職場英語：如何讓自己變得更職業(yè)

So without further adieu, here are 10 key elements of professionalism that you should master early in your career.

所以，就不多介紹了，以下是你在職業(yè)生涯初期必須掌握的10條職業(yè)的原則。

1. Pay attention to the cultural norms in your organization, and follow them. If you watch how others in your office operate, you'll learn all sorts of important things about "how we do things here." For instance, you might observe that everyone shows up precisely on time for meetings, that they modulate their voices when others are on the phone, and that people rely on email for non-urgent questions. These are important signals for what will be expected of your own behavior – and you'll come across as tone-deaf if you ignore them.

1.注意觀察你所在企業(yè)的文化規(guī)范，并遵從這種規(guī)范。只要你觀察你周圍的人是怎么做的，你就能學到有關“我們在這兒怎么做事”的一切。比如說，你可能會觀察到每個人在開會的時候都會恰好準時到達，他們講電話的時候會調(diào)整自己的音量，他們在處理非緊急事務時更依賴郵件。這些都是關于你該怎么做的重要暗示。——而你如果無視了這些事情，就會被看作是個不懂得察言觀色的愣頭青。

2. Be pleasant and polite to people, even if you don't like them. You will have to work with people whom you just don't care for, and even with people who aren't very nice. You'll look far more professional if you don't let them get under your skin and instead remain cordial and easy to work with.

2.友善而有禮貌地待人，即使你不喜歡他們。你會需要和那些你根本不關心的人一起共事，甚至還要和那些脾氣很差的人共事。如果你能不被這些人激怒，而是保持親切溫和，那么你一定會被認為相當職業(yè)。

3. Take work seriously. If you make a mistake or something doesn't go well, don't brush it off or use cavalier responses like "my bad." Accept responsibility for your part in what went wrong.

3.認真對待工作。如果你犯了個錯，或者某件事進展不順，不要不屑一顧或是傲慢地回應：“我的錯”。當事情出了問題時要對你負責的部分但負起責任。

4. Speak up when work isn't getting done on time or when there are problems with a project. Part of taking real ownership for you work means that you're responsible for alerting your boss when things are going off course, rather than trying to ignore it or just hoping that no one notices.

4.如果工作沒有及時地完成，或是項目出了什么問題時將它提出來。為工作負責的一部分意味著你有責任在事情正在脫離正軌的時候提醒你的老板，而不是試著無視它或寄希望于別人注意不到。

5. Realize that getting feedback on your work – even critical feedback – is part of the job; it's not personal. Getting angry or defensive or otherwise taking it personally when your manager gives you feedback can be an easy trap to fall into, but it will make you look less professional. And after all, if you care about doing your job well and advancing, don't you want to know where you need to do better?

5.意識到獲得工作上的反饋——即使是批評意見——也是工作的一部分，而不是個人事務。在經(jīng)理給你提出反饋意見時，很容易使人表現(xiàn)出惱怒和防御性，或是把它理解為個人事務。這么做就會讓你顯得不那么職業(yè)。畢竟，如果你很關注如何能把工作做好，你難道不希望知道你在什么地方能做得更好嗎?

6. You need to write clearly and professionally. That means no text speak, and correct punctuation and capitalization. This doesn't mean that you need to write as if you were addressing the Queen of England, but you do need to take care that you don't sound like you're texting a friend from a nightclub either.

6.寫清晰，職業(yè)的書面語。這意味著寫書面化的語言，使用正確的標點符號和大小寫。這并不意味著你要像給英國女王寫信一樣，但你必須注意到你的語氣不能像給俱樂部的朋友寫信一樣。

7. Be flexible. Yes, your workday might formally end at 5 p.m., but if staying an hour late will ensure the newsletter goes to the printer on time, you should do it unless that's truly impossible. That doesn't mean to ignore important commitments in your own life, but you shouldn't let important work go undone just because of your quitting time. Similarly,be flexible when it comes to changes in work plans, goals or other things that might evolve as work moves forward.

7.懂得變通。沒錯，你的正常工作時間或許應該在下午5點結束，但如果你多待1個小時，就能確保通訊文件能及時打印出來，你就應該這么做，除非確實不可能。這并不意味著忽視你個人生活中的責任，你只是不應該僅僅因為到了你下班的時間就讓重要的工作拖下去。同樣地，當工作計劃、目標或其他事情發(fā)生變化的時候，你也要懂得變通。

8. Show up reliably. Unless you have pre-scheduled vacation time or you're truly ill, you should be at work when they're expecting you to be there. It's not OK to call in sick because you're hung over, or because you stayed up late last night watching soccer, or because you just don't feel like coming in.

8.出勤穩(wěn)定。除非你有預先計劃好的度假時間，或者真的生病了，你就應該按時工作。只是因為你要出去玩，或者前一晚通宵看球了，或者只是不想來上班就請病假是不對的。

9. Be helpful, and do more than solely what's in your job description. The way that you gain a great professional reputation – which will give you options that you can use to earn more money, get out of bad situations and not have to take the first job that comes along – is by doing more than the bare minimum required. That means always looking for ways to do your job better, helping out colleagues when you can, and not balking at new projects.

9.對別人有所幫助，不要僅僅做你工作說明書上的工作。能為你獲得職業(yè)聲譽的方式，就是不僅僅做那些最低要求的工作。職業(yè)聲譽能在你想掙更多錢、脫離不好的局面或是不想做第一個交給你的工作時給你提供更多的選擇。這也就是說你要經(jīng)常尋找把工作做得更好的方法，幫助同事們做些力所能及的工作，不要反對新推出的項目。

10. Don't treat your manager as your adversary. If you see your manager as someone whose job is to enforce rules, spoil your fun and make you do things you don't want to do, it will show – and it won't look good. Treat your manager as a team-mate, one who has authority over you, yes, but one who's working toward the same goals as you are.

10.不要視主管為仇敵。如果你把你的主管看做是一個強制你遵循規(guī)則，擠壓你的樂趣，還讓你做你不想做的事情的人，這會表現(xiàn)出來——而且看起來不可能很好。你應該把你的主管看作是團隊的一員，他對你擁有一些權力，但他和你工作的目標是一樣的。