Read the following article.

Read the following article. Please write a short comment about it. Try to use the expressions learnt during this lesson, if possible. Please read the article for your English Club session and be prepared to discuss it with other members of the English Club. Good luck!.

Strategies for Keeping your Job

After six years with the company, Bob Congers lost his job. Bob hadn't done anything wrong. On the contrary, he was a good worker, but this company was cutting its work force. Workforce cutbacks were a common practice in the early 1990’s. In response, career experts developed strategies for holding on to a job:

Make sure everyone knows you. Being a good worker is sometimes less important than making sure that people know you’re a good worker. Volunteer for new responsibilities, push your ideas, and generally make yourself visible.

Learn everything that could help you do your job better. If the company buys new computers, learn how to use them. If learning more about marketing could help you, take a short course in marketing.

Make sure you know everything about tbe company. And use this knowledge. If you find out that sales are becoming the most important department, try making a move to sales.

Be positive. People who find things to complaint about are a lot less popular than people who find things to praise.

Improve your speaking and writing skills. Having good ideas isn’t enough. You need to be able to communicate your ideas.

Impress your boss. You can often impress a boss by arriving early and
working late and by dressing in a businesslike way even if others dress casually.

In short, it all comes down to one basic strategy: Make yourself so valuable that the company won’t want to lose you.

Make a paragraph with your own strategy and send it to the e-mail: mgruiz@cantv.net