Recently, I saw many iOS developers need to reapply for jobs because of company layoffs. They usually have 4 years or more work experience. But the results of job hunting are often not ideal.

In the process of communicating with some iOS developers, I found that many people have unclear working ideas, poor skills and no habit of continuous learning, but they have high expectations for the future.

Because of their long working years, they generally believe that wages should be continuously improved with the increase of working years. But the fact is: your salary is not directly proportional to your working years, but directly proportional to your irreplaceability.

0 1 Are you irreplaceable or dispensable in the company?

An iOS development friend of mine, after graduating from college, entered an enterprise to do iOS development.

Six years ago, when he first joined the company, the company had good benefits.

When he first entered the company, he was curious about his work. He was born in a class. In order to get familiar with the company's business as soon as possible, he studied the workflow with the team leader during the day and went home to study hard at night to catch up with the underlying knowledge of iOS.

He is very clever, and the seniors in the project team are willing to guide him, so he is quick.

In the second year of work, he has been familiar with the business of his project team and can even put forward some suggestions for improvement. In an increasingly familiar environment, his skills have been greatly improved.

In the third year of his work, he jumped into a large internet company, and his position initially developed into a team leader, and his salary also increased a lot.

Compared with the tension and busyness when he first joined the work, he feels that his work is much easier now because he is proficient in business processes.

After finishing his work every day, he still has free time to surf the internet. Three years passed by like this.

In the past two years, the company's efficiency was not good, and he assisted the leader in making several layoffs. But he never imagined that one day, the bad luck of layoffs would come to him.

This autumn, the company adjusted its organizational structure again, and this time it was greatly "slimmed down". Several project departments should all be laid off, which will lay off half of the people, including him.

The boss talked to him personally and told him that the company's business structure was adjusted, only one core business line was reserved, and the original business was temporarily suspended.

There is no way. He accepted the severance payment from the company. He felt that with six years of experience, it was not difficult to find a job. Even if the company doesn't let him go, he has stayed here for three years, and he has thought about moving to a new place.

When he came out to look for a job, he found that many old developers with many years of rich work experience like him had already achieved the position of project leader. But in recent years, apart from being familiar with the business process of the original company, there has not been much progress in the professional field.

With his current strength, the job he can match is nothing more than an intermediate development engineer. But for this kind of work, many enterprises require the age to be under 30.

After many interviews, he was demoted and paid to a small company.

The best way to prove yourself is irreplaceable, not experience.

I can't help sighing that the best way to prove whether my experience is valuable is whether it can be replaced. In the rapidly changing workplace, your core competitiveness depends on how high the cost of replacing you is.

Therefore, if you take "I have developed for six years" or "I have developed in a certain industry for six years" as your professional capital, then anyone who has accumulated enough years can say that he has made great professional achievements.

This is by no means the case. This thing in the first year can only prove that you have this professional experience. This doesn't mean that you have the experience that the enterprise needs, let alone your success in a certain field.

What matters is what you have learned in your six-year career. What have you accumulated? What's your specialty? Whether you have formed your irreplaceable ability or replaced the high-cost ability through the tempering of this profession. This ability is your core competitiveness.

03 achievement event method, tap your core competitiveness

Here, I'll teach you a simple way-to achieve great things and tap your core competitiveness (knocking on the blackboard).

Prepare a blank sheet of paper, and then follow the following steps:

1, you can try to sort out the specific events that made you feel a sense of accomplishment in your past work and then analyze them to see what skills you used (especially transferable skills).

2. In the past work, as long as these two criteria are met, it can be regarded as "achievement": the feeling you like to experience when doing this; You are proud of the result.

3. When writing an achievement event, each story should include the following elements:

√ Situation); At that time;

√ Task/objective;

√ Action/attitude;

√ Results achieved.

Try to analyze the personal skills reflected by these achievement events. Ideally, you can write 5- 10 achievement events, see if there are any duplicate skills in these events, and sort these skills in order of priority.

After that, you can try to ask yourself a question: What have I gained in my past career? What is the result of my work? What proof can I get?

If you only have faded professional experience and no valuable experience, then you have no valuable ability. You are easily replaced by others, and you have no bargaining power with your boss.

That is the reality.

Therefore, when people are in the workplace, you need to always look at yourself: "Do I have 6 years of work experience, or have I used one experience for 6 years?"

The writer Gladwell pointed out in his book Alien: "The genius in people's eyes is extraordinary, not because of superior talent, but because of continuous efforts. 65,438+00,000 hours of practice is a necessary condition for anyone to go from ordinary to extraordinary. "

If the goal is "irreplaceable", how many hours of practice do you think it will take from now on to "irreplaceable"?

While helping him sort out his transferable skills, he asked me, "I am 30 years old." Is it too late to start again? "

I looked at him and answered seriously, "The best time to plant a tree was 10 years ago, followed by now ..."