More ways to keep your job

Don’t let the deepening recession kill your spirit. Here’s how to get ahead and stay ahead in what’s proving to be the most tenuous work environment in decades.

57 Ways to Keep Your Job and Excel at the Workplace

Get involved with training and development
Find inefficiencies and redundant tasks and eliminate them
Offer to help with the recruiting process
Help other employees to be productive
Uncover ways to increase revenue with existing clients
Acquire new customers
Discover new markets and channels for your company’s product/service
Present ideas on how to decrease costs
Improve workplace communication and workflow by introducing new technologies
Always take the opportunity to impress your boss
Volunteer when tasks need to be completed
Automate your mundane tasks
Learn to delegate and outsource jobs
Focus primarily on your strengths
Ask about professional development opportunities to work on your weaknesses
Push yourself beyond your comfort zone
Do more than is expected of you
Invite constructive criticism
Challenge yourself to learn more about the business and how you would run it as the owner
Review your company’s goals and your job description, and analyze if your work is achieving those goals

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3 ways to keep the job you have

1) Make sure your skills and competencies are aligned with the company's business needs.
2) Create a pleasant and positive work environment.
3) Plan for the best and prepare for the worst.

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4 Ways to Keep Your Job in a Slowing Job Market

Make yourself indispensable
Don't be high-maintenance
Stay busy
Do damage control

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5 Ways to Keep Your Job During a Recession

1. Come up with ways to cut costs.

2. Boost your visibility.

3. Go beyond.

4. Improve your skill set.

5. Watch your attitude.

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Top 10 Ways to Keep Your Job During Downsizing

1. Regularly assess your company's goals and your own to see if they are in sync.

2. If you find gaps between your company's needs and the skills you currently possess, immediately interest in appropriate training.

3. Increase your visibility by serving on task forces and committees where you can make contacts across functional lines.

4. Pay attention to rumors and other red flags, and do not discuss your impressions with anyone.

5. Be a good listener, evaluate facts carefully, and use your intuition in making any decisions about your best move.

6. Be supportive of your boss.

7. If you think your department or division is on shaky ground, kick into high gear to develop new business.

8. Be aware of power bases and maximize your contacts to expand your network.

9. Define quality the same way your superiors do.

10. Set your own productivity standards and exceed them.

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1.     Be likeable without being weak

2.     Be firm when necessary

3.     Help others do great work.

4.     Give others credit where due

5.     When you do great work, let people know.

6.     Don't remain passive when you know politics is being played against you.

7.     Stay relevant to your industry by constant learning.

8.     Teach your juniors well, so you can be promoted without risk to the company.

9.     Nurture Godfathers within the company and within the industry.

10.     Think, talk, act, and if possible work like you are one level higher in designation than you actually are.

11.     Become an expert in a field of concern to the company, so that people, you're your seniors, can come to you with questions.

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