How to Preserve your Job

There are several tendencies on a workforce market during the crisis. In some companies the crisis is used as a pretext to lay off the employees the managers don’t like. The shift of the poles from the job seeker market to that of an employer is not so striking as a number of professionals haven’t reduced their expectations as for salary levels. These reductions are now mainly topical for the job seekers without working experience, the workers of back-offices and book keepers for whom the most important thing now is the mere stability of their working place.

What to Do?

What to do if you are not to ready to search for a job under the crisis conditions? How to preserve your job against the background of massive layoffs? Recruiters and staff managers share their experience.

Be more initiative

The most efficient and indispensable employee is the last one to be laid off. So, if now you do not belong to this category, do your best to become the one. If you are of great use for a company, remind them somehow about your efficiency. Try to concentrate on short but effective projects which are supervised by the management and give a quick feedback. Long and passive projects are better to be postponed. Never try to become an invisible shadow. Instead, demonstrate applicable initiative and radiate redoubled energy: confident and energetic employees are the last ones to be laid off. Your optimism will be advantageously contrasted to a total depression. Try to encourage people around you. Subconsciously, the management looks for support at hard times. Enthusiasm and shining eyes are what they need. And if circumstances demand certain sacrifices (salary cuts, refusal from social benefits, etc.) be ready to patriotically face them. The crisis will be over and you’ll make up for all of them. The key point is that you have an opportunity to practically demonstrate your loyalty and stress-resistance.

Besides, HR representatives recommend you should get control over very important and equally unpleasant and uninteresting activities.

Be ready for something new

Even if the wave of the crisis wipes everyone off, you still can survive. Try to become more functional and thus more profitable for a company. For instance, suggest a new trend in your business plan and head it.

Cut your needs

If you still cannot avoid a layoff, suggest you can work a part time day.

Become more efficient

Not to lose a job, show how efficient you are and make fewer mistakes. You can do this not only spending 24 hours a day at your working place but raising your importance as an expert. It is well-known employees are now eager to attend various trainings.