When the last moat of my career is collapsing.

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

At the end of November, it was the early winter in Beijing.

This year, the WISE Conference of 36Kr coincided with good weather. Under the cloudless blue sky, the audience who arrived at 798 passed by the huge red - brick chimneys and electronic advertising screens and walked into the venue.

Compared with previous years, there were many more hardware displays of advanced manufacturing companies in the on - site booth area. Following the performing robots deeper into the venue, you could see people gathered around a pancake machine in a corner, watching it run tirelessly.

In front of the stairs leading to the main venue area on the second floor, some people would notice our "Career Dividend Party" — perhaps, the colleagues in the marketing department hoped to use the word "party" to dispel the inescapable "office flavor" in career - related topics; or perhaps, our work environment is facing increasingly severe challenges every year (you see, even the job of making pancakes may be replaced by machines). A thought - sharing party that finds joy in hardship is a declaration of persistent observation, thinking, and sharing in the waves of the era.

"Blue - collar and white - collar, different career views" is the slogan of this WISE career sub - venue salon. One day, you may find that your white - collar colleagues have quietly taken up blue - collar side jobs, and blue - collar masters have the opportunity to transform into white - collar workers. There are also some occupations that are so "complex" that you can't tell whether they require more mental or physical work. The traditional hierarchy and scarcity - value measurement standards of occupations have long been broken by new production tools and national policies.

Behind the integration of blue - collar and white - collar jobs is the popularization of AI tools and the wave of China's market transformation towards advanced manufacturing. "Career Bonus" wants to interpret the turning points, non - consensuses, and information gaps for individuals, so it invited a total of 15 guests, including talent platforms, executive coaches, consultants, entrepreneurs, headhunters, and academic pioneers who are most knowledgeable about this topic.

Here, we also thank them for their willingness to speak up and attend the event, sharing what they believe in and what they have seen.

It's not easy to organize an event. Besides the on - site case demonstrations and game interactions, we extracted the essence of the thoughts we heard during these two - day salon activities for you, our friends far away, to refer to together.

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Wang Xiaohan

Founder of Golden Boat Culture, postgraduate student at the Central Academy of Drama

• We must forget about major - job matching and think about how to transfer our abilities. We should put ourselves in a very subjective position to carve out our own niche in the highly competitive market.

• As the only entrepreneur in the silver - haired economy with a background from the Central Academy of Drama in the country, I initially entered the market with intangible cultural heritage handicrafts, but soon realized the low ceiling. Later, I specialized in psychological counseling functions, allowing the elderly to solve their anxiety about aging through scenario re - enactment and role - swapping, and established a barrier for drama therapy.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Ren Pengfei

Business leader of Xunzhi at Hewa

• Career dividends are the result of everyone's efforts and choices under the dividends of the era. In the entire workplace, we should constantly seize career dividends to ensure the continuous development of our careers and make ourselves more valuable.

• Skills are very important if you want to seize career dividends. Currently, the boundaries between blue - collar, gray - collar, and white - collar jobs are gradually blurring. Many once - popular jobs, such as Java engineers, have been downgraded from full - time white - collar positions to outsourced jobs. On the contrary, front - line blue - collar workers who understand technology and have a language foundation are earning higher and higher incomes.

• Personal ability and value are the keys to helping everyone seize the dividends of the era. For example, many HRs in large companies who don't understand programming at all are starting to learn to use AI tools for programming to complete tasks such as localizing meeting minutes, which not only meets the confidentiality requirements but also improves work efficiency.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Lin Gengxu

Founder of Oligomer

• The AI era is an amplifier. It can amplify personal talents and creativity, but also amplify laziness. Those who use it well will gain an edge. The science - popularizing UP master "Dayuanjing Science" used AI to generate images and gained millions of followers; however, the ability gap among more people is being rapidly widened.

• In the AI era, I believe three survival skills are very important, namely: information capture, learning, and execution ability. Individuals with expertise will enter a golden development period. Super individuals and super "small" teams will become the new trend in career development.

• One day in the AI world is like one year in the real world. If you don't read any news for a week, you'll feel like you've been left behind by the era. Of course, after capturing information, you should explore, learn, and try to internalize it and apply it to your life and work in a timely manner.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Chen Yijing

Entrepreneurial consultant, author of "Fearless Communication"

• Freelancing actually requires a higher level of professionalism than traditional employment, so it should never be used as a haven to avoid career problems.

• In the past year, I've been constantly answering two core questions: money and health. I now make personal balance sheets and cash - flow statements every December without fail. Financial security leads to decision - making freedom.

• Staying in the freelance wilderness for too long will inevitably lead to panic. However, any choice you've ever put aside can be reconsidered at any time. Just don't go all the way down one path blindly.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Zheng Ning

Professor at the Communication University of China

• New occupations have six major risks: content compliance, contract pitfalls, tax evasion, intellectual property rights, data compliance, and trade secrets.

• The key is to keep records and evidence during the process, pay close attention to the core terms of the contract, and always seek professional help for professional issues. In the AI field, practitioners and entrepreneurs need to stay vigilant. The legality of training data and the ownership of copyright for generated works are both controversial and belong to the gray area that needs to be improved.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Qi Qian

Career writer, founder of Choice Power

• What really prevents us from finding new occupations is the deep - seated inferiority complex in our hearts. The key to breaking through this inferiority complex is to dare to learn about good jobs that seem completely out of your reach.

• Whenever you conduct a review related to people, you should summarize based on their background, education, work experience, and personality, and draw your own portraits of benefactors and portraits of villains.

• When it comes to event - related reviews, you should focus on all the key nodes in your life and figure out what your success and failure factors are.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Hu Yang

Brand VP of Guanxin Laboratory

• AI will replace the repetitive work of blue - collar and white - collar workers. Human beings' core competitiveness lies in "life - related skills", such as singing, psychological therapy, and handicraft creation.

• This year, on the one hand, large companies laid off employees, and on the other hand, emerging industries were in urgent need of talent. There is a serious mismatch in the workplace. We should no longer blindly believe in the "iron rice bowl." There is no stable structure in this world, only the ability to solve specific problems.

• So, "get your hands dirty"! The end of anxiety is always a specific problem. Instead of struggling internally, it's better to collide with the real world and solve a small problem. Find a "non - anxious partner," write down your anxiety on paper, and half of it will disappear; if two people share it, only 25% of the anxiety will remain.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Huang Lei

Founder of Ceyu International Communication

• Freelancing is often a last - resort option, not a choice. But when you're a freelancer, you should think about what your most essential skill is that can support you and your family.

• Compared with freelancing, having "only one track" in a traditional job can sometimes be a blessing. You know where you're going and what to do every day. However, when you're in the "wilderness," you need to start thinking about one thing: what kind of thing are you going to devote your future life to? In the era when foreign - funded enterprises and Internet companies were booming, you could get a good salary without any such thinking. But now those opportunities are gone. On this premise, if you suddenly find yourself in the "wilderness" without proper thinking, you'll collapse.

• I'm thinking that if I could live my life over again, I would spend 30% of the time I spent in a large company thinking about what I would do if I lost my current title and what I would be willing to invest my energy and life in.

💭

36Kr's "Career Bonus" (ID: ZhiChangHongLi)

Guo Biao

Found