In fact, major is not a cold term lying on the catalogue. Profession makes people have a personalized way of thinking, makes people different, makes people step into the world of industry and lays a solid foundation for development. Starting from this year, we will introduce brand-new guiding ideology, return to the major itself, reflect the essence of the major from factors such as thinking mode, uniqueness, sense of belonging and development direction, and let students truly understand and love the major.
Clarify four major occupational misunderstandings
The experience of experienced people tells us that we should have a clear idea when choosing liberal arts majors: choosing the one that suits us best, interest is the key, and the future development direction is the goal. As for some hearsay rules and regulations, we should laugh them off.
It doesn't matter whether the major is good or not, only whether it is suitable or not. Just like attending a wedding, everyone praises the bride's beauty in public, but there are many opinions behind it, but if the couple are married, they are happy. Choosing an unfamiliar "good" major is better than doing your own homework and choosing a familiar major, no matter what others say. As long as you are familiar with it, you will have interest, stimulate motivation, keep moving forward and make achievements. There is no absolute good or bad specialty, only professional and non-professional in your own eyes. To be a prepared professional chaser, everything will be relaxed and cheerful, with high morale.
Myth 1: What do you do after studying a major?
Discrimination: Profession does not represent industry or occupation.
A classmate was admitted to a "985" key university with high scores. When choosing a major, he firmly chose "business administration". He asked why, and replied: After studying business administration, I can engage in the FMCG industry and enter a consulting company. In fact, FMCG companies and consulting companies are the least professional companies. When recruiting management trainees, they made it clear that they did not restrict majors, and even emphasized the diversity of employees' professional backgrounds. In 2007, when L 'Oré al held a market competition for college students, it was mainly negative.
The person in charge graduated from the finance department, but engaged in market planning; Procter & Gamble is the largest consumer goods company in the world. The person in charge of brand promotion introduced himself at the Shanghai promotion meeting and graduated from sociology, chemistry and electronic engineering. The author participated in an interview with KPMG, and the manager introduced himself as an international relation. In fact, accounting firms are places with complex and diverse professional backgrounds, and there is no doubt about the professional requirements for accounting. However, the four internationally renowned accounting firms attach great importance to the diversification of academic background when recruiting fresh graduates: accounting is a technology that can be learned at work, and contacting different types of companies requires basic knowledge of different professional backgrounds, which is difficult to cultivate the day after tomorrow. In many ways, major is not equal to occupation or industry. Professional background needs a lot of "soft power" as a support to connect with certain industries and occupations. It is not the professional background that chooses the future career, but the employer chooses the right professionals. It is completely wrong to link finance with banks and law with lawyers.
Myth 2: Professional name is absolutely important.
Discrimination: Specialty can't be as its name implies, and the development direction under the name of specialty is also quite different.
The professional name is just a symbol, and the content and nature of the specialty are very different, so it needs to be deeply understood to gain something. Some students said that they didn't want to study economics and finance, because the winners of the Nobel Prize in Economics were all mathematicians, and it was too much trouble to study mathematics, so they switched to management. In fact, in universities, the mathematical requirements of management are higher and more difficult than economics! Some people classify accounting and financial management as one category. Accounting pays attention to detail, requires vouchers step by step, and pays attention to micro; Financial management mainly studies financial statements, finds problems reflected in details in complex statements, and grasps the development context of enterprises from a macro perspective. Some people think that learning accounting and financial management is just playing numbers games. In fact, a considerable part of accounting and financial management courses are laws and regulations, tax laws, economic laws, accounting practice norms and so on. Investigation should learn many methods of follow-up investigation, and real estate companies and property management companies like to recruit such students. In the main courses of museum science, there is a lot of knowledge about exhibitions, and many students later engage in exhibition management and marketing; Cultural heritage management is actually dealing with classical architecture, which is closely related to landscape design and architectural design ... Professional faces under professional names have boring basic knowledge and vivid case anecdotes, and cannot be defined arbitrarily according to their own understanding.
Myth 3: Popular majors are better than unpopular majors.
Discrimination: There is no absolute cold and heat in the major, but there is relativity in the absolute and microscopic comparison in the relative.
If it is based on the admission scores and the number of applicants, there is indeed a professional difference between hot and cold. But in the long run, it seems that the degree of hot and cold is not so obvious. People majoring in international trade always complain that English students have robbed them of their jobs; English majors suffer from lack of professional characteristics, and the most suitable occupations are teachers and translators. There are many popular majors, many graduates of the same kind, and the competition pressure is great. Most of the so-called unpopular majors have corresponding receiving units, or there is a demand for talents with the development of society.
A female student I know who was admitted to international trade with high marks found a strong interest in literature in college. Finally, she impressed the professor with three high-quality papers and obtained the qualification of walking. Later, she went to the University of Hong Kong to study for a doctorate. In the same year, because of the financial crisis, the employment rate of her graduating class was only half that of last year. In fact, all majors are convertible to a certain extent: students from the Chinese Department have also participated in advanced English interpretation, doing bilingual translation or simultaneous interpretation; History students passed the judicial examination, from
Lawyers or civil servants enter courts and procuratorates. The transformation between the unpopular and the popular may only be between thoughts. No matter what major, high-tech talents are needed. Learning this major well and loving it will have a future. In addition, the country provides a considerable number of scholarships for less popular basic majors, encourages undergraduate students to study, and some of them are sent to overseas famous schools, so the prospects of basic majors are equally broad.
Myth 4: As long as you attend your favorite major, any school is the same.
Discrimination: we should grasp the professional characteristics. Different schools offer the same major with different directions and characteristics.
Civil aviation university of china's accounting major is mainly logistics accounting, which has its own characteristics in logistics management and economic investigation and tracking; The international trade major of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications has advantages in trade research of communication industry, and many graduates have entered the business departments of companies such as China Mobile and China Unicom. The economic management major of Beijing Jiaotong University emphasizes the characteristics of the transportation industry and offers many courses in railway logistics and rail transit management. The tourism management major of Shanghai Maritime University has its own characteristics in the management of luxury cruise ships at sea. Students can experience the luxury of a five-star cruise ship during their internship ... Different schools offer the same professional name, and the curriculum, content preference and development direction may be very different. At this point, if you are an old reader of Learning, you should notice that the small column "Professional Compass" is dedicated to solving this problem.
Majors with strong foundation should pay more attention to the academic traditions and training plans of schools, because the subtle differences between schools will often have a far-reaching impact on the future development of students. Taking philosophy as an example, Fudan University's western philosophy has its own advantages, Nankai University's China philosophy has its own advantages, Tongji University's German classical philosophy has its own advantages, and Renmin University's Marxist-Leninist philosophy has its own advantages. Results A large number of Americans went abroad in the Philosophy Department of Fudan University, while Tongji University mainly went to Germany. A large number of students in the philosophy department of Nankai University will be close to "Chinese studies" such as Chinese and history. Students from the Philosophy Department of Renmin University are distributed in many party and government organs. Many students often choose their alma mater's relatively strong majors as their application direction when taking the postgraduate entrance examination: regional economics of Lanzhou University, modern history of Yan 'an University, Korean of Yanbian University, Russian of Heilongjiang University ... The strong majors of these schools have certain academic influence and popularity, which is undoubtedly a plus item for students' future development.
Career makes you different.
Professional learning is an independent process. Mastering all kinds of knowledge and research methods is just better than playing all kinds of musical instruments skillfully, applying what you have learned, comforting your body and mind and realizing the beauty of human wisdom. Even if professional study is boring, even if it doesn't look so practical, even if it looks like an "unpopular" and difficult major, even if it is a "hard" major, we can really understand it, learn it and apply it well in combination with ourselves, and finally we can give full play to the maximum value of the major.
Values 1: Professional Forging Unique Thinking
Some people say that people in the history department are particularly rational. Reading history makes people very clear about the context of history, and they always like to summarize and upgrade some conceptual things. However, some people are particularly good at digging up the contingency in history and experiencing the fun of anecdotes. The series of historical novels of the Qing court and the events of the Ming dynasty, which were broadcasted by February River on the Internet, seem to be full of emotional charm. A history graduate who is engaged in accounting said: "Studying history has brought me practicality and persistence, which is very in line with the requirements of accounting firms for employees."
Some people say that people in the Chinese department are particularly emotional and used to reveling in literary fantasies. However, some people observe the complex and subtle relationship between people from biographies and experience the philosophy of life and management from the contention of a hundred schools of thought. Don't think of literature major, just think of pure literary styles such as poetry and prose. Literature is not only an art form, but also a way of thinking, which allows us not only to enjoy unique aesthetic pleasure, but also to consider people and situations from multiple angles, just like the multi-dimensional and panoramic presentation in the narrative mode of novels, separating the most important things from the complicated things. This advantage will have room for display in any industry and any post. This is the most valuable place to learn Chinese.
Specialty is an enlightening way of thinking, and only the combination of specialty and life experience will have an impact on people. Occupation provides us with a way of thinking, and also develops everyone's unique ideological characteristics. Shui Junyi's composure and ability are related to his professionalism in the philosophy department. Yang Lan has a wise language talent, which benefits from the influence of comparative literature of Columbia University. Perhaps a person who graduated from an economics class did not engage in finance or business in the end, but he will certainly unconsciously apply the guidance of economics in his life and decision-making: he will pay attention to the opportunity cost and always weigh the cost of giving up another choice when making a choice; Pay attention to efficiency first and pursue the maximization of marginal effect; Good at comparison and competitive analysis, using game theory to solve complex problems ... Management people like to talk about organizational structure, journalism people pay attention to the power of propaganda and slogans, and sociology people have strong concepts of collective and social people. Maybe we won't talk about our major, but it will leave a deep impression on our minds.
Value 2: Profession shows personality charm.
I remember listening to a famous educator's open class. In the first sentence, the teacher introduced that he was actually from the Chinese Department, and then began to write the traditional Chinese characters, seal script and Oracle Bone Inscriptions of the words "teacher", "learning" and "teaching" on the blackboard. We left a deep impression on the teacher. A simple beginning brings an unusual personal charm transfer effect.
Looking at the curriculum of Chinese language major, it is easy to make people have a headache at first sight for courses such as exegetics, dialectology, genealogy, China history and ancient literature. Many schools put Chinese language and literature, Chinese as a foreign language and Chinese language in the same department. Compared with the three, the Chinese language has the most solid foundation and profound professional knowledge in the undergraduate stage. It is those difficult and obscure courses that make the Chinese language major a dark horse in the workplace: every year, many publishing houses (especially ancient books), major libraries, archives and language institutions come to the school to ask for Chinese language graduates.
Modern society pays attention to interpersonal communication, how to get in touch with strangers to attract their attention, and how to maintain harmony and show charm in public environment. Professional background plays a very important role. "Seeking common ground while reserving differences" is an important principle of interpersonal communication in modern society. If you can't show yourself, it's hard to show your edge. Many successful people will proudly say that I am a graduate of a certain major, which may not be necessarily related to the business I am engaged in now, and this sense of difference has just increased my personal charm and triggered the desire of people around me to talk. Imagine how many topics a philosophy graduate will leave when he finally becomes the head of the largest private enterprise in China.
Occupation not only gives us knowledge, but more importantly, it gives us a flag, which clearly shows our own labels. Many schools offer second majors, and the most elective subjects are economics, law, accounting and computer. However, in recent years, Chinese, history, international exchange and other majors have gradually warmed up. Many students said that it is the secret weapon for their future development to learn distinctive knowledge and make themselves different.
Maybe I didn't like my current major at first, maybe I switched to a certain major, but the rich nutrition contained in each major may make people "addicted". According to the relevant survey of Fudan University, only a few students who submitted their applications for changing their major eventually left their major, and more than 80% of the students who gave up changing their major gradually became fond of their current major because they found a new self during their professional study for one year.
Value 3: professionalism opens the door to the workplace.
Profession can't provide any guarantee for us to enter a certain industry or engage in a certain occupation, but it can open a door to a certain career goal for us.
First of all, seniors and sisters who have graduated will bring role models to the following newcomers. Many schools will invite past graduates who have graduated and achieved success in their studies and careers to give reports and share their experiences; Alumni associations of the same major recommend younger brothers and sisters to practice in related companies and enter an industry to experience practical work in advance; In a certain industry, the graduates of a certain school have formed a good reputation, which will also have a more positive impact and guidance on employers.
Secondly, relevant professional knowledge lays the foundation for entering a certain industry. Apart from accounting and financial management, which liberal arts major does the securities industry like to recruit best? The answer is psychology! Basically, the majors listed by major securities companies when recruiting management researchers are all related to mathematics, with the exception of psychology. The introductory majors in many industries are not all vague impressions in students' minds, and the application scope of professional knowledge is actually very wide. If there is no other aura, professional counterparts do play a better role in promoting newcomers to enter the workplace.
Third, reasonable planning can make the professional background more attractive. Economics and management students are engaged in news dissemination, specializing in financial news, making financial comments, and entering the "First Financial" or professional economic media; Students who study Chinese enter advertising companies, do copywriting and product packaging, and rack their brains every day to come up with beautiful advertising words that match the picture; Students majoring in sociology are engaged in market research; Students majoring in education are engaged in human resources ... in fact, the door opened by the major is not just a door. You have to explore the direction you choose.
Value 4: Career creates a bright future.
Occupation can make our life better, and professional life may be carried out in the arrangement and combination of different occupations. A classmate of mine majored in philosophy, and a master majored in management philosophy. Later, she got a doctorate in management, and now she is the head of the research department in a company. From liberal arts to management, his original development goal was to be a scholar, but now he has joined the business community and become a member of the management of a well-known enterprise.
Every crossroads in life will face professional choices. A girl studying English is always worried about which direction to choose for further study-she doesn't want to continue to engage in literary research. Later, she applied for a master's degree in education in an American university with excellent English scores. During her stay in the United States, she was qualified as an American lawyer by virtue of her good language advantage. A few years ago, she was still worried about "English is just a tool". Now, she has become a lawyer of a well-known law firm on Wall Street.
The choice of major depends on persistence, and the hot and cold of major will evolve with the development of the times. In Pudong New Area, Shanghai, open recruitment of social workers requires an annual salary of100000. Applicants need to have professional knowledge of social work, pass the foreign language examination and have relevant work experience. Many graduates majoring in social work are very sorry about changing careers. In recent years, many graduates majoring in ideological and political education have entered large monopoly enterprises such as tobacco, and their treatment and development are good. Based on this major, we can succeed step by step.
An executive in the securities department of Hong Kong Emperor Financial Group, majoring in history. People who study history are particularly sensitive to changes in information, especially to subtle information. No one would have thought that a person who lacks a solid mathematical foundation can succeed in the securities industry. You don't have to do anything to learn, but you can learn nutrition from the previous step. Economist Lin Yifu studied agricultural engineering at university and later obtained a master's degree in business administration. His engineering background and management thought brought great benefits to later economic research. There is no final number of majors, and not many people choose a major for life, but the previous major can lay the foundation for future development.
Melodious and beautiful music comes from standard musical instruments, dexterous hands, intelligent eyes, and hand-eye coordination to play perfect music. Liberal arts majors are all-encompassing, and there is a broad space for the development of liberal arts majors. We will continue to talk about this in the future, so please stay tuned. To prepare for the battle, you should be fully familiar with the major before choosing it; It is best to choose a familiar and favorite major that suits you. I hope everyone can realize your big career dream.