Finding a job is similar to finding a partner. You need to know more about each other before you can establish a relationship and get a certificate. On the basis of this understanding, you can confirm whether you really like the other person, whether there are traits that attract each other, whether their personalities complement each other and whether their values match. The higher the fit, the more supportive and successful the marriage will be. What does 2C or 2B have to do with finding a job? The former is a blue-chip stock with little risk but stable return, while the latter is a potential stock with high risk but huge return.
- What’s the difference between big and small companies?
Before you choose, you must know the difference between the two. In what ways? Next, veteran brother, I will combine my own personal experience to give you some reference, hoping to help you in your career less detours, less trips to the pit.
- Big companies learn how to behave, small companies learn how to do things
You’ve heard this before. Why is there such a difference? What are the differences between being a person and doing things? The “big” of the company is reflected in: the business types are rich, covering various scenes in the industry; With a large number of employees and a clear division of labor, each of them performs its own duties. Individuals are like screws on the assembly line. The process is more important than individuals, and each individual can be replaced. The organization structure is complex, the descendants of countless companies, at least ten levels of above, in the company several years do not always see the big boss. In a large group, you naturally appear small. As a junior or mid-level employee, you don’t have the authority to determine the direction of the company. Small businesses are not in the company’s eye, veteran brother I once worked for a large company has a similar case: Transformation in order to provide services, the department talked about a few million level external projects, each project have the custom, for the department to make money and enlargement, but the company does, feel that this project is the manpower outsourcing, inconsistent with the company strategy, hatch cover the industry of general solution.
As an employee of a large company, if you have an idea to do something, you have to go through layers of reporting, otherwise you don’t get the resources. If you have the opportunity to incubate a new business, you need to be prepared to play it off. Big companies have experienced long-term development, internal interests are complex, a turnip a pit, mutual restraint to maintain balance. It’s hard to innovate in big companies. Innovation means pushing the boundaries of established rules, breaking the current fragile balance, and you’re bound to be resisted or attacked by vested interests. Especially in the transition period, the business direction of large companies will often be adjusted, and the project invested for a long time may be cancelled at any time. The organizational structure also changes frequently. Sometimes the leader is transferred, sometimes the leader leaves, or is restructured to another team, etc. All kinds of things can happen.
In a large company where you can’t dictate the direction of the business or the organizational structure, if you try to do a certain thing, you will feel frustrated and powerless. Constant change makes you lost, the survival skills of this environment is to learn to be a man, good character, good attitude, soft figure, not easy to offend people, play office politics, always pay close attention to the strategic adjustment of the company, actively embrace changes and trends, do a bugaboo, daughter-in-law can always endure into a woman. Since you can’t focus on doing any particular thing, you can focus on developing hard and soft skills that can be used to do any type of thing, leaving hobbies to your spare time.
Small companies have relatively single business, simple interpersonal relationship, flat organizational structure, survival and development is the first priority. There’s no point in putting too much thought into cutting up the cake until it’s big. This stage is all about expansion, everyone is focused on things, and there’s plenty of opportunity to train you to be a generalist. If you are both a person with ideas and an executive, there is plenty of room for you to flex your muscles. If the company runs on the right track, or is accurately positioned in the vertical segmentation field, and the entrepreneurial team is relatively powerful, five to ten years of hard work, the chance of becoming a king is quite large. Even if you fail to start a business, your ability to do things will be fully exercised, unlike in a large company for a long time will lose the ability to survive independently, can only be a screw on the assembly line.
- A big ship is the best
In stormy times, aircraft carriers are safer than dinghies and much less affected by the external environment, especially for companies that are too big to fail. Big trees are good for nothing, and if you enjoy the security, a big company is the place for long-term growth. Unless confronted with major changes such as the financial crisis, large companies have many business lines and stronger ability to resist risks, unlike small companies that are prone to capital chain disruption. Of course, in calm or favorable conditions, the boat is difficult to turn around, so the dinghy is more agile, faster and has more room to grow. Just like the veteran brother when I graduated, most of my classmates chose large enterprises, while a few students who failed to apply for large companies chose BAT, which was weak at that time. Of course, many Internet companies at the same time as BAT have long disappeared. They have to admit that there is some element of luck in life, but more of them are their own choices. Why do you say that? I could not see the trend when I graduated, but after BAT grows up, there are still many opportunities. The key is to see whether I can afford the hardship and whether I have the ambition to change my destiny.
Startups are often founded with a passion, a mission, and a culture. Joining a startup is about believing in the vision of the founder and recognizing the corporate culture. The salary of a startup company is not high, but the incentive mechanism such as options and shares is good. It is like allocating the land to the tuhao, and the land reform is all done by the households, so that you can become the owner of the enterprise, which is like reassuring the employees. Employees feel secure and their culture is open and inclusive, so that they dare to innovate and change. As companies get bigger, professional managers have to be brought in, and corporate culture is diluted into mediocrity, which slows innovation and leaves little room for incremental growth. When the cake is the same size, everyone wants to slice more, and the stock game is brutal, the law of the jungle.
If a company has neither an inspiring mission nor a promising future for its employees, such as options and stock, but still keeps pushing them to innovate, who dare to change? To change is to break through existing boundary rules, which will inevitably harm those with vested interests and offend others. If there is no protection of values and corporate culture, those who dare to change will be unspoken rules. Life is two, two born three, three born all things, all changes are inseparable from its ancestor, change is all things, the constant “one, two, three” is to let employees have a stable heart, so that we dare to innovate and change. Without that unchanging “dzong”, the last remaining are those who excel at the law of the jungle, and the law of the jungle applies best in the virgin forests where our ancestors, the apes, live.
Good enterprises have the ability to identify those employees whose values and abilities are consistent with the company’s development goals, and dare to trust employees and make promises to employees. Any great cooperation is based on trust. Without mutual trust, employees will have no stable heart, and great innovation cannot be nurtured under mutual caution. Rely on some similar long-acting mechanism to tie up the staff, put it bluntly is the ancient strong country let the weak country send prince to do hostage, this kind of mechanism bred king Goujian’s bed on brushwood and tasted gall, used the weakness of human nature, can only harvest the dark of human nature. In addition to material drive, there should also be a sense of mission and belief. Great innovation cannot be achieved without universal love. Only by feeling the sufferings of all living beings like The Buddha can we inspire our will to change the world, pursue innovation and change with perseverance, and finally explore the right path to make the world a better place. Human beings, different from animals is the heart of universal love, human civilization is all derived from love, objectively life is meaningless, all dreams, poems and distance are our subjective fiction.
- Many people walk far, alone, fast
It’s just like when you drive a car or take a bus to and from work. Although you can travel far with less effort, you are likely to run into traffic jams or be unable to get on the bus. The way up is not crowded; Crowded because most people choose comfort.
- What criteria should you use to choose?
For just graduated from school, if you don’t have much experience to fit into society, according to the first person to do things after the order, first to the big company competition is necessary, learning process and criterion of the big companies to do things and temper of mind, let oneself become more mature, more accurate cognition to the society. If you don’t have too many ambitions and prefer a stable life, then it is good to stay in a big company to develop. If you master the survival skills of a big company, you can also have a big development. If you want to have a richer life and want to challenge your limits, then a startup is the best choice for you!
Big companies, small companies, there is no absolute good or bad, green vegetables turnip each love, the key is not suitable for your own. Understanding the difference between large and small companies is to help you make a better decision when choosing a career.
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