Female Masters Graduate Posing as Undergrad to Find Job

Female Masters Graduate Posing as Undergrad to Find Job
Jan 14, 2013 By eChinacities.com

Source: sciencenet.cn

Last weekend, in the final round of interviews for an entry-level job at a well-known real estate company in Wuhan, it was down to Wang Lina, who holds an M.A. from Wuhan University and another candidate who has a B.A. from Jianghan University. Even though Wang expected that she was an obvious shoe-in, she was ultimately rejected, being told that she was “too highly qualified” for the position. Believing her advanced degree to be disadvantageous, Wang removed her M.A. from her resume and is now continuing to apply for jobs as an undergraduate.

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Keywords: university graduate job market

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solhacehabravida

Dear Ambivalentmace - Why would you not "go through the trouble to get documents together for" your masters degree? That's seems really odd, that you would limit yourself in such a way prior to heading off to a foreign country, that you would not put all your tools in your tool box, that you would not arm yourself to the best of your ability. Maybe there is something else going on here. I'm a bit confused -- I mean, surely, if you have a masters degree, your university provided you with all the documents when you graduated from your masters program. That was the case for me, as it surely is for everyone. I can't imagine what documents you would have to "get together" -- a copy of any masters degree you may have been awarded would have been given to you when you graduated. Yes? And that is all the initial documentation any employer/university asks for. They don't ask for your trascripts (universities do, but not employers) - and if they did, transcripts are always provided in a sealed envelope. My point here is that in order to use your master's degree to get a job or apply for further study, you need only your degree -- which was surely given to you at the time you graduated. Did you simply forget it? Any other documentation could, at any time, come directly from your university, in the form of contact between your potential employer/university and the masters program from which you might have graduated. Thus, it seem really odd to me that there would be any masters degree documents that, in any case, you could have or have not gotten "together." And I am sorry, friend, but what is the relevance of your comment about being a "cheap white monkey whore." Does anyone else find this language unnecessary? If I may ask you to chuckle a bit - you sound anything but "ambivalent". I'm not trying to be rude, here, and I am not the sort of commenter who enjoys arguments, so please don't respond angrily . . . I just don't see the need to speak in that manner . . . and I feel that you are insulting our intelligence, just a little. Now, please, be patient with my comments - I express myself with good intentions.

Jan 21, 2013 17:54 Report Abuse

blaineholloway

That's common in the West, but it means: "We do not want you for other reasons and we're using 'over qualified' as our excuse". But it's funny because I'm experiencing the opposite, being under qualified.

Jan 14, 2013 20:26 Report Abuse