Recently, the incident of graduate students striving to be "pork guy" has aroused strong repercussions in all walks of life, with different opinions and mixed opinions. After four rounds of interviews and many practical examinations, among the more than 500 graduate candidates in/kloc-0, 35 finally stood out and won the position of "Pork Guy" with an annual salary of 865,438+10,000 yuan. At present, 33 graduate students have signed work confirmation letters at the headquarters of Tiandi Food Group and entered the stall to sell pork. In order to further explore the hidden career path behind this incident, we interviewed Mr. Dale Hong, the chief career planner of Xiangyang Career. According to years of in-depth practice and research on workplace issues, Dale Hong believes that the following aspects deserve our in-depth consideration:

1. Is it an urgent need or a development need?

Under the extremely difficult employment situation, graduates gradually adjust their employment expectations and job-hunting mentality and make rational choices on the premise of correctly judging the current situation. From graduate students to "pork guy", what is the real motivation behind their choice? Is it to solve the urgent need or the need of self-development? In fact, the group's job advertisements clearly indicate that it is to train the group's management and marketing talents and store managers, not to let them be skilled butchers and salespeople selling meat at first-line stalls forever. Dale Hong believes that at present, the competitive pressure in the pork industry is relatively small, and there will be more room for chefs to rise personally in the group, which is beneficial to personal development from the perspective of career development space. The company also made it clear that graduate students will not be allowed to sell pork all the time, but will follow the common practice of management trainees in the world's top 500 enterprises to train middle and high-level talents for enterprises. From this point of view, "Pork Guy" seems to be just a short-term working platform, and the masters have passed this test, and the future development space has yet to be developed.

2. For "money" or "future"? After studying hard in the cold window for many years, graduate students have adjusted their personal expectations under the collision between reality and ideal, and are willing to be a "pig meat honor" with high salary. We can't help but think of their professional values, that is, what do they value most in their career? Dale Hong believes that it is not impossible for a master to sell pork, but whether it is for "money" or "future" remains to be considered. In the reality of difficult employment, it is not easy for graduate students to find a well-paid job. However, if they only pay attention to short-term high salary in employment choice, they will become "wage earners", and one result is likely to be to choose a job with more money instead of a career that suits them, which will also bring problems to their long-term development in the future. On the contrary, if graduate students think deeply about the career development direction of selling pork, locate it accurately and fully recognize it, find their own direction suitable for long-term development in this industry, and through hard work, they can successfully pass the successful promotion in the future assessment, then the development prospect of "Master Pork Guy" still needs attention.

3. Can you resist the constant external interference? There is a great contrast between the professional prestige of "Pork Guy" and the highly educated status of graduate students. Many graduate students who signed up this time chose to give up because of the professional reputation of "pork guy". It is reported that after the first round of interviews, many potential candidates chose to quit automatically in the second round. They prefer to go to a unit with an income of only 40,000-50,000 yuan. Most of the reasons for choosing to give up are because they can't accept the professional identity of "pork guy". Dale Hong, the chief career planner of Xiangyang Career, told us that the main factors affecting the level of professional prestige are: professional environment, professional function and the quality of employees. The better the professional environment, the greater the professional function, the stronger the quality of the incumbent and the higher the professional prestige. As we all know, a person with a primary school education is qualified to sell pork, which shows that his professional reputation is quite low, and master students undertake the work of selling pork. Can they resist the constant interference of external public opinion? Imagine that graduate students themselves may be able to put aside the negative public opinion of society, face the cynicism of people around them, be dissuaded by parents and teachers, and even encounter the incomprehension and disapproval of close lovers. What should they do? Xiangyang career pointed out that although selling pork to graduate students may only be a temporary and necessary enterprise assessment process, having excellent psychological quality and good pressure resistance is an essential ability for every professional.

4. Can you adapt to this working environment? What kind of working environment will it be to sell pork? At 6: 30 in the morning, in the noisy and crowded food market, "pork guys" began to help customers choose meat, cut meat and cut meat. While greeting new and old customers, they shouted loud sales slogans and skillfully weighed and bundled the meat. They greeted the customers with a smile, and the pork stalls around them were curious and a little hostile. However, from dawn to dusk until all the meat is sold out, I work more than eight hours a day, and I don't have my own office, workstation, or even my own computer and telephone. What they need to face are all kinds of customers who come and go every day, sometimes they may be housewives who care about everything, and some may be local old ladies who can speak Cantonese but can't speak Mandarin ... Can the masters persist in working in such an environment in the long run? If the sales performance of pork stalls is not good in this year's assessment, how to face the cruel elimination after the assessment? What adjustments should I make when other students around me are developing well in other industries? Whether they can do a good job of "pork germanium" really needs to be questioned. We can't help worrying about how far we can go from graduate students to "pork guy" and how many people can stick to it.

5. What is the opportunity cost? Opportunity cost refers to the maximum income that can be obtained in other uses when a certain resource is used to produce a certain product. To put it simply, after graduate students choose to be "pork guy", they should seize the time and opportunity to cultivate themselves into outstanding cutting-edge people, thus reducing the opportunity cost. In one year's assessment, masters should experience this unusual experience in the position of "pork guy" and take the first step into the workplace, but at the same time they may have to pay a heavy opportunity cost. Because among the 35 graduate students who have successfully applied, not everyone can think about what kind of person they will become after one year, let alone what kind of opportunity cost they will pay. A year later, will you still stay at the meat stall and work as a pork man? Or pass the exam smoothly and get a promotion as you wish? Or because of poor performance, completely quit the job market and rejoin the job search army? Facing the unknown future, Xiangyang believes that in order to reduce the opportunity cost, it is necessary to carefully measure the degree of matching in the position of "pork guy" and thoroughly analyze whether he is suitable to be a "pork guy" and whether he can give play to his advantages in this position. When analyzing the career and job prospects, we can think rationally and comprehensively from the aspects of industry development status, industry advantages and disadvantages, industry development prospects, etc., instead of taking one step at a time, or once we find that we are not suitable for the identity and post of "pork guy", we must make a decision as soon as possible and re-plan a new life path. Graduate students sell pork, which reflects the severe employment situation of college graduates. It is reported that 35 graduate students who successfully applied for "Pork Guy" are all school elites, all of whom have graduate degrees from famous universities, and many of them are returnees. If the economic crisis has intensified the employment pressure of college graduates, it is better to say that the "employment crisis" of college graduates has emerged. Crisis is an objective reality, complaining and pessimism are useless, and the most important thing is to find countermeasures. As an authoritative career planning consulting organization in China, Dale Hong believes that career planning is the fundamental way to solve employment and an important magic weapon to succeed in the workplace. Besides selling pork, graduate students should have more and better development space. Every job seeker can solve the problem of "orientation, goal and channel" in job hunting to the greatest extent through the study of career planning knowledge or the help of experts, so as to speed up job hunting, reduce job hunting costs, enhance job durability, have higher job satisfaction, fully enhance personal professional competitiveness, get higher returns, get better development and get a happy life.

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