Something a lot of people are dealing with right now is the
fear that they're going to lose their job specifically.
I've heard it expressed as I'm scared of losing my job.
What do I do in this video?
I want to talk about what you can do.
So let's talk about job loss in this pandemic first thing
to mention is if your company is doing bad and they literally
cannot afford you if they don't have the cash.
It's going to be hard to save your job if the company you
work for is collapsing around you might as well just
start looking for another job, right?
There's no way you're going to be able to save it.
But if your company is doing well and you're worried about
getting laid off this video is for you.
The thing to think about now is during layoffs.
If you try to empathize with your boss and get into your
boss's shoes.
You'll start to understand that your boss probably feels
pretty bad about letting you go especially if it's due to
market conditions is not easy for them to do Mass layoffs.
It's not easy to tell somebody else that their livelihood
their salaries gone during this time of economic.
hardship but what that could also mean as a negative for you
is it might be hard to chase them down and have a conversation
candidly about the firing especially if they're trying not
to reveal any information that you might spread around as
rumors or information that might hurt the company publicly,
especially if you're with a larger corporation that being
said the first thing you want to do if you're afraid you're
going to lose your job is talk to your boss.
You want to get feedback you want to figure out how can you
improve you want to also figure out does your boss actually
think that you're terrible?
Why do you think you're going to lose your job?
Right?
Is it just a fear?
You have that is not justified or is it a fear that you have?
That is Justified because your boss actually hates you or
isn't impressed with your performance figure that out by
talking to your boss.
If your boss will not meet with you.
It's a gigantic red flag and you need to start looking for
another job immediately.
Number two is get closer to the money when it comes to whether
your job is easy to replace or whether you're going to get
fired when it comes to an economic downturn like this.
The closer you are to revenue for the company the later you'll
be fired.
That means people in sales and people in marketing that can
actually tie the results back good marketers will stay over
even people that do essential work for the company like coders
or software Engineers or project managers.
Those people will be cut before the revenue.
So the closer you can make yourself to the money the harder
it will be for the company to fire you if this isn't you
and you still are afraid the company's going to fail and
you're afraid you're gonna get fired pitch your boss ideas
on how to improve the company check out our other videos
on this channel.
We're marketers.
We're talking about how to grow companies all the Time just
grab some of our ideas start spewing them out at your boss
and see if they'll give you the opportunity to save your
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The third thing is take more credit.
If you've been overlooked by your boss or your working hard
and you are winning and yet you're still thinking you're
going to get fired.
Make sure the boss knows about the work that you're doing.
A lot of people tend to give credit to other members on their
team. And normally that's a good thing.
But if it's taken too far, it will make the boss think that
you're doing absolutely no work, which means that you're
going to get fired in a time of hardship.
The trick is to talk about how good you are using actual
numbers and that's why it's important to be close to revenue if
you can talk about conversion rate increases or the number
of signups you've generated anything that is tied to revenue
is so much easier to talk about then.
Let's say if you are a software engineer and you have improvements
in up time.
What does that mean when it comes to revenue but at least
improvements in up time does have a number that can be associated
with it.
So it is better than nothing you want to talk about your
wins in order to make yourself seem on fireable.
Even if you are fireable you want to make it seem like you're
not and number four is figure out where you want to go next
if you're definitely He getting fired take advantage of it.
This is an opportunity.
Where do you want to work?
Who do you want to work for who are your dream companies?
Where would you want to go?
Where does your actual career want to go?
This is Greenfield.
Yeah, you're getting fired.
It sucks.
I get it emotionally feel the pain then get right back into
the job search start doing the lead gen process that we talked
about in e-mail 10K, but focused on searching for jobs have
video calls with people from your dream companies learn who's
hiring and potentially get an offer keep working until you
get an offer treat it almost like Like a B2B sale, it'll
take some work and initiative but personally I've gotten
jobs with a 30 to 50 percent raise in the years after the
2008 recession using this exact method it works
So if you're scared of losing your job what you do talk to
your boss get closer to the money take more credit and figure
out where you want to go next.
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Thanks for watching.
I'm Alex Berman.