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You did all of the hard work. You created a great cover letter and resume. You did a complete application, researched the company and blew them away in the interview. Now you are hired. How do you keep your job and make yourself too valuable to lose. How can you cut the odds of being laid off?
Make yourself too important to be laid off from your job!
No matter the position that you have been hired for, in tough economic times you have to go above and beyond to keep your job and even get promotions. No matter the job, you need to stand out. Use your head and appreciate the fact that you are working when millions are out of a job and looking. You can now better provide for yourself and your family. It may not be your dream job but remember, practically every company offers chances for promotions and better pay to their best employees. In the police field, I used the employees on the job performance coupled with the employees desire and common sense to promote. In the state positions, promotions were based on job performance and the employees desire and willingness to be a team player as well as to lead efficiently when given the opportunity. I know of a 16 year old girl that got a part time job at a local McDonald's restaurant. In six months, she was a crew trainer. Three months later she was being considered for management. Why? The short answer is her work ethic. She was available almost every time that they had a call off. She did whatever she was asked to do with a smile. She didn't get involved in petty gossip and she would ask a manager if she felt that she was doing something correctly but was told by another worker that she was wrong. She didn't do it in a telling way, she just asked the manager which was the correct way to do something. If she was doing it the right way, she would continue doing it that way. If she was wrong she would thank the manager for the guidance and make the necessary changes. The manager at one point even sat her down to ask her if she would consider a management position in the future and explained to her that, as a store manager he was making over $ 60,000 per year. All of this for a 16 year old high school girl with less than 1 year on the job in an economy with nearly one million a month being laid off. Even if she never goes into management, she is now a supervisor over and trains new hires. How does that look on a resume and a future application?
We all need to look at our jobs this way. No matter if you are looking to move up in your current job, or to get a better job when things improve, be a part of the team and it will pay off in the long run.
There is nothing more that an employer hates than an employee who doesn't appreciate the job or is a big gossip and trouble maker. Make the conscious choice to stay away from these things. Appreciate the job and the paycheck. Do what you have to do!
It doesn't matter that you once made $ 500,000.00 per year and now you are delivering pizza to get by. It matters that you are working and have a chance to improve your situation with each passing day. Keep on pressing on, keep a positive attitude and be thankful for all that you have. Look around, you can always find someone worse off than you are. You have a future that is as bright as YOU want to make it.
I asked the 16 year old how she stays motivated in fast food. It seems like it would be a hard, demanding job. Her answer could do all of us some good, "I am part of a team and we
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serve hundreds of people a day. Besides, that is what they pay me for!" That is the kind of attitude that you need to have to succeed in any job. Instead of looking at those that make more money for doing the same thing, or looking at those that appear to be able to get by doing less than you do, all I can say is what does it matter. Having a job in bad times is something that millions of others would love to have. When the economy soured the McDonalds restaurant that I was talking about stopped hiring. Why? They had more applicants than they cared to hire. They went from needing employees to being buried in potential employees and for the
first time in years, they were fully staffed. What does that mean for you and your job prospects? Not much. This lasted two months and they were hiring again. Why? They were still weeding out the problem employees for better ones. Getting rid of the ones that called off to much, had bad attitudes or spent all of their time talking about other employees. The 16 year old crew trainer is training new hires again and there are promotions available.
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