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[JEREMY HAWKE]

This was on a CV covering note this morning I love some of these people !!

I am currently unemployed and would relish the opportunity to immediately bring this level of success to your company.

 

[Bruceflea]

Lol...when is his/her interview?

 

[The Byre]

I thought that I had heard them all, but that is a new one on me!

 

[Marked]

In other words,"They are making me apply. Please don't give me a job i'm happy on the dole because i get to play my Xbox all day"

 

[HFE Signs]

I had one once call me to ask more about the job I'd advertised. I said sure what would you like to know, the reply was 'I dunno, just wondering if I can be arsed to apply'. I advised them its perhaps best if they don't.. that's my best..!

 

[Graham Curtis]

That's superb.

I have heard of people saying they are 'too qualified' for a job. Fatal Error.

 

[MOIC]

A TNT (ex) employee applying for a job with FEDEX . . .?

 

[Newchodge]

That's superb.

I have heard of people saying they are 'too qualified' for a job. Fatal Error.

While I agree with that I have heard numerous employers stating that applicants are too qualified.

 

[The Byre]

While I agree with that I have heard numerous employers stating that applicants are too qualified.

I look at it this way - you and your qualifications, experience and achievements have to be suitable for the gig.

A person is on (we assume) a career path and each and every step along that pathway has to make sense. I too have passed over PhDs, but not because they had a PhD, but because a PhD in Russian literature is not going to be able to write technical handbooks, but a person with a minor technical qualification and a decent writing style can.

It also tells me that if you are applying for a job as a lowly tech writer and you are 50+ and have a PhD, you are just hoping for some job, any job will do - and as soon as that teaching gig or sexy lecture post in Petersburg comes in, you'll be off!

A housewife, who has been bringing up kids until she was 40 and used that time to further her education and now enters the career market at entry level and within the discipline that she has studied makes sense. The same goes for military service, being a part of a failed industry, or even time in prison!

 

[Graham Curtis]

I simply think it's very bad practice to say 'I am too qualified for this job' when applying for a job.

As an employer I would think yes you may well be but you are also a moron for saying so.