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Job Searches |
| Message Name: |
You're right! |
| Date Posted: |
02/05/2002 |
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How does one handle the old over and uderqualified excuses of why after an initial interview there is no further interest? In my case the last three interviews ended in situations where I was liked (and received positive feedback from recruiters but either considered overqualified (which in my book is the lamest excuse possible) or underqualified (which also was bogus given that I have the requisite experience in the field I work in and was applying for a position that required a minimum of ten years experience). How do you handle something like this? I am sick of using recruiters simply because I think that they are not screening me properly for potential positions and are wasting my time in addition to making doubt my abilities. |
| Message: |
Recruiters are oblivious, but they are also just people. You have to get know them as people, make friends with them, find out about their family, etc...
They are also inundated and are simply in a state of triage. They live on commissions, so are going to go for the obvious "best" candidate. These days it might help to tailor every resume that goes out, to make it look -exactly- like the position you're applying for.
I also always ask "What is the dis-qualifier?" If they say 'over-qualified', I say that I hit the ceiling, and applying the Peter principal that means I should go down a level (where I was), because that -is- the level that I am most effective at.
Hope this helps
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