Recently, a student who has worked for five years was promoted to the company's design director. During the conversation, he modestly emphasized that he was lucky, but luck is also part of his strength. Looking back on his five-year work experience, his success is certainly not accidental, but the inevitable result of his efforts.
If you are given five years, which step can you take in the workplace? Today, I will talk about this topic briefly with you, hoping to bring you some workplace reflection.
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1、 How many works can be deposited in five years
2、 How many books can you read in five years
3、 Professional level attainable in five years
4、 How many resources can be accumulated in five years
5、 How much salary do you want in five years
6、 Scale of the enterprise after five years
7、 Changes in concept after five years
1、 How many works can be deposited in five years
When we encounter passive situations, we always find various reasons to excuse our laziness. When unemployed, I found that it was difficult to find a job, questioned the poor professional prospects, industry saturation, etc; When sorting out the collection of works, I found that I didn't have a good project, and blamed the company for not paying attention to design and not giving full play to good projects. We always have endless reasons, but we haven't questioned ourselves again, leading to ourselves becoming more and more passive.
If you are allowed to work for five years, have you calculated how many works you can deposit in five years? It is estimated that not many designers will quantify it. When I first entered the industry, I felt that five years was still early, and it was too late to find it. Black horse will roughly calculate for you that if an interface is launched in two days and a set of works (main pages and main business processes, etc.) is completed in two months, we can deposit about 30 sets of works in five years. If we follow the attitude of "fishing for three days and drying the net for two days", we can complete about three fifths of the quantity and deposit 18 sets of works. Students who have worked for five years should check and accept it by themselves to see how much the difference is.
Some students will also question the use of doing these exercises? I believe you will understand that the improvement of professional ability is inseparable from repeated training. No one can succeed casually, which is achieved through step-by-step efforts.
2、 How many books can you read in five years
It is very important to improve our cognition through reading. With the rapid pace of information, many students have difficulty reading quietly. We still need to constantly make deliberate changes. It is very necessary to make a reading plan for ourselves. Whether it's professional or professional, we can read intermittently. Reading is the key to cultivate learning habits.
You don't need to invest too much time every day, even if you fix reading for half an hour to an hour, you can gain a lot as long as you stick to it for a long time. Even if one and a half hours a day, we can invest 912 hours in five years. I believe these hours can let us learn a lot of knowledge. If we can read several books a year, the habit cultivation brought by self-discipline can definitely change a lot. What we lack is goal and self-discipline. As long as we change these two points, success is just a passing thing.
3、 Professional level attainable in five years
As the saying goes, "three years into the industry, five years of expertise, ten years to be the king". Through five years of experience precipitation and self-learning and strengthening, it is no problem for professional ability to reach the advanced / senior stage. Of course, this time is not formed by natural loss. If you don't take action, this time is just an increase in quantity.
Five years of precipitation is inseparable from the practical experience of the project, daily professional training, constantly updated knowledge cognition, long-term adherence to goals and self-discipline, and so on. Among them, the output of works and the summarizing ability of methodology are more important. Without hard training, it is certainly impossible to explore professional depth. Without summarizing methodology, the knowledge framework is fragmented.
Some time ago, a student talked about his immediate promotion to design director, and his working time was only five years. Although each company has different requirements for the level of the post, the recognition is still worthy of affirmation. Plan your first five years in the workplace and meet the average requirements of the industry at the professional level.
4、 How many resources can be accumulated in five years
In addition to accumulating experience and improving professional ability through projects, we also accumulate resources in the workplace, just as increasing industry endorsement is also a kind of resource accumulation.
If every team is just a passer-by, only the growth of time will accumulate. Maybe the colleagues who work together now will be partners who start a business together in the future, and may also be the source of ways to solve problems. In addition to forming resources in the workplace, we should also explore more resource channels, such as learning organizations, communication communities, knowledge communities and other industry channels. The future bloom needs to be continuously laid the foundation now.
5、 How much salary do you want in five years
Salary is the most practical guarantee, not even this bottom demand is not guaranteed. Have you thought about how much salary you can get in five years? What kind of professional ability and experience should be used to achieve this goal.
Some people have worked for five years, and their salary has not reached the average value, while others have received much higher income than expected in two to three years. There is no fixed value for their salary, which is inseparable from the value you provide to the company. On the recruitment platform, it is easy to calculate the treatment range of the city, and you can also check whether it deviates too far.
For example, our students are basically experienced designers. The average value of working experience in 1-2 years is about 12K. It is common to reach 15K for more than 3 years. If you have five years of experience, you can impact the range of more than 18K. Of course, it will also be affected by the city of work. Other influencing factors include professional ability, industry endorsement, project experience and education background, but sometimes opportunity is also an influencing factor.
6、 Scale of the enterprise after five years
If the school is good, it is also a very good choice for fresh students to enter the front-line enterprises, and they have accumulated good industry endorsements at the beginning. If you start from a small enterprise, you should make your own job hopping plan and not be too complacent about the status quo.
It doesn't matter to join a small company at the beginning, but you should accumulate experience and works and plan a job hopping plan. From small enterprises to medium-sized enterprises, then to listed enterprises, and finally to front-line enterprises. To accumulate mature project experience, from small products to large products, and then to well-known products, rely on the volume of products to knock on the door of large factories.
There are also some designers who rely on industry popularity to obtain opportunities. As long as they have strong professional ability, they can counter attack and succeed by obtaining opportunities through exposure. It's unrealistic to insert willows unintentionally. Only by inserting willows intentionally can you change your career path.
7、 Changes in concept after five years
Five years of workplace training can change our mentality and make us more mature and rational, which is equivalent to that we can laugh it off in the face of repeated revision ~ ~ haha ~. In our work, we are constantly refreshing our cognition, changing our perspective on problems, as well as our ability and ideas to solve problems.
The reason why enterprises want to recruit experienced designers is that the training cost is the lowest and the stability can be guaranteed. Five years of experience can make us have the ability to complete the project independently and control the overall project. When encountering problems, we can show our comprehensive ability to solve problems. In the workplace, we should have a correct concept. In the face of non professional work, we should also measure it from the perspective of accumulating comprehensive ability. Sometimes the factors that change the trajectory of our workplace may come from abilities outside our majors.
It's not just professional experience that changes us in five years. With a good team and leadership, we can change many of our ideas. Sometimes the perspective of thinking is very important, the lack of ability can be improved, the conceptual deviation is the easiest to go its own way, and the suggestions of bystanders are also difficult to be adopted. Only after hitting the wall can we wake up.
I hope everyone can meet the right team and leaders, change their perspective on their profession, workplace and life, and promote their career path with a correct concept.
Summary
This article is to reflect with you in the form of deduction. If you are given five years, what step can you take? For new students, they can better plan their first five years in the workplace; For students who have been in the industry for less than five years, they can take this opportunity to adjust and change their direction in time; For students with more than five years, the past tense cannot be changed. They can only sum up experiences and lessons and plan for the next five years in the workplace.
The point of this article belongs to personal experience reflection and summary. You can selectively absorb it in combination with your actual situation, hoping to bring you some workplace reflection.
Author: dark horse Youth (vx: heimaux)
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