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<p>No matter your job or your industry, this year is a challenge for employment. In 2008, 48% of employers laid people off, according to a Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) survey <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/06/news/economy/10.tips.fortune/">cited at CNNmoney.com</a>.</p><br /><table align="right"><br /><tr><br /><td><br /><SCRIPT LANGUAGE= "javaScript" SRC="http://guidepolls.about.com/humanresources/3243920446/poll.js?linkback=http://humanresources.about.com/b/a/258304.htm"></script><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></table><br /><p>This number is anticipated to rise in 2009 and 2010 and the job market is not expected to recover until 2011, <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://www.challengergray.com">according to Challenger Gray &#038; Christmas</a>, a Chicago-based outplacement firm.</p><br /><p>These odds are not in your favor, but you can increase your chances of keeping your job by increasing your value to your company. Let's face it, companies do not lay off their best employees unless the employee works in a non-critical position or the company is suffering near death throes.</p><br /><p>But, you need to have a strategy about how to keep your job. I've listed a few in my newest poll and highlighted ten strategies in <a href="http://humanresources.about.com/od/careersuccess/a/recession_proof.htm"><i>How to Keep Your Job</i></a>. What's your strategy for staying employed in the current economic climate? You do have a strategy - don't you?</p><br /><p>Please take a look at what others have said and respond in <a href="http://humanresources.about.com/u/ua/whenemploymentends/keep_job.htm?from=lb"><i>What's Your Strategy for Keeping Your Job?</i></a></p><br /><p><b>Quote of the Week - <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/od/workrelationships/a/quotations_dir.htm">More Quotes</a></b></p><br /><p>Dane, a reader who works in the pharmacy industry, writes to us to share these words for trying times: "I believe the anonymous author who wrote the Serenity Prayer was a little vague intentionally. The ideals Serenity, Courage and Wisdom are much too precise to be paired with the ambiguous word, things. Things such as doors, rocks, fences have<br /><br />never caused the disruption in my life that people have.</p><br /><p>"When I learned to name the specific thing I had to accept, that I can change, then and only then, was I blessed<br /><br />with the needed Serenity, Courage and Wisdom. I enjoy my journey through life more when I<br /><br />am not creating my own hardships."</p><br /><p>Dane says:</p><br /><p>"God grant me the Serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the Courage to change the one person I can - myself - and the Wisdom to know if it is my problem or their problem."</p><br /><p><b>Please vote in my poll and respond.</b></p><br /><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/mlibrary.htm">All Topics</a> &#124; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/popular.htm">Most Popular</a> &#124; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/gi/pages/stay.htm">Newsletter</a> &#124; <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?nav=messages&#038;webtag=ab-humanrsrc">HR Forum</a></p><br /><p style="background:#f5f3ef;border: 1px solid #d5d0bf;clear:both;padding:.5em;"><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/b/2010/03/06/job-strategy.htm">Strategy to Keep Your Job?</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/">About.com Human Resources</a> on Saturday, March 6th, 2010 at 12:59:35.</p><p><a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/b/2010/03/06/job-strategy.htm">Permalink</a> | <a href="http://clk.about.com/?zi=1/1hc&#038;zu=http://humanresources.about.com/b/2010/03/06/job-strategy.htm#gB3">Comment</a> | <a href="http://humanresources.about.com/gi/pages/shareurl.htm?PG=http://humanresources.about.com/b/2010/03/06/job-strategy.htm&#038;zItl=Strategy to Keep Your Job?">Email this</a></p><br />Source: http://humanresources.about.com/b/2010/03/06/job-strategy.htm