The Savvy Employee

[image error] The short “How to Keep a Job” explains the skills you need to impress the boss.

The team behind Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K) recently reformed as Rifftrax. They find older movies and carry on conversations over the film soundtrack.1 They also riff Cornet and other educational films, those terribly produced instructional shorts many of us suffered through in school.


One of my favorites is “How to Keep a Job,” which tells men in their twenties how to hand read a want ad, score an interview and, most importantly, what skills employers expect from their employees.


It made me wonder what job skills employers expect in 2018, so I wrote this article for The Creative Cafe to make sure every reader knows how to keep a job in the third millennium.


The Savvy Employee

1To be honest, they mercilessly mock everything from script to acting to production values to, in the case of the short “Get That Job” the actor’s seventies approach to baldness.back

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