Five years after graduating from college, many people’s careers have taken off. But there are still people at the moment, the job is still bumpy and the salary is stagnant, just like when they just graduated from school.
Xiaohong (28 years old, Shanghai, China) is one of them. “Five years after graduating, my salary is still 3,000 yuan, which is equivalent to the income of a recent graduate. In addition to the increasing age, more and more worries, only ability and salary remain unchanged,” she said.
Before that, when she was a student, she had good academic records. But after 5 years, she still stood still, which made her depressed and planning to return to her hometown. Xiaohong said that she doesn’t like her current job, but she doesn’t know what to do after she quits.
From the day he graduated from school and entered life as a blank sheet of paper, until now, almost 30 years old, Xiaohong is still confused and disoriented in developing his future. The average salary, the job without the ideal passion, the collected material is not much. How many years must human youth continue to waste in this way?
At present, cases of Xiaohong are not uncommon. Like them, many young people choose to settle in big cities, but become low-paid work machines. They are struggling and don’t know where the future will take them.
From this fact we can ask why some people steadily progress in the workplace, while others stay where they are. If you ignore factors such as family, background, from a personal perspective, Xiaohong and similar young people make the following 2 mistakes:
1. Lack of soft skills
The work capacity is directly linked to your salary. The main reason leading to low income and not being able to get promoted is your lack of ability which means what you have done is not enough to satisfy your boss.
Here you need to understand competencies, which include both hard skills and soft skills. Hard skills are the level of intelligence, proficiency in specialized skills in the field you are working on, which can be understood as ‘doing the job’. Soft skills are how you deal with emotions, work in groups and communicate. with colleagues and boss…
Compared to hard skills, soft skills are much more complex. If hard skills are mainly based on learning and accumulating. But soft skills are different experiences of each person from different angles, so there is no uniform standard and method. We can only rely on our own personal experience to summarize and understand.
In terms of hard skills, especially soft skills become important. In the workplace you come into contact with all kinds of people. So factors like EQ, how to control emotions, teamwork… all influence whether you can do things right or not.
Many people have excellent academic performance in school but lack soft skills, making it difficult to handle complex relationships or collaboration with people. As a result, you are alone at work.
2. Not updating new knowledge
In the current era of information explosion, the speed of updating and knowledge capital is increasing rapidly. New ideas, technologies and models are constantly emerging. As a result, competition for labor is becoming fiercer.
With this reality, we are all forced to constantly learn, improve our quality and capacity in all aspects. Can a person master a new skill in the shortest time and whether he can create new value for the company is one way of measuring how competitive an employee is today.
Many people have left school after a long time, have lost their passion and interest in learning, and lack the motivation to actively acquire new knowledge. This standing still leaves them behind. This is why, although they have many years of seniority, the salary is only equal to that of a dynamic student who has just graduated from university.
In addition, when looking for a job, many people often focus on their current interests rather than self-development, have no career plan, often change jobs, do not pay attention to their own promotion ability… getting a raise.
There is no guarantee that you will stay with a company for life. Try to imagine with your indulgence in the present, how will you deal with the future if you get fired? Living in a turbulent time, the only constant is that you have to be flexible yourself to change constantly. Because when the real event comes, those who are not ready will be most pitiable.
Therefore, at any time, you can only overcome challenges and crises by adjusting your thinking and improving yourself.
Source: CafeF
