To all first-year new graduates: The first 3 years are the real test!!

Hello. I'm Ryohei, also known as Ryo-chan.

I belong to the generation born in the first year of the Heisei era. In this era of the 100-year life, I have set a vision to enjoy both work and private life as an active professional for a long time, and eventually create a "village" with many companions while providing opportunities to ignite passion in many people.

Recently, I have been writing about my activities as a recruitment agent, my own experiences, and things I have felt and noticed through introducing professional baseball players from the perspective of job placement.
Last time, I wrote on the theme of "The appeal of reading 'Slam Dunk' as an adult." I would be very happy if you could take a look.

Starting with this post, I will return to the topic of job changes. I am delivering this message to those who joined companies as new graduates in April 2022. We have entered October, and half a year has passed since you joined your companies, and I imagine there are various perspectives. I hope this will be of some small help to new graduates for their future careers.

1. Early resignation is not a shame

I joined a company as a new graduate in April 2012, but at that time, lifetime employment was still the norm, and I think many people still thought about "how to do my best at the company I joined" or "how to get promoted at this company." Also, many people still saw job changes as someone else's business, and there were negative images such as "job change = early retirement, someone who cannot continue, failure."
However, now, at the time of job hunting, "how to advance my career," "becoming a business person who can be active anywhere," "building achievements and changing jobs," etc.,thinking based on the premise of changehas become the norm.
In such a situation, what kind of situation are you, who joined as new graduates in April, facing now in October? There must be various situations, such as those who have already resigned from the company, or those who are thinking about resigning because the gap from before joining is large. But, you don't need to feel ashamed or pessimistic.I also resigned from the company I joined as a new graduate after 8 and a half months, but I am doing fine now, so it is okay.
As the title of this post says,"The first 3 years are the real test". How will you spend these 3 years? What kind of experience will you gain? This becomes important, so I will talk about some concrete things from here.

2. Use time outside of work to build personal connections

Now, since the spread of the pandemic, restaurants have moved up their closing times, anddrinking parties for work have decreased, so I think the way you spend your weekday evenings has changed significantly. In other words,how will you spend your free time?

Going home, watching TV while eating dinner, playing with your smartphone, and going to bed early on weekdays to prepare for work the next day. It's hard to see your own significant growth in such a life, isn't it?
Of course, studying for certifications, going to lessons, or if you are someone who has increased remote work due to the pandemic, running or going to the gym is also good. However, what I want to convey here isbuilding new personal connections. Interacting with various types of people in your 20s andbroadening your values and expanding your knowledgewill become an asset later on. I personallydeeply regret that I should have worked on this more in my 20s. (Instead, I was able to have experiences that became assets, so I don't regret it.)
Personal connections eventually become collaborators who help you, or lead to unexpected encounters through a chain of introductions. For me, thatcame when I turned 30. The opportunity to become a recruitment agent was also born from weaving connections from those encounters. Of course, a lifestyle where you have a girlfriend, get married, have children, and prioritize time with your family as depicted in a picture might be good, but in the future, you might continue to build personal connections throughout your life in athird place (a third community)other than your family and workplace.

3. If you build achievements in 3 years, it is easier to change jobs

I introduce the reasons and such in the post below, but when you have 3 years of social experience, if you are a university graduate, you will be in the best market for your first job change around the age of 25.

Let's build achievements by this time.During those 3 years, what kind of work did you engage in, how much achievement (sales, numerical improvement, etc.) did you leave behind, how did you devise for that, what kind of failures did you have, and how did you make them your food? Is it something that can be reproduced, not by chance? How did you involve those around you? If you accumulate experience and organize the grounds with this much awareness,the thickness of your resume will increase.As I introduce in the post below, the premise of changing jobs is that experienced people are more advantageous than inexperienced ones, so a career change that makes the most of your experience is ideal. It is an image of expanding horizontally and broadening your range.

As a result of 2-3 years of practical experience and new achievement building at that new job, it is easy to plan a career up in your late 20s to 30s.

4. Summary

To summarize briefly

By the way, as for whetherI was able to realize these, I didn't notice it in my 20s and couldn't do it.Rather, I experienced my 3rd company in my 2nd year as a working adult, andI had neither continuity nor achievements.
Rather, it was rock bottom, or I hit a wall when I went out into society to the extent that I wondered if I was a social misfit. Even so, by continuing for a while at the next company, being blessed with seniors and juniors, and accumulating achievements and sales experience, I was able to change jobs to sales in various industries from my 30s, and it has led to my current side jobs of inside sales, recruitment agent, and event organizer.
It is better to prepare early.

Rather, young new graduates will have higher sensitivity. I would like you toget a good start in your early 20s and get closer to self-realization.
Next time, I will write about"Work techniques that are less likely to cause mistakes, grasped from my current inside sales job". Look forward to it.