Staying employed in today's job market
Reprinted courtesy of TheCareerNews.com
LOS ANGELES, CA -- There are steps you can take that may help protect your current job and keep you employed. Right now, in this day and age, if anyone is working in IT, the closer you work on relationships with customers, the better the opportunities you're going to have.
In tough times, the first projects to be eliminated are the ones that are farthest away from creating customer value. To have a better chance of keeping your job, you want to be involved in work that is customer-focused. Things around infrastructure and security, and ones that are directly related to customer value -- such as projects around CRM, customer portals, revenue management are key. Customers are king right now. Keeping revenues growing are paramount for companies.
It's a good idea to get involved in those kinds of projects now by volunteering to help or gaining needed new skills. In the tech, engineering and scientific communities, there's pent-up demand from customers. There are projects in the pipeline, budgets have already been set, so those are big pluses in the marketplace because that work is already under way. The current demand is still strong, and that's where the optimism comes in.
Article abridged from ComputerWorld.com, and reprinted from TheCareerNews.com. Get the latest breaking News, Tips and Tools for your job search, Free!
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