The aunt who sells tea eggs earns tens of thousands of yuan a month; a villager in a certain village graduated from junior high school with a million dollars; who graduated from a doctorate, high scores and low energy, and so on, it seems that academic degree useless theorists will always have endless cases to support their views. Today we will analyze in detail and comprehensively, is the academic qualification useful in the end? If so, why?
First of all, the conclusion: academic qualifications are very useful, in addition, I am a college degree, the education is not high, after years of social hard work, contact with a variety of different people: billionaires who can only write their own names; only rely on copying and printing business to buy four small two families; house demolition, cash more than 20 million scavengers; graduate students who have not left the campus to invest tens of millions; technical experts who are specially protected. The essence of the importance of academic qualifications is summarized from numerous real-world samples and survey data.
First, why do so many people with low academic qualifications succeed?
(1) Era. After China's reform and opening up, the economy has developed rapidly, a large number of market opportunities have emerged, and many things can make money as long as you do it. At that time, in the era of planned economy, most of the people with academic qualifications and relations were in the system, and really going out to work hard and starting a business was forced to choose helplessly, there was no way back naturally to work hard, coupled with the opportunity of the times, naturally a large number of people succeeded. But the opportunities of the times are unattainable, and the difficulties encountered by those who succeed are much more difficult than those who enter a prestigious university.
(2) Resources. The resources mentioned here include family relations, social relations and other resources that have a low replication rate and are invisible to most people. For example, a 30-year-old boss I know who owns more than a dozen chain stores in the local area donates libraries and shares successful experiences at his alma mater, like a young role model and life mentor. But how did he become the owner of more than a dozen chain stores? Relying on more than a hundred chain stores and more than 10 million cash left by his father, and finally because he could not do it, he basically lost it, after liquidation, he returned to the city of his alma mater to open more than a dozen chain stores, does it sound like a paragraph? And his alma mater is a junior college, and he is trumpeting the uselessness of academic qualifications, and many of his experiences are also pit people. The result is that many students choose to believe, one pass ten, ten pass a hundred, more and more people are far away from the truth.
(3) Luck. Not to mention those who demolish and relocate the type of people, as far as the normal commercial society is concerned, there will inevitably be industries with a dividend period, and when you happen to be in the dividend period, whether it is a business or a part-time job, you can make quick money. I had a colleague before, because of some emotional things upset, gave up boring technical work in a huff, and ran to do real estate agency front-line sales. Who knows too fragrant, free working hours, can fitness and fall in love, two years to earn a small million, mortgage also paid off. But in 2021, real estate suddenly shrank and did not make money. I want to return to my original unit, but my academic requirements have been promoted from college to undergraduate, and I am now in a very embarrassing situation. Of course, in reality, there is also a kind of person who can constantly find new dividend period industries, which is generally called speculators, but the probability of becoming a speculator is one in a million.
Summarizing the above three points, you will find that for most ordinary people, academic qualifications are the shortcuts to your success and class upgrading.
Second, why should enterprise recruitment set a threshold for academic qualifications?
1. Probability and time. I myself said something similar when I was young: there is no need to set a threshold for academic qualifications, I am just capable and competent, and I can indeed do it. But why don't so many companies give me the opportunity to interview? Until I myself was in charge of the recruitment of personnel of the group company, especially the recruitment of core positions, I understood that for the enterprise, trial and error and waste of time are meaningless, and the strategic needs of the enterprise cannot wait. For example, strategic management trainees, training for half a year, half a year later for the company's strategy is very important to several positions. If you choose from graduate students who may interview 10 people, you can choose the one you need, while undergraduate students may need to interview 50 people to choose, and college students need to interview 200 people... I have been in contact with recruitment work, from the release of recruitment information → screening resumes→ inviting interviews→ interview negotiations→ issuing OFFER → determining the probationary period → entry. This is a long process, which requires a lot of manpower and material time of the company, and may even delay the company's development needs. If it were you, would you choose the one with the high probability or the low probability?
2. The academic structure of the team will affect the value of the company. Whether it is corporate publicity, business negotiations or financing valuation, if 90% of the company's team is 211, 985 must be much more advantageous than 90% of college students and high school students. For example, hairdressing belongs to the industry with low overall academic qualifications, when doing the poster of the store's signature hair stylist, if you write a tsinghua university design graduate, is it to give customers a stronger desire to enter the store and image bonus?
So how does a high degree affect a company's valuation? My friend, who graduated with a Ph.D., worked as an expert consultant at a startup, paid 20,000 yuan a month, and returned the shares. Finally, because I was busy with my career, I proposed to leave, and the other party proposed that you can not come, just hang up your post, and the money will be issued. Why? Because the company is in the financing stage, a doctoral student employee will greatly increase the valuation, and the salary of 20,000 / month is not worth mentioning. Compared to thinking, how many people earn 20,000 yuan to fight for half a life, and they can't earn it?
Third, what is the biggest gap between high education and low education?
I talked about the importance of so many academic qualifications earlier, so in addition to the stepping stones, what are the core gaps in academic qualifications that are difficult to overcome? Let's take stock
1. Circle. After graduating from undergraduate degree or above, they will appear in a large number of government units, professional counterpart industries, etc., and the probability of getting help in our careers and lives is much higher. If you have a bachelor's degree or below, even if you work hard to break through the limits of academic qualifications, you will definitely encounter the problem of network shortage at this time, because you cannot guarantee that your classmates and alumni will work the same, and in fact, most alumni will choose to lie flat.
I started writing in 2017 and am slowly becoming proficient. When I felt that I wanted to refine again, I went through all my friends in college, including the literary community, and it was difficult to understand my confusion without answering my confusion. Finally, it was my high school classmate who introduced his undergraduate alumni to me, and I had to start from this point to re-accumulate contacts.
2. Mental strength after systematic training and in-depth study. After we enter the workplace, many of the problems encountered are completely new, at this time you need to analyze and refine, to cooperate with your leadership colleagues to overcome, this process will test a person's patience, frustration ability and so on. And when you become a leader on your own, or even when you face unknown challenges such as entrepreneurship, how to study the problem in depth and withstand this pressure. Isn't this similar to every mock exam in high school? You have to face the failures and ups and downs, adjust your mindset and start over.
3. Habits of thinking. Habits of mind require long-term training, and the older you get, the worse the effect. When encountering a problem, ordinary people only know addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, and graduate doctors know that there are also methods of number theory calculus, although they will not understand it for a while and a half, but the idea and direction of solving the problem will be optimal and fastest.
4. The ability to use tools. This is the easiest thing to understand, isn't it a tool? Will there be a big gap between everyone? I also understood after doing business consulting. Tools include physical tools and mental model tools, we take Baidu as an example. Everything does not know how to ask Baidu, but if it is not trained low-educated people when they encounter problems, they can only search for this problem, and the answers obtained are often very general and one-sided; people with middle and high education are easy to find theoretical models through problems; the highest degree holders will view journal papers, English literature (many low-educated people can't understand it even if they find it), patents, and so on
List the question: The company made 1 million more this year than last year, how to maintain it next year?
Low education: check the company's statements, Baidu peer experience, basically determine the confidence can start to dry;
Secondary education: on this basis, look at the data structure, business composition, industry trends, etc., to form a new year development plan;
High education: upgrade again, look at industry economic papers and forecasts, use some SWOT, Porter five force model and other analysis strategies, combined with the company's team talent inventory and evaluation, to assess the feasibility of the next stage of implementation.
Do you see the gap in this simple question argument? If you were a boss, partner or investor, who would you choose first?
There is also a trap in mentality, the chosen man mentality. Almost everyone has fantasized about being gifted in a certain aspect, picking one out of a thousand; first having superpowers, then having money powers, and finally reaching the peak of life. But that's not a dream, it's a fantasy.
Most people's talents are limited, and the short battle between weapons and training on the track of life is short.
So, if you still have the opportunity to win a higher gold content of education, it is definitely worth your full efforts; if not, the break will become difficult, but it is not impossible, we will talk later.