Thursday, October 01, 2009

Ensure your employability!


Few months ago, I was hearing a leader from a politician party saying that the companies have to ensure the jobs security. I was a little bit amazing by this comment, and wondering if we were right now in the twenty first century. To ensure job security means that economical crisis should not exist.

This comment aside, is the job security still existing?

In the beginning of the nineties, when I started to work, it was conceivable to make your career in the same company. I remember at that time, I was working for a Japanese computer company. This company created his own subsidiary in Belgium and we were around fifty employees. The ambition of the management was to increase the market shares, and to get three hundred employees in the three years. Two years later, the first gulf war started with negative consequences on the economical sphere, and there was a price war on the laptop market. These two components made that the company suppressed fifty percent of the jobs.

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