Back up Plans for retrenchment - continue...

Building up your own value when job security diminishes, personal security has to take top priority. If you want to build your career in an organization, then you need to take a quarterly litmus test on the value of your assets.

What difference has your presence at work made? How are your clients' needs better met as a result of your input? How are your clients' needs better met as a result of your input. What have you learnt? Your CV is no longer something you update in order to sell yourself to a new employer. It's something you must constantly ad to in order to sell yourself internally.

Keep learning. Accept this as a necessary condition of employment. And it just does not mean course. it can also mean looking at job offers in terms of what you will learn.