指尖阅读—你的生涯 你做主（三）

　　读书可以感悟人生，这个人生可以是自己的人生，可以是历史的沧桑。可以是天地的沉浮，可以是……;读书是一种德性，在理性的引导下，读书人在灿烂的星空与神圣的道德之间，获得了灵性和自由，以及诗意生存。读书是一种放达，在历史与现实的冲击下，读书人漠然于时间也漠然于空间，即使是惊鸿一瞥，也执掌起漫天光芒。

　　大家，很快我们又见面了，非常感谢大家关注指尖阅读。第三期的指尖阅读，我们将和大家继续阅读《the start-upof you 》节选部分。

       With the death of traditional career paths,so goes kind of traditional professional development previous generations enjoyed. You can no longer count on employer-sponsored training to enhance your communication skills or expand your technical know-how. The expectation for even junior employees is that you can do the job you’ve been hired to do upon arrival or that you’ll learn so quicklyyou’ll be up to speed within weeks. Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it’s now your job to trainand invest in yourself. Companies don’t want to invest you, in part because you’re not likely to commit years and years of your life to working there-you will have many different jobs in your life time. There used to be a long-termpact between employee and employer that guaranteed lifetime employment in exchange for lifelong loyalty; this pact has been replaced by aperformance-based, short-term contract that’s perpetually up for renewal by both sides. Professional loyalty now flows “horizontally” to and from your network rather than “vertically” to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.

       The undoing of these traditional career assumptions has to do with at least two interrelated macro forces: globalization and technology. These concepts may seem overhyped to you, but their long-term effects are actually underhyped. Technology automates jobs that used to require hard-earned knowledge and skills ,including well-paid, white-collar jobs such as stockbrokers ,paralegals, and radiologists. Technology also creates new job susually require different, higher-level skills than did the ones they replaced.If technology doesn’t eliminate or change the skills you need in many industries, it at least enables more people from around the world to competefor your job by allowing companies to offshore work more easily-knocking downyour salary in the process. Trade and technology did not appear overnight and are not going away anytime soon. The labor market in which we all work has beenpermanently altered.

       So forget what you thought you knew about the world ofwork. The rules have changed .“Ready, aim, fire”has been replaced by “Aim,fire, aim, fire, aim, fire.”Searching for a job only when you’re unemployed or unhappy at work has been replaced by the mandate to always be generating opportunities. Networking has been replaced by intelligent network building.

       The gap is growing between those who know the new careerrules and have the new skills of a global economy, and those who clutch to old ways of thinking and rely on commoditized skills. The question is ,which are you ?