In my 7th months of job seeking and with only one offer from government agency (which was secured four months ago and it took long time to process paperwork, during which I still kept job seeking and networking), I have to say that when they called me overqualified, they were basically...
Oh your comment is very critical and useful and I'll never take it as some crude reply. Your kind suggestion is well received, you have my word on that! Thanks for appreciation and I did once ask myself "oh really that bad resume?" and had a tad moment of discouragement, which was totally blown...
But what about the blank is too much after getting rid of those poorly relevant things. And as you can see, the issue is that even after an interview I would still be rejected because of so called overqualification. That is where I'm confusing and trying to work around now.
To address several points you made there:
-Yeah I was thinking about dropping my GPA since really no one cares about that at all, and some people had negative feedback about that, literally.
-In my school the difference between construction management and structural engineering (the only two...
That's a lot of nice comments indeed. I'll start a major revising then. By saying dumbing down the resume, what did you do at that time to dumb a resume down, like taking away a work experience or listing less years?
After receiving another "overqualification' and "your resume is intimidating" (Solomonb, you're prophet :P ) as the reason for rejecting, which might be my 8th or 9th in the past few months since my graduation, I really started wondering about this issue.
As a new grad without hands-on...
This is odd imo. I've tried this website before and 99% of the civil engineer results are feeded from Indeed.com. Eventually I decided to give up using it and go back to Indeed.
So far I've basically used indeed/simplyhired/craigslist/LinkedIn(check out the group>jobs>job discussion page...
Aha this is definitely a amusing change for me, who was kicked out of test center because my IDs were not having my signature on it this April.
I was planning to retake it on October but after seeing the change I probably gonna try next year since that would serve me better, rather than...
Great thread. It's inspiring to see both friendly professionals as well as the strong spirit of OP.
I'd like to know if OP could provide some further update on this (hopefully landed a job already!) since I'm currently in a similar situation here in New York, as a Columbia '13 graduate with...