Strengthen your job security prospects

When you talk of ‘job security’, the reference is to some sort of an assurance that you will have a continued employment and enjoy its advantage. More often than not, it stems from the terms of engagement as also various provisions in the hiring contract that prevents the employer from abruptly terminating your employment. In addition, there can be many fiscal issues that can adversely impact job security.

The journey of life is not sans accountability and responsibilities. That is the reason why you acquire new expertise and start working. Once you start working, you direct your efforts to ensure that your job remains secure. Gone are the days when a person got into a job and retired from it. So, if that be so, the importance of job security in today’s environment needs no emphasis. The question therefore, is ‘How can you strengthen your job security prospects?’

Job security is dependent on the undermentioned factors:

• Promoting your abilities: Abilities will get promoted if avenues for it exist. You ought to be also focussing on organisations other than your current one and which can employ people possessing skills that you have. It is necessary that you carry out a detailed evaluation of the  job market to find out if there is any vacancy people like you. You can gain immense knowledge by perusing online recruiting portals. If you need to acquire new or better skills, there should not be any reluctance on your part going ahead with it. The initiative to keep yourself abreast with latest technologies and skill set has to come from you alone..
• Performing well: It is not necessary that you derive pleasure fro every aspect of your work. You will always find some of your charter of duties boring and uninspiring. In case you are running into problems with your colleagues, seniors or even customers, you cannot turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to them. On the contrary, you must regard them as an examination of your capabilities.  You need to ensure that you understand your own charter of responsibilities fully and make useful contributions at all times. 
• Fitting well in a team: The workplace of today calls for an intense display of team spirit.  for That is why every team member ought to be sincere and assiduous. It also needs to be understood that no career or job is free from hardships. There are hardships everywhere and therefore, a spirit of camaraderie will stand you in good stead. You may be competent and possess the best of skills, but if you cannot fit fell in a team or pull along well with others, there will be great reluctance to hire you. Display of team spirit is a skill by and warrants no emphasis.    
• Networking to advantage: The need to have good networking skills in today’s world is inescapable. You simply cannot go about establishing a network at the last moment. You can always bag an opening in a new setup, provided you are doing well in your present job. And when you network, your efforts should be incorporated in your daily regimen.  You should  remember that it is also essential to help-out others.               

Any presumptuous approach to consider your career casually can never place you in an advantageous position, specifically when it comes to job security. If you regard your career seriously, you will find job security coming to you. There is no way that your employer will condone any for your lapses but will expect that you always maintain a dynamic stance. You will have to assure everybody that you are best-suited for the job and once that happens, job security will automatically come to you. In the light of the foregoing, you must keep all company matters above board so that decisions made by you are the best. You should also opt for incomplete of half-done projects so that your efforts to promote organisational growth are acknowledged. In this manner, your indispensability will come to the fore and job security safeguarded.