Good, Bad or What?

Your primary concern is your job market

On any given day the business media as well as the general media will overwhelm you with articles, statistics and other information about the job market. Charts, graphs, polls – all designed to tell you that it’s a good job market. No, it’s a bad job market. It’s the best job market in the last ten years. Nope. It’s the worst job market since the Great Depression… or the Great Recession (of 2008).

Who should you believe?

Each proponent of any job market condition typically arrives loaded with statistics, quotes and opinions from an army of experts convinced their evaluations are on the mark. God help us all when they factor AI into the equation. They say that AI is resulting in massive job losses – if not today, then in the near future. On the other hand, others proclaim that AI will create new jobs that none of us can even imagine.

Whatever the job market’s true condition, you’re still out of work. If the job market is humming, you’re still out of work. If the job market is languishing, you still have to get out there and find something for yourself.

At the end of the day – even if this is worst job market in your lifetime (and we’re not saying that it is) – you still have to polish your resume; you still have to network; you still have to labor to land an interview. You have to do all those things because you need to find a job. And therein lies the key. You need to find “a job.” Not ten jobs. Not five jobs. Just “a job.” It’s akin to selling your house. You only need to find one buyer.

And no matter how bad the job market may be, there are still employers out there looking for someone. And that someone may be you.

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