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Seth Godin on Unskilled Labour
Seth Godin, the godfather of permission marketing, has written over a dozen books that have been translated into more than thirty languages. According to his bio, he writes about the post-industrial revolution, the way ideas spread, marketing, quitting, leadership and most of all, changing everything. Seth is something of a hero in Sonru and most of us subscribe to his daily RSS feed. Today he wrote about skilled and unskilled labor, it's short and sweet like all his musings but it's reproduced below, interesting food for thought from Seth as always.
Perhaps it's time for a new definition.
Unskilled labor is what you call someone who merely has skills that most everyone else has.
If it's not scarce, why pay extra?
Skills matter. The unemployment rate for US workers without a college education is almost triple that for those with one. Even the college rate is still too high, though. On the other hand, the unemployment rate for skilled neurosurgeons, talented database designers and motivated recombinant DNA biologists is essentially zero, despite the high pay in all three fields.
Unskilled now means not-specially skilled.
Posted to Recruitment 2012, on March 11 2011.
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