In recent years, everyone in Taiwan is unhappy due to political and economic depression. While various economic indicators are showing negative growth, Taiwan finally took the first place, but this first place makes people even more unhappy. according to Data released by Taiwan'

In recent years, everyone in Taiwan has been unhappy because of the depressed politics and depressed economy. While various economic indicators are showing negative growth, Taiwan finally took the first place, but this first place makes people even more unhappy. According to data released by Taiwan's Ministry of Interior Construction Administration on April 16, 2014, Taipei's housing price-to-income ratio has reached as high as 15.01 times. Putting aside the speculation on real estate, the lack of wage growth is the main reason for the rising housing price-to-income ratio.

For low wages, the government’s more “active” approach is to raise the basic salary. However, for most office workers, raising the basic salary is not painful at all, because even the 22K that everyone calls , also higher than 19,273 yuan. If this is the government's most active response to negative wage growth, then you can really only rely on yourself if you want to pursue high wages.

From the perspective of a headhunting consultant in the technology industry, wages in Taiwan have not actually decreased, and can even be said to have increased slightly. It's just that most of the salary increases are concentrated in areas that are beyond the reach of most people, that is, high-end managers. While most people are looking forward to salary increases of 1% to 3% per year, the salaries of some senior executives have even doubled. Although this kind of salary structure is unhealthy, it is very common and not surprising. Why?

Only things that can be seen are valuable

Looking at the history of Taiwan's economic growth in the past few decades, it is almost a microcosm of the global manufacturing industry. Even the "high-tech" industry in everyone's mouth is just another kind of manufacturing industry. The products manufactured are just "high-tech" products. From the perspective of the manufacturing industry, the most valuable parts are nothing more than raw materials and machines, because the number of commodities that raw materials can be converted into can be calculated, and the output value of a machine can also be completely determined. Can be quantified.

So we can often see "a certain company plans to invest tens of billions of dollars to expand its factories and purchase machines, and the average annual production capacity is expected to increase by 50% in the next three years", but we cannot see "a certain company plans to expand its retention capacity". It plans to invest one billion yuan to improve employee morale, which is estimated to increase the output value of each employee by 10%."

The same thinking applies to the labor market. A big boss may be willing to spend 10 million years to hire new high-end managers just because he has a quantifiable indicator "2013 annual performance of NT$10 billion." For investors, buying a general manager with "tens of billions" of experience is like buying a machine with a production capacity of 10 million units a year, and you can count the money immediately (although we all know it is impossible, Otherwise, every boss can buy the same semiconductor equipment to become Zhang Zhongmou and Cai Lixing).

The strange thing is that when companies that are willing to pay 10 million to buy a general manager, when they hire junior staff or mid-level managers, their arrogance often turns into stinginess in an instant. The candidate's expected salary is 1.2 million, but the offer letter insists on writing 1.1 million. The level of stinginess is like bargaining at a vegetable market, almost asking you to buy one and get one free.

Once a candidate wants to strive for a higher salary, the answer he gets is nothing more than "You are so young. If I give you a high salary, it will be unfair to other senior employees." Will you know how much I’m getting? ), otherwise it’s like “We think you have potential, but we can’t give you a high price because we haven’t seen your performance yet; but as long as you work hard, the annual salary increase will definitely make you "Satisfied" (please raise your hands if you are satisfied after working hard) and this kind of nonsense.

I am not a high-end person, so I can only continue to be poor?

If you want to get rid of low salary, climbing to the high end seems to be the only way. However, there are many people and not everyone can become a general manager. How can ordinary people get better treatment? Here are a few traits we commonly see in high-paid people in the tech industry.

1. Have fluent foreign language skills

The fluency mentioned here does not mean a "high-achieving student" who knows a bunch of words and has close to perfect scores on TOEFL, but is able to communicate with people from different countries at least within his or her professional field.Even if your pronunciation is funny, even if your grammar is worse than that of a junior high school student, as long as the customer understands your expertise, you have won half the battle.

I once encountered a business that sold TOEIC with 900 points, but could not get orders after going abroad. I also encountered a Doeq with only 450 points, but American customers always designated engineers to work with him. Do you think he could be promoted without him? During the interview process, unless the candidate grew up in an English-speaking country, we will ask the candidate to introduce their work experience in 5 minutes. Usually, the candidate can speak without hesitation (even if the TOEIC score is not high and the pronunciation is not standard) ), the prevailing salaries are relatively high.

2. Good expression and communication skills

People who are not introverts cannot communicate, and not everyone likes to get along with extroverts. The communication mentioned here is very basic, which is to be able to clearly tell others what you think. For example, if a customer asks you: "Why do your lines here go this way?" If your answer is "I don't understand, my professional experience tells me that if you don't do this, there will be problems with the quality." Then You will definitely be kicked out of the project the next day. A better answer would be: "We have encountered some problems in similar projects, and after analysis, we concluded that this design has the lowest risk." With an answer like this, customers will love you to death even if what you tell is a lie.

3.Multiple majors

What kind of creatures do you see that make you more stunned? Is it "flying birds", "swimming fish", or "swimming birds and flying fish"? Many people think that as long as they improve their major to the extreme, they will be favored. However, in the eyes of others, playing a good major is only the basic of the basics. Seeing an agency engineer using PRO/E is like seeing the sun rise in the east, but seeing the business help correct a line during the proposal process is bound to be as impressive as seeing a ghost.

's so-called multiple backgrounds do not require you to be omnipotent, but require you to have multiple perspectives. If engineers understand the customer's shipping pressure and the business understands the resources required for R&D, they will definitely gain more attention in the team.

4. Take the initiative to seek opportunities

Confucianism teaches us to be humble. Therefore, every time there is a new client or a project to be carried out, when the boss rarely asks: "Who wants to take this case?", everyone's eyes are probably not looking at the pen. I just imitate the fake literary youth and stare into the distance, unwilling to make eye contact with my boss to my death. When encountering this rare opportunity, unless you are extremely popular, please actively strive for it.

From the perspective of return on investment, if it succeeds in striving for performance, it will be the king from now on, and it will not be a problem to be popular and popular. If you mess up, you just stay where you are and continue to be a screw, because supervisors usually don't punish positive people too severely. An interesting observation here is that many people who become supervisors at a young age will most likely take the initiative to fight for performance opportunities with their bosses.

5. Pay attention to the pulse of the industry

The pulse of the industry is definitely something that every employee needs to be concerned about, not just the responsibility of the boss or the business planner. Only by paying attention to the latest technological changes and market demands can you enrich your capabilities in advance and prevent yourself from being eliminated. Today's technological advancement is so fast that "old masters" who conquered the world with one trick in the past are not common in the technology industry.

Even in the field of headhunting consultants, if we don’t discover early that the talent majors needed by our clients have changed, we will be eliminated sooner or later.

How to avoid falling into the low-wage whirlpool

Being sucked into the low-wage whirlpool without knowing it is actually more worrying than not having a salary increase. Because usually people in the low-wage whirlpool suddenly realize that they no longer have a stage when they are laid off or want to look for opportunities outside. Most of the people who are pulled to the bottom of the whirlpool are "over 45, have no management experience (except foreign businessmen), have poor expressive skills, and have an income similar to that of a 35- to 40-year-old salaried class (I hope you are not in this category)."How can

avoid falling into such a whirlpool? Among the people I have met, they usually have the following two points of thinking. If you think the following two points are "correct", then you really need to talk to some seniors or senior headhunting consultants about your situation. future.

1. The purpose of work is to give me a stable life

The workplace is very cruel, especially the workplace in Taiwan. In most American and Japanese companies, there are two systems for development, professional and managerial, and the salary of a senior professional can be comparable to that of a high-end manager. On the other hand, in Taiwan, when you reach a certain level of seniority, you are either "forced" to become a supervisor or you are forced to leave.

Therefore, the so-called phenomenon of "living a stable life" does not exist. Even if you don't compete with others and don't want to be a supervisor, the company will let you leave when you reach a certain age. Even if you don't care about salary, sooner or later inflation will make you unable to afford a piece of bread. Therefore, pursuing a high salary is not necessarily for material enjoyment or greed, but to help you gain some protection for your future self.

2. You only need to prepare a resume when you want to change jobs.

- Updating your resume every year does not mean that you should be ready to change jobs at any time. Instead, by submitting your resume to others, you can know your value in the market at that time, and then know whether the current company will pay you. You have enough stage and remuneration. When the gap is too big and existing companies are unwilling to make concessions, then it is time to leave.

Changing jobs does not always lead to good results, but the workplace is very realistic. The salary of each new job you take is almost based on the number of the previous one. Therefore, if you are too far away from the market standards, you may change jobs in the future. The extent of the increase is also limited. What's even more cruel is that when the company interviewing you finds that your salary is too low, sometimes it will make the other party think that you must be lacking in ability, and as a result, you will lose the job.

only provides the above opinions to share with you. If you have not started working yet, please don’t worry. Although the current starting salary is ugly, after three to five years of experience, the salary growth will be considerable.