Recession Proofing Your Career: Audit Your Skills
By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter
This is another thing to do to recession-proof your career.
The Best Way to Recession-Proof Your Career
Today, we begin talking about recession-proofing your career. This is something you need to do all the time, not just simply when the headlines are getting scary, not just simply when your friends are fearful. This is a specific thing to do regularly, every six months, every year, preferably six months, but certainly no later than one year, and that’s the idea of auditing your skills.
Are your skills marketable? Are they desirable? What do you need to improve upon your skills to make them more desirable and more marketable? More than ever, fewer firms are doing skills development work. Thus, this is something you need to do for yourself. Now there are plenty of free or very low-cost places where you can upgrade your skills, Skillshare is one. LinkedIn premium services offers LinkedIn education services. These are all course sites that allow you to improve your capabilities so that this way you’re more marketable.
Look for others. All you need to do is a Google search, free education, and identify places that offer the kind of supplemental training that you need in order to stay marketable. Then, at your current firm, look for ways that you can develop experiences using this training. If your firm doesn’t offer that capability, keep working and being capable in what you’ve learned, because the next organization will probably need it.
So I hope you find this helpful. I’m Jeff Altman. My website is TheBigGameHunter.us Go there and go exploring. After all, people hire me for no BS career advice, and the blog has a lot of great information that will help you. You can also schedule time for a free discovery call or a paid coaching session, because I help people with job search, hiring more effectively, managing better, leading better, career transitions, and, of course, dealing with workplace issues.
Also, connect with me on Linkedin at linkedin.com/in/TheBigGameHunter. Have a terrific day and be great!
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ABOUT JEFF ALTMAN, THE BIG GAME HUNTER
Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter is a coach who worked as a recruiter for what seems like one hundred years. He is hired to provide No BS Career Advice globally. That can involve job search, hiring staff, management, leadership, career transition and advice about resolving workplace issues. Schedule a discovery call at my website, www.TheBigGameHunter.us
He is the host of “No BS Job Search Advice Radio,” the #1 podcast in iTunes for job search with over 2400 episodes.
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