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True. I started at the bottom of the ladder at my workplace, learned the job in 3 years, got a better position and now I'm even president of my union.

And thanks, I needed that quotge as I'm about to go work and I was feeling down due to my sister having her Karen episode.

If you have a master's degree and apply to fast food, you will absolutely get told you're over-qualified even if you've never done that specific job.

Education absolutely over-qualifies you for certain roles by default even if you've never done them.

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Glad you enjoyed. You rock!

How do you know?

I needed this. I work primarily with men,and am postured to overtake a senior network engineer role. When my boss came in and asked what was going on I began to speak but the junior engineer and senior who is leaving spoke over me, boss(a man) got with the junior first and then the senior (both men) proceeded to ignore me(woman)....and then I read this. Thanks for making me feel a little better.♡

We are saying the same thing. Education is only one piece of the job description. You maybe have a higher degree than nescessary for the job or “over qualified” in specifically that area. But you aren’t over qualified in the other areas in the job description or the “real world” experience as you call it AKA actually doing the job. So yes it makes sense that an employer wouldn’t want to higher someone who has an education background that isn’t consistent with the job description. They want to higher someone who has actually done the things they’re asking for on the job description. And of course when highering for entry level positions you want to analyze how long that person will be in the position so you don’t have to backfill.

When I’m hiring people I always look for people that have at minimum a 2-3 year time horizon for entry level jobs. If that job description states you need a bachelors and some practical experience doing XYZ I would question why a PHD would want that job. Doesn’t exclude them from being able to be highered. But it also doesn’t mean they are over qualified to do the job either just because they have a PHD. Now if they had also done the job before and let’s say they had the required 2-3 years of experience of doing the job + a PhD I would say they are now over qualified because they have hit all of the requirements of the job and their education is higher than needed. In your example they just have a piece of paper that’s not relevant for the job being applied for and all it really shows is they can dedicate time to studying without a plan for utilizing their degree.

If you hold a PhD, you may be seen as overqualified for many entry level positions, despite lacking the "real world" experience necessary for higher up positions.

The reason for this is possibly because employers assume that you'll demand a higher salary than typical entry level staff and that you will be at a different position in your life, because of your higher qualifications, yet you obviously haven't proven yourself in the corporate world yet, so they can't gamble on you performing well at an appropriate level.

How can you possibly be overqualified for a job you’ve never done? Please explain. Experience is just a part of the qualifications just like education is for some jobs.

In terms of qualifications, you absolutely can.

Considering i a have 10 certifications in a warehouse where nobody else has 2 and I am the only other person who can read blueprints other than the inspector and manager? Yeah. I’m overqualified.

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I’m saying you can’t be over-qualified for a job if you’ve never done it.

I have an accounting degree I wasn’t over qualified for a staff accounting job just because I have a degree. Now that I’ve worked for a while I’d be overqualified for the job. Working the job and having the experience for the job 1 ring above what you’re applying for makes you overqualified.

Qualifications and experience are two vastly different things.

See: every graduate struggling to find work because noone will give them a job to get experience.

1. Over-qualified
2. Lack experience

Pick 1

I have epilepsy too - so sorry to hear about its impact on you. I was fired last year because of it after I requested reasonable accommodations (e.g., leave me the fuck alone when I'm working because my cognitive decline is heightened by interruptions, which were constant at that job).

It's weird to think of the "before" times when everything has changed because of seizures. Didn't mean to ramble, but just wanted to say this struck a chord with me. You aren't alone, friend.

No, you misunderstand me. I agree that others not seeing your worth should have no bearing on your own self-perception, and that the world is unfair. I'm just expressing sympathy for GratefulConception40.

Yes they do.

I’m way over qualified to be washing dishes for a living. Unfortunately I had a motorcycle accident just before the pandemic which left me with epilepsy. My body is pretty wrecked so I can’t over work myself. I can’t do an awful lot of stuff I am trained and experienced to do. I can’t even drive which limits me massively due to my location. I’ve got 2 cats so I’m pretty settled in a small sleepy town just getting by.

Cost of everything thing is going up and my paycheques aren’t getting any better. I got less money this month than I used to earn in a week before my accident. And that includes the disability benefits I get. A whole month of my labour and all I’ve got to show for it is… being alive? I will be living off credit cards by the end of the month.

It’s very hard to know where to go from here because my options are very limited. I don’t want to work myself into a cripple just for the sake of staying alive. Seems counterintuitive.

That’s a goddamn fact

Mothafucka it's Wednesday

Just because the world is unfair as a whole doesn’t mean you have to dwell on your insecurities about your place in it.

You may get screwed by a company but the lesson to take from that is that bad luck is always going to be a thing, not that you’re not good enough.

Lemon, it's Wednesday.

I mean, I'd agree that kind of negativity was uncalled for but they have a point. Nepotism is rampant in many countries, mine included. It can be extremely discouraging, which is why I've started applying only to international companies. But those who don't speak English might not be so lucky.