| How To Diversify Your Skills During The Recession | | | | helping to do a press release to advising on the best |
| And Attract Success! | | | | way a business can market their business to a |
| Years ago ‘a job for life’ was applied to stable | | | | particular target audience. |
| and secure employment that would always remain. | | | | Each one of us who has skills and/or experience has |
| With the recession and economic crisis such a term is | | | | the potential to diversify those skills and use them for |
| now redundant as many employees are uncertain | | | | new employment that is conducive to their lifestyles. |
| from one day to the next as to whether they will | | | | For example, a stay at home mum who often goes to |
| remain in work. Given the affects of the recession, it is | | | | various children’s activities with the kids and is |
| therefore unsurprising to see money making | | | | sociable may not consider herself a |
| companies offering people ways in which to increase | | | | ‘saleswoman’ however she may realise that |
| their income, such as selling their unwanted gold or old | | | | through socialising with other parents she becomes |
| mobile phones. When cash is tight and uncertainty | | | | more confident and so is ready to embark on a new |
| looms over us like a dark cloud what is the alternative | | | | challenge. |
| should we find ourselves out of a job? | | | | In life, you need to diversify and be open to new |
| Diversification of skills and creating multiple income | | | | opportunities and by doing so positive changes will |
| streams | | | | occur. |
| People who diversify their skills can beat the recession | | | | When looking at your employment status ask yourself: |
| by using their existing skills in one job and applying it | | | | 1: What could I do that would allow me to utilise past |
| elsewhere. For example, a friend of mine is | | | | and present skills for a new job? |
| employed as a hairdresser, however she has an | | | | 2: What do I value in a job? Money (how much?), |
| existing client base carried over from her previous | | | | benefits? (What sort?), Autonomy? Flexible hours? |
| employment and because her clients were used to her | | | | Start defining what you want. |
| doing their hair in a particular way and she offered | | | | 3: What type of job would allow me the flexibility and |
| good customer service, she was easily able to retain | | | | the values I seek? (Think outside the box and |
| these customers after she had left. As a result my | | | | consider other jobs that you have not done before but |
| friend was able to maintain two jobs (one employed | | | | can see yourself doing) |
| and one self employed) thus bringing in an additional | | | | 4: What do you do for your family and friends that |
| income and with her mobile self employment work she | | | | could be considered as a possible job role? |
| could fit clients into her diary as and when it was | | | | 5: Is there any hobby you partake in that could be |
| mutually convenient. | | | | turned into an income such as blog writing? |
| Similarly, a Marketing expert has great transferable | | | | |
| skills which can be applied to freelance work and can | | | | I hope you have found this article useful in helping you |
| even assist start up businesses with anything from | | | | to target exactly which job suits you! |