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Recession-Proof Your Career: Tip #5
The last installment of our series on "Recession Proofing Your Career" is here. Our last tip is to make yourself transferable. The current labor and economic environment has helped to slowly erode the traditional "vertical" career path, where workers often feel stuck in or required to begin and end in the same industry or profession. Now, workers are free to pursue a more acceptable zig-zag approach to building their career.
At the same time, employers are looking for workers who can make the greatest impact on the job. That means, can they deliver value to a wide range of initiatives or departments? Do they have skills that can be transferred across the organization? If you desire more job security, building your transferable skills will help accomplish that goal.
Here are four broad areas of transferable skills you should develop:
Communicating. Take writing or speech classes, or join a debate club. The better you are at communicating with people, the more valuable you'll become.
Evaluating and planning. Improve your ability to identify and solve problems, through research, allocating appropriate resources, creating innovative solutions, etc.
Interpersonal Skills. This is different than communicating with others. Honing your interpersonal skills means you've mastered the art of conflict resolution, motivating others, and generally knowing how to listen and support people around you.
Leadership. Effective managers are hard to find. The ability to supervise and mentor others is extremely valuable. Work on building your delegation, coaching and management skills.
Check out Employee Factor for additional advice on building transferable skills.
Posted by Seymour Jobs on November 14, 2008 at 12:00 PM
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I would have thought monster would have done better
Posted by Peter on November 15, 2008 2:43 PM
I think networking is another obvious skill that should be developed. The ability of networking to further a career is inestimable. Job boards can certainly supplement to a certain extent, but target niche job boards with the ability to e-mail you the latest customized job leads. This frees up the job seeker's time to network and interview more!
Hayli Morrison
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Posted by Hayli on December 3, 2008 5:37 PM
Nice site and good advice. I just wanted to add ...
Keep the mindset that you want to be an asset to the company
Someone it can't function as well without.
Work while your at work. Show that your responsible dependable and trustworthy.
If your employer has to downsize you will be the last to be let go.
I also wanted to let you know that trucking is an excellent recession proof career for the right person. It's definitely not for everyone.
There's great pay, traveling, good benifits and a shortage in all states.
Oh yeah, no boss breathing down your neck. I been driving 10 yrs and love it.
Posted by thecrazytrucker on December 4, 2008 3:16 PM