With the possibility of redundancies looming, Stuart Burrows provides a step-by-step guide to maximising your skills and making yourself indispensible, both in your current field and beyond

As the effects of the economic slowdown take their toll on all aspects of UK industry, an increasingly negative atmosphere has begun to pervade the legal workplace. In a lot of firms, staff may well feel insecure about their position and feel the need to show their skills to the best of their ability, in order to become indispensable to the business and avoid possible threat of redundancy.