Finding a job during recession is very difficult. Businesses during this economic period are not looking for jobs but shedding them instead.

Everyday, businesses announce job cuts by thousands just to combat the financial challenges of the economy. As layoff increases, the number of people looking for a new job is also increasing.

This is a very bad scenario for fresh graduates. Although they do have the education to back up their qualifications, they cannot contend with laid off employees who have the experience, education and sometimes the backing of their company to find work.

The tendency for fresh graduates in seeking a good job is to rely on their education to prove that they should be hired. But that does not work most of the time. During the recession phase, companies are looking to aggressively survive by strict money spending.

When they opt to hire someone, they do not need someone who will still need training and mentoring as this will cost time and resources. They will most likely select the experienced ones as they already have the needed knowledge in the industry. With their experience, they can work immediately after hiring.

Using your education as the means of getting hired is a dead-end strategy for fresh graduates. When you are asked aside from your education, you cannot provide additional and sufficient answer to provide with the interviewer.

Instead of plunging yourself into the job market competition with a very limited success, increase the opportunity of being hired by transforming yourself into a niche. A niche is something unique and different that might seem to work mostly in business setting. But this could also be applied on fresh graduates.

Instead of focusing on their education, add your special skills which might be used by the company in any given situation. A good example is proving your additional skills in technology and other gadgets. Even singing could be used as a niche to get hired. When you add something unique and different there, the interviewer will notice it and will try to strike a conversation about what you know.

But getting hired for a job is still different. Do not just use this period as an excuse to slouch and wait until this dies down. Use this time to hone your additional skill which should be useful when you do get hired for the job. Aside from your education, you will be hired because of your additional skills that might not be seen in other employees.

Your uniqueness combined with relative education will make you a perfect candidate in getting hired. When you cannot find a good job according to your education – be patient. Someone will begin to recognize you as someone with an expertise on something. This will become your niche since you having something beneficial to the company that is not only based on your education. An employee with a niche is definitely on its way to popularity as you become someone different from other companies.