50 Things You Can Do Now to Help Keep Your Job

50 Things You Can Do Now to Help Keep Your Job


J. T. Kirk (Author)



Paperback: 188 pages

May 2011


ISBN-13: 9780981485751


In this confused, lethargic economy or any economy for that matter, people worry about keeping their jobs.

Former hiring manager and author of Confessions of a Hiring Manager: Sage Advice for Fearless Job Seekers and Career Changers in a Confused Economy and Confessions of a Hiring Manager Rev. 2.0: Get to and Stay at the Top of the Hiring Manager's Short List, J.T. Kirk strikes again with 50 Things You Can Do NOW to Help Keep Your Job.

In this latest work, Kirk reveals 50 skills you can adopt right now to help keep your job in any economy.Despite the usual advice from many career coaches to "maintain self-esteem," to "remain confident and positive," or other motivational self-talk, there are in fact behaviors and actions you can take now to solidify your position with your employer and enhance your standing with your peers and managers.

Kirk is a veteran hiring manager with more than 20 years experience hiring, managing, and leading employees in Fortune 500 companies. Here, he gives you his insight on what skills, knowledge, and personality characteristics managers value when they have to choose between "keepers" and those destined for workforce reduction. It's not always the smartest person who makes the cut, and Kirk tells you why in this noholds-barred book.

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