economy, whether it is a well-known Fortune 500 company, a once-stable state-owned enterprise, or a private enterprise with good momentum, basically all encounter bad business conditions. The news of layoffs is flying around, and those who can stay in the company without being laid off are also in deep crisis and worried about their professional future.

In many companies, the list of layoffs includes some young people who have just started working for a few years, as well as old people who have been working for more than 10 years. As seen in the layoffs at Microsoft and Nokia last year, many people lost their jobs temporarily after being laid off but also lost their family income, and the burden of the family instantly made people worry immensely.

Originally thinking that they are experienced in their work, it is still easy to find a job, but they are anxious when they neglect their ability to find the right job after re-entering the job market. The fact is that salary is not proportional to years of experience, but irreplaceable skills.

Case 1: When I heard the news of being laid off, I felt like I had tipped over a bottle of five flavors

Li Xiao (a pseudonym) graduated from a 985 university in Beijing with a degree in mechanical engineering, and after graduating he joined a well-known foreign company as a mechanical engineer. Zhang's wing mood to the extreme, although received a lot of interview calls, basically from small companies, many interviews after he lost patience, and want to find a job before New Year's Eve, but feel so difficult.

The news of being laid off came out of the blue and caught him off guard looking for a job. It was almost the end of the year and it was hard to find a job. After hearing the news of layoffs, he often lost sleep and thought about where he would be at the age of forty, and if he was laid off then, it would be even harder to find a job.

At the age of twenty-five, the ambition he had when he first started working was gone, but at the moment he was only thinking about finding a suitable job. He started to think about his career future, but he tossed and turned and eventually found Xiangyang Career, hoping to find his career direction with the help of a career planner.

Case 2: Personnel manager with ten years of experience, unable to find a good job after being laid off

Chen Xin (a pseudonym), who graduated from a university in Shanghai majoring in business administration, joined a state-owned auto parts company as a personnel assistant after graduation.

After four years of work, she jumped into an electromechanical equipment company with the position of personnel supervisor. Compared with the busy schedule of her first job, she now has skilled work skills and is much more relaxed. After six years of work in this company, she was promoted from personnel supervisor to deputy personnel manager, not realizing that the company was not doing well, and as personnel manager, she was laid off after the company completed its redundancy tasks. She accepted the company's severance package and just took the exam thinking that she had ten years of experience in personnel and that it would be easy for her to continue looking for a job as a personnel manager.

When she came out to look for a job, she realized that there were many personnel talents with ten years of experience like her. Over the years, apart from being familiar with the human resources business of her former company, she had not made much progress in her professional field, and the skills she had acquired were only payroll calculations, social security runs, recruitment, and pre-employment training for new employees, without any outstanding skills in human resources management.

With her current job skills, the only job she could find was as a personnel supervisor, but for this type of job, many companies required that she be under 30 years old, and this year she was thirty-two years old.

Although Chen Xin found a job, doing this reluctant job, she is eager to enter a large company again, but she also knows that her ability is not enough, struggling to find a good job. She also approached Xiangyang Career, hoping to plan a good career future for herself.

Facing problems, we see how to solve them

I had a conversation with Li Xiao in Beijing via webcam, while Chen Xin was in Shanghai, so I arranged for her to come to the consulting room of Xiangyang Career to talk in person.

During the conversation with them, I found that after being laid off, they could not calm down for a long time, and at first they could not accept the reality that their abilities were not recognized. They came to me to solve their workplace problems and find the right career direction for themselves as soon as possible.

Li Xiao graduated from a well-known university majoring in mechanics, with a master's degree he has a good academic background, and now he cannot find a suitable job because he does not understand his career personality and interests. service, ensuring that they have a sense of material sufficiency and a sense of belonging to a group.

After discussing him in-depth, I found out that he has a professional background in mechanics and could have been an excellent mechanical engineer, while his personality is more suited to a job dealing with people. Li Xiao also talked about how he had ideas for a job as a pre-sales engineer and that he has a remarkable ability to manipulate others, which mainly comes from their excellent interpersonal skills and sales talent, and after discussing this, he found his After exploring this, he found his career path in a sales-related job, either as a sales engineer or in post-sales technical support, which suited him better.

He is not yet a family man, so the fact that these jobs require him to travel will not affect him too much. After five years of work, he will work hard to learn management knowledge, and his career path is to become a sales manager, leading a team to complete sales tasks and serve customers well. The industry he is looking for, of course, can be a company in machinery, or he can expand to other technical jobs.

Chen Xin was working as a personnel supervisor in this small company, which was a bit stifling for her. When she came to me, she kept complaining about her current job, which was basically doing the same work week in and week out, recruiting, payroll and benefits, staff training, etc. She could do it all, but she was not proficient in each module.

After interacting with me, she looked at me blankly and suddenly said, "I don't even know what I'm working for every day now."

In my opinion, Chen Xin had gained experience in personnel work in ten years, but she did not have the opportunity to learn the skills of personnel work in-depth, and personnel in small companies have to do everything and do not do enough specialization, I hope she can put down her body, find a large manufacturing company as a personnel director, to find the right piece of heaven for themselves, for example, specialize in recruitment, or payroll and benefits, although there Although the work may be more tiring than now, there are more opportunities for learning and upgrading in a manufacturing company.

At the end of the consultation, she talked about her wish to become a career planner like me, and I told her with a smile that next month, just as CCP career planning is a new training course, she is welcome to come and learn about career planning so that she can help herself and do a better job in personnel then.

Layoffs for a person ar indeed a career setback, many external factors lead to layoffs we can not control, the only thing you can do is to start from the perspective of career planning, accumulate professional skills, but also accumulate general abilities, to enhance their competitiveness, even in the face of layoffs, but also as soon as possible out of the gloom, and even find to achieve better development.