by Dave Donovan 
With unemployment still on the rise, making sure your boss needs you is every employee's most important survival skill right now.
In Washington, the country's top financial analysts are claiming the recession is just about over. But, look around your neighborhood -- or for more icy cold confirmation, at the Bureau of Labor's unemployment statistics -- and you'll have your worst fears confirmed. The figures show that only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open in July 2009 -- with 14.5 million people officially unemployed. That's a lot of people competing for very few jobs.
Despite the Dow's improvement, we're not out of the woods yet. And with the national unemployment average currently at 9.7 percent, you and your neighbors are experiencing the highest rate of unemployment since 1983.
In this struggling economy, everyone is on edge -- and that includes managers and supervisors. In fact, according to global HR consulting firm, BPI Group, 82 percent of supervisors are stressed out and 75 percent say an increase in work-related stress has made an impact on interoffice relationships with their employees.
With so much uncertainty in the economic forecast -- and so much stress in the workplace -- the most important goal right now is to stay employed, and not take the 6 to 1 odds of finding a new job in this economy.
If you haven't figured it out already, the very best way to stay employed is to keep the job you already have. And the really simple way to do that is to make sure your boss wants to keep you around -- that he loves you, adores you -- by making yourself indispensable and actively supporting him or her, according to the career savvy, employment advisers at Smart Money.
Here's how they believe you can improve your relationship with your boss -- and manage to keep your job, if your company is forced to make layoffs.
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