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Key tips for getting a salary boost in Malaysia

HOW do employees get a salary boost?

First of all, you must ensure your productivity increases greatly. Once you have become very efficient, naturally your superior will increase your salary. If your superior does not reward you accordingly, you can move on to greener pastures. When you are efficient, you will definitely get a handsome reward.

How do you increase your productivity and become efficient?

Focus on high value work

Long working hours do not necessarily generate good results. The company is only interested in the volume and quality of the work produced.

Hence, brilliant employees will seek out those tasks that will contribute to higher productivity and quality work. Then they will invest their time in these activities so that they will be able to increase their productivity and efficiency.

Simplify the workflow

Analyse the steps of work and combine the steps that can be carried out at the same time. Simplify any steps that are unnecessary or repetitive.

You may also delegate the work to others or outsource the work to vendors in order to reduce the time wasted on low-value tasks.

Focus wholeheartedly

Give 100 per cent of your attention to your job. Do not waste time doing activities that do not produce results.

Fill your time with all the necessary work that you need to carry out. Do not idle and spend time on useless small talk.

When you give your work 100 per cent attention, your productivity will surely increase.

Get familiarised with your work

When you have discovered the high-value work, you have to learn, apply and practise until you have fully mastered the working procedures and skills.

When you are familiar with the work, you will also be skilful so the time required to do the work will get shorter. In this case, your productivity will increase greatly.

Work longer hours than others

You can increase your efficiency by working longer hours than others. For instance, by going to work earlier, you can avoid traffic jams and hence reduce the waiting time on the road.

During your lunch break, you can either go for lunch earlier or later to avoid the lunch crowd. Stay on for a while after work and only go home when the traffic is clear.

By doing so, you will have extra time to get your work done and thus increase your productivity.

Speed up your pace

Get a job done at the fastest pace possible. Always work at a fast pace so that you can focus on getting a job done swiftly. Get on to the next job when one job is done.

When you are able to work at a fast pace, you will be amazed with the amount of work you are able to get through each day.

Integrate the work

Organise your work in such a way that you are able to carry out similar tasks at one time. Instead of going back and forth doing certain tasks, group the activities that can be carried out and complete them at the same time.

For instance, the tasks such as emailing, writing letters, filing forms and writing memos can be done at the same time.

It is more efficient to focus on these tasks rather than doing them at different times.