Whether you love your job, hate your job, or simply see it as a means to an end, there are times when your focus is less on job satisfaction and more on job preservation. When your profession or industry is on the decline or when the economy is in the tank and employers are cutting jobs at a dizzying pace, it’s time to hunker down and focus more on protecting your position within the organization.
With this goal of job preservation in mind, here are some crucial do’s and don’ts (rules and guidelines) for helping currently employed people keep their job — and these techniques can be used both in good times, as well as in bad times.