{"id":205,"date":"2011-05-06T09:23:46","date_gmt":"2011-05-06T16:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2011-05-06T09:23:46","modified_gmt":"2011-05-06T16:23:46","slug":"4-top-reasons-why-training-can-keep-you-employed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/4-top-reasons-why-training-can-keep-you-employed\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Top Reasons Why Training Can Keep You Employed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is becoming consistent in adding new jobs on a month-to-month basis.\u00a0 While this is good news, does that mean if you are currently employed then you\u2019re \u201csafe?\u201d\u00a0 Not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Layoffs continue, just not in the massive waves as they were happening a year and or two ago.\u00a0 Today, companies are continuing what they started a good while ago: re-evaluating their priorities, killing bad projects, creating or resurrecting good projects and going through their list of personnel to let go anyone who doesn\u2019t align with the new plan.\u00a0 <strong>That could be you.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Training is an effective way to stay in the game.\u00a0 Here\u2019s how you can leverage training to do so.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Training shows you are interested in the company.<\/strong>\u00a0 Determining what training you need means having a conversation with your manager about what is needed.\u00a0 That is a great conversation to have that shows your manager you want to know what more you can do for the company.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Training shows you go an extra mile.<\/strong>\u00a0 It\u2019s surprising how many people don\u2019t do this, especially considering the company will pay if you simply present a viable training opportunity.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Training builds skill.<\/strong>\u00a0 There\u2019s no way around it, adding education to your hands-on daily activity is a plus all around.\u00a0 Nothing bad ever happened by being exposed to new ideas and concepts.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Training generates motivation.<\/strong>\u00a0 People very often leave a training experience feeling energized and empowered.\u00a0 You can ride this wave into all sorts of productive and creative experiences that will be positively recognized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>GogoTraining offers outstanding technical and management training for IT professionals.\u00a0 Our courses are taught by industry experts in an online, self-paced format.\u00a0 Best of all, they are affordable for individuals (and save companies a bundle).<\/p>\n<p>To take the same high-quality training courses the big guys pay thousands for, check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/gogotraining.com\/\">GogoTraining online IT course catalog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economy is becoming consistent in adding new jobs on a month-to-month basis.\u00a0 While this is good news, does that mean if you are currently employed then you\u2019re \u201csafe?\u201d\u00a0 Not even close. Layoffs continue, just not in the massive waves as they were happening a year and or two ago.\u00a0 Today, companies are continuing what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-job-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gogotraining.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}