Most newcomers, in the first three years of work, do not see much difference. But the experience of these three years is crucial for the foundation of their future career development.
01
The company recruited many new humans who graduated from undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The average age is 25 years old.
The new assistant was a girl I personally recruited after many interviews. Graduated from a prestigious university with a bachelor's degree, is smart and lively.
In private, I have to admit that I have recruited her a very important reason, in addition to her excellent performance in college, but also because she wrote a beautiful word. The girl can write a lot of good words, especially like her, it looks like a long hair fluttering, how feminine a girl, the one-handed words are written, so that I can not help but a lot of good feelings.
She teaches hands-on, from the workflow to the treatment of people, she also learns fast, a lot of work to teach, get started, get used to being proficient, and get along well with colleagues.
I began to slowly give her some coordinated work, and the business contacts and communication between departments and branches made her try to deal with it.
It often starts to go wrong. She is very nervous, come and talk to me.
I told her: "It doesn't matter if you are wrong. You can do it according to your thoughts. If you have a problem, come and ask me. I will tell you what to do."
Still wrong. Come to me again, this conversation is more in-depth, her confusion is, why always let her do these trivial things?
I asked her at the time: "What is not a trivial job?"
She couldn't answer it. After thinking for a long time, she said to me: "I always feel that my ability can not only do this, but I can do something more important."
That conversation was carried out for 1 hour. I know what I said, she didn't listen to much. Later, I said, first do a good job of hand-to-hand, first avoid common sense mistakes, and then proceed step by step.
02
After half a year, she came to me and offered to resign for the first time.
I pushed off the date and talked to her about the resignation. Asked about the reasons for resignation, she told me bluntly, four years of undergraduate, excellent homework, did not expect to find a job after graduation, but every day dealing with trivial things, no sense of accomplishment.
I asked her again: "What do you think is the most meaningless job that wastes your time and energy in all your current work?"
She immediately answered me: "Help you post the invoice, then reimburse, then go to the finance to go through the process, and then bring the cash back to you."
I smiled and asked her: "You have been paying for my invoice reimbursement for half a year? Through this, what information did you summarize?"
She stayed for a long time and answered me: "Placing an invoice is an invoice. As long as there is no financial error, it will not do anything. What information can I have?"
I said, let me tell you about what I did in the past:
A few years ago, I was transferred from finance to the general manager's office to work as an assistant to the general manager. One of the jobs is to help the general manager reimburse all his notes as you do now. Originally, this work is just like what you just said. Stick the bills and complete the financial process.
In fact, a bill is a data record that records the costs associated with the general manager and the entire company's operations. A bunch of data that doesn't seem to make sense. In fact, they involve all aspects of the company's operations and operations.
So I set up a form to record the data that all the general managers reimbursed for me according to time, amount, place of consumption, contact person, phone number, etc.
The purpose of setting up this form at first was very simple. I wanted to be financially sound, and I would have accurate data to tell him if my boss had a situation to ask me.
Through such a statistical data, I gradually discovered the rules of some superiors in business activities, for example, what kind of business activities, often on what occasions, the cost budget is probably, the public's public relations routine And unconventional processing and so on.
When my superior found out that he had assigned me a job, I would handle it very well. There is some information that he did not tell me at all, and I can handle it promptly and accurately.
He asked me why, I told him about my work methods and sources of information. Gradually, based on this kind of benign accumulation, he has more and more confessed to my more important work. Gradually, a kind of trust and tacit understanding came into being. When I was promoted, he said that I was the best assistant he had ever used.
After talking about these long stories, I looked at the girl, and she looked at me slyly.
I bluntly said to her: "I think your biggest problem is that you have no intentions. In the work that seems to be simple and can be done without your mind, you have not put your heart down, so, half a year, you feel that you have not Progress." She did not say anything, but she retracted her resignation report.
After three months of persistence, she resigned. This time I did not leave her and let her go.
Later, she often chatted with me online. Tell me about her new job. Within a year, she changed three jobs, and each time she could not hold on. Every time she said that the new job was not the job she wanted.
She resigned again. Very distressed, came running to me, want to eat with me. I asked her to go to the mall behind the office building to eat Japanese food. Halfway through, she suddenly said to me: "I know something about what you said before."
03
The so-called career, in fact, it is difficult to predict what you really want to do in the future, whether the work to be done in the future is related to the major you are studying at university.
Most people, it is very likely that the work done in the future will have nothing to do with the majors he has studied.
From the age of 22 to the age of 26, the important thing is not what you did. What matters is how good work habits you develop at work.
This good work habit refers to: a serious and pragmatic work style, and whether you have learned how to accept new things in the quickest time, discover the inner laws of new things, master these rules and handle them in a shorter time than others. .
With all the above elements, you grow into a person who is trusted to work.
People are inert, and they are willing to use those who use it. When you have the foundation to be trusted and gradually show your practicality, intelligence and meticulousness in your daily work, more and more job opportunities will be available to you.
The reason is very simple. You can explain in a sentence clearly and can be successfully completed by you. Who wants to say three sentences or even half an hour to a person who doesn't understand?
Communication is also a cost. The less time for communication and the less internal consumption, this is the clearest thing as a manager.
When you have more job opportunities than others to get in touch with jobs that you have not touched, you have more learning opportunities than others. Everyone likes smart and hardworking students. As a manager, it is probably even more so. .
04
Most newcomers, in these four years, can't see much difference. But the experience of these four years, laid the foundation for the future development of the career, is crucial.
Many people don't care about detours when they are young. Many people think that everyone can do a good job in daily work. However, these simple tasks, step by step and vaguely, have become the watershed for future development.
The biggest loss of carelessness at the grassroots level is the division of seemingly simple ways of dealing with things into the ability to develop in the long run.
Smart people don't always think that their abilities are problematic.
After a long time, he will complain that he is not lucky, complaining that those who seem to be qualified are always better than themselves. Complaining that her appearance is better than herself, or that he will be more willing to lead the leadership. Etc., etc. Slowly, affecting the mindset.
The so-called unrecognized, sometimes this is the case, I call them "small clever".
Work requires a smart person, and this kind of smart person needs to have "great wisdom" rather than "small cleverness". In other words, the work actually needs a practical person.
Between "small cleverness" and practicality, almost everyone is willing to choose the latter, because a talent that can hold back is a rare talent.
Perhaps you will think that you are a smart person because of your high IQ, but you can't sink into an industry for a long time. This is not a smart choice. And being practical is something that everyone can do. It has little to do with innate conditions, but it is greatest thing to achieve one. It is "great wisdom." good night!