How To Keep Your Job, In Difficult Times
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Headlines regularly scream about job losses and rising unemployment, but at least over at Yahoo Finance they’re trying to do something about it. They’ve just published some tips on how to make sure you keep your job, including:
- Being indispensable: make sure your boss notices why the company needs you more than other employees. In tough times, it’s not enough just to do your job well, unfortunately.
- Speaking up: similarly, you should make sure that your business successes are widely known. Particularly in firms where staff or management turnover is relatively high, it’s important to keep your success on the radar of decision makers.
- Being a leader: even if that’s not what you’re paid to do, demonstrating leadership skills and taking control - when appropriate, of course - can make you the employee the business values more highly and wants to keep on.
- Keeping in touch: if you need to change jobs, then having a healthy network of contacts and friends in various companies and industries can be very useful. Don’t make fleeting contact that looks like you’re just trying to keep in touch, though - work at building good relationships both because it can be useful, and because you have a genuine interest in people.
Tags: Career | Employment | Finances | lifehack
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