by Tdarcos » Sat Jul 03, 2021 2:03 am
I had found that for a lot of companies, if you have a gap of six months on your resume, you essentially became almost unemployable. Okay, then, cut your asking price and try lesser jobs. so I scrounge the money to take two busses for an interview, the first I'd gotten in weeks. "Why are you willing to take a job you're clearly overqualified for?" I fought off the urge to punch the guy in the face and walk out. So I got mad and said the truth, "because over the last six months, every place I went to that I thought I was qualified for said I didn't have enough experience." On the way out, the interviewer who was escorting me out was interrupted by a technical person. He's asking his boss (my interviewer) a question, and he really didn't have an answer. I spoke up, saying, "excuse me," and proceeded to give the questioner a possible solution. He responded back, and we got into a discussion over the issue. After maybe a minute, the supervisor interrupts us to resume escorting me out. I figured it didn't matter, once they tell you that you're overqualified they're saying "you're too smart, know too much, and we will never hire you." But the discussion with the other guy was fun.
So then, instead of telling the truth, I revised my resume to change my dates of prior employment and previous employer to a different place, got an associate to pretend to be that former supervisor, and used him as a reference. I got a job in about a month.
This was back in 1996 and I suspect this attitude by employers has not changed.
I had found that for a lot of companies, if you have a gap of six months on your resume, you essentially became almost unemployable. Okay, then, cut your asking price and try lesser jobs. so I scrounge the money to take two busses for an interview, the first I'd gotten in weeks. "Why are you willing to take a job you're clearly overqualified for?" I fought off the urge to punch the guy in the face and walk out. So I got mad and said the truth, "because over the last six months, every place I went to that I thought I was qualified for said I didn't have enough experience." On the way out, the interviewer who was escorting me out was interrupted by a technical person. He's asking his boss (my interviewer) a question, and he really didn't have an answer. I spoke up, saying, "excuse me," and proceeded to give the questioner a possible solution. He responded back, and we got into a discussion over the issue. After maybe a minute, the supervisor interrupts us to resume escorting me out. I figured it didn't matter, once they tell you that you're overqualified they're saying "you're too smart, know too much, and we will never hire you." But the discussion with the other guy was fun.
So then, instead of telling the truth, I revised my resume to change my dates of prior employment and previous employer to a different place, got an associate to pretend to be that former supervisor, and used him as a reference. I got a job in about a month.
This was back in 1996 and I suspect this attitude by employers has not changed.