Happy days are here again! If you're sick and tired of doom and gloom, here's the best business news ever.

Dumb is in!

That's right, job seeker. The latest trend in higher hires doesn't call for a MBA, a Ph.D. or even a GED. The one quality that every employer is seeking these days is the one quality you have in quantity. It's dumb. The dumber you are, the more likely you are to be hired. I tell you, my fellow dummies, this is our moment in the sun.

I learned about this amazingly positive turn of events from an article by Jane Porter in The Wall Street Journal's Career Journal column. The "New Resume: Dumb and Dumber" is the headline of the piece. The subhead says, "Job Seekers Play Down Their Credentials to Avoid Looking Overqualified."

The problem is the economy, what there is left of it, and it affects both job seekers and job keepers. As Porter so poignantly points out, "Many unemployed professionals are willing to take pay cuts for the promise of a paycheck. But to get a foot in the door, candidates are gearing down their resumes, by hiding advanced degrees, changing too-lofty titles, shortening work experience descriptions, and removing awards and accolades."

Are you beginning to see the light of good fortune illuminating your job search? Because you've never had a lofty title, or won any awards, (and you don't even know what an accolade is) you don't have to "gear down" to present a state of high incompetence and total lack of success. You don't even have to lie. All you need to do is let your dumb flag fly.

For everyone else in the job world, the emergence of dumb has raised both practical and ethical problems. Milwaukee recruiter, Jamaica Eilbes, reports that she has had to weed out more overqualified resumes than usual from the stacks that cross her desk each day. "I'd never feel comfortable putting a really high-level candidate into a lower position," Eibes explains.

It's that kind of sensitivity that explains why your highly qualified, high-level competition will be sitting out this recession in a refrigerator box under the freeway, while completely unqualified, low-level bunglers like me and thee are going to be juggling job offers like the circus clowns we are.

Believe me, you, if employers want dumb, we've got dumb to spare. Continued...