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Keep your job? Keep your skills and knowledge up to date!
- Posted on January 9, 2012
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Forget staying with the same company for your entire career. Those days are long, long gone. Most hope to stay with the same company for the next 12 months. The relationship between an organization and its employees has been changing over the past decade, but the advantage has firmly moved into corporate's court during the recession and subsequent fallout. Not surprisingly, money and job stability are in the top three stresses according to the American Psychological Association study, Stressed in America.
Employees today can expect to make at least six to eight organizational changes in their career. Some of those changes may be personal choice, but in today’s norm, change is brought on by layoffs and downsizing.
Employees are now realizing that to keep their jobs and advance to better ones, they need to invest more in themselves and make sure they increase their personal and professional effectiveness.
Despite the gloomy economic outlook, employers are still concerned about retaining their top talent. So, how can you be the individual your company fights to keep? Here’s some tips:
1. Stayed “tuned” – Keep developing your soft skills. Make sure you have a good understanding of your strengths, personality and how others experience you. Can you read others and adapt your communication style to gain influence? How well do you handle conflict? Organizations get the most out of engaged employees who are able to do their best work every day.
2. Demonstrate commitment – Take opportunities to share with your manager your passion for the organization and how invested you are in obtaining the company’s priorities.
3. Highlight your accomplishments – You have to be your biggest fan. On a sheet of paper, write on the left side all of things you were hired to do (and are doing), and on the right side write down all of the additional responsibilities you have done as well. You want to give the impression that if you were gone, they would need to replace you with two people.
4. Demonstrate conscientiousness – Guess what? You’re not the only one who is overworked. Odds are your boss is too. Look to take work off their plate. Be a responsible employee who takes care of issues without being assigned to do them.
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