[dmz]

I have an MBA but didn’t include it on a job that I was applying for because I didn’t want that “over qualified” nonsense.

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I would not advise others to do as you have done, and I’ve recruited for what was then an 8 billion/yr organization.

The background check will reveal it, and it will raise questions as to the level of your honesty.

I would advise a pro-active strategy of discussing why an MBA is seeking a job where an MBA might be an oddity.

JMO.

[BobL]

“I have an MBA but didn’t include it on a job that I was applying for because I didn’t want that “over qualified” nonsense.

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I would not advise others to do as you have done, and I’ve recruited for what was then an 8 billion/yr organization.”

Easy to say as a spectator. I had a neighbor decades ago who had an engineering degree and an MBA (from a second-rate school). He spent 8 months trying to get a job. Then he dropped the MBA from his resume and got scooped up IMMEDIATELY, by a large company. As to his ‘honesty’, yes, that could hurt him, but since he didn’t lie to get a higher paying job, there’s no reason to can him for that - but yes, they would have extra justification should they want (or need) to can him for another reason.