There's No Recession For Great Workers

Great people are always hard to find. Some of the most successful employers will snatch-up a good person even when they don't necessarily have a position carved out for them. They realize intelligent people who will spend the time to do something well, figure something out, or go out of their way to work weird hours are not the average worker. It seems there's a lot of talk in the media these days about a U.S. recession, unemployment, and jobless rates. Even in a recession, things need to get done, and companies require great people to do them. There will always be a greater number of jobs than there are great workers, so there is not and never will be a recession for good workers.

A while ago I found a great article that summarized this idea on Yahoo! by Ben Stein. He illustrates a story about young workers who almost seem unwilling to help the clients and customers of the business they work at in a time where everyone complains of recessions and finding jobs. He's right, I've visited a restaurant or a store where I felt like I wasn't welcome, and sometimes have left just because the service was so poor. Employers don't want to hire people that don't want to do their job, and these bad workers will experience a recession.

I have friends who have had trouble finding work sometimes or people I know who have had to search a long time for the right job. Sometimes this is just a result of being picky about what job they get or caused by their trouble finding the right person or connection to the right job or company. In the end, though, they find jobs and the fact they are great workers means they'll probably excel and keep that job. Great workers will always be able to find a job.