Editor's introduction: I believe that many people have faced the problem of whether to jump ship in the process of growing up in the workplace. In fact, whether you jump jobs or not is inseparable from your current experience and ultimate career planning. In this article, the author has elaborated on his job-hopping thinking in his product career in recent years, which may be helpful to you.
I have nearly 4 years of product work experience.
From corporate services - big health industry - local life services, but also from the second line - the first line - the second line, from the product assistant - product manager, from the barbaric growth - systematic learning - can be independent.
3 work experiences, after 2 job hopping, is doing the third job hopping thinking.
01 The first job hopping, because of ignorance, so dare.
The first job after graduation lasts 1 year and 4 months from entry to departure. Voluntary departure is also an impulsive departure.
First, because the transition from graduation to work is relatively smooth, before graduation, they signed a tripartite, and when they graduated, they worked directly, and at the stage of becoming a social person, they lacked the understanding and planning of the profession, and there was no clear concept of "work" and "occupation".
Second, when I first started working, I first got an offer and then considered the work location, and for the work thing, I was more of a trend.
Before I started working, I didn't go to first-tier cities for internships or part-time jobs, and everything about first-tier cities was more about what others said or learned about online.
At that time, when I heard the news stories of various big factories, I felt that the big factory was very far away from me, and I couldn't enter the big factory, and I never felt that I was excellent in my personal cognition, and I was not confident in my ability. Itself is not ostentatious, does not know how to self-expression, more is buried in the effort, waiting for others to find out, so in the 500 companies of the offer has been self-satisfied, but at that time there was no work plan for the next three or five years.
The place of work is a second-tier city, and the slow pace of work and life makes me realize with hindsight: work is just transferring from one ivory tower to another.
After starting work, under the guidance of the company's leadership training and seniors, the basic ability of work has been rapidly improved, and more recognition has been obtained at work, and after contact with more fresh people and things, more curiosity and yearning for the outside world have been generated. I began to reflect on the current situation: in the comfort zone, personal growth is slow, the desire to go outside to see the world is stronger, so I wrote the first resignation application of my life, naked resignation alone to go to the first-tier cities, everything starts from 0.
02 The 2nd job hopping, there is cognition, want to develop steadily.
The second period of work lasted 1 year and 8 months from entry to departure. I came to the legendary first-tier city. Starting from here is also starting from 0, no friends, no resources, no connections. I felt the fast pace of the big city, and I experienced the 996 that people often talk about, I was also in a hurry like others said, and I also lived a two-point life.
At this time, I have a little understanding of work, not only to work but also to accumulate personal value, the essence of work is value exchange, I want to have the value of employers willing to pay for me. So improving my personal abilities and shaping my personal value is the goal of my second job.
At this point I have no specific plans for the next 3 and 5 years of work. In the fast-paced, high-intensity work environment, personal ability has been rapidly improved, and from the beginning of the product assistant to grow into a product manager, completed the product manager skills training, the change of rank let me start to think about the next stage of development.
At this time, I am in the period of 3 years of product experience, according to the career development of product managers, more than 3 years of products need to have industry experience. I began to have a plan for career development, that is, to precipitate industry experience. At that time, I was also faced with a more difficult choice, one was to continue to stay in the first-tier city to struggle, and the other was to choose to return to my hometown for development.
At this time, the factor of "stability" in my career planning accounts for a large proportion. In addition to considering career development, you also need to coordinate your life, want to precipitate industry experience, there is no 3, 5 years is not possible, if you struggle in a first-tier city for another 3-5 years, the accumulation of industry experience is not a problem, but it is more difficult to survive, because after 3-5 years to enter the next stage of life, may have to start a family, may have to land in the city, if you struggle for a few more years and then choose life and urban stability, the time cost consumption is too high.
The ultimate consideration is to return to your hometown to develop, while taking into account both career and life. So, I wrote my second resignation email.
03 In the 3rd job-hopping thinking... Cognitive lifting, walking or staying is a problem.
The third leg of work has been going on for 1 year and 5 months. The third job is the current state of career planning.
The first is to return to the second-tier cities, life can be stable, and the industry and work content are also in line with the needs of precipitating industry experience.
The shortcomings of the status quo are slow improvement in ability and low sense of achievement. Recently, there was also a "small episode" in the work, a person in charge of a company who met through an interview invited me to their company as a product leader, which was also the third time he invited me to join their company, yu Gong: This is a great help for my personal growth and value promotion, it is a rare opportunity; in private: under his 3 sincere invitations, it is really difficult to be gracious. Job hopping between public and private is my best choice.
But in the past year, I have completely taken over all the business of the current company, established product work specifications, and initially built a data system, so that the company has changed from patting my head to making products to market-oriented, user-centric, and data-based; moreover, I have been fully integrated into the current team, everyone trusts and collaborates with each other, and personal ability is also recognized by the team, which is the core figure of the team; third, there is no beautiful data on the results accumulated over the past year. But it has laid a solid foundation for 22 years of precision operation. If you leave at this time, you will not be willing to make all the efforts and efforts you have made before.
So, this time job hopping "go" or "stay" is really a problem.
There will be no first impulse about this job hopping, and there will be no helplessness of the second real problem, this time it is the best choice.
This time the job hopping did the following thinking.
04
1. Comparison of the basic situation of the two companies
1) Consider point 1: industry development
From the perspective of career development, it is necessary to cultivate deeply in the profession and accumulate in the industry. Choose your career to focus on, and easily don't change careers. The development prospects of the industry also determine the height that the profession can reach. Therefore, the development of the industry is also the first element of my job hopping focus.
From the perspective of industry development, local life services and cultural tourism are all promising industries.
Local life services: At present, major factories have laid out local life services, with the improvement of people's living standards, services are bound to be innovated and upgraded, more and more refined, and. With the introduction of the national monopoly policy, the local life services done by local people will have a greater market space, and there is no lack of opportunities and development on this track.
Cultural Tourism: Following the Issuance of the 14th Five-Year Plan for The Development of Culture and Tourism by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism in June last year, 20 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) have successively issued local versions of the 14th Five-Year Plan for Cultural Tourism. Cultural tourism is officially in the industry on the cusp.
In terms of industry comparison, the two companies are uneven.
2) Consider point 2: Company development and team status
The current company: established in 18 years, the business has only promoted a city and district, and at present, it is only promoted better in the city where the headquarters is located, and last year it achieved profitability, only a small win. Today's plan is to do a regional rollout. There are still many uncertainties and risks in doing this thing of regional expansion. If the status quo is maintained, the company and individuals are developing steadily, and it is still difficult to make profits.
New company: established in 15 years, from several people workshops to the current 20+ team, to do smart scenic spots, business to promote to a number of provinces and cities, has now achieved profitability. Is to create a scenic spot as the focus of the tourism + service ecology for business upgrades, has established a pilot, after the Spring Festival to promote, is an opportunity but also there are risks, if the business expansion fails, return to the original track, is a stable + rush model.
Compared with the current situation of the company's development and the team, the new company has an advantage.
3) Consider point 3: Personal development
Current company: According to the current company's overall planning, the product is in a relatively passive state. It takes longer to achieve achievement. The advantage is that it has been running in with the team for more than a year, the company's various businesses are more understanding, in addition to following the general direction of the company's strategy, you can first use the existing resources to do meaningful things for personal growth. In addition, the company has been stable for more than a year, and if you are ready to get married and start a family, the company is now more advantageous.
New company: product work is more challenging, the ability to think, industry ability, learning ability, ability to resist pressure, management ability have higher requirements, and must be results-oriented, more powerful than personal drive. The disadvantage is also that if you change a new company, you have at least 1 year to develop your career, and the corresponding matter of starting a family should also be postponed for one year.
In terms of personal development, the two companies have their own advantages and disadvantages, and if you make a choice, you are still willing to try more when you are young.
4) Consider point 4: Welfare benefits
- The current company: the welfare treatment is in this city, the appreciation and salary increase path is not clear, can only say that the work is relatively relaxed, the environment is relatively stable, it is a good choice.
- New company: the basic welfare treatment is similar to the current company, if the salary is changed, it will be increased by 20% compared with the existing one, and one plus is that you can travel to various places for travel experience.
In terms of welfare benefits, new companies are more attractive.
2. Finally
This time, I thought more carefully about job hopping. Although from the comparison of the results, the intention to go to the new company is better, but I put the final choice after the Spring Festival, I plan to find the leaders of the new and old companies after the Spring Festival to communicate in depth, and make the final choice with the final communication results.
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