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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.
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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.
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!
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.
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?
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.