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20 Ways Your Career Can Outsmart This Economy

Liz Ryan | BusinessWeek

Preventive and Preemptive Moves

Lots of people are jittery about their jobs these days, and given the constant stream of bad news about the economy, who can blame any employee for being nervous? In the following pages are 10 tips that might help you keep your job, and 10 tips for being prepared if the ax falls and you have to start a job search pronto.

Part 1: How to Keep Your Job

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    JSHedges

    9 months ago

    2 comments

    None of this really matters if the firm has decided to layoff X number of employees. I'm the only one who could do my job and I generated $8m in revenue each quarter. They laid me off over the phone yesterday while I was taking an FMLA day w/my son to get his chemo treatment for brain cancer.

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    Dana_B

    9 months ago

    150 comments

    I have to chime Kathe here, it's really irritating to me to have to do 5+ clicks for one article, =) let alone 20+ clicks!

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    KEnglish

    9 months ago

    6 comments

    How about honesty, dignity, don't cheat, don't steal and whot is good for me is good for the other.

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    Kathe

    9 months ago

    2 comments

    Is this available in a different format? Like just the article that I can scroll through without the graphics?

  • Jtoct2008_max50

    JAAMSLT

    9 months ago

    30 comments

    If a person doesn't have the common sense to already know these 'tips' no wonder we're in the mess we're in.

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