- The secrets to keeping your job in tough times.
- Savvy and practical advice on how to avoid the pitfalls and surivive the next round of job cuts.
- Contains 12 secrets on becoming a employee who adds value and, therefore, is valuable to the company.
- Based on real-life examples and easy-to-use tools and techniques.
- In these times of cost reductions and austerity, nearly everyone is concerned about their jobs.

If you have a job, would you like to keep it? In these difficult and unstable times, the answer is most likely to be a resounding “YES!”. This book reveals the secrets of keeping your job. It cuts to the heart of modern working life and examines the big things that trip people up and what you need to know in order to survive.

You might be great at the technical side of your job, but it’s no longer enough to keep you employed these days. This book is based on first-hand experience of coaching people to keep their job. It covers the key themes which come up again and again ­ one of which is: SOFT SKILLS COUNT. Ultimately, survival is about becoming an employee who can add value to your work and your company. And this book provides the 12 secrets to help you achieve just that.

Richard Maun is a business coach, consultant and university lecturer specialising in personal and career development. He is the author of Job Hunting 3.0 (Marshall Cavendish, 2010).

Check out Richard in the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2011/jul/22/secret-surviving-bullying-boss.