谷歌人力资源副总裁：前十年别专一

 　　Google HR boss shares his best advice for succeeding in today's workplace

　　谷歌的人力资源主管分享在职场中成功的最好的建议

　　Since Laszlo Bockbecame Google's senior vice¹ president of people operations in 2006, the company has grown from a workforce² of 6,000 employees to 60,000.

　　自从拉兹洛·博克2006年担任谷歌人力资源运营副总裁以来，公司的员工数量已由原来的6000名员工增长到了60000名员工。

　　Today, it has more than 70 offices across 40 countries and receives more than 2 million job applications every year.

　　如今，谷歌在40个国家设有70多个办事处，每年还会收到两百多万的工作申请。

　　谷歌人力资源副总裁：前十年别专一

　　In that same time, it's secured a comfortable No. 1 spot atop several rankings of the best places to work.

　　同一时间里，在最佳工作场所的几个排名中位于最舒适工作场所的榜首。

　　Bock recently spoke³ about his new book about Google, "Work Rules!," with venture capitalist John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Beyers(an investor⁴ in Google since 1999) for a podcast episode of Voices of KPCB.

　　博克最近跟KPCB风险投资公司的风险资本家约翰·杜尔（1999年起一直是谷歌的投资者）在KPCB之声的播客中谈到他关于谷歌的新书，“就是些工作准则而已！”

　　At one point in the conversation, Doerr asks Bock to share his best career advice for a knowledge worker, and Bock has an unorthodox answer, which we've edited for clarity:

　　在谈话中，杜尔邀请博克给脑力工作者分享其就业经验，然而博克给了我们曾经明白指出过的截然不同的答案。

　　The conventional wisdom on how to manage your career is to specialize. They talk about the T-Model, where you finish school and you spend your first 10 years specializing, and then 10 years out you get good, and then you become a general manager (that's the top of the T). I have completely the opposite view.

　　对于职业发展，我们传统的观念就是术业有专攻。他们把这比作T型，你完成学业之后，把你第一个十年的时间花在专攻上，十年之后你成功了，之后你成了一个总经理（那是T型的顶端）。我的观点恰恰相反。

　　Because everyone's doing that. So if you want to win, you need to do something different.

　　正因为所有人都抱有这样的想法。所以如果你想要赢，你就需要做点不同寻常的事情。

　　In the first 10 years of your career, try a lot of different things. Don't overthink it. Experiment. Work in different companies. Be in a startup; be in a big company. Work for a branded company; work for somebody nobody's heard of. Work for a nonprofit. You're going to get a level of breadth that somebody who's specialized⁵ won't have.

　　在你工作的第一个十年里，试着去做很多不同的事情。不要犹豫，要去尝试，要去不同的公司里工作。去创业，去大公司里工作。去大品牌公司工作；或者去一个名不经传的公司工作。不以赚钱为目的地去工作。你将会得到专攻的那些人所得不到的水平。

　　Ten years in, by the time you're around 30, you should declare your "major." That's when you decide here's "what I want to be when I grow up," and you specialize.

　　在这十年里，等你快要30岁的时候，你应该确定你的“专业”。那就是你决定“这就是我长大以后的梦想”的时候，那时候你也就会很专业了。

　　If you want to be a user interface⁶ designer, you're going to be competing against a bunch of people who have been doing that for 10 years, and they're a dime⁷ a dozen. You're going to come in having done something like working for a historical society or having traveled the world, and you're going to be different.

　　如果你想成为一个用户界面设计师，你将会与已经这样做了10年的一群人竞争，这些人比比皆是。如果你做了类似于曾经为历史学会工作或者曾经环游世界的事情，那你将是与众不同的。

　　Because you're different you're going to have an advantage with the insight you can bring. The cool things are happening at the intersections⁸ of fields, not deep, deep, deep in a field — with a few exceptions.

　　因为你的不同来源于你能利用你洞察力的优势。美好的东西总在不同领域的交叉点中，而非那些很深很深的领域中——那是极少数的。

　　And then in your next 10 years, you accelerate.

　　在你接下来的10年里，你要加速。

　　In the third decade of your career, you sort of reap the rewards. You're C-level in a company, or you're a founder⁹. And you just do your own thing.

　　在你职业生涯中的第三个十年，你会获得回报。你在公司里是C级水平，还是你是创始人。你只需要做好你自己的事情。

1 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

2 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 investor   

n.投资者，投资人

参考例句：

• My nephew is a cautious investor.我侄子是个小心谨慎的投资者。
• The investor believes that his investment will pay off handsomely soon.这个投资者相信他的投资不久会有相当大的收益。

5 specialized   

adj.专门的，专业化的

参考例句：

• There are many specialized agencies in the United Nations.联合国有许多专门机构。
• These tools are very specialized.这些是专用工具。

6 interface   

n.接合部位，分界面；v.(使)互相联系

参考例句：

• My computer has a network interface,which allows me to get to other computers.我的计算机有网络接口可以与其它计算机连在一起。
• This program has perspicuous interface and extensive application. 该程序界面明了，适用范围广。

7 dime   

n.（指美国、加拿大的钱币）一角

参考例句：

• A dime is a tenth of a dollar.一角银币是十分之一美元。
• The liberty torch is on the back of the dime.自由火炬在一角硬币的反面。

8 intersections   

n.横断( intersection的名词复数 )；交叉；交叉点；交集

参考例句：

• Traffic lights have been placed at all major intersections. 所有重要的交叉路口都安装了交通信号灯。
• Intersections are of the greatest importance in highway design. 在道路设计中，交叉口占有最重要的地位。 来自辞典例句

9 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。