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Career Tips for a Down Market
11/3/2008

Ten Career Tips to Bring You Up in a Down Market

Authored By: Smooch Repovich Reynolds, CEO of The Repovich Reynolds Group, an internationally recognized retained executive search firm focusing in the investor relations, communications, marketing, and finance functions.

#1: Focus, focus, focus – on the idea of doing great work in every aspect of your job.

#2: Be relentless in your pursuit of knowledge across the organization.

#3: Identify new and innovative ways to partner with senior management and their lieutenants to further your visibility and relationship building within the organization.

#4: Be a superb listener for your colleagues at all levels of the company.

#5: Determine ways to contribute intellectually across the enterprise, even though that may mean increased time learning more about functional areas that are not a part of your specific area of purview.

#6: Reach out to experts outside the organization to learn more about key indicators that may affect the business of your company, and your role, in order to anticipate future issues better and provide more appropriate counsel.

#7: Be clear about your voice in terms of credible counsel that you provide to colleagues and your CEO

#8: Understand the pressures that your management team is facing and learn how to “lean into” them and provide strategic support as they determine how to navigate a troubled economy.

#9: Be undeterred in your quest to define your function, and your leadership, as relevant to the organization, understanding clearly that the notion of relevancy may change over time.

#10: Be open to whatever role you are expected to serve and whatever responsibilities you are asked to undertake as management calls upon the team to collaborate on future business direction strategies.

Authored by: Smooch Repovich Reynolds

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