BEC剑桥英语高级 Test 1, Reading Part 2

Part 2. Your career path can lead you anywhere 你的职业生涯道路将引领你去任何地方

We used to be advised to plan our careers. We were told to make a plan during the later stages of our education and continue with it through our working lives.0 We were expected to work towards that one clear goal and to consider a career change as a bad thing. Some people still see careers in this way. However, to purse a single option for life has always been unrealistic.

我们常常被建议要去规划我们的职业。在我们学业的后期，我们被告知要去做这个一个规划，并且在我们整个职业生涯简短要不断地去做这个样的规划。我们被期待着工作要有一个清晰的目标，并把转行看作一个不好的事。很多人坚持这一观点。然后，一生中只有一个选择并是不现实得。

Planning for a single career assumes that we set out with a full understanding of our likes and dislikes and the employment opportunities open to us 9…. For most people this degree of certainty about the future does not exist.

规划一个单一的职业假设我们开始就对自己的喜好非常了解，并且这样就业机会为我们敞开。9. 对绝大部分人来说，这种对未来的可能性不存在。

Our initial choice of career path and employer is often based on inadequate knowledge and false perceptions. But with age and experience, we develop new interests and aptitudes and our priorities alter. The structure of the employment market and, indeed of employment itself, is subject to change as both new technologies and new work systems are introduced. 10….. We must face the uncertainties of a portfolio career.

我们最初的职业道路和雇主的选择经常是基于不充足的知识和错误的观念。但是随着年龄和经验的增长，我们发展了我们的兴趣和才能，我们优先考虑的事情改变了。雇佣市场的结构和雇佣本身，受新技术和新的工作系统的引进，也常常改变。 10. 我们必须面对这种职业组合的不确定性。

It is clear from the recent past that we cannot foresee the changes which will affect our working lives. The pace of change is accelerating, as a result of which traditional career plans will be of very limited use. …11….. They will need updating to reflect changes in our own interests as well as in the external work environment. Flexible workers already account for about half the workforce. …12… We are likely to face periods as contract workers, self-employed freelances, consultants, temps or part-timers.

从最近一段时间很清晰的看出，我们很难预见这种影响我们职业生涯的改变。这种改变的速度在加快，结果是传统的职业生涯规划的经验用处非常有限. …11… 他们将需要根据我们自己的兴趣和外部的工作环境更新反馈的改变。弹性的工作者已经占了工作人口的一半。…12…我们很可能要面对这样一个合同制，半雇佣的自由工作者，咨询师，短期工作者和兼职工作这样一个多元的时代。

Many employers encourage staff to write a personal development plan(PDP)….13… Although some people use it only to review the skills needed for their job, a PDP could be the nucleus of a wider career plan-setting out alternative long-term learning needs and a plan of self-development.
很多雇主鼓励员工去写一个个人发展计划….13… 虽然一些人使用个人发展计划去看他们工作需要的技能，但是这个个人发展计划可能是更广阔的个人发展计划的核心–这可能使得他们开始一个长期的学习市场需求和个人的发展。

A report issued by the Institute of Employment Studies advises people to enhance their employability by moving from traditional technical skills towards the attainment of a range of transferable skills….14… Instead, special schemes should be established to encourage people to examine their effectiveness and to consider a wider range of needs.

就业研究所发布的一份报告建议: 通过从传统的技能朝着获得可转换的技能进行转变能增强从业者的就业能力。…14…换句话说，特殊的方案应该被建立去鼓励人们去检验这样的有效性并考虑到更广阔的需求。

A This dual effect means that the relationship between employers and workers has evolved to such an extent that we can no longer expect a long-term relationship with one employer.

这个双重的影响意为着雇主和雇员的关系已经发展到一个程度：我们不在期待和一个雇主建立一个长期的雇佣关系。

B.It carries an implicit assumption that we ourselves, and the jobs we enter, will change little during our working lives.
这带来一个隐含的假设，我们自己和我们的工作将在我们的工作年限中改变的很少。

C. This growth suggests that a career plan should not be expressed only in terms of full-time employment but should make provision for the possibility of becoming one of them.

这个增长建议职业规划不应仅在全职工作中反映，而且应该为了变成其中一个的可能性做好准备。

D This is a summary of one’s personal learning needs and an action plan to meet them.
这是一个个人学习需求和行动计划去满足他们需求的总结。

E Consequently, they must now accommodate a number of objectives and enable us to prepare for each on a contingency basis.
结果，现在他们必须适应一系列的目标，并且能是我们为这些每一个做出应变。

F However, it warns that employers often identify training needs through formal appraisals, which take too narrow a view of development.
然而，这警告雇主经常通过正式的评估来确定培训的需求，这样的评估太过于狭隘。

G Such a freelance or consultant would be constantly in demand.
这样的自由职业者或咨询师可能不断的受欢迎。