Redundancy is rife and there are fewer jobs being advertised.

So what can you do if the threat of redundancy is hanging over you – what options do you have?

The big news is about the corporates: banks, manufacturing and retail chains and chances are if you’re employed by one of those there might not be much you can do to influence the outcome. Yet let’s remember that:

• 95% of UK businesses employ less than ten people

• You won’t know what you could achieve unless you try

We’ve briefly looked at if your situation is decidely shaky and now we’ll suggest a couple of ways to think of how you could have a go at shoring your own position up. And to do that you need to flip it from

“How do I hang on to my job?”

And approach it from thinking of the company first:

“This is how I can help your business succeed.”

Just being seen to be ‘busy’ and being first in and last out each day won’t help if you’re not seen as an essential contributor to the ‘bottom line’ of the business as well.

What else can you bring to your role? What assets do you have that aren’t being fully used?

• Do you have ideas about ways of improving performance that you could share with your boss? 
• Ways that would include your input and you being around to excecute them?
• More efficient processes to achieve the same or better results in less time and at lower cost?
• Better service that would help keep customers and save on sales and marketing spend?

So get creative! Why not share your ideas with others here?

At the very least it should mark you out from all the rest who are saying:

“What about me, me, me?”

And you don’t know what could happen as a result of that…