With job searches taking longer, there are more jobseekers bumping up against their severance deadline (or their own mental deadline that tells them they should have found a job by now).

　　隨著找工作花的時間長了，越來越多的求職者發(fā)現(xiàn)已逼近他們找工作的明確限期，或者僅僅是他們心理上的限期，即主觀上告訴自己現(xiàn)在本該已找到工作的。

　　A popular question that I hear often is how long you should hold out for that dream job before moving to plan B.

　　我常聽到的一個問題就是：人們應該為夢想中的工作堅持多久才退而執(zhí)行另外的計劃呢？

　　The answer is different for everyone:

　　答案因人而異，下面一些可能的影響因素：

　　What is your time urgency? Have you run the actual numbers on your cash cushion runs out? The shorter the time you have, the wider your net has to be. Even if your dream company/ industry/ functional area is hiring, when you have a short timeframe, you need to have multiple searches well underway.

　　你最緊迫的事是什么？你有沒有計算過你目前的儲蓄可以支撐多少天？時間越急，你撒的網(wǎng)就必須越廣。即使你心儀的公司、行業(yè)、領域正在招人，考慮到時間緊促，你也應該同時多處留意。

　　What is your risk appetite? Some people are energized by putting all their focus on their passion. Some people would be so nervous that they couldn’t do their best work. Some people are distracted doing more than one thing at a time so they have to decide on plan A or B, but can only choose one.

　　你的冒險意愿強不強呢？有些人能量十足，將所有精力集中到其熱情所在。有些人則過分緊張以至于不能將工作做到最好。還有些人則容易因為數(shù)事并舉而分心，只得決定是執(zhí)行A計劃還是執(zhí)行B計劃，只能二選其一。

　　What are your dream job prospects? Are you looking to break into the subprime mortgage origination business, or are you looking into alternative energy? Some sectors are hotter than others. Growing industries will hire faster. Newer industries will hire people with less experience (since by default everyone has less experience in brand new industries) and are more open to career changers.

　　你夢想中的工作前景如何呢？現(xiàn)在的你是希望進軍引發(fā)次級抵押貸款危機的金融行業(yè)，還是考慮新能源產(chǎn)業(yè)呢？當然，有些行業(yè)較其它行業(yè)更熱門。朝陽產(chǎn)業(yè)對人力資源需求更大。新興產(chǎn)業(yè)不介意雇用經(jīng)驗不那么豐富的員工，因為大家默認在全新的產(chǎn)業(yè)領域所有人經(jīng)驗都會相對不足，相對也更愿對改行的求職者敞開門戶。

　　These are just some of the issues that you have to weigh. The work involves actually thinking through these issues – calculating your financial obligations v. your reserves, examining your will, researching your target sectors. It is not a single right or wrong answer, but more of a process and series of actions. In this way, it is less about waiting and more about doing. The best jobseekers are proactive and don’t wait.

　　有些問題是你不得不權衡的。找工作實際上牽涉到對以下問題的細致考慮——計算你的財務負擔和你的儲蓄情況，審視自己的工作意愿，以及研究你的目標行業(yè)。這不是一個簡單的或?qū)蝈e的答案，更大程度上是一個過程和一系列的行動。就這個意義而言，它更多的是在于做，而不在于等。最好的求職者從來不坐等其成，而是主動出擊。