Career tips

[BlackCryptoKnight]

What are your strategies for surviving and excelling in the workplace?

[AngelsKiss]

What are your strategies for surviving and excelling in the workplace?

1) Keep updating your skills.
2) Learn as much as you can within the organisation.
3) Stay away from office politics, don't get into the personaility game, even tho some may claim that it helps you get a head. It can come back to haunt you.
4) Keep you resume updated, don't ever stop job hunting, even if you don't apply.
5) This has more to do with your survival...always try to have at least 6 months salary stashed away, it's not very easy but one should try to save at least that amount.
6) In this age of globalisation you may want to think about having a second career option.
7) Keep a positive and professional attitude.
8) Do not discuss your personal life in the organisation, leave it at home.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Try your best not to be perceived to be a "No" person in the organization. People will start to exclude you from the loop if they think you are going to torpedo their plans all the time. This does not mean you must become a "Yes" man or a mindless drone. It's ok to have a different point of view, but you must be able to articulate it in such a way that you appear positive and not negative (don't look like you're saying no just to say no). Also, you must have solid, valid evidence or justification for your opions so that when they are challenged, you will be able to defend them convincingly.

Instead of just saying "We cannot do this..." learn to say "We can do this if these conditions exist..." or "We can do this by...".

[Cocoa]

Learn to accept rules and regulations and follow them.

Read the fine print!

Stay professional and positive

Smile

Have a stress toy

Look on the way a certain stragedy may improve the workplace, rather than casting it down at the thought.

Surround your self with positive people

Recap on past career books by refreshing your memory now and then. Better yet, always keep some by your desk ready and waiting for reference.

[Tastee]

Education is the key and in the U.S. you can get education through financial Aid and scholarship. Kitten got a scholarship, I believe its called a Marshall scholarship were they pay for you schooling for up to a couple of years.
You have to set a goal and follow that plan and also look at how you will obtain that goal.
I dont know how it is in Jamaica education wise. I mean in getting help for college. If it is fundamentally possible to even get that type of assistance, but try and look for resources to help reach your goal.

[Pondadat]

Education is the key and in the U.S. you can get education through financial Aid and scholarship. Kitten got a scholarship, I believe its called a Marshall scholarship were they pay for you schooling for up to a couple of years.
You have to set a goal and follow that plan and also look at how you will obtain that goal.
I dont know how it is in Jamaica education wise. I mean in getting help for college. If it is fundamentally possible to even get that type of assistance, but try and look for resources to help reach your goal.


Those are good points and very helpful tips. I work for the Federal Government and they offer courses that you can take to enhance skills, so that you can get promotions. Maybe if you work for a private sector it may be different. But still the financial assistance is out there for colleges.
If you have military background you get like a point preference for hiring. I think its like 10 points but I will look it up and find out. The fed.Gov is not bad to work for and they have good benefits. We tend to be pretty relaxed here and religion doesnt seem to be a problem. I think that this does go on alot in private sector jobs. But I can only go by my experience and I have only had one private sector job, before I started working for the government.
Try Monster.com and check out civil service jobs in your area. Change is good sometimes we all need that to grow.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Set realistic, measureable goals, meet them, and be able to prove that you have met them.

[tahtah_4755]

What are your strategies for surviving and excelling in the workplace?

Do ur work plain and simple...

[Chicokid]

Do your work properly and timely and most importantly have good relationships with your co-workers :)

[Nastro]

be the best a.s.s kisser in the work place. :D

[Izemi-Clem]

5) This has more to do with your survival...always try to have at least 6 months salary stashed away, it's not very easy but one should try to save at least that amount.

AngelKiss I think this point is very important.

Most ppl make the mistake of spending more money as soon as they start earning more money. WRONG THING TO DO !!!!

In this age of globalisation there is no such thing as "Job Security".
Within the first year of a new job/new position the employee is at the most vulnerable period (there are the first to go), both parties are evaluating each other, the decisions may usually be out of the new employee's hands and you can never predict what will happen.
I've seen it happen too many times.
You'll need that 6 months as a security blanket.
Always expect the worst and hope for the best.

Izemi-Clem

[BlackCryptoKnight]

While in your current job, seek ways to add value which no one else can. Learn about the operations of the company - become an expert in the company. That can help increase the likelihood of job security, and make you more valuable to your company - and their competitors - should you need to change jobs :icon_twis

[Chicokid]

In this age of globalisation there is no such thing as "Job Security".
Within the first year of a new job/new position the employee is at the most vulnerable period (there are the first to go), both parties are evaluating each other, the decisions may usually be out of the new employee's hands and you can never predict what will happen.
I've seen it happen too many times.
You'll need that 6 months as a security blanket.
Always expect the worst and hope for the best.

I would agree with that to an extent. However what some companies do when they want to retrench workers is to send home workers with the higher salaries and hire workers on a temporary/contract basis or hire workers and pay less salaries.

[Izemi-Clem]

Hail BCK

I repeat "There is no such thing as job security anymore"

It doesn't matter which industry you are in and how much profit they make, anything can happen in todays business place.

Belive that.

Izemi-Clem

[Sexybee]

tRY TO ALWAYS DO UR BEST.ONLY UR BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Hail BCK

I repeat "There is no such thing as job security anymore"

It doesn't matter which industry you are in and how much profit they make, anything can happen in todays business place.

Belive that.

Izemi-Clem

There's no such thing as absolute job security, just as there's no such thing as absolute security in anything. However, there are degrees of security, there are degrees of job security. The more valuable you are perceived to be to the organization, the more job security you have than a person who is not perceived to be as valuable. Understanding this doesn't mean people are to be complacent and not prepared for changes. Hence my comment about becoming expert in your company's business so that you can add value to them, and to others in the same field, after you move on from your current situation.

This is simply just another mechanism for ensuring survival in the job market.

[Sexybee]

jUST BE UR SELF THATS ALL.ONLY UR BEST IS GOOD ENOUGH

[ramesh]

Also, make sure not to write your resume in all caps.

[BlackCryptoKnight]

Build relationships (no, not sexual or intimate ones). It is good to have allies. Taking the time out to encourage others, share knowledge, or just even giving a kind word, can help to put people in your corner. This may very well work to your advantage at some point in your career. But of course, don't just be nice for selfish reasons. ;)