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How to get low pay jobs when you are "overqualified"?

  • 22-01-2012 1:07am
    #1
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭


    I'm in job-hunting, multiple PFO hell at the moment. I just want to work. I don't think I'm above anything, and will do anything.

    But I'm either considered under- or over-qualified.

    If I leave my degree and degree-related jobs out of my CV, I am left with huge gaps. So what can I do to remedy this?


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  • #2
    mikemac1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,395 ✭✭✭✭mikemac1


    You are doing a masters and it's one day a week on Fridays.
    The rest of the week you're doing projects and self study in your own time

    You are signed up to this course for the next year so you are not leaving the area and you're looking for a good job with flexible shifts and this one is ideal

    Worked for me

    And then I walked a few months later when I found something better


  • #3
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Seomra Mushie wrote: »
    I'm in job-hunting, multiple PFO hell at the moment. I just want to work. I don't think I'm above anything, and will do anything.

    But I'm either considered under- or over-qualified.

    If I leave my degree and degree-related jobs out of my CV, I am left with huge gaps. So what can I do to remedy this?

    Here's an area that might suit your degree:

    http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/...aturedJob=true


    Why not focus your job hunt on work that relates to your degree rather than lower paying jobs?


  • #4
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    boobar wrote: »

    Why not focus your job hunt on work that relates to your degree rather than lower paying jobs?

    I HAVE been! But it gets to a stage where you just think "Well, it'd be better doing something than nothing at all!"


  • #5
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Seomra Mushie wrote: »
    I HAVE been! But it gets to a stage where you just think "Well, it'd be better doing something than nothing at all!"

    Fair point Seomra Mushie,

    Is there anything in that link that would relate to your degree?


  • #6
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    boobar wrote: »
    Is there anything in that link that would relate to your degree?

    Just got 'Page not found'.


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  • #7
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Seomra Mushie wrote: »
    Just got 'Page not found'.

    Try this link Mushie

    http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=2335


  • #8
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    boobar wrote: »
    Try this link Mushie

    http://www.publicjobs.ie/publicjobs/en/star/goToJobDetails.do?id=2335

    Thank you. But sadly no, my degree is in a biological science and I'm passed the graduate stage. :-/


  • #9
    boobar
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,226 ✭✭✭boobar


    Seomra Mushie wrote: »
    Thank you. But sadly no, my degree is in a biological science and I'm passed the graduate stage. :-/

    That's too bad SeomraMushie.

    I'm not familiar with that field at all, so offering advice on job opportunities would be difficult.

    Howver, have a look at that website again.

    Click on Search Jobs and select Science Based as a Job Category.

    There may not be opportunities in your specific field at the moment, but if you register and set up a few job alerts, you'll be emailed if a position is adverstised.


  • #10
    Mrs OBumble
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,289 ✭✭✭✭Mrs OBumble


    You leave the degree-related jobs in ... just leave out the job title, and use simpler words to describe what you did.

    Eg my real CV says I "elicited functional requirements to of the system changes required to implement a major change in <<topic>> policies, and participated in system test and implementation activities". My temping one says "made changes on the computer".

    No lies told, things put in terms the employer is likely to understand.


  • #11
    R.D. aka MR.D
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,643 ✭✭✭R.D. aka MR.D


    Put your educational stuff to the end of the cd and leave in the jobs but write a cover letter stating that you want a change from what you are doing.

    As you will see from my CV i have experience in xxxx but I would like to try a career in (retail etc).

    Something like that might work!

    It did for me!!!!!


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  • #12
    ongarboy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,201 ✭✭✭ongarboy


    There's a careers "doctor" who gives great advice in her column on the Metro Herald every Friday (worth reading). One week she spoke about CVs and said the day's of one CV fits all job applications are gone. You need to tailor your CV for every job you are applying for.

    So in this instance, I suggest "dumbing down" your CV for this job if you feel yourself that you are overqualified but at the same time the job means the difference between an income and none at all. If you had senior positions and the job you are targetting is entry level, I'd leave out your past titles. As another poster suggested, re-word your duties so that they sound more basic than they were. Employers will otherwise bin your CV as they feel you would leave in a few months as soon as you got something better (which of course I would expect you to do if something more suitable to your skill set/qualifications arose).


  • #13
    Seomra Mushie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 548 ✭✭✭Seomra Mushie


    Well, I'm formulating a plan, as these posts in a thread elsewhere on the site illustrate:

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76703705&postcount=142

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76703727&postcount=143

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=76703961&postcount=145

    What kind of plan of action should I take in looking for work? I'm a bit out of the loop.


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