Some tips for employees !

Since a couple of decades ago, lifelong employment, job security and employee loyalty have become things of the past. Prevalent worldwide today are contract work, short-term employment, retrenchment and unemployment.

Employers have to adjust and adapt to the fast-changing global business environment and ever-rising cost of doing business, and when they could not catch up with the changes fast enough, they would start bleeding financially. When that happens, they would have to think of cost cutting measures and the easy way out is to retrench the employees. So, in this particular context, employees have to learn to manage their own careers as well because companies can no longer guarantee them a lifelong employment or job security.

As the employment conditions have evolved and changed, so must the employees' response and attitude. Frankly, it is irrelevant to talk about employee loyalty now, what is to be expected from employees are their responsibilities and integrity because they are paid to do the job. So, it is only right that the employees put in their fair day's work. They have to learn to think on their own two feet and fend for themselves, they should not expect the companies to take care of them and their future anymore.

Let me offer you my two cents' worth of career advice: "Even if you are very happy with your present job, never stop looking for a job." Think about it. Upgrade yourself constantly and make planned career moves periodically.