Bulletproof Your Job: 4 Simple Strategies to Ride Out the Rough Times and Come Out On Top at Work

There's no doubt about it, today's workplace is an uncertain and treacherous territory. Newspaper headlines are proclaiming near record-high levels of unemployment, and, in these tough times, companies are making swift judgments about human capital.

    The bottom line: No job is safe.

But there are tried and true ways to fight off sudden unemployment successfully, and the number one weapon in your arsenal is workplace expert and television and radio personality Stephen Viscusi's career manifesto, Bulletproof Your Job. Based on four simple strategies for dodging the layoff bullet and a long list of ways to implement these strategies, Bulletproof Your Job may save you from your worst enemy at work—which just so happens to be you.

    Quite simply, observe these imperative rules:

    Be visible. Be easy. Be useful. Be ready.

With plenty of distinct action items, dozens of anecdotal illustrations and examples, and lists and tips for adapting bulletproof strategies to your own situation, Bulletproof Your Job will show you how to leverage the black-and-white stuff—your title, salary, and tenure—with the gray stuff—your relationship with coworkers, visibility in the workplace, and ability to make your boss look good—to ward off the pink stuff—the dreaded layoff notice. While you're at it, you'll be creating a long-term strategy for job security and career advancement that ensures you'll never feel this vulnerable again.

Browse Inside: Bulletproof Your Job

Full & free, provided by Harper Collins.

Hardcover: 192 pages
Author: Stephen Viscusi
Publisher: Collins Business (September 2, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061713600
ISBN-13: 978-0061713606

Stephen Viscusi: America's Workplace Guru.

Download Bulletproof Your Job: Introduction

PDF format, 208KB.

During tough economic times, the most important asset you have isn’t your house or your savings. It’s your job.

Like a lot of businesspeople, I have been influenced by Sun Tzu’s classic The Art of War. I keep it on my desk at all times as a reminder that business is war, a sometimes brutal competition to succeed that you take seriously or not at all. Similarly, what goes on in the workplace is just one long season of The Apprentice, where each employee competes with the other to keep his job. ...

Download Bulletproof Your Job: Chapter 1

PDF format, 418KB, 20Pages.

Here’s the bulletproof truth: If your superiors don’t see you or know who you are, you’re very easy to let go. Out of sight, out of mind, and—poof!—you’re gone. Accentuating and improving your physical presence and raising your overall profile at work are, together, the first steps toward locking down your job security. ...

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About Stephen Viscusi

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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