One day I was chatting with a friend about a new colleague in her company. He is a novice who has just graduated and entered the workplace. He has a common problem among newcomers in the workplace, especially girls. I was bumpy and bumpy at work, and even if I tried hard, I always felt like I had no direction, and I was confused and anxious.

There is another colleague who is 28 years old and has been working for four years, but he is still doing the most basic cashier job and is "busy" every day. Seeing that I am almost 30 years old, I still have not found my own career direction. I feel very confused and my life is not happy.

However, entering society is indeed a cruel thing. When entering the workplace, real learning has just begun.

Bawangjun also experienced confusion when he first entered the workplace and made many jokes. Despite this, he did not give up his efforts and gradually found his right position in the workplace. So for professionals, how to find their own direction?

Step One: Know Yourself

There are seven famous sayings engraved on the Temple of Apollo in the ancient Greek city of Delphi, among which are the most widely circulated and influential, and are even considered to have ignited the There is only one sentence that sparks Greek civilization, and that is: "Man, know yourself."

The life of each of us is actually a process of understanding ourselves. Whether you're a confused newbie trying to figure out your place in the world, or you're no longer young and trying to figure out if you're on the right track, you need to know yourself.

How does a person know himself?

Action, active attempts, tossing yourself in real life, and seeing yourself in the process of interacting with the world.

Knowing ourselves and knowing what we want may not completely eliminate our confusion about life, but it will reduce many of our confusions and blindness. The more a person knows himself, the more he knows where his path should go, and the less likely he is to be influenced by the outside world and lose himself. Then he can be a more authentic and powerful self, thereby reaping the richness and happiness of life.

Step 2: Do the job in front of you well and try to do your best

Why should you do the job in front of you well?

(1) In order to cultivate your work ability, let you enhance your skills in a certain aspect, such as customer communication and coordination ability and proposal ability.

(2) In order to let you see your own shortcomings and shortcomings, when you try your best to do a certain type of thing, you are still not as good as others.

(3) To let you know, what work first requires is a professionalism and the ability to do your best to solve problems.

The third step: "Claim" as many other roles as possible within the scope of work

For example, when I first entered the workplace, I took the initiative to take charge of the annual meeting in the first year I played the role of host and fully helped prepare for the annual meeting. In the second year, I became the "director" and was fully responsible for the annual meeting. After that, it was natural for me to take on the leadership role in every activity.

This is very helpful for exercising my organizational planning and coordination skills.

So you can also take on more unclaimed, short-term tasks outside of your position, or some long-term tasks that you are interested in. Don’t care too much about monetary returns. This is important for you. It is very helpful to expand the scope of your abilities and explore the boundaries of your abilities.

Step 4: Maintain a wide range of interest exploration and study habits outside of work

Of course you may say that you have no time at all, so use your time to play games, watch TV series, and Use WeChat time to develop some useful interests and hobbies, such as reading, writing, speaking, and painting.

On the one hand, it allows you to have something to talk about when chatting with other people, "I like...", and everyone will think that this person is quite interesting; on the other hand, it also allows you to explore your own interests outside of work. Range of interests, who knows if those interests may come in handy one day?

For example, I have always liked writing. I have been writing for several years during the blog era. Who knew that now I would open a public account and write some professional articles because of my work? It is really amazing and I am very happy to do it. .

For example, I have also liked to tell others things since I was a child. After work, I accidentally became a teacher and started teaching micro-lectures. , unknowingly doing what I like.

Step 5: Maintain contact with the outside world and pay attention to the outside world

In the workplace, many people have worked in the original company for many years. Although the salary and benefits are not so ideal, they have never imagined that Resign, why? After getting to know them, I found that this group of people seriously lacked attention to changes in the external workplace.

Of course we must remain loyal when serving a company, but it is still necessary to observe our "price" and available opportunities in the market from time to time. The advantage of doing this is that you can observe your position in the entire industry environment. Is it a best-selling product or a slow-selling product? Think about why? What aspects still need to be strengthened?

Newcomers who have just entered the workplace can keep in touch with their classmates and observe their development. Is it true that after 2 or 3 years, there will be gaps among everyone. Who will develop better? Let’s talk about how to do it?

People who have been in the workplace for many years can also talk to headhunters to help you estimate the value and explore the market situation. If one day the company you serve changes, and you have to find a new job, Don't feel dizzy and at a loss all of a sudden. What to do when you have no career direction?

Share a specific method: social trend + rigid demand.

The so-called social trend is the general direction of social development. Going with the flow will obviously save you a lot of effort. My first job after graduation was as a new media editor. In fact, I was not very capable, but the new media trend was in full swing at that time, and there were huge recruitment gaps in various companies, so it was easy to find a job. So Rebus said: "Standing in the wind, pigs can fly."

How to ensure that your direction will have a large and continuous demand in the market?

You only need to analyze human society, the needs that have existed for a long time and are difficult to change, and the things that people today spend a lot of money on.

For example: Internetization is obviously the most obvious trend of our time. Sales is the number one in-demand position in the job market. Then Internet marketing is social trend + rigid demand.

The need for companies to make money still exists, but times have changed and the previous model is no longer applicable. Do they need new methods?

This is called a structural talent shortage. It seems that there is a large supply of marketing people, but there are very few people who can be competent in the new situation. Therefore, it is difficult for old people to find good jobs, but on the other hand, companies are in urgent need of new talents.

Since it is for sale, it is obviously much better to choose one with "supply less than demand".

If you still don’t know what you like and want to do, my suggestion is:

Take out a piece of paper and draw a coordinate axis. List on the vertical axis the general trends in social development that you have observed. The horizontal axis lists those continuing rigid needs.

When listing rigid needs, in addition to survival categories such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, there is also a framework of "three major categories of rigid needs": health, wealth, love and relationships. From ancient times to the present, humans have developed many industries to meet this need. Health: health products, medical treatment, sports... Wealth: investment and financial management, marketing, insurance... Love and relationships: beauty, children's education, marriage and social interaction...

Look at the horizontal and vertical axes What opportunities are there at the handover point.

For example, no matter how times change, women will probably love beauty and be willing to spend a lot of money on beauty. In the Internet age, there should be new ways to meet their needs. Enterprises such as Mogujie and Meilishuo are products of social trends (Internet) + rigid needs (women love beauty).

After doing these things, if you still can’t determine the direction, there is another suggestion: master the skills of Internet marketing.

Why? Internetization (the number one social trend) + sales (the number one market job demand), isn’t this the number one market gap?

Finally, I would like to give you a piece of advice. When you are confused, don’t lie still. Get up and do anything. Maybe any action will bring hope!