Too good for the job

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Sem said:
just checked the company's website and the vacancy i applied for "Support Engineer Level 1" has been taken down :(

but there is another vacancy for a "Support Engineer Level 2" which is similar to level 1 but with more responsibilities but the only downside is i need to have had experience with MS SQL server which i dont have but im sure i can pick it up in no time and i do tick all of the other boxes

dont know why the agency or interviewer didn't consider me for this role

how do i go about asking them to consider me for this other vacancy without sounding overly desperate

i do have some dignity left :(
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This is quite hard really...Could always apply for that, or if you went through an agency you could always ring them and say you noticed this other role...

Hopefully someone else can shed some light :)
 
Sem said:
just checked the company's website and the vacancy i applied for "Support Engineer Level 1" has been taken down :(

but there is another vacancy for a "Support Engineer Level 2" which is similar to level 1 but with more responsibilities but the only downside is i need to have had experience with MS SQL server which i dont have but im sure i can pick it up in no time and i do tick all of the other boxes

dont know why the agency or interviewer didn't consider me for this role

how do i go about asking them to consider me for this other vacancy without sounding overly desperate

i do have some dignity left :(
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Give them a ring and say "I notice you have this other position available which requires greater skill and and qualifications to fill. Since I was considered "over-qualified" for the Level 1 job, could you consider me for the Level 2 position?"
 
Employer's lie in interviews, fact.

I had a 2nd interview where the guy spent more than half the time discussing the fact that I lived half an hour away and the other candidate was 5 minutes away (not on call or anything so irrelevant) and how much he loathes driving and hates it when he has to drive 20 minutes to visit clients etc.

In the end he gave the other person the job purely on that basis.

My gf travelled 6 hours for a 2nd interview with tests and a panel of 4 people which totalled about 5 hours. At the end they told her that the current person had changed their mind about leaving and was staying put but they wanted to interview her anyway just in case he left again. She was fuming.
 
SlyReaper said:
Give them a ring and say "I notice you have this other position available which requires greater skill and and qualifications to fill. Since I was considered "over-qualified" for the Level 1 job, could you consider me for the Level 2 position?"
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Do this. I wish i could just pick up SQL Server. Its complicated
 
I almost had this for a job with a shop as a christmas temp... "So why do want to work here, you have a degree..." Luckily I managed to wangle my way around but it's a pain in the **** especially since there are no jobs in the area I want to work in (which is what I explained and why I got the temp job in the end)... :(
 
SlyReaper said:
If it was part of your job, I guarantee you would pick it up very quickly*. Your brain is more adaptable than you think. ;)

*at least those parts of it needed for said job
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Yeh, suppose you are right. I could grasp it at all at uni though. Saying this it was only a few lectures and some 1hour practicals, no wonder i didnt get it.

When I started where i'm currently working, i thought my brain was going to explode after the first week or 2. I think sometimes you need to train it into work 'thinking' mode or something. Previous to the job i had just been helping my dad on stalls, travelling for 7 months then before that at a call centre (before that uni) I think it just goes stale when not in use or something like that

I usually make it go a bit stale every weekend :rolleyes: < that exactly how i look on sundays actually!
 
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Guest2 said:
Yeh, suppose you are right. I could grasp it at all at uni though. Saying this it was only a few lectures and some 1hour practicals, no wonder i didnt get it.

When I started where i'm currently working, i thought my brain was going to explode after the first week or 2. I think sometimes you need to train it into work 'thinking' mode or something. Previous to the job i had just been helping my dad on stalls, travelling for 7 months then before that at a call centre (before that uni) I think it just goes stale when not in use or something like that

I usually make it go a bit stale every weekend :rolleyes:
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I started in a new department at work a couple of months ago, and the main thing they use in this department is MatLab. Now, I was ****ting bricks beforehand, because I had only ever done a short course on it at uni, and I thought it was going to take ages to pick up.

2 weeks later, I had coded some fairly complex stuff to add onto an existing algorithm, and now I'm working on adjusting the algorithm itself, to compensate for someone else's crappy data being fed into it. MatLab is easy to me now. :D
 
One piece of feedback I got from an application a while back was that I might get "itchy feet" because I was too experienced for the position being applied for hence why it wasn't taken any further by them.

It's basically a cop out move where the manager feels you may outdo them.

Has happened to other colleagues before in companies that I have worked.

For the lols I once applied to Lidl, they wrote back saying I was not what they're looking for. Going by the expressions on the faces of the sole member of staff I ever see working at my local Lidl I see they are looking for zombies instead of someone who could work any part time hours to make some extra cash and lives a few houses away from that store!
 
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Greebo said:
Employer's lie in interviews, fact.

I had a 2nd interview where the guy spent more than half the time discussing the fact that I lived half an hour away and the other candidate was 5 minutes away (not on call or anything so irrelevant) and how much he loathes driving and hates it when he has to drive 20 minutes to visit clients etc.

In the end he gave the other person the job purely on that basis.
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Could be he was worried you'd get tired of the commute and take a job closer to home.

You wouldn't be the first and maybe he's been stung before, it's not as if bosses enjoy recruitment.
 
Guest2 said:
Do this. I wish i could just pick up SQL Server. Its complicated
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It isnt, really. 2 months ago I started my new job which involves a LOT of SQL. I'm suprised at how much of it I'm picking it up, given that all I knew when I started (And they knew this) was what it stood for and what it could be used for.
 
I almost didn't get my part time job...the only reason why i did was because of road cycling, and the store manager respected me for that
 
I had an interview for a council project managing a cybercafe. After being interviewed by a panel of six people I was then invited back on two further occasions for an hour or so each time, discussing ideas for new promotions, identifying potential new suppliers etc and it seemed like everything was in the bag.

I was therefore rather annoyed when they let me know they were re-advertising the job would I mind reapplying as I'd been the best candidate.

Er... no thanks.
 
probley why i didn't get a apprenticeship :( cos they throught there was no point in having me as I knew a bit anyway i was the only one to get firewire for crying out loud

how do you not know a firewire extender card :O or whatever you call them xD
 
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