Career planning for technicians

Direction one? Become a project manager

For many people working on the technical side of things, developing into a project manager is a pretty good gig. Project management requires a solid technical background, but also involves a variety of management work, the most suitable for those who come from a technical background but are not willing to do only technical work. Become a project manager, on the one hand, you can give full play to the professional advantages of technical personnel, but also in team management, coordination of resources, internal and external communication and other work to experience and play the role as a manager's role and function, so that their own value is more fully realized and recognized. This is a great way to get the most out of your career, and it's a great way to get the most out of your career.

Direction 2: Become a senior expert in the industry

If you really love technical work and are not good at communicating with people, you can focus on your own field to develop into a senior expert in the industry as the direction and goal, but of course, this development process may be longer, and the top technical talents in any field need a long period of time. Top technical talent in any field requires long-term accumulation of industry experience and personal tireless dedication. However, one of the advantages of this type of talent is that the older they are, the more popular they are, and when others start worrying about their jobs as they get older, you'll be in a better position to start entering the golden age of professional development.

Direction 3: Become an R&D manager or technical director

In fact, in some industries and companies, the status of technical R&D staff is very high. For example, in IT industries such as Microsoft, Nokia, Huawei, etc., the support of technology and the speed of R&D become the most important source of profit growth for enterprises, and in these industries, the technology R&D department is the main battlefield of enterprises. In many state-owned enterprises and government departments, they also attach great importance to science and technology and technical work. For example, the Guangzhou Municipal Landscape Architecture Bureau, which I know, has technical positions such as Chief Engineer and Deputy Chief Engineer, where the Chief Engineer's job level is equivalent to that of a Deputy Directorate, and under the influence of such an atmosphere, the talents in technical positions are equally respected as the administrative leaders. Therefore, in an industry and enterprise that respects and values technical work, developing into a R&D manager, technical director or chief engineer is a good choice.

Direction 4: Technical sales and service

The field of technical work is in fact very broad, and if you feel that purely technical work has little potential for development, you can consider turning to sales or technical support. The sales staff at Huawei, ZTE, and other communications technology companies are rarely without a professional technical background; the marketing of software giants such as Oracle, the first step is often from the sales engineers to visit the customer to start. This kind of high-value, high-tech product sales promotion, very much in need of sales staff with rich technical experience.

Technicians turning to after-sales service is also very promising. I know a friend, the university is a construction machinery, after graduation has been in the municipal engineering industry to do non-excavation pipe jacking construction, in a few years of work has accumulated a wealth of underground jacking equipment application and maintenance experience, a suitable opportunity to jump to the famous pipe jacking equipment manufacturers - Germany Herrenknecht company, to become its after-sales service engineers, the work of the handy, income The company has also increased its income several times.

Direction 5: Turning to management

There are always some people, although they are from science and engineering, working in technical positions, but they seem to be born with the talent of management. These people will gradually show management potential and excellent leadership skills in their work, and they often prefer to deal with people and communicate with the outside world. Under these conditions, with technical experience as the basis and support, appropriate supplementary learning some management knowledge, such as on-the-job study MBA, in time, can grow into an outstanding professional manager.

Direction six senior technical operators

Just talked about the direction of career development, the applicable groups are mostly for the university of science and technology professionals, but for the number of secondary colleges, technical schools graduated from the front line of the technical workers, the opportunity to become a technical expert in the industry or R & D director of the obviously very small. The best opportunities for this group of professionals to become industry technologists or R&D directors are very slim. This group of professionals, the best technical development route is based on the job, become a senior operating technicians.

Guangzhou City, in 2006, the introduction of various types of jobs in the wage guide price, senior technician employment than the doctor's salary is 500 yuan higher. The reason for this phenomenon is very simple, from the national level, the number of industrial workers, although huge, but the proportion of senior technicians is very small, ? Senior technicians? The lack of senior skilled workers has become a constraint on the development of many enterprises? bottleneck? However, with the continuous improvement of the policy environment, enterprise awareness angle and cultivation mechanism, this phenomenon will be gradually changed, so becoming a senior technician will be a very promising career development direction.

Finally, this article will take the IT industry as an example to talk specifically about the career trajectory of technicians.

IT (Information Technology) industry classification is quite complex, here only analyze the most typical three parts:

The first part of the software development, commonly known as programming. In fact, I think the real software developers and workers in the shoe factory in a position, is the final producer of enterprise products (of course, there is no pejorative here).

The second part is MIS: Management Information Service/System (Management Information System), which is mainly responsible for the basic IT construction, network, communication, hardware and software support, simple development and other functions, to provide IT basic services for other departments of the company.

The third part is ERP: Enterprise Resource Planning (Enterprise Resource Planning system), mainly involved in enterprise management software implementation, maintenance, management. Through is the introduction of information technology means in the enterprise reality of the realization of enterprise resource management, coordination of all aspects of enterprise . Production operation, it is the standardization of business and enterprise management mechanism has a great deal of dependence.

These three parts of the personnel career development space:

1.? Developers

Doing pure software development in SMEs is likely to lead to a path of no return, and those who have been engaged in development for a long time are generally not good enough to get along in the world, and there is little chance of being promoted to management. And there is a more important problem is that China's current development industry environment is very bad, as I talked about before is basically in the eating youth meal, 30 after it is very difficult to do down. In the U.S., developers in their 40's are in their prime. While the business may be getting more sophisticated, it may be moving further away from IT and towards pure blue collar workers.

If you really want to be a developer, you should find a better platform, preferably into a multinational or leading domestic company. If you have strong skills in data, you can consider moving to the direction of Internet search; if you have strengths in electronics and communications equipment, you can move from simple program development to communications product development.

2. MIS personnel

MIS content is extensive, can be engaged in a lot of careers: network management, technical support, and so on, and through the efforts of can be promoted to become a small supervisor (of course, to have their own qualities), and then to become a MIS Manager, but to do MIS Manager, the basic is also the end. As far as I know, Avon (China), the company's IT department has more than 100 people, in the company's headquarters in the various functional departments of the status is quite high; and China Southern Airlines IT department reached more than 800 people, the size of this has been far more than the average IT company, the president of the IT department is also an important member of the company's decision-making level. Therefore, in these companies to do IT technical support work, both to avoid the pure programming software developers encountered ? The old and the yellow?

These are the first time I've ever seen a software developer work in a computerized environment, and I've never seen a software developer work in a computerized environment before.