fter I got the summer job opportunity, I continued to focus on job. Yes, job is the biggest news all these days in the world. In light of China’s incurable population, we have to face such a huge consumer market (sounds exciting?) and a sharply tiny employment market.
You can easily find the college students reading books about interviewing skills and career plan. They are no longer scholar-like as their professors used to be. They are fans of IBM, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley and McKinsey. And they have learned to do comparative study on HR strategies of these Fortune 500. What they expected behind is simply a respectful white collar and a rocket-up salary.
However, I find some notions which have been hardly found by others. Most guys talk about career things, for example: salary, training and welfare. But do they consider culture thing? More directly speaking, every company has some cultural background in which they develope. In the promotion/recruitment conference, the HR manager consumes a big sum of time to sell the culture. It might be true that the applicants remember every little word from that mouth, but unfortunately the knowledge or the concept of corporate culture would hardly go.
Microsoft and Morgan Stanley have the same short name: MS. The two MSs distinguished from each other strongly in various aspects. For at least one thing, Microsoft lays in the western coast and Morgan Stanley in the east. The places tell the truth: it is the difference between jeans and suits.
I enjoy wearing suit and tie, because they polish your look. But that is only the surface. It is the management model that matters.
Sometimes the culture issues accompany with the size. They all want to go big. Well, big firms as a start for your career should be a nice move, but you must see through the surface.
One of my favourite blogger Seth posted an entry titled “
Small is the new big” Here is what he wrote,
"Small is the new big because small gives you the flexibility to change the business model when your competition changes theirs.
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Small is the new big only when the person running the small thinks big.
Don’t wait. Get small. Think big."
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