Do you find yourself constantly concerned about job security? Do you often think about how you can better your performance to save your job? With unemployment set to rise, the following 10 tips should help.
- Be proactive and ensure you are involved in every opportunity to increase your skills and knowledge.
- Illustrate your commitment to the business by suggesting fresh ideas, business opportunities and identify where training would increase productivity.
- Get certified and ensure your qualifications are current and relevant for your industry.
- Attend networking events and expose yourself to industry ideas — be a thought leader to your business.
- Take opportunities that enable you to broaden your experience. Expose yourself to all new opportunities. Rarely does a career pan out how you originally planned.
- Think ahead in your role and career; where do you want to be in a year, five years? How are you going to get there? It’s important to not only take steps forward but also sideward to extend your skills.
- Show confidence through the use of positive body language — stand squarely, look management in the eye and lean forward in meetings.
- Be solution focused — propose proactive solutions to problems.
- Demonstrate a positive outlook through job performance and behaviour — it will infiltrate throughout the organisation and lift morale
- Embrace challenges and shake the common doom and gloom attitude evident in recessions and also in times of high unemployment. Employers want employees who are resilient and adaptable.
David Gage, General Manager at Dimension Data Learning Solutions.