There is increase in competitions in businesses and organizations. Companies are looking to hire the best and thus keep them. Some sometimes employees can be liabilities to companies and add nothing to the business. In this article, I've outline the steps an employee should follow to avoid losing the job.

1. 5 Steps To Avoid
Losing Your Job
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2. Due to economy uncertainty,
companies are trying to reduce the
cost of their operations to boost
growth and profit. These have
resulted to job cuts by many
businesses making employees more
insecure and uncertain as to what will
happen to their jobs on a daily basis.

3. As new technologies are introduce
and competition keeps growing,
companies will want to keep the
smartest people who can offer fresh
ideas, smart business operational
methods and strategies for future
growth.

4. Losing your job, especially in an
uncertain economic climate can
be painful and getting another job
can be an uphill task. I believe
keeping your job begins by taking
these four simple steps as your
personal daily routine at work.

5. Ability to response to change
 Business changes will occur in minutes
and those who response to the change in
an instant rather than days or weeks will
keep their jobs. No business will grow on
an outdated operation or obsolete
method of doing things. Get out of the
box and be ready to move and adjust to
changes that will arise.

6. Continues improvement of jobskills
 There are more competitions in the
business world today than 10 years ago.
Companies or organization will need
people who are continuously improving,
giving them ideas so as to stay above
their competitors.

7.  A worker who continuously improvement their
work skills stands the chance for not only
keeping the job, but can be promoted. That
employee becomes a valuable asset to the
company that no one wants to discard.
 For instance, an employee can choose to
improve communication or marketing skills.
That might not be your main aspect, but
developing these skills gives you an edge.

8. Specialize tobuild your influence
 Don’t try to be jack of all trade, because you’ll
definitely be master of none. Specialization will
mean you’ll need to be known as an expert in one
field and this sends a message to the organization
as that one person they can rely and trust your
judgments in that area or department.
 The saying is true “he that will go with equity must
go with clean hands”. Make sure you’re relevant
and this comes by specializing which in turn builds
your confident at what you’re doing.

9. Respect your boss
 There may be a good chance that you
may know certain things more than your
boss or even smarter than your boss. That
should not be a guarantee for you to
grow wings and to feel you’re on top or to
use your smartness to want to outsmart
your boss.

10.  This is really the first step to losing your job
once you’re caught. Your boss might have a
different opinion to what you think or want to
be done. In fact most of the time, your boss
pretend not to know certain things just to try
your personality and your actions.
 Use your smartness to show your boss how
things will be done and allow your boss to
make the decision to either use it or not.

11. Don’t make money your motivation
 One reward we get from our work is the
paycheck we receive at the end of the
month. But if that is your main motivation
or why you work, then you’ll not take your
work serious. Because every simple task at
work will irritate you and thus
cumbersome always.

12.  You start complaining saying “the work is
too much, but the pay is small” and at
that stage, you’ll hate what you’re doing
and money will be the only thing that is
keeping you. These will definitely show in
your work hours as your work
performance will start reducing slowly.
Money is good, but don’t use it as your
main motivation.

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