Recession is a scary word, especially with your job security going into jeopardy.
When there’s talk of recession, it’s often followed by words like layoffs, furloughs, and job loss creating panic and anxiety amongst job-seekers.
Here’s how you can keep your career safe with recession-proof job skills in the case of an economic downturn:
🚀 Keep your skills updated – This is the key to growing your career during both times of economic success and economic uncertainty.
🚀 Identify your transferable skills – The most important tool you can carry in your skillset are transferable skills., which are areas of expertise that can be used in multiple roles, industries, and organizations.
🚀 Hone your soft skills – It’s been said that only 15 percent of your professional success is due to your technical proficiency and knowledge and the other 85 percent of your success is based on your soft skills. Especially as you grow the ladder.
🚀 Stand out with specialized skills – Actively pursuing professional development is just one way to attract notice. You’ll also be a lot more recession-proof if your employer thinks of you as indispensable with a niche skill.
🚀 Add outcomes to your resume – To manage this feat, you’ll want to periodically gain attention by highlighting on your resume your work done early and under budget, volunteering for additional tasks, proactively cutting costs or increasing revenues, identifying & resolving issues, etc, reporting on your results makes a difference.
🚀 Clean up your online presence – Review, google yourself and clean up your social media profiles, especially LinkedIn. Delete anything that could get in the way of your candidacy. LinkedIn is a terrific job-search tool. Optimize it to get headhunted.
🚀 Up your networking game – Now is also the time to crank up your networking efforts. It’s much easier to find a new job through internal referrals than through the tedious ATS and other application processes.
The best time to start recession-proofing your career is before an economic downturn hits.
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