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I have 7 years of oncological research experience with teaching/consulting. 2 years as the sole animal manager at a nonprofit with therapy animals. I can’t find a fucking job. It’s insane. Either I’m overqualified, or I’m lacking some niche experience.
It sounds like all your experience it’s niche. But I’m an outsider.
But I should be able to do anything involving teaching, management, biological science bench work, or animal related. That’s a lot of leeway imho.
If a potential employer is telling you you're overqualified, could you potentially be putting too much knowledge and experience on your resume (for that specific role)?
I have a pretty dissimilar resume but have perhaps had somewhat similar challenges.
I too have distinct specialties that should, in theory, be desirable in many different roles. But to get any attention at all from employers, I had to take a lot of things off my resume to make it look less ”complicated”. This included removing things that I considered relevant experience for the position, but not explicitly asked for. It also involved scrapping half of my education background for a lot of positions.
Shit fucking sucks and are unfair. But I was just recently able to get a job that I’m happy with and so will you too, soon.
I changed my university course because I found out half way through my first year that I would end up overqualified for anything in my field. Before I started I got an offer for an admin role at a wildcat conservation center but I'd be doing the same work with the degree too.