How to Keep a Job
Yesterday, someone I know was relating how she well had done on her 90-day evaluation at her new job. It turns out that not only was her immediate supervisor fighting her own boss to give her double the raise they tend to give new folks, the CEO was brought in to mediate/settle the dispute and he gave her 33% more than that. And they intend to evaluate her again in another 90 days — something they typically don’t do — to see if they can give her even more.
In this economy. Think about that. She not only got a new job easily, she created an environment in which they are, relatively speaking, throwing money at her.
As synchronicity would have it, Seth Godin wrote a short article today which explains how she’s doing it:
You will never be out of work if you can demonstrably offer one of the following:
- Sales
- Additive effort
- Initiation
She’s an absolute star at the latter two, and makes up for her current lack of sales skills with wit, charm, and physical attractiveness. Who knows what will happen when she decides to learn to sell.
Anyway, for an explanation of what those three terms mean in real-world terms, go read The three elements of full employment at Seth’s Blog. How you learn to apply them to yourself is up to you.