HOW TO GET A RAISE IN SALARY

It may sound like an uphill task. I agree, it is! Getting a raise in salary during an economic recession is not as easy as 1,2,3, but it is quite achievable i tell you. Try and incorporate some of the tips that i am going to list below in your routine. Try them out and see, you may just be one of the lucky few who get a raise in salary at this time of great economic distress. They are;

I. Be punctual when reporting to work; This may sound simple, but you will be surprised to see that when major companies are caught between deciding who to cut off or lay off from the organization, it may just boil down to this fact if all of you are highly competitive employees.

II. Work smart, not hard; We as human beings tend to think that the harder we work, the more gains or benefits we get from what we do. While this may be true in certain circumstances, history has proven this wrong by showing us that most of the well to do people that we describe as billionaires of our societies actually work smart. Get yourself achievable targets and finish them way beyond the deadline. This will make you look like a reliable employee.

III. Focus on the Quality of the work you do and not the Quantity; We often as employees like to pick a heavy load to do so that we can show off to our bosses that we can handle such a heavy load. This is a sure way to get yourself fired!! This is because when you select an overwhelming task to perform, you often end up with a lot of loose ends that you didn't focus on because you were too busy doing something else. However if you pick the right number of tasks to do and focus on the quality of the work you do, you will end up with satisfied clients who will always recommend you to your boss. Therefore even if the Boss wanted to lay you off, he/she cannot because you will have proven to be a valuable resource to the company.

IV. Be confident in yourself; It is surprising at how some of us are not confident in ourselves. We are always seeing ourselves as not good enough to do a specific task or not qualified enough to do them. Get such thoughts out of your head because these will do nothing but just make you inefficient in your job and may deny you a salary raise. Start believing in yourself and even if you don't at first. In the morning, start speaking out words like '' i can do it!', 'i am the best employee in the world'. These may look insignificant at first, but try and see if after a month you still feel the same way about yourself as you did before you tried it.

V. Document your contributions to the company; You should always have a file where you place a record of what you have done for the company. This will also help you in determining your worth in a company and if need be, help you in calculating how much more your employer should give you besides what you are getting at the moment.

Try these out and see what happens, i will be giving you more tips as i come across them.