Nothing in career strategy is more important than picking the career field that's right for you. Get that right, and you may be headed to happiness and fulfillment in your work.

選擇合適的職業(yè)領域才是所有職業(yè)策略中最重要的一步。只有選對了，你才能獲得工作上的幸福和成就。

The most straightforward path to that field is to build directly on your capabilities. A great deal of research shows that people who work in areas where they're especially strong accomplish a lot and enjoy the work. By building on your strengths, you'll find the right opportunities. Employers and investors will be more likely to bet on you if they think you're up to the challenge —if you really can help them accomplish their goals.

根據(jù)自己的能力尋找職業(yè)方向是最簡單明了的辦法。大量的研究表明那些在自己擅長領域工作的人能收獲更多的成就和樂趣。不斷強化自己的優(yōu)勢，你總會找到合適的機會。如果你的確能夠幫助老板和投資者達成目標，他們才更愿意在你身上賭一把，賭你能完成挑戰(zhàn)。

Guide your career by consciously building on your capabilities. Here are three ways to do that:

根據(jù)自己的能力選擇職業(yè)領域，下面三個方法可以試一試：

1. Recognize your core capabilities. The first step in thinking about a capability-driven career is to understand what to build on. Begin with a self-appraisal. Look for distinctive talents, skills, and knowledge that will make you highly competitive for certain lines of work.

1.認清自己的核心能力所在。要找到基于你能力的職業(yè)首先需要了解你到底有哪些能力。對自己進行一個評估吧。找出那些能讓你完全勝任某些工作的天分、技能和知識。

I'll illustrate this idea with a computer solutions sales manager. His list might include understanding customers, meeting information needs with computer solutions, coaching junior salesmen, and communicating well verbally. These characteristics are certainly important for that field of work, but they're too general. They're similar to what other sales managers might say about themselves.

就拿電腦解決方案的銷售經(jīng)理為例，這份工作需要了解顧客，熟知電腦解決方案的信息，訓練初級銷售人員以及擁有良好的溝通能力。這都是該職業(yè)中重要的技能特點，但似乎又有點過于泛泛之談，和其他領域的銷售經(jīng)理似乎并沒有太大的區(qū)別。

A more specific list would be a stronger career guide. For example, go beyond "meeting customer information needs with computer solutions" by noting your deep knowledge of how to do that in a specific industry, like your experience with a particular computer solution technology, like integrating iPhone functions with a company website. Don't just jot down "understanding customers," but also describe your talent for imagining customer problems and needs before the customers even recognize them.

那么就需要更加詳細的清單來指導職業(yè)規(guī)劃。比如，與其說“滿足顧客對電腦解決方案的信息需求”，不如為做好這份工作進行更多的知識儲備，比如你在處理某一電腦解決方案時的技術經(jīng)驗，再比如如何將iphone的功能和公司網(wǎng)站有機集合。不要泛泛地說“了解顧客”，而要描述自己能預測顧客會有哪些問題和需要。