五点助你登上职场高峰

5. Know thyself-and be ready for reinvention.
5. 充份了解自己──做好接受新挑战的准备

You should constantly take stock of your dreams, values and transferrable skills. Scrupulous self-assessments can ease jitters about changing your occupation, industry, locale or pay.
经常审视自己的理想、自身价值及有效技能。审慎细致的自我评估，可以缓解你对于职业、行业、工作地、收入改变的紧张感。

After losing his job as a hourly manufacturing worker in 2006, Christopher Pearsall became a product manager for a business-software developer the following year. When the part-time paramedic got laid off again in 2008, he decided to pursue what he really loved: health care.
皮尔索尔（Christopher Pearsall）起初是拿计时工资的制造业工人，2006年失业，第二年在一家商业软件开发公司找了一份产品经理的工作，并兼职从事急救员工作。2008年再次失业后，他决定从事自己真正喜爱的事业：医疗保健。

Mr. Pearsall will soon finish nursing school. 'I have re-reinvented myself,' he says.
现在，皮尔索尔马上就要完成护理学校的学业了。他说，“我又一次得到了重生。”

To succeed at your current workplace, you must be equally flexible about accepting lateral moves. Businesses like such switch hitters-as I can attest.
要想在目前的公司做得成功，你应该让自己有足够的变通能力，可以适应其他的平级岗位。职场是青睐那些多面手的──这一点在我身上可以得到证实。

Today marks the last print version of a column that sought to provide uncommon solutions to common career dilemmas for 17 years. Soon, in my new monthly advice column on WSJ.com, I'll tackle a new challenge: helping senior executives make the most of their careers.
我撰写的这个专栏致力于为寻常的职场困惑提供不寻常的解决之道，如今已经持续整整17年了，今天这一篇文章便是这个专栏的的收官之作。很快我会在WSJ.com开设一个新的提供建议的专栏，每月一篇文章，在这个新专栏中我将接受一个全新的挑战：为高级管理人员的职业发展出谋划策。