[napscoordinator]

I don’t think anyone deserves low pay. I don’t believe that there are many PHd’s who are indigent. I am sure more high school drop outs are. If companies are not hiring PHD’s then leave it off your resume. I have an MBA but didn’t include it on a job that I was applying for because I didn’t want that “over qualified” nonsense. The reason that companies don’t want to take folks with higher qualifications then they ask for is because they know most likely they will not stay with the company for long. Having a PHD is a benefit that they should embrace and use it when necessary. My only question is what are they going to do when everyone has a PHD? Are they going to start another degree program?

[oblomov]

Using academic qualifications (other than area of study) as a criterion for experienced candidate evaluation is ridiculous. The reason that employers do this is that they are prohibited from conducting IQ testing.

[GonzoGOP]

My only question is what are they going to do when everyone has a PHD? Are they going to start another degree program?

No they will stop giving out loans to pay for PHDs that can't increase the student's earning potential enough to pay for the loan. It is already happening. As you said in your post people are refusing to put their degrees on their job applications. So any money spent on that degree was a waste when applying for that job.

The era of free government money is coming to an end one way or the other. Either conservatives win big and cut the spending, or Obama wins and we go the way of Greece. Either way the free ride will be over. And when it does there will be a lot of ethnic studies PHDs who's diplomas will be put to the same use as those 1990s .com stock certificates. That is either toilet paper or a painful reminder of a bad investment.

[dmz]

I have an MBA but didn’t include it on a job that I was applying for because I didn’t want that “over qualified” nonsense.

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I would not advise others to do as you have done, and I’ve recruited for what was then an 8 billion/yr organization.

The background check will reveal it, and it will raise questions as to the level of your honesty.

I would advise a pro-active strategy of discussing why an MBA is seeking a job where an MBA might be an oddity.

JMO.

[arrdon]

Hell, in THIS job market, you’d better tell them you’re homeless, illegal, speak no English, toothless, out on bail, and living off public assistance, or you don’t even get considered. ANY of the grocery stores will not even look at an applicant unless they exhibit some quality of the mentally challenged. Discrimination is the norm, especially AGE.