Protect Your Job: The Top 10 Ways
- Keep your emotions in check: A cool head always prevails in business, and blowing your top at work is likely make letting you go an easier decision.
- Produce your best with quality time: You don’t want to spread yourself too thin and burn out, but the amount of time you put in shows. If you’re a good team player you’ll be more valuable.
- Put your boss’s pet projects on your priority list: People can smell phony interest so don’t overdo it or it might back fire, but if you help advance their projects they’ll notice.
- Don’t duck for cover: Worried about your job? Make yourself more visible in positive ways. Hiding out will make you seam unnecessary to the business you want to be, irreplaceable not expendable.
- Compile your praises: Keeping a file with all emails or letters your clients, superiors and coworkers have sent complimenting your efforts at work is never a bad idea. These could prove priceless on a job search, while a quick read can give you a boost in confidence and help you excel right where you are.
- Gossiping is a quick rout out: Keep it to yourself. Negativity about your boss, job duties, coworkers or company will only put you at the top of the list when cuts have to be made.
- Don’t be a doormat: Begging at work won’t make you valuable- good work will.
- Don’t “quit before you get fired”: You may not be getting fired at all. Try to be positive about your position and keep the discreet job search in your back pocket.
- Don’t see the closing door – look to the open one: Remember this could be an excellent opportunity to move to something better. You’re more likely to get the new job with a positive attitude and get a better recommendation from this boss too.
- Quietly advertise your accomplishments: Don’t be obnoxious, but make them known with grace, posting them in your space or sending out a mass thank you to those who help with the project and make sure to CC your boss.