Administrative Clerk: How To Get Rid Of The "Chicken Ribs" Status

Two years ago, Xiao Ye graduated from the English Department of a university in Shanghai.

English is a golden oil specialty. When graduating, some students became middle school English teachers, some went to foreign trade companies, and others became full-time interpreter.

Just as the leaflet is lost in the future, the notice of a famous German company's recruitment office clerk attracted her.

The company is very satisfied with the English level of the leaflet, and the salary is higher than the psychological price of the leaflet.

The dazzling foreign enterprise aura plus the enviable high salary has made this logical step into the German company and take the post of a clerk.

The work of the clerks is very trivial, but with fast fluency in foreign languages and meticulous personality, Xiao Ye quickly works well.

Gradually, she was no longer satisfied with typing and sorting out documents every day. She longed for challenging work to prove herself.

The company is mainly engaged in technology development. The core departments are all related to technology. The administrative departments are only attached to the attributes and services, and can not participate in the strategic decisions of the company.

However, the technical barriers of these departments are very high, and the requirements for their professionalism are very strong.

In addition to English, leaflets are almost useless, and English skills are not at all very important in this famous foreign company.

As a result, the leaflet is in confusion: in the short term, the technology to master the company's needs is basically "mission impossible (impossible task)"; there is hardly any room for improvement in the position of clerks; job hopping is almost the same as changing places, typing, sending E-mail and copying materials, and what is the difference now?

I can only think about pformation, but where do I go?

Expert analysis: the technical content is low, and the clerks' posts are almost "chicken ribs". According to the first half statistics released by Shanghai labor and Social Security Bureau, the supply and demand ratio of secretarial posts has reached 1:4, that is, 4 jobs in one job.

The posts offered by employers are mainly secretaries, administrative staff, assistants and so on. The overall situation is not optimistic.

Receptionists, general clerks and other posts have become saturated, and it is difficult for relevant job seekers to find jobs.

Due to the low technical content of such posts, the threshold of entry is not high.

Miss Zeng Li, a career consultant of Shanghai consulting company, told reporters that there are often job people who work in administrative clerks.

The common characteristics of these people are: the majority of women are college students, and their majors are mainly foreign languages, administration, and Chinese.

Zeng Li believes that the positions of administrative clerks are indeed saturated, and that the job can be replaced by too strong a job.

Zeng Li analyzed the situation of the leaflet. She thought that a foreign clerk like a leaflet represented a huge crowd.

They enter the deluxe business building, speak fluent English, dress very well, take a high salary, seemingly infinite scenery, actually every day is engaged in simple duplication of labor, to improve the competitiveness of the occupation has no help, promotion space is very narrow.

The goal of promotion can only be confined to such positions as office directors and administrative officers. The number of such posts is small, but the requirements for talents' management and communication skills are quite high. Most administrative clerks are unable to take this step.

Once the age is too large or the company is in poor condition, it is likely to be unemployed.

This kind of work is a typical "chicken ribs" position. It will not be reconciled to do it all the time, but high salaries and company reputation are hard to give up.

Zeng Li believes that lobular foreign language is good, which is a prominent advantage and can not be abandoned. We should still seek opportunities for pformation in foreign enterprises.

Experts recommend: to play the role of English specialty and develop the direction of professional development in the professional field, Zeng Li gives 3 suggestions: one is the way out: one is the pformation of human resources, the other is the most common direction.

There are similarities between human resources and administrative work, mainly based on office work, emphasizing communication skills and meticulous personality, demanding attention to detail and doing things rationally.

The difference is that the work of human resources is more professional than the general administrative work, and the room for growth is greater. Managers of human resources departments often participate in the company's decision-making.

Advantages: the leaflet turning to HR management has its unique advantage -- foreign language proficiency.

The modern HR theory originated from abroad. Leaflets can learn the original textbooks and other materials in the field and absorb the most advanced management ideas.

Such a pformation will be faster and better than the average person.

In addition, the leaflet has two years of administrative work experience, is very familiar with office work, and is modest, friendly, careful and responsible. It is very suitable for human resources work.

Disadvantages: lobules do not have any theoretical knowledge or work experience in human resource management or finance.

It is suggested that leaflets can continue to work in their current positions, take part-time courses in human resource management, and take out relevant certificates, such as the certificate of human resource management issued by the Ministry of labor and social security.

And then strive to enter the company's human resources department, from the personnel assistant to start.

If there is difficulty in converting within the company, it may be possible to change to a foreign company.

It should be reminded that pformation often means starting from scratch, so don't worry too much about salary and position at the beginning.

The way out: Two: turning to marketing, marketing posts, job placement threshold is often not very high, less emphasis on work experience, easier to enter.

If the performance is excellent, it is likely to become the backbone of the company.

With good image quality, cheerful personality, strong pressure resistance, and able to face challenges, administrative clerks may switch to marketing direction.

The advantages are: the external appearance of the lobule is good, and after the personality test, she is found to be cheerful, lively, communicative and enterprising, and has the basic character of engaging in marketing.

Disadvantages: small leaves have no relevant experience, nor have marketing resources. When they just go to work, they need to fight hard and have a difficult process.

In the light of professional background, Xiao Ye can try to find more industries that are more likely to use English, such as foreign trade and international logistics.

In addition, marketing work is based on performance and risk, and it is totally different from the high salary job in office.

If there is intention to pform the leaflet, we should make psychological preparations so as not to get too big psychological drop and give up halfway.

The way out: Three: turn to be a secretary or assistant manager of the company manager. There is a way to compare the "golden mean" to serve as the secretary or assistant of the core department manager or the director of the company.

In terms of the nature of work, responsibilities have not changed much in the past, but they are quite different from those of the executive branch.

In the core departments and core figures, people and events are closely related to the development of the company.

Over time, the knowledge is broadened, and we can learn more about human behavior.

Moreover, according to common sense, secretaries or assistants at the top of the company usually do not hold this job for a long time. They will start to serve as the heads of departments for a certain period of time.

Advantage: with the qualifications and abilities of leaflets, it is entirely competent for the general affairs of management secretaries.

Inferior position: as secretary of management, not only to act as an assistant, but also to act as a "think-tank".

In addition, leaflets lack experience in direct service to managers.

Secretaries should have a good understanding of managers' personal preferences and work habits, and be careful in their work.

It is suggested that Xiao Ye can learn the working skills and methods of private secretary from now on, pay more attention to the trend of the company and industry, and think more about the future development of the company.

Before the press release, Zeng Li called to tell reporters that after listening to the advice of career counselors, Xiao Ye has successfully applied to a foreign company as assistant to marketing director after careful consideration.

She said that in this position, we can continue to accumulate knowledge and experience in marketing, and hope that one day we can formally pform into marketing and become the marketing backbone of our company.

If you have the same experience as "leaflet", you might as well try to enter your future career bravely.