{"id":766,"date":"2012-01-24T05:31:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T10:31:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2012-01-16T08:31:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-16T13:31:28","slug":"overqualified-%e2%80%93-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/overqualified-%e2%80%93-really\/","title":{"rendered":"Overqualified \u2013 Really?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who decides if you are overqualifed and why?\u00a0 The employer does.\u00a0 That\u2019s who.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why is there so much focus on overqualifed?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I, of course, do have an opinion on the matter, but I doubt that will help you accelerate your search.\u00a0 However, maybe I can help you by looking at the issue a bit differently.<\/p>\n

Have you ever said to a door to door salesperson, \u201cNot today, thank you\u201d or the Boy Scout \u201cNo thank you, I bought caramel corn from another scout before you\u201d or \u201cwe don\u2019t eat caramel popcorn, thank you for stopping by\u201d?\u00a0\u00a0 In many cases the dreaded statement \u201cYou are overqualified for this position\u201d is just simply a no thank you.<\/p>\n

Yes, I know the dreaded statement stings.\u00a0 It does not feel like \u2018no thank you\u2019 or does it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

What happens if you reframe \u201cYou are overqualified\u201d to \u201cNo, thank you\u201d?<\/p>\n

My bet is you think the later stings less, but does it really?\u00a0 Think about it.\u00a0 It is still rejection.\u00a0 Rejection is, in my view the underlying issue with most of the conversations around the issue and statement\u00a0\u201cYou are overqualified\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

No one (at least no one I know) likes to be rejected.\u00a0 And almost no one I know likes to reject others.<\/p>\n

Especially, if you are in business and\u00a0interviewing\u00a0someone or talking to someone with good skills, and loads of experience.\u00a0 Most people don\u2019t like to be mean or reject another person, even when they don’t personally connect.\u00a0 Sure there are some that do, you know them, and I do too.<\/p>\n

What would happen if you heard \u201cNo, thank you\u201d in lieu of \u201cYou are overqualified for this position\u201d?\u00a0 Think about\u00a0 it!<\/p>\n

I once knew a hiring manager who, said \u201cthank you\u201d and allowed someone else to say \u201cNo, thank you\u201d.\u00a0 Here is how he did it \u2013 during the each interview he was very good at finding something good about all the candidates he rejected.\u00a0 He picked out something good about the candidate\u00a0and made\u00a0a mental note.\u00a0 At the end of the interview,\u00a0he confirmed the candidate’s home phone number, and he called each one after an interview.\u00a0 Usually he placed the call before the person arrived home and left\u00a0a message, he would share the one good point he noted\u00a0and thank them for interviewing.\u00a0 He would end the message with \u2018good luck, your <whatever the good point was> will be of value to your next boss.\u00a0\u00a0 I learned that good quality he shared with the candidate was always a quality he appreciated, but he did not value at that point\u00a0in the role that he was attempting to fill.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why, did he do this? \u00a0Well, I never ask him, yet here is why I think he did it.<\/p>\n

He cared about people and the feelings of people. He saw value and appreciated what each person offered.\u00a0 He appreciated the time the person set aside to interview.\u00a0 He did not like rejection, and he might want to hire the person for another position some day.\u00a0 He was building a team and running a business.\u00a0 The call was “rejection protection” \u2013 so that in the future if he had a role for the person, the person\u00a0would recalled him in a positive light in lieu of the\u00a0hiring manager\u00a0who had once rejected them.\u00a0 It helped him build relationships and create goodwill.<\/p>\n

The end result – still the rejection, but\u00a0the rejection\u00a0did not address a lack.\u00a0 It appeared to sting less.<\/p>\n

In my view it can be hard to build talented teams when you focus on lack.\u00a0 Yet most hiring systems and hiring situations will reject several people.\u00a0 The process in most organizations is look at many, interview some, hire one.<\/p>\n

The truth is you were not selected and someone else was for whatever the reason.\u00a0 That feeling is rejection<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Yet if you reframe your feelings,\u00a0and focus on your value and not\u00a0 the \u2018over\u2019 or \u2018under\u2019 or what you lack, you may be surprised at what you attract.\u00a0 Why continue to focus on the lack?\u00a0<\/p>\n

My suggestion – understand\u00a0you will be\u00a0rejected<\/strong> from time to time,\u00a0learn to cope with it.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to like it, crave it, nor attract rejection with continued focus, thought and conversation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I would also suggest you not dwell on the rejection, or\u00a0try hard to figure\u00a0out why you were rejected, nor rail against the company, your experience or your age.\u00a0\u00a0The rejection may be a blessing\u00a0you can not yet count.\u00a0\u00a0Reframe it as “No thank you”.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

One day on the radio I heard, rejection in dating referred to as protection from a bad situation.\u00a0 What a point of view!<\/p>\n

What would happen in your job search is you reframed the rejection or the statement\u00a0\u201cYou are overqualified\u201d as \u201cNo, thank you –\u00a0I value you as a person and want to protect you from this situation\u201d?<\/p>\n

Just a different point of view on \u201cYou are overqualified\u201d.<\/p>\n

Feel free to share your comments below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Who decides if you are overqualifed and why?\u00a0 The employer does.\u00a0 That\u2019s who.\u00a0 Why is there so much focus on overqualifed?\u00a0 I don\u2019t know.\u00a0 I, of course, do have an opinion on the matter, but I doubt that will help you accelerate your search.\u00a0 However, maybe I can help you by looking at the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9,10,52,51,50],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-job-search-focus","tag-accelerate-your-search","tag-job-search","tag-matue-worker","tag-overqualifed","tag-rejection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accelerateyoursearchnow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}