What do you do if you're over qualified for all the jobs you want but don't have the experience they need?

Answer 1

Do 2 things at once: Keep applying and at interviews play up the qualities you do have, and while you're doing that, learn the things you need to for the jobs you're applying for. Could be you need to take a class or just do the work on your own (like if it's a computer program, create a new one and play with it til you get it right)

Chances are you already have everything that the company wants, and if you are the right person for the job, they will train you in the way it's done there anyway

Answer 2

I've been there.

keep looking

I did get the kind of position I wanted in the kind of firm I wanted to work for. This particular firm was very big on loyalty to the firm and almost always promoted from within.

Because they almost always promoted from within, they were keen to find well-qualified or even over-qualified people they could look toward as their future key people.

It took me a year plus to get my first promotion there ... and then I got another and another and another ... in each following case in less than a year.

After about five years, I saw the handwriting on the industry's wall and began to advocate significant changes. Since this was seen as disloyalty, I was soon fired.

{Yup, the management that discarded me was ousted two years later after a hostile takeover occasioned by their refusal to join the communication/managerial devolution revolution and their resulting poor earnings as the competition passed them by ... loyalty cuts no ice in the face of a superior business model ... and it was one of their disliked competitors who gobbled them up and fired all the "top" people.}


GL

Answer 3

Find a company and start lower than you expect to. Work hard, be responsible, don't be afraid to dive in and get it done. You will move up fast. When you get some time under your belt, you can move on with experience.

Answer 4

same as eveyone else & lie,

maybe pretend you spent a year abroad working getting the experience, & state you left as the oversees company disolved. worked for me

Answer 5

Don't know how you could be overqualified without the experience. Maybe you should re-think your market value.

Answer 6

then take anything to gain just a bit of experince, and that might mean a lower wage to start off with


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Answer 7

If you don't have the experience they need then you are not overqualified. Simple.

Answer 8

you start at the bottom and work your way to the top

Answer 9

lie