Hello everyone, the annual golden Three silver four job-hopping season is here again, and let’s talk about related topics.
First of all, why are March and April a good time to jump ship? The simple answer is that it’s the end of the year bonus season and a lot of people who want to leave have an opportunity. You may wonder why you get your annual bonus in March or April instead of before Chinese New Year. That’s because many U.S.-listed companies give year-end bonuses at the end of their fiscal year, which falls around March or April. So employees in companies like Alibaba don’t get their year-end bonus until March or April.
So by March and April, in addition to programmers looking to jump ship, HR recruiters and headhunters are busy. Today’s article is a piece of advice for people to stay away from headhunters.
First of all, I don’t have much opinion about headhunting or headhunters. I’m just dissatisfied with the current state of the industry.
Industry irregularities
You may have heard that successful internal promotion of a company usually has internal promotion fund, such as BAT enterprises generally have thousands of, or even tens of thousands of higher level. Foreign companies, for example, are said to charge more, but do you know how much headhunters can get for a successful referral? From what I understand it should be 30% of this person’s annual salary, which is about three months ‘salary. With the current market average annual salary of 50W to calculate, almost recommend a successful person at least 10W, how, is not overturned everyone’s cognition.
It is precisely because of the recommendation success of the reward fee is really too big, so the headhunting industry is really rolling fierce. But the public opinion of the general public are staring at the Internet, to understand the information of the Internet industry is very volume. If you get to know more people who are in sales or sales, you will find that many of these sales and sales agents have turned to headhunting in recent years, and the growth trend of headhunters is almost the same as that of programmers.
Headhunting was originally a niche industry in China, but with the spring breeze of the Internet industry, rapid development. Periods of rapid growth in an industry often mean extreme irregularities. For example, I put my resume on an LJ recruitment website when I graduated and haven’t updated it since then. But to this day, I still get calls from headhunters asking if I still work there. What does that tell us? Not only do recruitment websites share users’ resumes with headhunters, but information between headhunters is often shared as well. As a result of sharing, I get a lot of crank calls.
Low levels of
Robin Li once said that Chinese people are willing to trade their privacy for traversal. So this sentence was initially sprayed with blood, but if you think about the current situation of the Domestic Internet industry, you will find that this sentence has some truth. Many people don’t care about their phone numbers and contact information, or even some professional information, as long as it’s good for them, or potentially good for them.
There was a time when I thought a headhunter’s phone call might be annoying, but there might be something I’d be interested in. So when I’m in a good mood, I talk to headhunters and listen to what they have to say. But after these years, the overall feeling is very disappointed, the level of domestic headhunting is really too low.
Among all kinds of headhunting information I have received on various platforms, more than 80% of the recommended companies are only a few. You can also guess PDD, Toutiao and Kuaishou. Some see I am ali out of Tencent will push me, there is no. I was bored at first, then shocked. Do these headhunters think we don’t know these companies are hiring, or that we can’t find a way to push them? Wouldn’t I have voted if I really wanted to?
More exaggerated is in the pulse recently, a headhunter came up is a share, at the end also said a very suitable for me. I was very curious, how is it suitable for me? The question led to this jaw-dropping answer.
I never spoke to him again, and it made me realize that most of the headhunters on the Internet today are not thinking of each other. They are probably thinking about how to make a lot of money for the company with more money. As for career development, goal planning, interview coaching, none of it, the low level is a resume peddler.
Shake the target
The trend in the workplace is increasingly fickle, more and more people want to do a big job, want to find a good chance to make a fortune. It’s hard to say whether the rise of headhunting is driving or responding to this, but there’s something about it getting worse.
As a practitioner, I personally think the biggest problem with headhunting is that it will shake people’s goals. For example, if you’re just planning on staying at your company for another few years, then you get a call from the next door saying there’s a great opportunity next door that will give you a 50% raise on your current salary.
But in fact, the so-called increase is brought by previous accumulation. We have accumulated work experience in a company, and our abilities have been improved in various aspects. In addition, a job-hopping opportunity naturally corresponds to a certain range of salary increase. It’s not our extra choice to bring it, which means the money is not for nothing, there are costs. However, these costs are invisible, such as another job change, such as the potential promotion and salary increase, such as the cost of adapting to the new environment, and so on.
Especially when we have a clear plan and goal, we just do what we want to do, and most of the extra information is just distraction. It can be very difficult to resist temptation. Before you start working, you may think that if you have a good opportunity to learn something, you will be ok with less money. However, when two different offers are presented to you, you will find that it is very difficult to stay sane. There’s a meme in the industry called “Can’t refuse offers.” Companies like PDD often make offers that can’t be refused to show you the power of money. Don’t you spray PDD is sudden death factory, inhuman don’t want to go? Okay, I’ll offer you $10 a month. Are you willing to go? Open a 20 w?
Don’t be surprised, I’ve actually heard of people taking $20K a month and finally compromising. The best way to solve a dilemma is not to put yourself in a dilemma, and the best way to resist temptation is not to put yourself in front of temptation. I also can’t refuse the offer of 20W when it is put in front of me. Although it can’t be so high now, I can still stay away from it and not face such a situation.
The end of the
Last but not least, in the current era, especially in the Internet industry, job-hopping is a high frequency word. It is very common to change a job after two or three years. Some do it for high salaries, others for career advancement, and still others simply have a grievance against their former company. But rather than these external reasons, I think we need to look inward and ask ourselves what stage we are at and what we need most at the moment, a new opportunity or the accumulation of abilities and skills.
I don’t want to tell you about headhunters, but I want to tell you about your career. Once you’ve laid out your plans and goals and know what you want, it doesn’t matter if you don’t work with a headhunter. On the other hand, if you’re confused and haven’t figured out how the workplace works, it’s a good time to be cautious and not let the headhunter lead you on.
Today’s article is here, thank you for reading, wish everyone can find contentment of work, if you like, don’t forget the three.
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