標題: 雙語職場：換工作前要做的四步準備 [打印本頁] 作者: howitzki 時間: 2009-12-21 00:08 標題: 雙語職場：換工作前要做的四步準備 If you're looking for work and aren'thaving much luck in your current field, it's tempting to decide now isthe time for a career change。
如果你正在找工作，并且在目前的行業也沒多少希望，那這時候考慮換工作聽起來就很有誘惑力了。
But although it's always good to be flexible, it's also important to be realistic。
雖然靈活一點總是好的，但是現實也是很重要的。
"There's a bigger pool of more highlyqualified people who are willing to work for less money" in a downturn,says Richard Phillips, owner of Advantage Career Solutions。
Advantage Career Solutions公司的老總Richard Phillips說：“在經濟低迷時期有大批比你更有資歷的人愿意以更低的薪水接受工作。”
Experts such as Phillips offer these four tips for ensuring a career change will work -- before you make the leap:
Phillips等專家提供了以下四點建議，確保你換工作成功，不過要在換工作之前實行：
1.Do your homework。做好功課。
Make sure you don't jump from one sinking industry to another. Ask, "is this a growth area?"
要確保你不是從一個瀕臨死亡的產業跳到了另外一個。要弄清楚這是否是個有潛力的行業？
You can start your research online,with government publications such as the Bureau of Labor Statistics'Occupational Outlook Handbook。
你可以從網上搜索資料，同時可以用《勞動統計局職業前景手冊》之類的政府出版物做為輔助。
Also look at whether a particular specialty within your potential new field is in demand. For example,perhaps school districts in your area aren't hiring many elementary school teachers, but they do need specialized teachers。
Before you make a change, you need to find out "what the career and job really involve -- not your fantasy。
在你換工作之前，你要弄清楚這項工作或該領域實際上涉及到什么，不能只是一味假想。
For example, many careers, ranging from interior design to financial planning, may involve selling your services in addition to performing them. Or you may be enticed by thehigh average salary of your dream job, only to find that it's a fieldwhere a few people make a lot and most people make very little。
To get the real story, talk to people who work in the field you're targeting. You can find them through your college alumni association, professional associations, and schools withprograms in the field。
The lowest-risk decision for a hiringmanager is to choose someone who has done the job before. So if you tryto compete in a new field, you'll be at a disadvantage。
"It's just hard to sell yourself when you don't have any experience, or the experience that you do have is acomplete disconnect," Philips says. "You can't make your past notexist."
"Does somebody know you from a former company?" Fireman asks. People are much more likely to take a risk onsomeone they have worked with in the past, even if it was in adifferent job. Volunteer experience can also help, Fireman said。
Not all career changes are equally difficult. The hardest is to move to a field where none of your previous experience is relevant. Often, though, you can find a way tobuild on your previous experience while doing something new。
Consider staying in your industry butmoving to a new role so you can play up your industry knowledge. Or you could keep working in finance, for example, but for a biotech company instead of a publisher. In that case, you can show that you have already done the job, even if the industry is new。