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GO FROM OVERQUALIFIED TO PERFECTLY QUALIFIED
Stop Being Seen As Overqualified, Overeducated, Or Too Old & Start Getting Job Offers
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What "Overqualified" Candidates Are Saying Now That They're Hired...
Dr. Lori Keeling
Quality Assurance Manager
"I ended up getting three offers and took one with Emerson as their Quality Assurance Manager. Had to turn down 2 interviews because too many replies coming in at once. So thrilled! Doing great and thanks again for your help and awesome program!"
Odeniel Sertil
Manager, Regulatory Affairs Biosimilars
"I’ve accepted a job offer from Sandoz, Inc. I want to say a special thank you to you and your dedicated staff for all your help and support throughout the job search stage."
Chris Ewing
Customer Experience Strategist
"I am thrilled to announce that I have joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as a Customer Experience Strategist!
After being unexpectedly laid off in October, the journey to this moment was not straightforward. It was a period filled with uncertainty, but also growth, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose. I dedicated myself to learning and exploring new opportunities, which has led me to this incredible role."
Why You Need This
The overqualified label is used to misdirect job candidates who employers believe are too expensive, will ask for a promotion too soon, a flight risk, a know-it-all, not tech savvy, older, out of touch or who may push back when told what to do. These are the real reasons, or the real hiring objections, behind the “overqualified” label.
Employers’ apprehensions about overqualified candidates stem from fears of high turnover, disputes about early promotions, and a lack of engagement. There’s a worry that candidates with extensive backgrounds will find the work unchallenging, leading to job dissatisfaction and a disruption in the workplace dynamic.
Studies in Frontiers of Psychology and the Journal of Vocational Behavior validated these concerns, indicating that employees who view their roles as beneath their capabilities often exhibit lower job satisfaction and higher instances of counterproductive behavior.
Understanding why employers may view you as overqualified and recognizing the signs can empower you to navigate the job search process more effectively.
What You'll Learn During the Overqualified Challenge
COMMUNICATION: Showcasing Your Experience So Employers Don't See You As Overqualified
- 6 reasons why employers see job candidates as overqualified
- How to quit being pushed into part-time, fractional or consulting roles only
- How to overcome objections like “you’re overeducated”, “too experienced”, or “too old”
CAREER FIT: How To Find More Jobs That Match Your Background & Career Preferences
- How to access the hidden, “overqualified” job market of unlisted job opportunities by tracking external company hires
- Review the top 32 industry sectors that hire educated and experienced professionals by volume, and the top 20 companies in each sector
- Sector, company and job title-specific action plans based on 12 years placement data from helping over 18,000 professionals get hired
RESUMES: Writing Resumes To Get Past AI Resume Filters When You're Overqualified
- How to create a resume that gets past today’s very stringent AI resume filters
- How to handle extensive experience, older dates in your work history and complex, interdisciplinary backgrounds
- In depth analysis of how companies now use AI and ATS to collect, sort, filter, read and hand select (or, blacklist) resumes
LINKEDIN: Improving Your Reputation Score On LinkedIn
- Picking apart LinkedIn’s newest algorithm updates so your profile shows up at the top of employer search results
- A simple and painless process for automating your LinkedIn networking efforts to actually get responses and referrals
- How to modernize your profile and demonstrate tech-savviness, while painlessly avoiding the “out of touch” or “inactive” label
INTERVIEWING: Sell Yourself To Employers & Avoid The "Overqualified" Label
- How to be persuasive, get more networking responses and get more interviews
- How to deflect verbal negotiation tricks and get past the final stage interviews to get the job offer that you want
- What to say and what not to say when you’re asked difficult questions about your behavior, past experiences and your current worldview
Hear From Past Attendees Who Got Hired
Chris Ewing
DeLisa West
Kelly Higgins
Monair McGregor
Telema Briggs
Sandra Rebeor
Krista Meyer
Ladi Carr
Tracy Gardner
DR. ISAIAH HANKEL
CEO, OVERQUALIFIED & CAREER SUCCESS MENTOR
Dr. Isaiah Hankel is the Founder and CEO of Overqualified. His articles, podcasts and trainings are consumed annually by millions of highly skilled and experienced professionals in hundreds of different countries. He has helped professionals transition into top companies like Pfizer, Tesla, Amazon, Pearson, Google, Apple, Intel, Dow Chemical, BASF, Merck, Genentech, Home Depot, Nestle, Hilton, SpaceX, Bayer, the CDC, UN and Ford Foundation.
Dr. Hankel has published 3X bestselling books and his methods for getting professionals hired have been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Nature, Forbes, The Guardian, Fast Company, Entrepreneur Magazine and Success Magazine.
Inflation, AI gains and a contracting economy have many employers chasing their margins by ignoring, rejecting or laying off “overqualified” talent that is overeducated, older, or too experienced. Employers are hiring cheaper, less educated labor who will work longer hours with no pushback.
As a result, many of the most experienced and most educated workers in society are being forced into contract work, fractional work, consulting or entrepreneurship. These options are okay for some but often require working much harder, with no benefits and a very high level of unpredictability.
By focusing on communicating your value to employers in way that they can understand and learning the most modern job search techniques available, you can remove the “overqualified” label and get hired into your ideal industry job.
It all starts by signing up for the free, 5-day Overqualified Challenge.