To Much Experience???
I am 41 years old and I have been unemployed for 4 months...first time since I was 19. I have 17 years of restaurant management experience, 13 of those years as a General Manager. I recently interviewed for a manager position that paid below what I was looking for, but due to financial issues at home, I had no choice but to take a pay cut if a job was offered to me. At the end of the interview, the employer told me that he felt that I had too much experience for this position and would be afraid to hire me because he felt I would leave if I found something at a higher level. Too much experience??? Wouldn't that be a benefit to a company?? Has anyone ever been through this? When you're told you are under qualified and over qualified, how do you find that happy medium?
My husband has been taking care of the elderly and infirmed for more than 13 yrs and was told by a nursing home that he was over qualified for that position He applied 4 times and got the same reply. . OVER QUALIFIED to take care of the elderly or infirmed?????? You are right it does not make any sense at all. Sorry for your position we know how you feel.
Welcome to the club, skippy. I am 58 and have 14 years in one field, and a variety of experience ranging from a Wal Mart associate to a heavy loader in a factory where I handled cranes and forklifts. I have also started 3 small businesses. I have made good money and not-so-good money in my job adventures. Because of my age, employers will not tell me or others we are too old, so a common reply is that one is "over experienced", "over qualified", or similar. It is a legal way to thwart being sued because they think you are too old. It is also a "nice" way, perhaps in your situation, that since have you that much experience, they are more afraid that you have more experience than the owner(s) and would try to counsel them as to how to do their business, which they may not be interested in hearing. It has nothing to do with being a benefit to a company. Many times, they just want a "body in a slot" to make sure the work gets done.
Try to find another job to your advantage by looking on www.careerbuilder.com and www.ask.com for more details on the overqualified/underqualifed section when it comes to looking for the job that is wanted.
I've been through that a thousand times, so I understand what you're going through. Companies always hire the wrong people and they waste money. Maybe the manager couldn't hire you, because you were better then what they were willing to pay you. You can't let that company bring you down or feel less of a person. You've got to get back up, put yourself back together again, and try again. Keep trying, someone else will be glad they hired you. It may take some time, but eventually you will land the best job you ever had. I kept trying no matter how hard things got, I landed the best job with huge opportunities. I have a real chance to show my potential, skills, and experience. A real chance to better myself and be finacially set. Good luck! I hope I helped a little
Unfortunately, I, too, have heard the Over-qualified, too much experience, excuses. It can be disheartening for a Human Resources Department to take time, effort, and energy to find a qualified Candidate to have that Candidate leave 3 weeks later making them start the process again. I get it. I also understand what you're saying. It's a terrible situation to go through. I'm in the same situation myself. I had an Interview with a company's General Manager who said "I'd be afraid to hire you. You can actually do MY JOB!". After I assured him that I only wanted to find suitable work, he began with the WE CAN'T AFFORD YOU speech. Being an experienced Restaurant General Manager, have you thought about the Fast Food Industry? Burger King, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, and the rest? Hopefully, something will turn up soon for you.
Yes unfortunately I think most of us have been there, but companies have to look at their point of view if they feel that you're under qualified or over qualified how it's going to affect their company. I look at it this way, if you're meant to get the job then you will and if not then all you can do is move on. Just keep your head up and stay positive and just BELIEVE the right job is out there for everyone ! Good Luck :)
The truth is, he was probably right and you would have left when you found a similair job better suited to your wage needs and experience level. It has been proven over and over that people who take low-end jobs in a financial panic soon get bored or decide to expand their responsibilities and show off their mangement skills which are often contary to what that restaurant needs. They take you on with all the expense to their business that brings and you leave setting them back time,money and face with a new job search and all that expense it brings. It happens a lot and hiring manager know that you will not be happy and neither will they. Underqualified you can promise to take courses, take additional training or stay to learn on your own time, but overqualified is a proven bad long-term move for both employee and employeer.
I was fired cause my love for cats is unequaled! it never interfered with my job!
Try to have faith and confidence to succeed in this world, by going out there to find another job that would benefit to the surroundings. Plus try to find something on the level that would not over/under qualified to successfully getting goals in life. Try the website www.indeed.com to give some good tips on what you need.
I've heard that line of BS all my life. "You're OVERQUALIFIED" which is a back handed way of saying "You're too smart or talented and would make the other employees look bad. That, or "you're too old" (Which is illegal, but that is how they skate around it)