初入職場(chǎng)應(yīng)知道哪些事情.

　　The salary you accept when you take the job is the one you need to live with for at least a year. People new to the professional workforce don&apost always realize that and think they can negotiate a raise after, say, three or six months. Attempting that won&apost go over well with most employers, since the convention is that you typically can&apost ask for a salary increase until you&aposve been on the job for at least a year.

　　你接受工作時(shí)同意的薪資水平至少會(huì)持續(xù)一年。邁入職場(chǎng)的新人們通常都沒(méi)有意識(shí)到一點(diǎn)，而且也認(rèn)為他們?cè)谥蟮?到6個(gè)月里就可以商議增加薪水。這種嘗試，在多數(shù)雇主那里是行不通的，因?yàn)榘凑諔T例，至少工作滿一年以后才可以要求漲薪。

　　Being smart and having potential is no longer enough; what you actually achieve is now what matters. In school, teachers often favor the smartest students and even cut them slack on things like being prepared for class or even on being respectful or working hard. But in the working world, reputations and careers are built on actual work; being smart won&apost give you a pass if you miss deadlines, aren&apost prepared for meetings or don&apost meet your goals.

　　僅僅聰明、富有潛力還不夠;你的實(shí)際工作才是現(xiàn)在最關(guān)鍵的。學(xué)校里，老師總是喜歡那些最聰明的學(xué)生，甚至在課前準(zhǔn)備、品格和工作態(tài)度方面對(duì)他們放松要求。但是在工作中，聲譽(yù)和事業(yè)要基于實(shí)際的工作。聰明的特點(diǎn)不會(huì)在你錯(cuò)過(guò)截止日期，或是沒(méi)有對(duì)會(huì)議進(jìn)行充分準(zhǔn)備，或沒(méi)有達(dá)成目標(biāo)時(shí)給你特赦。

　　Unlike in school, great performance on the job isn&apost just about waiting for assignments and doing them. While in school it was often enough to simply do your assignments, at work you should be identifying ways to drive your department&aposs work forward and taking initiative to do things better. If you sit around and wait for someone to tell you what to do, you might not get much done. That said, you also need to know the parameters of where you can take initiative and where you can&apost, which isn&apost always spelled out explicitly (and therore can really confuse new workers).

　　不像在學(xué)校里，工作表現(xiàn)良好不能只是等待分配任務(wù)然后完成它們。在學(xué)校，只要完成你的作業(yè)就夠了，但是在工作場(chǎng)合中，你必須明白讓你所在部門的工作向前推進(jìn)的方法，并且主動(dòng)完善。如果你坐等別人告訴干什么，你可能不會(huì)有很大的成就。另外，你要把握好分寸。這個(gè)分寸一般都不會(huì)明說(shuō)。(因此新員工可能會(huì)很困惑)。

　　Two weeks is the most time you can take off at once in many workplaces. Those days of lengthy vacations may be a thing of the past. In many workplaces, two weeks is the uppermost limit of how much time you can take off at once. In fact, two weeks might be the full amount of vacation time you&aposre allotted per year, and if you use it all up at once, you won&apost be able to take any time off the rest of the year. (But this does vary by workplace; some offer double or even triple that, particularly as you move into more senior roles.)

　　兩周是很多工作場(chǎng)合允許的最長(zhǎng)休假時(shí)間。過(guò)去悠長(zhǎng)假期的日子已經(jīng)一去不復(fù)返了。在很多地方，2周是一次性請(qǐng)假允許的最長(zhǎng)時(shí)間。事實(shí)上，2周可能是你每年可休假時(shí)間的總數(shù)。如果你一次性把假都請(qǐng)完的話，1年里剩余的時(shí)間里就沒(méi)有任何假期了。(不過(guò)各個(gè)公司情況有所不同。有些公司的假期長(zhǎng)度是這個(gè)的兩倍甚至是3倍，特別是當(dāng)你升入更高的職位之后。)

　　Your boss wants you to get to the point. In school, you might have learned to delve deeply into every aspect of an issue, but most managers want to hear the upshot first and then decide whether to ask for more background. This is true in face-to-face conversations, but it&aposs especially true in writing; few managers have the time or inclination to read multiple-page memos or lengthy emails. Short summaries with bullet points are generally prerred.

　　抓住重點(diǎn)。在學(xué)校，你可能學(xué)會(huì)了深層探究一個(gè)議題的各個(gè)方面。但是大多數(shù)管理人員首先想要聽到結(jié)果，然后再?zèng)Q定要不要詢問(wèn)更多背景信息。這適用于面對(duì)面的交談，同時(shí)也尤其適用于筆頭文件。沒(méi)有人有時(shí)間、有心情讀上好幾頁(yè)的文件或是冗長(zhǎng)的郵件。簡(jiǎn)短的總結(jié)加上幾個(gè)重點(diǎn)更為合適。