How Safe is your Job?

Next bad news- Employers of IT,Builders,Aviation and outsourcing are planning to cut 25% of its total employees in week or two.It’s all doom and gloom in the news at the moment with experts telling us we’re already in recession. Now recent figures say that the number of people out of work is on the rise and it looks like it’ll only keep rising.So, how can you tell if your job’s next for the chop? Here are some signs to look out for…The office seems strangely quiet and then everyone reappears from a meeting; one that you weren’t invited to. You get the feeling that you’re the last to know anything and you’re not up to speed any more with the comings and goings of the business. In the workplace, knowledge is power. Your company’s act of keeping information from you and keeping you in the dark might be one way of preparing for life without you.Where once you were struggling to find enough hours in the day, you now have time to chat to colleagues or surf the net. Have you really got that much better at your job? Or is the reality that your workload has been lightened? If your input no longer seems needed or projects and other responsibilities have been passed to others, it’s another sign that the team is making sure your work is covered one you’re out the door…Entrepreneurs always had the notion that if some big competitor copied their idea, then what? We were also daunted by the same fact, Recently few months back, I received a mail from naukri.com by the topic offering the same services in an identical fashion…Yes it can definitely be coincidence but exactly similar wordings & offerings definitelty raised our eyebrows…Our process name was MagicHire and naukri has termed it as E-hire.
Perhaps it would be foolish of us to blame Naukri to emulate our business model. But our only query seemed to be when a strong brand like Naukri has acknowledged our business model, why did the investors turn their back on us? Just because we were a team of young entrepreneurs and didn’t have the 20 years corporate experience which the investors find impressive. I strongly agree, experienced people can be better entrepreneurs but my only query to investors is why preach something and practice other…………Again the question is how safe is your business idea when you take it to investors. Investors would definitely argue that an idea is not important but execution is vital. Absolutely true but if a big organization emulates the same idea as a newbie entrepreneur; they are more likely to succeed with all their financial strength, brand name and existing clientele in the industry.