Keeping Your Job

Good jobs are hard to come by – here's some expert advice on how to keep yours...

In a shaky job market – you probably don’t want to take any chances with yours. Monster.com has some career hazards we should avoid:

• Social Networking - Personal posts and tweets from work - when you’re supposed to be doing your job - can tag you as a slacker.

• TMI - Sharing too much about your personal life with colleagues is unprofessional. Your coworkers don’t want to hear about your fights with your spouse or how great your kids are.

• Self-Control - Getting drunk at the office party or on a business trip damages your credibility. Ditto for a romantic indiscretion that your colleagues know about.

• Job-Hopping - If you’ve had seven or eight jobs by the time you’re 35 - employers are not going to want to invest in you. Keep in mind that the top dogs in a lot of large corporations have been there a long time – and many companies have “last in, first out” layoff policies. You could wind up out of a job if you don’t stick around long enough to build tenure.