When should I change job? Best time for Job-hopping

01. Job-hopping should be your promotion ladder, not a means to avoid problems.

Because I am a personal trainer for executives, I often coach middle and high-level managers of many companies, and I will find a very interesting phenomenon.

Oftentimes, grassroots employees will take job-hopping as an effective means to solve some of the problems in their current jobs.

When you become a middle and high-level manager, you will use job-hopping as a ladder for personal career development, rather than a way to avoid problems.

In addition to job-hopping is not suitable as a means to solve problems in the workplace, there are also the following scenarios that are not suitable for job-hopping:

Just graduated with less than one year of accumulated experience in the industry.

It has not been more than half a year since the last job-hopping.
I quarreled with my boss and wanted to quit when I was upset
Being fooled, I want to start a business without industry accumulation.

02. The following 3 kinds of signals appear, you need to consider quitting

-There is a clear ceiling in the industry

Some time ago I chatted with a friend who has worked in e-commerce advertising and the Internet industry, and she told me an industry secret.

What caused my curiosity immediately? There is actually this kind of operation. There is an industry where customers will be fired no matter what you do or not.

Yes, e-commerce agency operation is such a difficult industry.

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If you help customers run e-commerce, Taobao or Tmall is not doing very well, after all, customers give you dozens or millions a year, of course you will be fired.

Then why did you do a good job for her e-shop, and why would you be fired by customers?

The most important thing is that there are not too many technical barriers in this industry. If you take the 2 million or more money you ask for a year to hire a store manager, two operations, and find a design, you can basically do it. But the money spent is much less, and it may take hundreds of thousands to get it done.

If you are in such an industry, it is basically difficult to get a good career development.

-Industry decline, brain drain, and aging employees

In the past ten years, the real estate and securities industries have been relatively hot. A typical phenomenon is that you will find that there are particularly many beautiful women in these two industries.

If the profit rate of an industry is high, there will be more beauties in this industry.

The reason is that beautiful women are more sensitive to opportunities to make money than normal people, and they also move across industries.

The profits of the securities industry are affected by the bear market and the fees charged are much less, and the competition among customers has become more fierce.

You will find that the beauty of the real estate and securities industry has decreased a lot in the past two years…

-Unreliable boss

The first type of unreliable boss is to only give goals, not resources.

In many cases, large companies have an advantage, that is, the company’s reputation is relatively strong, and generally everyone is willing to cooperate with you, but there is an incidental problem, that is, the approval of resources is relatively slow. Many companies even say that in 18 years At the time, we were still discussing the resource plan for the beginning of the year. How do you think this is going to be?

They will generally encourage you to consume your previous contacts and make your friends work for the company in vain. When you consume your contacts and can no longer brush your face, they will kick you away.

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The second is a boss who is keen on political struggles and takes his subordinates as victims.

There is a struggle where there are people, even in enterprises.

I have seen some bosses use their subordinates as scapegoats and take responsibility for their faults in the project.

It’s a bit like the commander of the White Army said “give me up”, they never take you to “fight with me”.

03. Preparation before moving

-Update the project experience and highlight the highlights.

On the one hand, update your resume and quickly write down some good project managers in recent years.

-Keep in touch with headhunting friends and understand the market

-Look at the target company’s business development and job demand JD on recruitment websites like this one.

I have a very interesting professional habit of myself, that is, I regularly go to recruitment websites like Lagou to see who different companies are hiring recently, including his job requirements. (PS: Pull the tick now, you can choose to let the career consultant give you more industry information.)

For students in junior positions, the focus of attention may be on the temptations of the positions highlighted by the target company.

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As for the position above the intermediate level, the perspective is: you can see what kind of people a company is looking for and you can know what kind of investment the company will increase next.

The direction that this company values is consistent with the direction that I am good at.

For example, Zhihu hired teacher Li Dahai, who had a background in search technology, to be the person in charge of the community. What you can speculate is that Zhihu will focus on improving its user experience in search technology, AI, and so on.

-Communicate with peers to understand the culture and background of the target company.

Suppose you through the pull hook network information search, initially clear target company, then you can meet with the target company and about the same level of people through the “line” or some other paid tools to understand the company environment, corporate culture, business development, etc. Circumstances, to judge the possible compatibility between you and this new company, and prepare for entering this company.

summary:

Job-hopping should be a tool to help us develop our career path, not a way to avoid problems.

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