Bulletproof Your Job - Dodging the Layoff Bullet - Be Visible, Be Easy, Be Useful, Be Ready..

"This is no time to be a shrinking violet."

Stephen Viscusi

His latest book is titled; Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out on Top at Work.

The book outlines four simple strategies for dodging the layoff bullet and 50 practical ways to implement these strategies. This no-nonsense guide offers a straightforward, action-oriented approach to protecting your job with tactics that not only help you keep the job you have, but to also to maximize your prospects for the future.

Advice from Stephen Viscusi
Be visible. Be easy. Be useful. Be ready.

Sound simple? Well, if it were that simple tens of thousands of people wouldn’t be losing their jobs every month, would they? The trick is to apply these bulletproof strategies to your own job with a healthy dose of common sense, a little finesse, and a whole lot of confidence. Being visible ensures your boss knows who you are. Being easy means you make your boss’s life easier. Being useful means going above and beyond. And being ready means you’re prepared for any eventuality. This book is loaded with 50 ways to get the job—saving your job—done.

Along the way, you’ll come across some startling insights that’ll help you hang on to your job. How about:

• * Set a Google alert to your personal email account with your boss’s name so you know if he or she ever gets stopped for a DWI or is in the media for anything.
• * Set a Technorati alert for your company and stay in touch with the blog chatter about your company.
• * Company gossip is gold and can help you bulletproof your job. But never be known as the company gossip.
• * Bosses always say “office politics don’t exist in this organization.” Only dumb employees believe that.
• * Cultivate mentors, mentees and people in your network to become a sleeper cell of friends in your company and industry who will support you in a time of crisis.
• * Career coaches are for sissies. If you need a career coach, you don’t have a career!

This book is about taking control of your job security. And if you don’t have the guts to use what you learn from Bulletproof Your Job, then give it to the guy in the cube next to you and watch him keep his job.

Stephen Viscusi Bio:
Stephen Viscusi is an author, columnist and radio talk show host in the workplace genre. Viscusi is the author of two books in the workplace genre; his new HarperCollins' book is Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out On Top at Work. Charles Gibson of ABC's "World News with Charles Gibson" calls Viscusi "America's Workplace Guru." Viscusi is a frequent contributor on the morning show circuit and NPR's "Talk of the Nation." Viscusi began his own career as a headhunter and is still involved as a consultant in executive search.

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