Newcomers in the workplace: the heart is higher than the sky, life is thinner than paper

Newcomers in the workplace: the heart is higher than the sky, life is thinner than paper

At that time, the company recruited a large number of new and new humans who graduated from undergraduate and postgraduate studies. The average age is 25 years old. The new assistant was a girl I personally recruited after many interviews. Graduated from a prestigious university with a bachelor's degree, is smart and lively. In private, I have to admit that I have recruited her a very important reason, in addition to her excellent performance in college, but also because she wrote a beautiful word. There are not many girls who can write good words, especially like her. It looks like a long hair fluttering, how feminine a girl, the one-handed word is written, so that I can't help but feel a lot of good feelings for her.

Hands-on teaching. From the workflow to the person to take care of. She also learns fast. A lot of work begins with a single teaching. Skilled when you get started. I am very friendly with my colleagues. I began to give her some coordinated work, and the business contacts and communication between departments and branches made her try to deal with it.

It often starts to go wrong. She is very nervous, come and talk to me. I told her: It doesn't matter if you are wrong, you can rest assured to follow your ideas. If you have a problem, come ask me, I will tell you what to do. Still wrong. Come to me again, this conversation is more in-depth, her confusion is, why always let her do these trivial things? I asked her at the time: What is not a trivial job?
She couldn't answer it. After thinking for a long time, she said to me: I always feel that my ability can not only do this, but I can also do something more important. That conversation was carried out for 1 hour. I know, what I said, she didn't listen much. Later, I said, first do a good job at hand, first avoid common sense mistakes. Then step by step.

After half a year, she came to me and offered to resign for the first time. I pushed off the date and talked to her about the resignation. Asked about the reason for resignation, she bluntly told me: Undergraduate four years, excellent homework, did not expect to find a job after graduation, but every day is dealing with trivial things. No sense of accomplishment. I asked her again: What do you think is the most meaningless work that wastes your time and energy in all your current work? She immediately answered me: I will post the invoice for you, then reimburse it, then go to the finances to go through the process and then bring the cash back to you.
I smiled and asked her: You have been reimbursing my invoice for half a year, right? Through this, what information did you summarize?

She stayed for a long time, answered me: the invoice is to post the invoice, as long as the financial is not wrong, it will not be awkward, what information can there be?

I said, I will tell you about my practice in the past: In 1998, I was transferred from finance to the general manager's office and worked as assistant to the general manager. One of the jobs is to help the general manager reimburse all his notes as you do now. Originally this work is like what you just said, sticking the bills, and then completing the financial process, you can.

In fact, a bill is a data record that records the costs associated with the general manager and the entire company's operations. A bunch of data that doesn't seem to make sense. In fact, they involve all aspects of the company's operations and operations. So I set up a form to record the data that all the general managers reimbursed for me according to time, amount, place of consumption, contact person, phone number, etc.

The purpose of setting up this form at first was very simple. I wanted to be financially sound, and I would have accurate data to tell him if my boss had a situation to ask me. Through such a statistical data, I gradually discovered the rules of some superiors in business activities, such as which type of business activities, what kind of occasions, the cost budget is probably; the general public's public relations routine and Unconventional processing. Etc., etc.

When my superiors found out that he had assigned me a job, I would handle it very well. There is some information that he did not tell me at all, and I can handle it promptly and accurately. He asked me why, I told him about my work methods and sources of information.
Gradually, based on this benign accumulation, he is increasingly voicing more important work. Gradually, a kind of trust and tacit understanding came into being. When I was promoted, he said that I was the best assistant he had ever used.

After talking about these long stories, I looked at the girl and she looked at me with awkwardness. I told her bluntly: I think your biggest problem is that you have no intentions. In a job that seems to be simple and unpredictable, you have not put your heart down, so, for half a year, you feel that you have not made progress. She does not say anything. However, the resignation report was withdrawn.

She persisted for 3 months and she resigned. I didn't leave her this time. Let her go.
Later she often chats with me on MSN. Tell me about her new job. Within a year, she changed three jobs. Every time I can't hold on. Every time she said that the new job was not the job she wanted. In 2005, she resigned again. Very distressed, came running to me, want to eat with me. I asked her to go to the mall behind the office building to eat Japanese food. Halfway through, I suddenly said to me: I have some understanding what you mean by what you said before.
The so-called career, in fact, it is difficult to predict what you really want to do in the future, whether the work to be done in the future is related to the major you are studying at university. Most people, it is very likely that the work done in the future will have nothing to do with the majors he had studied. From the age of 22 to the age of 26, the important thing is not what you did. What matters is how good work habits you develop at work. This good work habit refers to: serious, practical work style, and whether you have learned how to accept new things in the fastest time, discover the inner laws of new things, master these rules and handle them in a shorter time than others. Good for them. With all of the above elements, you grow into a person who is trusted to work.

People are inert, and they are willing to use those who use it. When you have the foundation to be trusted, and gradually show your practicality, intelligence, and meticulousness in your daily work, more and more job opportunities will be available to you. The reason is very simple. You can explain in a sentence clearly and can be successfully completed by you. Who wants to say three sentences or even half an hour to a person who doesn't understand? Communication is also a cost. The less time for communication and the less internal consumption, this is the clearest thing as a manager.

When you have more job opportunities than others to get in touch with jobs that you have not touched, you have more learning opportunities than others. Everyone likes smart and hardworking students. As a manager, it is probably even more so. .

A newbie, most newcomers, in the past four years, can not see too much difference. But the experience of these four years, laid the foundation for the future development of the career, is crucial. Many people don't care about detours when they are young. Many people think that everyone can do a good job in daily work. However, these simple tasks, step by step, and looming, have become the watershed for future development.

The biggest loss of carelessness in grassroots work is to divide the seemingly simple way of dealing with things into a problem of long-term development.

Smart people don't always think that their abilities are problematic. After a long time, he will complain that he is not lucky, complaining that those who seem to be qualified are always better able to walk than you. Complaining that her appearance is better than herself, or that he will be more willing to lead the leadership. Etc., etc. Slowly, affecting the mindset. The so-called unrecognized, sometimes this is the case.

Work requires a smart person, and work requires a more practical person. I am more willing to choose the latter between cleverness and practicality.

And practical, everyone can do it. Not much related to innate conditions.