How To Break The Occupational Crisis Coming From Middle-Aged White Collar Workers?

A Western survey shows that over 60% of middle-aged white collar workers feel a career crisis, and people with higher jobs are more likely to feel the crisis. In the fierce competition in the labor market, the occupational crisis of middle-aged white-collar workers has been advancing more and more ahead of schedule. Some have moved from 45 to 35, 10 years earlier than the West.

Quite a few middle-aged white-collar workers are being attacked by the tide of unemployment. "40, 50 laid-off tide" in the last century, relentless impact on single skilled manual workers, and now strong impact on university graduates, once the scenery of the middle-aged white-collar. Looking around, many white-collar workers around the age of 40 and who have experienced brilliant periods of foreign enterprises and private enterprises are counting the future in fear and anxiety. A small number of middle-aged white-collar workers have already experienced the loss and pain of unemployment.

Zhang Wei, 42, was at home. After graduating from college, Zhang Wei joined the fixed telephone technology company. His position is constantly changing according to the needs of the company. From engineer to sales to human resources, Zhang Wei is a tough screw. Zhang Wei is content. He feels that he can use his hardworking and hard work to get a stable middle class life. However, 5 years ago, Zhang Wei's quiet life began to be messy, and the volume of business of the company became less and less. Many young colleagues have switched to other companies to make mobile communications business.

Zhang Wei also wants to change jobs, but he is not young and he has never found the right opportunity. By the time he was 41 years old, the company that Zhang Wei served nearly 20 years went bankrupt and he lost his job. Now, job search is a confusing and difficult task for him, because he has heard that the world mobile giants such as NOKIA and Motorola have gone down, and he is not familiar with the technology of mobile communication. market demand Minimal fixed telephone communication technology.

Yes, those middle-aged white-collar workers who have worked in the declining industry have suffered heavy losses in their careers. They may have been down-to-earth in their own fields, but when they look up, they discover that their territory has been eaten up by others, and the technology that they have accumulated over the years to manage the three acres of land is too old to be used in the new fields.

We have to admit that this is an era of rapid development. Sometimes it is almost cruel. If we do not run all the way to catch up with the trend, we will be left behind. If we continue to live with the concept of "parents can always have enough to eat," we will find that life is looking at us in a most hideous way.

Chen Yi, a 38 year old sales manager, was dissatisfied with the company's failure to give him. chance of promotion Resigned. At the beginning of his resignation, he started his own business, but the company went bankrupt in only half a year. He wanted to be a principal of the agent brand in Shanghai, but failed, because the similar duties were not directly sent by the foreign party, but the superior side appointed by the joint venture party. No way, he can only continue to apply for jobs, reduce job hunting positions, or be a sales manager. As a result, an American company hired him and sent him to study abroad for two years, then sent him back to China as a sales manager in charge of the southern region. After doing so for over a year, he became bored, because his work was not much different from the original one.

Many people find their career development stagnated after the age of 35, which makes them feel anxious. According to a domestic statistics, only about 30% of them can be promoted to middle level jobs on the career path, but this is also the limit of development. Finally, you can sit above the vice president. position Only 7%.

1. in this era, it is more important to interpret social and industry trends than to walk in deep directions. Even in the declining industry, many middle-aged white-collar workers can be successfully spanformed without being dragged down by the decline of the industry. For example, Chen Fang, a former fashion magazine executive, saw the declining trend of magazine industry 5 years ago. She felt the urgency of changing her career. At that time, she wanted to switch to the Internet industry, but she found that the Internet industry only absorbed 85 of the status quo. So Chen Fang, 33, began to study English hard, discarded the title of a fashion magazine executive, and went to the Ivy League school in the United States to study MBA. Although this education didn't help Chen Fang get into Wall Street, she gave her the chance to enter the consulting company after returning home.

At the age of 38, Chen Fang found himself a senior in the consulting firm, so he resigned as an independent consultant and a management trainer, and lived free and rich. Many of Chen Fang's colleagues in the magazine industry were laid off before the age of 40, and because of their single skills and low industry, they could not find jobs at all. They could only do some scattered copywriting work, and their income and social status were significantly reduced. Speaking of his own spanformation, Chen Fang admitted that for the general staff in the fashion industry, the declining acceptance of new things made the old and the more worthless. When he turned away, Chen Fang locked his eyes on the older and more valuable consulting training industry.

2. get out of the comfort zone and learn new skills. Sticking to the past and rigid thinking become the main culprit of many middle-aged white collar job crisis. They may not be lazy in physical strength or even very diligent in their work, but they neglect thinking about the future and learn new skills, like to stay in their "comfort zone" and enjoy the comfortable life brought by the accumulated experience and skills in the past.

Presumably you have heard the story of "Eagle getting new life". The dying Eagle must make a difficult but life related choice: either to die quietly or to undergo a painful evolutionary process. The middle-aged white collar around 40 years old should also learn from eagles, but it is important to note that when learning new skills, we must consider improving occupational compatibility, that is, developing new skills in the original skills. After years of infiltration, we may be a little tired of our old skills, but this is the ultimate goal of self-defense. On this basis, try to cultivate their own interests and qualities, laying the foundation for new functions or new jobs.

3. adjust your mindset and accept your downhill path. Most people do not have a career in the same direction. After the age of 40, most people turn around. At this time, we must adjust our mindset and accept the ups and downs of life. For example, unemployed middle-aged white-collar workers in the declining industry have to adjust their expectations of their identity and income, instead of living on white-collar workers who used to be "big and tall". Instead, they try to find their place in the society, even if they are not well-known private enterprises, and their income is not very rich.

However, accepting the downhill situation does not mean giving up. At this time, we need to "slow down our hearts and speed up our pace". We should redo our career planning, replenish new knowledge and skills, and recharge and work hard for the next time.