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Your #Career : #CareerAdvice – Help! I’m #Overqualified — What Do I Do? ….In these Situations, your Context will Influence your Course of Action. Let’s Examine What you Can Do When you’re Considered to be Overqualified.

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Demonstrate how a role will help you develop, and show how you can be an asset, then don’t let a recruiter persuade you that you’re overqualified! Remember, you need to maintain your confidence throughout the process and let your resiliency guide you as you continue your search!

When it comes to job searching, we often hear how difficult it can be for recent graduates, who are somehow expected to have years of experience straight out of school, to even be considered for an entry-level position. What happens when the situation is reversed, and your years of experience begin to work against you? How can job seekers set themselves up for success when recruiters keep telling them they are overqualified for positions they’re interested in?

Hiring managers might challenge you by saying you’ll be bored and leave for a better-suited position, or your compensation expectations won’t be met.

In these situations, your context will influence your course of action. Let’s examine what you can do when you’re considered to be overqualified.

Situation #1: You’ve relocated or have been laid off

How to Respond: Highlight the win-win situation

Here, you must explain your motivation for applying to a position that you might seem “overqualified” for on paper. Highlight “how the organization can benefit from your experience, and how taking this position can advance your own skill set,” says Alan Zelnicker, executive recruiter. If the job scope is more narrow and the compensation is less than your old position, you must emphasize what you can contribute in terms of added value and what you can get from the role.

How to Respond: Make an important mind shift

Going into any interview, you should always project confidence and take on the mindset that recruiters are getting a great deal from you, rather than going in feeling like you’re overqualified for the job. You have to drive the power seat and never feel like you’re getting the short end of the stick. Instead, adopt the mindset that any company would be lucky to have you! Without seeming arrogant, remind recruiters that the learning curve involved with your onboarding will be cut in half, leaving you more time to learn the organization, and giving you a competitive edge!

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How to Respond: Re-evaluate compensation

Managing expectations around compensation is a separate conversation. You need to be realistic and accept that sometimes you’ll need to take a step back. Whenever possible, make a direct touch point with the hiring manager over the phone to talk about compensation. This way, you can form a personal connection, and you can articulate all that you have to offer. As mentioned before, what is the win-win negotiation for you that makes taking a pay cut worthwhile?

Ask a Resume Writer: Why Are Employers Calling Me Overqualified?

Situation #2: You’re switching careers/industries

How to Respond: Highlight your new career path

It is not uncommon for people to switch industries or careers. In fact, millennials report switching jobs 4 times in their first 10 years out of school. When working with recruiters, highlight any new credentials you’ve earned to demonstrate your commitment towards this new path you’re taking. Emphasize your desire to learn and retrain to create a new path forward for yourself.

How to Respond: Emphasize the rudimentary

Though you may have 20 years of experience in one field, you must demonstrate to recruiters that you’re ready to check your ego at the door and learn about a whole new world. That being said, relevant and rudimentary skills can always be transferable and should be considered as your added value.

How Do I Showcase Transferable Skills?

How to Respond: Know your worth

When discussing salary, make sure to mention that you’ve done your research, you’re aware of the industry standards, and are comfortable with what these types of roles typically offer.

“Fall seven times, stand up eight.” –Japanese proverb

What not to do: The worst thing you could do is tell a recruiter you’ll take anything just to get a job. Though this often may be the truth, people want to see that you possess the right enthusiasm and fit for the role. You must always sell your skills and highlight how you are the perfect candidate for the job.

Your resume: If you’re having trouble getting through the door and you think your resume might be the culprit, there are some workarounds to try:

  1. If your resume demonstrates work dating back more than 10 years, consider consolidating your experience and only keeping what is still relevant today
  2. If you have multiple designations and education, consider only keeping what is relevant to the job you’re applying for and removing anything that is redundant
  3. Consider reformatting your resume in a way that tells a new story

If you can demonstrate how a role will help you develop, and show how you can be an asset, then don’t let a recruiter persuade you that you’re overqualified! Remember, you need to maintain your confidence throughout the process and let your resiliency guide you as you continue your search!

Stacy Pollack is a Learning Specialist with an MA in educational technology. She loves to share her perspective on job hunting, career building, and networking for success. Connect with her on LinkedIn or Twitter.

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Your #Career : To Help #WomenAdvance, Their Trailing Spouses Get #JobHunting Aid…More #Employers Ease #Relocation for #FemaleManagers by Offering to Help in Husbands’ Search for #Work .

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Behind many managerial women stands a trailing husband. He pulls up stakes and relocates when his partner gets a better role in a different locale.

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John Van Lonkhuyzen has moved three times since 1995 so histhen-fiancée and now wife, Nicola Morris, could move up in her career. The couple now lives in Yarmouth, Maine. PHOTO: YOON S. BYUN FOR THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

John Van Lonkhuyzen has done this three times since 1995—the year after he and Nicola Morris got engaged. As his wife advanced in her career, the veteran lawyer moved to Washington, D.C., Westfield, N.J., and recently, Yarmouth, Maine. Their latest relocation was the first time Ms. Morris’s employer offered to help him job hunt.

More female executives are moving ahead in their careers through geographic moves. And, increasingly, their employers lend a hand so their husbands can find work.

On average, women accounted for a record 23% of moves by North American employers in 2016—up from 17% in 2009, according to surveys of employers by Atlas Van Lines Inc. About 62% of employers provided job-hunting aid for spouses or partners of transferred staffers in 2017, compared with 33% in 2007, Atlas data shows.

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“Companies consider such help a critical aspect of getting more women into leadership,” says Lauren Herring, chief executive of Impact Group, a career and leadership development firm with job-hunting services for relocated spouses and partners.

Ms. Morris left an executive role with Verizon Communications Inc. in New Jersey to become a senior vice president of WEX Inc. in South Portland, Maine. While recruiting Ms. Morris, Chief Executive Melissa Smith offered to introduce Mr. Van Lonkhuyzen to law firms near the corporate-payments-services company.

Ms. Smith says she wanted to show she cared about supporting “both partners in their careers when they make a move.”

Mr. Van Lonkhuyzen, a former lawyer for the U.S. Justice Department, didn’t need the proposed introductions. He landed a partnership with Verrill Dana LLP, a Portland law firm, at the same time his wife joined WEX in 2014.

American Express Co. has helped mates of relocated staffers look for work since 2012. With women now nearly half of its transferees, many men accompanying them use these career services, says a spokeswoman.

AmEx’s global program, expanded in 2016, now includes career coaches, job leads, résumé writing, office space and advice about negotiating job offers or starting a business. Most participating spouses and domestic partners find positions, the company says.

But international relocation can create challenges for trailing husbands. The most common reason for a rejected foreign assignment is a partner’s unwillingness to move due to his or her career. That is especially true for potential female transferees, concludes a new study by Ernst & Young LLP and NetExpat Inc., a coaching and training firm.

Six years ago, AmEx gave middle manager Corrina Davison a chance to leave her native Australia for a New York executive role. “It was our dream to work overseas,” she remembers.

 Her husband, Duncan Davison, an Australian student-teacher supervisor, says he hoped to launch a U.S. version of his Sydney University pilot project that helped elite teen swimmers handle competitive setbacks.

The executive trainer at an acculturation workshop for AmEx accompanying partners introduced Mr. Davison to a possible investor for his athlete project, though Mr. Davison dropped the idea after the United Nations International School hired him to teach physical education part-time. He soon advanced to director of athletics. He says he would move again for his wife’s career because he believes he has become more employable globally.

Other men fear relocating for their wives will disrupt their career trajectories. Consider Joshua Kim, whose wife, Julie, is an oncologist and associate professor at Dartmouth’s medical school in Hanover, N.H.

He faced the difficult decision of quitting a job he loved in 2006—he helped launch and run Quinnipiac University’s online education unit—so she could take the Dartmouth post. He had followed her twice before.

“Why do I have to be a trailing spouse a third time?” he recalls asking his wife.

Dr. Kim consulted for two years before joining Dartmouth’s learning center and becoming head of digital learning initiatives there in 2014. “That kind of patience for a career move is a challenge,” he says. “As a trailing husband, you have to be more creative and inventive.”

Ms. Morris and Mr. Van Lonkhuyzen struggled with the same issue after her Verizon promotion brought them to New Jersey from Washington in 2007. He fruitlessly sought jobs in corporate legal departments and government before getting a temporary Justice Department gig in Newark. Mr. Van Lonkhuyzen obtained a permanent New York DOJ spot in 2009.

That relocation “was hard for us,” Ms. Morris says. But WEX “was a great fit for what I was looking for,” she says, especially since both she and her husband grew up in Maine.

Write to Joann S. Lublin at joann.lublin@wsj.com

Appeared in the March 8, 2018, print edition as ‘Women Get Career Help, for Husbands.’

                                                         WSJ.com | Joann S. Lublin at joann.lublin@wsj.com

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