Too qualified to work!!!

[memnoch]

Ok so here it is...

I'm between jobs at the moment so signed up with several agencies in order to keep working...

Because of my background in education and my qualifications, one of these agencies recently put me forward for a temporary admin job (training related) with North Yorks Fire Service...

Guess what? NYFS - having been given a copy of my CV, declined to even interview me - their reason? I would be too strong a candidate and am too qualified (is there a case for prejudice here? Maybe?).

My thoughts on this are:

A) I signed up for and am willing to do any work - last week I was archiving for Barclays Premier ffs (filing, in other words..lol - not as glam as it sounds). Did I complain? Did I consider the work to be beneath me? Did I consider myself TOO qualified? NO - I want/need the money!

B) If NYFS don't want qualified people - don't go to one of the higher range agencies for staff! Recruit directly from McDonalds!


C) Shouldn't they have been glad to get someone who WANTED to work and was willing to do it for a pittance, AND was qualified enough to do the job in a professional and trustworthy way? You would have thought so wouldn't you?

D) Can they complain if they take on some muppet who then fcuks it all up? NO - they deserve all they get!

Just like to say 'Thanks' to North Yorks Fire Service - powers that be...

'Thanks' guys - 'Thanks' for fcuk all....

:mad: :mad: :mad:

[Sir Ewok]

What the problem is, is the fact that you may make them look like muppets, because you know more than your future bosses. That is why morons or puppets are generally promoted to junior management positions, so they are no threat to their superiors.......
Obviously NYFS powers-that-be have been promoted to their level of incompetence.....

[memnoch]

:D I don't doubt you're right m8... :D

Still fcukin stinks though!

[Huw Beer Monster]

The usual problem with recruiting someone who's over-qualified is the nagging at the back of your mind that as soon as a better job comes up (i.e. one that suits their qualifications), they'll leave yours.

[Creature]

More likely you will pinch there job.

A while back I went for a job and the inteviewer told me to my face that he could not employ me as I could probally do his job better than himself !!!!!!!!!

[memnoch]

The usual problem with recruiting someone who's over-qualified is the nagging at the back of your mind that as soon as a better job comes up (i.e. one that suits their qualifications), they'll leave yours.


Understood but, as I said, this was a temp (6 months max) contract...not a long-term thing anyway!

[Huw Beer Monster]

Understood but, as I said, this was a temp (6 months max) contract...not a long-term thing anyway!

They might have been using it as a temp to perm position, so they get 6 months to "judge" you, in which case my point still stands.

[Mitch]

I know exactly how you feel mate!! :mad:
Before I got this job I have now, I was living in Horsham, couldn't get a job for love nor money. Trouble was, I'd done loads of stuff, ranging from Graphic Designer to Call Centre Team Leader to IT manager (a year temping for the legal funding branch of Abbey National as it was then).

Of course, I first thought it would be a good idea to put everything on my CV, then of course, you'd get the stupid ones saying 'You're too overqualified', or because I was too adaptable (I'd go places on temp jobs, sort their sh1t out and go someplace else, picking the job up in five minutes).

In the end, I ended up doing an 90 mile round trip every day to do a 4 week temp admin job for a company in Newhaven who made cash tills (not as mad as it seems, we were in the process of moving to Seaford - 4 miles away – anyway, I just thought it would hasten things along) and Mrs R was doing the same distance to Eastbourne to start her degree. It did pay off in the end, and by the time we finally moved, I'd got a full time job (though that lasted three months before it went to **** - same thing, the manager got threatened, partly because part of my job was what I was initially trained for (Graphic Design) and she didn't like anyone knowing more about it than her :mad:

After all that sh1t, it worked out fine... by 'dumbing down' my CV, making it more based upon the job I went for (as in this one) just putting in all the relevant bits and padding out the gaps.

The day after I got the boot from the 2nd Newhaven job, I had an interview here and got the job on the strength of that CV straight away (I've since been told I got the job on the strength of my CV alone, before I came for an interview - luckily my portfolio backed it up) - I've been here a year now...! :D

[Mrs Reject]

It's **** isn't it? I went through a 6 month dry spell about 10 years ago and coludn't get a job for love nor money - not even a local nursing job. Came close to losing house and everything as I was a single mum at the time and my mortgage and outgoings were too high for it to be in any way feasible to live on benefits, but luckily just managed to get a job before it all went tits up. Again no one wanted to hire me because I had a lot of experience! :mad:

[memnoch]

Yeah, I hear what yer all sayin and I agree, it all just makes me fcukin mad!

:D

[minxy]

I know it seems crazy but this just goes to show how important it is to tailor your CV to the job you are applying for rather than have a standard CV for all.

Good luck to all you job hunters!

[Mitch]

I know it seems crazy but this just goes to show how important it is to tailor your CV to the job you are applying for rather than have a standard CV for all.

Good luck to all you job hunters!
Minxy's got a point... I was on the way back from the NI MAG AGM last year when I saw this at the airport – CV's for Dummies. I had the feeling it was all going to go tits up in that job, so just bought it. The book helped me out before it did, and the rest as they say... is complete arse :D not really, I meant to say history there didn't I (just had my appraisal!! and it was a good one so I'm happy! :D )

[Bag Lady]

I agree that being told you are overqualified is real ****. I had that problem a couple of years ago.

I applied for a job and told the truth on my C.V. only to get the "overqualifed" rubbish....
The next job I applied for - which was very similar - I "edited my C.V. a bit only to be asked - "Is this all you have done?".....AAARGHHHHH.... :eek:

Luckily my present employers are brilliant. I am just a simple office tart here, but I love it. I actually have a HNC in electronic engineering but my boss here just said that if I hadnt wanted this job I would not have applied for it...sensible chap..... :)

I had really had enough of slogging my guts out and working all the hours ...I just wanted 9 to 5 and every week-end off...which is exactly what I have here. I love the present job so much that when Shep & I moved from Oxford to just outside Maidenhead, I decided to keep my job and commute up here to Oxford every day. Not many jobs worth doing that for so I am really lucky.. :D

Good bosses are really hard to find - I have worked for some real *****'s (that is another story)...