Recession-proof yourself

We kick off career week with some important advice: how to recession-proof yourself.

With the unemployment rate hitting 8.1 percent in February -- the highest since 1983 -- hanging on to your job is job one these days.

So, how do you make yourself indispensable so if and when layoffs arrive, hopefully you'll be too valuable to let go.

Martha Fields, Human resources expert at Fields Associates and management consultant, joined the FOX25 Morning News recently with some advice.

You can see Martha Fields again next month on the FOX25 Morning News. She will also take part in a live chat, answering your career questions.