Strategy tips for Keeping Your Job

In some countries, unemployment because of worker cutbacks is a big problem. Is this a problem in your country?

In response, career experts developed strategies for holding on to a job:

• Make sure everyone knows you. Being a good worker is sometimes less important than making sure that people know you’re a good worker. Volunteer for new responsibilities, push your ideas, and generally make yourself visible.
• Learn everything that could help you do your job better. If the company/ organization buy new computers, learn how to use them. If learning more about marketing could help you, take a short course in marketing.

• Make sure you know everything about the company/ organization. If you find out that sales are becoming the most important department, try to make a move to sales. If report writing is the most needed and important for departments, volunteer for more responsible, spend more time in learning and doing that work.
• Be positive. People who find things to complain about are a lot less popular than people who find things to praise.
• Improve your speaking and writing skills. Having good ideas isn’t enough. You need to be able to communicate your ideas.
• Impress your boss. You can often impress a boss by arriving early and working late and by dressing in a businesslike way even if others dress casually.
• List down the six most important things that you want to do today.
• Keep your mind six percent to nine percent empty for more ideas.                                                                 

For instant, you poured the cup full, and then continue to pour. “Stop it! No more will go in.” This would means you are full of your own ideas and notions, how can I show you unless you first empty your cup. 

At the end, it all comes down to one basic strategy: Make yourself so valuable that the company won’t want to lose you.