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**StizePypemype** · 10-14-2011, 05:36 PM

Here’s the other thing you have to look at: overqualification.

For example, I finished my bachelor's degree (in a field related to what I did in the Navy) and started on my master's before I got out.

While I was collecting unemployment, the amount I was getting was about the same as someone who grosses $9.30 an hour. I actually applied for a job in my field (albeit, on a lower level of responsibility and authority that I had attained as a First Class Petty Officer) that paid $11 an hour. I was told flat out within three minutes of the interview starting that I was overqualified.

Luckily, a week later, I interviewed for the job that I have now - I'm a federal civilian.

Bottom line, however, is that "humbling yourself" to take a job that you might have felt to be "beneath you" at one point is far easier said than done.

Sometimes true, but when a person that's "overqualified" it helps to be open and honest and say they're looking for something temporary for the interim. They may say they were looking for a more permanent fill, or they may be okay with a temporary fill. Mileage may vary.

A vastly underutilized and underappreciated capability these days is social networking. Linkedin will get person hired, Facebook will get them fired. Knowing how to leverage the capability to one's advantage can work far more quickly than a cursory search trying to play match my KSA's with the newspaper add. It's not what ya know, it's who.

10-14-2011, 05:36 PM	#23
StizePypemype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 479 Senior Member	Here’s the other thing you have to look at: overqualification. For example, I finished my bachelor's degree (in a field related to what I did in the Navy) and started on my master's before I got out. While I was collecting unemployment, the amount I was getting was about the same as someone who grosses $9.30 an hour. I actually applied for a job in my field (albeit, on a lower level of responsibility and authority that I had attained as a First Class Petty Officer) that paid $11 an hour. I was told flat out within three minutes of the interview starting that I was overqualified. Luckily, a week later, I interviewed for the job that I have now - I'm a federal civilian. Bottom line, however, is that "humbling yourself" to take a job that you might have felt to be "beneath you" at one point is far easier said than done. Sometimes true, but when a person that's "overqualified" it helps to be open and honest and say they're looking for something temporary for the interim. They may say they were looking for a more permanent fill, or they may be okay with a temporary fill. Mileage may vary. A vastly underutilized and underappreciated capability these days is social networking. Linkedin will get person hired, Facebook will get them fired. Knowing how to leverage the capability to one's advantage can work far more quickly than a cursory search trying to play match my KSA's with the newspaper add. It's not what ya know, it's who.
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