21世纪的10项就业竞争压力

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Thanks! 21 世纪的 10 项就业竞争力 Ten Career Skills to Keep You Employable in the 21st Century 作者：卡拉布兰 Karla Brandau 翻译：张楚盈 By P 驱车奔驰在人生的大道上，大多数人总是盯着后视镜，以过去判断将 来。他们对过去十分清楚了解，错误地相信未来将与过去差不多，并以过 往的经验为将来作决定。是的，过去是未来的基础，但要在 21 世纪中获得 理想工作，还需要考虑很多其它就业竞争力方面的因素。 未来的工作环境将更加全球化。如果你的工作不需要你在现场提供服 务；例如传菜，清洁窗户或者为杂货店整理货品。那么，你将与其它发展 中国家里既聪明又积极勤奋的人们在竞争工作。 在当今新的环境下竞争，要求更高水平的能力，必须把注意力聚焦于 前方，不要老是眷恋于过去的成功。 这里有 10 项值得你锻炼和拥有的职场技能，以提升你在事业上的自信 心，并且让你在 21 世纪职场内更具竞争力。 1. 接受新科技 未來對科技的依賴程度將有增無減。投放時間于學習新的電腦程式， 但更重要的是，在你日常工作中應用。力求讓科技成為生產力的推動 者，而不是一件具備眾多嶄新功能但被投閒置散的新玩意或裝飾品。 要知道一項新的科技或事物是否值得你花時間去瞭解和學習，回答以 下問題：“它將為你節省還是浪費時間？” 2. 擁抱多元化 接納其他民族的文化，宗教和習俗，尋找他們的優點。瞭解不同國 籍員工的不同習慣與態度。當你開始從人性本質的層面去與人連系， 你會有重大的發現。 3. 終生學習 當你完成學校教育最後一堂課的時候，你是否曾經有解放了 的感覺？是否曾經這樣說：“呼，終於完成了學業，真快活！”。然 而，你意想不到的是，要在新的世紀裏保持競爭力，你必須是一位持 續學習者。做好準備，在每個 4 至 5 年裏，便要更新一次你腦袋內的 知識和與工作相關的技能。 4. 誠信 雇主需要感受到你這個人，你的精神和心態層面，需要可以相信你 是誠實的。只要有一個人開始利用公司的資源謀取私利，便將形成損 害公司利益的潛規則。然而，誠信的意思是在單純的誠實以外，你還 須要按時交付結果，而不是借囗。 5. 做積極主動的人 當盈利出現虧損，經濟開始衰退，或者快要進行合並重組時，你要 麼鼓勵自己積極參與，要麼準備成為第一個被開除的人。那些學會樂 觀地，而不是悲觀地，面對人生的人，對於企業來說是更有價值的 - 因為他們創造了更具創造力的工作環境。 6. 展示嚴謹性 雇主希望雇用擁有嚴謹工作習慣和思考能力的人。員工越嚴謹，上 級管理必須用於重複考慮怎樣安排工作， 重複給與指引說明，重複 進行沒有被做好的工作和最基本，用於擔憂你是否值得信任的時間便 越少。當你展示你的嚴謹性，你和你的經理就能花更多時間去解決問 題，讓公司穩步前進。 7. 評估及安排工作 世上最浪費時間的兩種人是：不知道從那裏開始和從不那麼重要的 事情開始一天工作的人。要在在全球化的工作環境下競爭，就要具備 分辨工作重要性的能力，細心地規劃工作的先後次序，每天從最重要 的事情開展工作。 8. 適應力 企業必須不斷地改進和定期提出改革倡議才能避免被淘汰。員工通 常會對系統和流程更新抱有抗拒態度，障礙公司的進步。在 21 世紀要 提高就業競爭力，必須學會成為解決方案的一部份，而不是問題的一 部分。認真地思考未來，並且積極地尋找支持改革的方法。 9. 創意與創新思考 要能夠在 21 世紀為企業作出貢獻，你須要跳出思維的框框，尋求 創新的解決方法，去應對難纏的問題，提高生產力，或開發新的產品 與服務。當出現挑戰時，成為第一個提出新觀點的人，尋找新的選擇， 或是建議新的行動方案。你的主意，加上其他同事的創意，有助企業 成長；這是在 21 世紀保持競爭力必須做的事。 10. “可以的”的態度 盡可能地讓你自己被傳遞積極正面訊息和思想的事物所包圍。負面 的新聞，流言和想法已經太多了！生產問題引至團隊成員間意見不一 和發生磨擦爭執，管理層面對投資者的不滿和交付期限帶來的壓力。 令情況更加複雜的是，你的負面思維來得總比正面的快。你須要訓練 自已，從積極的方向去看待事情，尋找正面的可能性，從危難障礙中 發掘機會。如果你能夠掌握可以的這種積極態度，你能夠為所有 你參與的事情作出正面的 貢獻，在這個越趨負面的世界內，你的就 業競爭力便越強。 這些技巧有些相對簡單，也有些在實行時可能有點難度。然而，當你 在每個方面也有所提升時，你的信心和能力也會相應地提升。你對企業作 出積極正面的貢獻，也創造了企業對你的服務的需求。你的工作會更加穩 定。 快意 快意管理顾问（武汉）有限公司 Quickmind (Wuhan) Management Consultancy Limited Most people drive through life looking in their rearview mirror and judging the future by the past. They have a really good view of where they have been and mistakenly think the future will be similar to the past as they make decisions based on their previous experiences. Even though past experience gives a base for the future, there are many employability factors to take into account as you plan to grab one of the best jobs in 2010 and beyond. The future work world will be even more global. If your job is not one that requires you to physically be in one place, i.e. serving food, washing windows and stocking grocery shelves, you will be competing with bright and hungry workers in India, China, Korea and other developing nations around the globe. Competing in the new environment will require higher levels of competence and necessitate looking straight ahead, not constantly glancing rearview mirror for warm fuzzy feelings about what you have achieved in the past. Here are 10 skills to acquire and refine that will increase your professional confidence level and make you more employable in the 21st Century: 1. Constantly adapt to technology. Dependency on technology in the future will increase, not decrease. Spend time learning new computer programs but more importantly, use the applications in your daily routine and strive to use technology as an enabler of productivity, not as a neat new toy with tons of cute features that you dont use. To decide if the new gadget is worth the time, ask yourself, “Does this make time or waste time?“ 2. Embrace diversity. Get comfortable with other ethnic cultures, religions and customs. Be curious about what makes people from other cultures tick. Learn a little about the customs and attitudes that belong to workers from other countries. The time will be well spent as you begin to relate human to human, not human to inhabitant of another country. 3. Be a life-long learner. When you finished your last college course did you utter a sigh of relief and mumble something like, “Whew, glad Im finished with my education!“ Surprise, the new century will require you to be a continuous learner. Be prepared to reinvent yourself, the pool of information in your brain and your work-related skills every 4-5 years. 4. Practice impeccable integrity. Employers need to feel your spirit and have the quiet assurance that you are honest. Even one person in an organization who takes advantage of company assets for personal gain causes untold rules and regulations. Taking integrity beyond just simple honesty, however, means that when you commit to a deadline, you are fully committed to producing results, not excuses. 5. Be a self-starter. Fire yourself up or look forward to being the first to go when bottom lines dip into the red, a recession lurks around the corner or the next merger takes place. Those who learn to work on the optimistic side of life, not the pessimistic side of life, are more valuable to the organization as they create a positive work environment that produces higher productivity. 6. Demonstrate personal discipline. Employers want to hire people who have disciplined work habits and disciplined thinking. The more disciplined the worker, the less time managers must spend rethinking, retracing and reworking - basically, worrying if you will be reliable. When you demonstrate personal discipline, you and your manager can spend more time on solving problems and moving the company forward. 7. Prioritize and evaluate daily. Two of the biggest time wasters in the world are not knowing where to start when you get to work in the morning and working on low priority items. To compete in the global work environment takes meticulous prioritization of tasks and the ability to identify the highest priority item that you tackle first every morning. 8. Be adaptable. To stave off obsolescence, organizations must constantly change and regularly introduce change initiatives. Often employee resistance derails plans for updating processes and procedures and stalls company progress. To increase employability in 2010, learn to be part of the solution, not part of the problem. Ask tough questions that define the future and actively look for ways to support the new change initiatives. 9. Think creatively and innovatively. Contributing to your organization in 2010 demands thinking outside of the box and looking for creative ways to solve nagging problems, increase productivity or produce a new product or service. When a challenge presents itself, be the first to offer a new viewpoint, discover an alternative or recommend another course of action. Your ideas combined with the creative ideas from other employees will help your organization renew itself as necessary to be competitive in the 21st Century. 10. Have the Can-Do attitude. Immerse yourself in all the available positive mental attitude material you can find. Negatives are thrown at you the entire day from the news, next door neighbors and the nerd in the next cubicle. Teams face hurdles to productivity which causes dissention among members. Management faces stockholder dissatisfaction and product deadlines. To compound the problem, your mind naturally generates negative thoughts before positive thoughts. You have to train your mind to see the positive, to find the positive and to see the opportunity lurking in the obstacle. If you can master the positive can-do attitude, you will add value to everything you touch and be more employable in an increasing negative world. 快意 快意管理顾问（武汉）有限公司 Quickmind (Wuhan) Management Consultancy Limited 作者简介： 卡拉布蘭是美國國家演說