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To: highlander_UW

I hear ‘overqualified’ a lot when I actually even get a call about a job. It’s frustrating beyond belief.


20 posted on 08/17/2010 8:00:28 PM PDT by Tolsti2
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To: Tolsti2
I hear ‘overqualified’ a lot when I actually even get a call about a job. It’s frustrating beyond belief.

Before I got a degree I got every job I ever applied for. I've been employed much of the time since then, but when I wasn't I heard I was overqualified, deserving of more than they could afford to pay and just about every other reason not to hire someone since.

One company I worked at told me I wouldn't have gotten my foot in the door without the degree, but it seems like every other company would have preferred me to be uneducated.

24 posted on 08/17/2010 8:03:09 PM PDT by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: Tolsti2
I hear ‘overqualified’ a lot when I actually even get a call about a job.

Business school professor goes undercover to find out first hand what it's really like to work in fast food, how a typical fast food joint operates, etc. Naturally, he neglected to provide his hiring managers with his curriculum vitae.

160 posted on 08/17/2010 10:48:28 PM PDT by cynwoody
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