Protect Your Job and Avoid a Layoff - Yahoo! Voices

Protect Your Job and Avoid a Layoff

This article has some tips on how shop girls and other workers can protect their jobs from a layoff:

Do you think you and your job are safe from layoff? Every time we watch the news, we hear about more layoffs. Earlier in this series we have talked about Handling a Layoff - Survival of the Fittest as well as Ten Ways to Get Fired and Lose Your Job (find more of this series in the resources). In today's economy no jobs seem to be completely safe, but there are six things you can do to protect your job and avoid being laid off.

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Handling a Layoff - Survival of the Fittest - Yahoo! Voices

Handling a Layoff - Survival of the Fittest

The economy during the 1st quarter of 2009 is worse than it was at the end of 2008. I should know -- the store where I have worked as a shop girl for the past 2 decades closed during the 1st quarter of 2009.

If you have recently been laid off or think you may be laid off from work soon, join the club! In the fourth quarter of 2008, 508,859 workers were laid off from work according to the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. ⁽¹⁾

Being laid off is never fun, but it is not the end of the world. The key to surviving a layoff is to immediately take stock and develop a personal layoff survival strategy. These 14 tips should help you take those important first steps if you find yourself in the unhappy position of losing your job.


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