From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FORGED_GMAIL_RCVD, FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: f43e6,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 103376,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 10f5bc,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,3a06c3a3721845ae X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,gid103376,gid10f5bc,gid1108a1,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: g2news1.google.com!postnews.google.com!i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: kevin cline Newsgroups: comp.software-eng, comp.lang.ada, comp.software.testing, comp.object Subject: Re: Am I "Overqualified"? Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 00:07:18 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.184.72.155 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1202026039 29407 127.0.0.1 (3 Feb 2008 08:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 08:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i72g2000hsd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.184.72.155; posting-account=TeqLlgkAAAAbHBaorcCvEC7Vn4T9q-H9 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.software-eng:9139 comp.lang.ada:19694 comp.software.testing:7529 comp.object:21963 Date: 2008-02-03T00:07:18-08:00 List-Id: On Jan 30, 3:21 pm, Ed Berard wrote: > Howdy Folks, > > It seems that lately, I have been turned down for an increasing number > of assignments, because I am "overqualified." What sort of assignments are you trying to get? "Overqualified" is a euphemism for "You have a lengthy and impressive resume, but I don't see anything to indicate that you would be of any value to my business." I read your resume, and I did not get a favorable impression. First, referring to yourself in the third person gave me the impression that you are rather pompous and self-impressed. Listing your MENSA membership reinforces that impression. MENSA-level intelligence is almost a given in this industry, and many people of high intelligence believe MENSA to be an organization of the socially inept. In general, unless you hold a high office, listing social activities on a resume is a mistake. The second problem is that I have no idea what you can do, or want to do. You seem to have spent a lot of time on the periphery of software projects, writing documentation and giving training, but little time actually writing software. It all gives the impression of someone with great ambition but little talent. Finally, I looked at the "What is the WBM?" web page, and I still haven't got a clue what it is. Is it a web server, like Apache? Is it a web development framework, like RAILS? And if it is either of those things, why would anyone pay money for it? Why did you write it in the first place? And why on earth did you write "The sheer expanse of the Web Business Manager is impressive to most people?" The people I know are impressed by clear, concise writing, both in prose and in code. Sheer expanse is quite expensive, and best avoided.