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在当今中国，“买者自负”心态对于求职方和招聘方同样适用。这也就意味着当一个新的机遇出现时，你需要更清楚新公司能够让你扮演什么样的角色。坦率讲，当今就业市场的很多雇主都不如他们表面看上去的那样好。多年来，中国持续走高的市场为许多企业的成功提供了非常有利的条件。但如今更为成熟的商业环境很容易便揭露出哪些企业后劲十足，哪些企业只是昙花一现。

职业发展的决定性因素

幸运的是，越来越多我们接触到的求职者意识到只有围绕自身能力选择适合自己的平台进行职业发展，才能真正地提升自身实力，取得实打实的成就。机会主义者可能会很快地完成职位和薪水三级跳，但这不是长远之计。我们可以看出，很多求职者在面对我们提供给他们的机会时选择了更为成熟的应对方式。比起薪酬，他们更想要知道雇主可以为他们的职业生涯发展提供什么样的机会，他们的发展潜力如何以及雇主手头的资源和工作环境怎样。这种长远发展的职业视角已经同过去“金钱至上”的价值观大相径庭了。

目光短浅的危害

在中国，越来越多的求职者切身感受到了将目光局限于诱人薪水和更高职位所带来的危害。雇主的眼光越来越挑剔。如果你最后选择的机会并不稳定，每隔一两年你就得不换一份工作，那么你无异于为自己的职业生涯亲手画上句点。以前你可以轻轻松松跳槽，一家公司不遂心立即换下一家。但现在，雇主对这种频繁跳槽的行为可是很挑剔的。

你需要看上去稳定而可靠

“现在你要学着用更加成熟和现实的眼光去看待你的职业生涯”，一位上海年轻白领说，“以前，我总是急功近利，被那些看上去可以飞快得到晋升的机会吸引，却忽视了那些可以稳扎稳打的机会。”但我现在可不是这样了。

“你的新雇主想知道的第一件事就是为什么你离开前一份工作，以及为什么你想加入他们的公司。你必须给他们稳定、可靠的答案，特别是对方已经知道你的频繁跳槽史后。他们会极度注意你的工作成就有多高的质量，以及你在其中起到了什么决定性的作用。如果你一份工作只做一两年的话，你根本无从说起。”

从职业发展的角度来说，是否能够区分一份工作的优劣对于你今后能取得多大的成功起着不言而喻的作用。正如你的雇主喜欢深入挖掘以确定你的能力一样，你也可以深入地思考你现在的工作是否适合自己。

A Mature Career Mindset Required For Today’s Job-Seekers 

In China today, the buyer beware mindset applies as much to the job-seeker side as it does to the hiring side.  Meaning, when presented with a new opportunity, you need to be much more accountable and thorough in determining what a new role and company can provide you.  Frankly, there are many companies and employment situations in this market that aren’t nearly as good as what they appear on the surface.  For many years, China’s hot market conditions provided highly favorable conditions for many businesses to succeed.  However, the maturing business environment is now revealing which ones are the stronger and weaker, short-lived and more sustainable platforms out there.

Greater Emphasis On Career Development Factors

Fortunately, more and more, the candidates we work with are recognizing that capturing greater opportunities revolves around their ability to identify strong employment platforms that can allow them to accumulate solid capabilities and achievements, rather than chasing opportunistic situations that may offer quick promotions and pay raises, but are short-lived.  We see this more mature approach to career development in the way many candidates respond to the opportunities we introduce to them now.  Instead of how much it will pay, what they want to know about most is how the new opportunity and company will add to their professional development and future success, what their potential for growth is, and the quality of the resources, environment, and people they’ll be a part of.  This longer-term, career development orientation is a far cry from the “show me the money” one that many mainland professionals expressed to us a few years ago.

Dangerous To Chase Short-Term Benefits

Increasingly, job-seekers in China are feeling just how dangerous it is to only look at the short-term benefits of an opportunity that may offer them salary and title jumps.  Mainly, they encounter hiring attitudes among employers that are much more thorough and selective than before.  If the opportunities you choose don’t end up being solid, and the scenario repeats itself where you need to change jobs every 1-2 years, then you can do serious damage to your career.  Where you could get away with job-hopping in the past and easily pursue other platforms if one didn’t work out, employers are much more critical of such moves today. 

What You Want To Be Seen As Is Solid And Credible

“These days, you have to be more mature and realistic about how you approach your career,” says a young professional in Shanghai.  “Before, I used to only be attracted to opportunities that offered the fastest and highest upside, but didn’t even pay attention to ones that didn’t offer an immediate upside.  But that’s not how I am today.

“One of the first things new employers want to know from you now is why you left your previous job and why you want to join their company.  You have to give them solid, credible answers, especially if they’ve seen that you’ve moved around a few times already.  They pay a great deal of attention to the quality of your achievements and to what you’ve done that’s turned out successfully.  That’s hard to talk about if you’ve only stayed in a job situation for one or two years.”

From a career development perspective the ability to differentiate the quality of an employment situation and opportunity has a huge impact on how successfully you’re able pursue and attain your career objectives.  Just as employers are digging farther below the surface to determine what you have to offer, so should you when it comes to evaluating an employment situation you’re thinking of placing yourself into.

（责任编辑：职场达人）