3 Ways To Become The Most Valuable Employee
By Selipha Kihagi
You have successfully been selected to fill the job position you applied and interviewed for. You have already started at the new job and are now another employee of the company. The challenge you will now have is to prove to your employer that he/she was right in hiring you.
Employees constantly worry about being fired or their positions being cut, it is a common job security concern among many but one that can be avoided if you give your employer a reason to keep you in the company.
So, how do you become a valuable employee?
1. Become Visible To Your Employer
This does not mean that you keep walking by your employer every chance you get or lurking by their office, it means you should strive to become a good team player and share new ideas openly either during a meeting or requesting a few minutes with your boss at the office.
This way, your employer will identify with you directly and if your ideas are good and your work exceptional, then there will be no reason to get you to the firing list.
2. Learn a new Skill and perfect it
The skills you currently have are the ones that got you the job, with time there will be the need for someone with more skills to join the company at a higher level or replace an employee who has left the company. Become that person.
Cy Wakeman, an executive coach and author on workplace matters advices that one must keep up-to-date and stay relevant to guarantee that you can perform far into the future.
Take the initiative to add on your education by pursuing a post graduate diploma or second degree in a related course.
3. Be willing to do more than your job description
This does not mean that you offer to perform a particular task when your desk is full of unfinished work. It means that whenever you have time to spare, you can work on a certain task that the company requires done but no one else can do it. Do the task well and get your co-workers or boss talking about it.
In all these three, as an employee you must know that it is not the effort or dedication that counts but the results you bring that matter.
