How The Employment Security Hierarchy Helps Protect Your Income

How the Employment Security Hierarchy helps protect your income This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules -- . The career transitions where I can help you center on three critical career areas: How to land a job, succeed in a job, and build employment security. Top 10 Posts on Categories Job security doesn’t cut it anymore. The days of working at a company for a lifetime are long, long gone. Heck, even working for the same manager for a long time is long, long gone. It’s clear that corporate churn, corporate reorganizations, and downsizing (or, in the company viewpoint, rightsizing…) is here to stay. When companies decide to cut their costs to help their bottom line, the first option too many companies take is cutting your paycheck. Employment security, though, suggests that though we may lose our specific job, we are still employable. We can get that next job despite the headwinds of the economy or five job applicants going after the same job we are targeting. But defining employment security is one thing. Getting employment security is another. What are the categories that need addressing to even think about getting to employment security? What steps does one need to take to make progress to meet employment security? What needs reviewing in our careers so that we keep our employment security when we think we’re close to getting it? The Cubicle Warrior Employment Security Hierarchy builds a framework to help you focus on achieving employment security. It is a 20-page white paper that explains the different tiers of the hierarchy, how the tiers inter-relate, and why you can reach the top of the hierarchy and come crashing back to the base level if you don’t consistently check the hierarchy against the standards of your work today. Pundits write a lot of articles on the “X number of points to fix something.” The problem with the working life is that what makes up success today doesn’t come close to defining   the job ten years from now. Or two years from now. Or even when you get a new manager. All of those articles might solve a tactical problem, but they don’t offer the big picture that will help drive projects to improve your career and work to protect your income. We don’t know how to test our work against a career. We don’t know what categories to review or what career skills we need. We drift, waiting for the whim of management to define our work and give the illusion of job security. The employment security hierarchy provides an effective model to manage your career. It provides the five areas of a career where you need to focus to stay employed. It helps you define your next actions to get to employment security. The white paper is easy to get and is free. Just sign up for the weekly newsletter â€" once you sign up, you will immediately receive an e-mail with a link from my newsletter service that you will need to click to confirm the subscription â€" and then you will be directed to a landing page where you can download the white paper. My subscribers receive the newsletter once a week and receive a career or job tip to help them in their work. As a bonus, my newsletter subscribers get first crack at all the new stuff I produce for sale here on the site and discounted as well. But the career tips are worth the price of free admission. And the white paper will set you on the path to protecting your income because you have employment security. You can sign up here and can unsubscribe at any time. PS Want your first career tip? Sign up for the newsletter with a personal, not corporate, e-mail address. When I send my newsletter out, I always get one or two automated replies saying something like “Mary Smith is no longer with Corporation for Profit Only. Please adjust your records.” Mary Smith might want some career, job or interview advice now â€" but she can’t get it because she put her career stuff on the very corporate resources that get taken away from her when there is a layoff or job change. Take control of your career by signing up with your personal e-mail address. Remember, it’s your career, not the company’s. […] Companies, of course, say they have a business strategy. You can have a career strategy as well â€" you go for employment security and not job security. Most of us, though, don't think through what it takes to get to employment security, nor are we disciplined enough to carry out the strategy. Most of us don't even know what employment security is â€" which is why if you sign up for my e-mail newsletter, you get a pretty long explanation of exactly what makes employment security. […] Reply […] people yell at clouds in the job market for not getting work, experience is the mantra. Not job skills. Not fitting in with the team. Not the motivation to do the work. Nope. Experience. Experience […] Reply […] Job interviews are tough because they are a job skill few of us use very often. Yet, job interviews are critical for successfully navigating the shoals of when jobs end and staying employed. […] Reply […] There are no more careers. There is no job security. There is only employment security. […] Reply […] All it take is a different manager to derail your career and threaten your family’s financial security and income. It’s why employment security is such a valuable goal to achieve. […] Reply […] We’re not investment bankers or stock traders â€" but knowing how to invest is a needed skill to succeed in achieving Employment Security. […] Reply […] your career and job performance. Blue sky stuff doesn’t cut it; only things that lead you to employment security do. Let’s take a look at the […] Reply […] There is only Employment Security. […] Reply […] Employment security. What’s that, you say? It doesn’t exist, right? And planning for a career?  Well, that’s  like herding cats. […] Reply […] and understand that job skills always, always evolve. What those people just saw was a roadmap to staying employable at the leading edges of the job market. What they now do is review their job skills, figure out […] Reply This is not your ordinary career site. I help the corporate worker who toils away in the company cubicle make career transitions. You want to do your job well, following all the rules â€" . 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