Hard truth about employment

Some of the guru of HR may give you the below advise when you have faced redundancy:

"Find a job that makes you happy"; "Follow your dreams and the money will follow"; Discover your passion and that will lead you to success"; "Go to college, discover what you love and a career will follow."

However, how Joyce Lain Kennedy (syndicated columnist focusing on business and career issues) said”-

Not wrong, but not necessarily so. Even when the job market was happily employee-driven, there were holes in that advice -- as I remind people: "If you can't hit high C, you can't sing opera."

In the times of economic crisis EPLOYERS become more and more PICKY. For example, I currently work in the bank. There were several positions opened in my company, so I decided to recommend some people. In spite of the fact that there are currently few employees in the bank that don’t have collage education requirements to the possible newcomers were very high. They were meant to have specific industry qualification! Some of newcomers have even PHD…. People that had accounting background but not in the bank were not considered….Total amount of people my company was looking for was about 30 people… As to me this is a sign that there are lots of well qualified people out there that competing with you for a job… These days if you don’t have specific qualification within certain business area or you are looking to change industry things may be harder then you thing. There is something to think about and to consider….