It's hard for newcomers to work hard. When you first enter the workplace, the most worrying problem is how to integrate into the group, how to communicate with new colleagues, and everyone wants to adapt to the new environment quickly. People who don't understand will work hard blindly, which is actually self-defeating. Why is it so hard for newcomers to work hard? Let's have a look.

Newcomers in the workplace work hard and find it difficult to get ahead 1

1, leave time for learning and growth.

There is a popular saying on the internet: survive within eight hours and develop outside eight hours. Workplace work is an output process. All people in the workplace are working hard during the day, exporting their values, professional knowledge and abilities in exchange for high or low salaries to ensure the survival capital of individuals and families. Everyone's reserve of professional knowledge, ability and experience is quite limited. If it is not replenished in time, it will soon be hollowed out and cannot keep up with the company's development.

So you see, many hard-working professionals and many old masters who don't update their skills are finally eliminated. If you want to develop, you must use your spare time to learn to update your knowledge and improve your skills, so that you can continue to export more value. Especially for newcomers in the workplace, diligence is a good thing, but we should also leave time to learn and grow every day, so that we can go further on the road of career development.

2. Leave room for reflection and improvement.

Ceng Zi said: "I save three times a day: are you unfaithful to others?" Don't believe in making friends? Can't you learn? "People in the workplace should also know how to reflect on their daily work, so as to accumulate meaningful experience and enable them to work hard in a certain field. Some people have worked in their jobs for more than ten years and have made no progress. They made the same mistake countless times. They still don't know how to deal with the same problem, nor can they talk about any useful experience. In the final analysis, they just don't know how to reflect and do more things. That's just experience, and it can't be experience.

Overworked people, after finishing this job, immediately think about how to do the next job, just like the assembly line, working non-stop, there is no time to stop to think and improve themselves. Confucius said, "If a worker wants to do a good job, he must sharpen his tools first." Only when people in the workplace stop to review and reflect on their work properly can they grow faster. Now I have done a big project, and when I go home at night, I will think about what better working methods are available, how to do the same project next time, how to do it more efficiently, what inappropriate behaviors exist in cooperation with colleagues, how to improve it, and so on. And form the habit of reflection.

3, the combination of work and rest, higher efficiency

Man is not a machine. As long as there is electricity, he can work continuously. People's energy is limited. Once they push too hard, their body and mind will be damaged. Just like athletes overtraining, their bodies will be permanently damaged. Even if they can endure for a while, they will ruin the future.

People in the workplace are working hard every day, and even if they can't keep up physically and mentally, their work efficiency will inevitably decrease. Only by stopping occasionally to relax, get some air and return to family and life can they keep a good attitude, continue to devote themselves to their work, maintain a positive working state for a long time, and work more efficiently.

It's hard for newcomers to work hard. 2 how to grow up quickly when you first enter the workplace?

First, don't find fault with the work arranged by the leaders, and do your own thing.

Newcomers in the workplace, who have just entered a company, can do little by themselves, and even less with technical experience. Advanced jobs require ability and experience. Just entering a company, newcomers can say that they don't know anything. If at this time, the leader gives you a task, then no matter what the job is, don't be picky, just do it. Since the leader has arranged a job for you, there is a leadership intention. When you have no ability, just obey the arrangement of the leader.

Second, I would rather not promise the leader than what I can't do.

Many newcomers in the workplace, most of whom are very proud, are eager to prove their abilities in this new company. Some newcomers are worried that they will disappoint other employees and leaders in the company, so even if they are not sure, they dare to promise to finish the work. Because they were afraid of disappointing the team and the boss, they accidentally promised some new people, so even if they were not sure about the finished work, they promised to come down and indirectly dug a pit for themselves in the workplace. In the workplace, once you make a commitment to the leader, you should try your best to complete it, because once you make a commitment to the leader, you give the leader an expectation. If you can't fulfill your promise at that time, it will leave a bad first impression on the leaders, and it will also affect the promotion and salary increase in the later period.

Third, don't exclude workplace politics, but don't be an activist. Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there is a workplace, there is workplace politics. As a newcomer to the workplace, don't exclude the product of the workplace, do as the Romans do, but be careful not to engage in workplace politics. The first task of newcomers is to seize all job opportunities and time to exercise their work ability and adapt to this job quickly. No matter what kind of interpersonal environment, capable people will never be eliminated. You should study hard before you become incapable. Even if workplace politics runs away, you can still find the next good job.

It's hard for newcomers to work hard. 3 how do newcomers in the workplace spend the chaotic period?

Personal ability

1, personal ability is always the killer of your career growth. Personal ability is divided into professional ability and social ability.

(1) professional ability:

That is, the skills you need in your current job. This is the so-called "hard power".

For example, in the work at the front desk, being quick, not procrastinating, improvising, thoughtful and reasonable is the professional ability;

Sales work, good communication skills, improvisation, determination, flexible sales routines for different customers are professional skills;

Planning has a keen insight into the market, can quickly understand strange industries, can understand customer needs without too much explanation, can make beautiful PPT, and can confidently stand on the stage to speak. This is professional ability.

Different positions must have specific professional ability requirements, which is the most basic and important practice. As a newcomer to the workplace, all the energy in the first few years should be put on the tempering of these "hard powers".

Because first, when you are in your twenties, it is the best time for a person to learn, and you learn things quickly at this time. When you go up at the age of 30, your physical function begins to decline. You will find that you can't stand it for many nights, many books can't be read, and your reaction is not as fast as before. You want to go to bed at 12. At this time, it is relatively difficult to learn anything.

After your thirties, your life begins to enter a new stage, and your energy begins to be distracted by family, society, career and health. So it's hard to concentrate on one thing again. Therefore, in these young years, you should cultivate your professional ability quickly, and you will benefit immensely in the future.

So how to cultivate your professional ability quickly? My answer is to choose an "example" and persistently imitate and surpass it.

Yes, imitation is the fastest way to improve professional ability, and there is no one.

When you don't know how to call a customer for the first time, go and see how experienced colleagues start and end;

When you don't know how to write PPT, look at the plan in the company's public board, learn the thinking structure of others, and even design the layout;

When you don't know what etiquette customers should pay attention to when going out to run, follow an experienced senior to see how he greets customers;

When you don't know how to send an email, go and see how everyone's email starts, states and ends.

When you feel confused, finding a benchmark to imitate can help you quickly establish a systematic understanding of your work.

This person must be related to your job responsibilities. The best candidate is your immediate supervisor, followed by colleagues in the same department who are 1-2 taller than you. He must have excellent professional strength, which requires you to observe in your daily work and have good patience to teach you (this is really hard to meet).

If you meet an impatient but professional person, I suggest you take a notebook with you, regard every opportunity to contact him as a valuable learning experience, and record your mistakes, stupid words and what the other person would do if you were in his position. Read it over and over again when you have time, and keep it in your mind. And if you can't find such a benchmark in a company, believe me, you will learn very painfully. This will undoubtedly prolong your time out of chaos.

(2) Social skills

Many newcomers tend to ignore this, but it is equally important. Now it is a circle society, and people with the same interests and backgrounds will have a good time in the same circle, so credibility is particularly critical. At the beginning of your career, you should consciously start to cultivate your own social circle, build your own network, and make more friends with people who have more industry experience than you. They may look down on you now and won't share any valuable opinions with you.

But you can impress them, which is your purpose and your first step into the circle.

This doesn't mean that you have to talk and laugh with different people like a social butterfly on different occasions every day. You don't have that much time, remember? You should cultivate your professional ability.

You need to socialize purposefully, and you need to make friends with people who are helpful for your future work development. Who are they?

1, HR/ headhunter;

2. Other companies in the same industry are similar to you or a little higher than you;

The first kind of person is the bridge of your future career. They will bring you a steady stream of new job opportunities; The second kind of person is a good helper for you to exchange work experience. They will bring you useful work skills/knowledge/even gossip (gossip is equally important in the workplace). Of course, correspondingly, you also need to give them everything so that your communication will be equal.

Some people may say that you are too utilitarian. I don't agree, since this article is about "how to grow rapidly", this goal is very utilitarian, so it must be achieved by utilitarian means.

Back to the topic just now, how to reach these people? Two ways:

1, update your professional social profile and stay active.

At present, professional social network is one of the most important ways to find a job. In recent years, I have never looked for a job on the recruitment website. Instead, HR/ headhunters will contact you on the Linkedin/ Pulse platform. All you have to do is increase their chances of finding you. Participate in the discussion of the above topics, participate in group activities between different companies, and even you can update articles and express your views on the industry. Even if you are a rookie now, doing so will increase your exposure on other people's Feeds. Increasing exposure means increasing your chances of being discovered by others.

2. Selectively participate in offline seminars organized by industry organizations.

I believe there must be seminars/salons/parties in every industry, which are the best opportunities for you to get in touch with colleagues in the industry. Generally, these activities have corresponding organizers. Take the advertising industry as an example, those well-known advertising vertical websites and companies will hold some such activities from time to time to promote the exchange of people in the industry. Don't think being a rookie in the workplace sounds too high. On the contrary, most people who go to these activities are at your level. You can easily find a sense of belonging here. Communicate with them more, exchange business cards, add a WeChat and greet each other's companies. You can easily find opportunities. But remember, you don't have to participate in all these activities. You have to choose selectively, according to the reputation of the organizers, the number of people and the theme of the activities, one by one. The organizers are famous and have a large number of people. The theme of the activity is closely related to your current job, so you can consider going. Remember, you went with a purpose, not drinking and playing dice.

Let's talk about the attitude problem in the social process first. Yes, your posture determines the knowledge you can acquire.

As a novice in the workplace, modesty and friendliness will greatly enhance each other's desire to meet and communicate with you. Remember that you are here to study. Since it is learning, it is most efficient to lower your posture. Even if you are pretending, you should pretend to be decent. Don't look down on people and think that "he is not xxx but xxx", even if it is true, it has nothing to do with you. On the contrary, keeping your posture straight will make you get twice the result with half the effort. What you need to do is to grow up quickly without interference.

Chance or luck.

2. Personal ability is the killer to shorten the chaotic period in the workplace, but everything pays attention to time, place and people. Subjective initiative is important, but objective timing is equally important. So how to seize the opportunity? Let me say one thing today:

You should keep an eye on industry information like an intelligence officer, and opportunities are often hidden in this information.

You need to focus on the improvement of personal ability, but you can't just focus on your own land. You need to see what the wider world is doing. I formed a habit at the beginning of my career, often browsing news websites and cutting-edge reports in the industry to keep a keen sense of information. This has brought me many benefits.

First of all, I will clearly know what the development direction of this industry will be in the next 3-5 years, which is closely related to my future career planning. When I find that my job is in a sunset industry, I will not hesitate to turn around and will not waste too much time in the field that has begun to decline.

Secondly, I can get a glimpse of the law of macro development and find a new breakthrough. For example, when the slogan of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation" swept across the country, countless people with passion and dreams joined the wave of entrepreneurship. Advertising is no exception. From the very beginning of O2O, P2P, UAV, VR and live broadcast, popular concepts in the field of venture capital have been copied into their works by advertisers, but as these concepts move from peak to cold, a truth behind them is slowly revealed: the Internet is not a production tool, but an infrastructure. It is not a panacea for creativity, but a catalyst for creativity. In this case, instead of focusing on how to put gold on yourself with popular concepts in the market, it is better to focus on the most primitive brain thinking and then think about how to improve the expressive force of creativity with technology.

Finally, all this information can be turned into your "work club conversation material". With the social skills mentioned above, these talks will quickly establish your personal brand image of "information sensitive and extending in all directions" in a short time. Once this image is established, you can turn passivity into initiative, and countless people will be willing to make friends with you. Then, your personal reward will be gradually established, you will remain humble and friendly, and the rest is only to give time.

Do you think your chances will decrease after this step?

These are my personal experiences and thoughts. In the chaotic period, I also experienced a long period of confusion, and once envied those peers who grew up rapidly. But looking back today, at least the fast-growing people I know didn't take shortcuts. On the contrary, they allocate their time to the "right" things efficiently, focusing on the improvement of personal ability and the construction of personal network. Only such people can stand the test and torture, and opportunities will only favor such people.

Again, pragmatic people grow the fastest.