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This just spells it out for you, how useful this degree is, that you would rather people do not know about it.
You know, people hide their criminal records for employment purposes. and now they hide their degrees.
It happens to a lot of Science and even Engineering PhD's. The vast majority of jobs out there especially in industry don't require one and will cause you to get screened out as overqualified, too expensive, to good to do general work etc.
There was a posting where someone suggested this on the science careers forum and the people there yelled at the person and told him he would get fired for lying etc but the OP was having a harder time getting a job with a PhD than if he spent 5 years in prison for a felony that many companies were screening him out.
I am so glad I didn't get my PhD so that I don't have to hide it as if it were a obscene tattoo or something.
rare employer who'd rather hire someone without a degree than someone who does have one.
Not rare at all. The HM decides on the optimal education level and anyone below that is rejected as being unqualified and anyone above that is overqualified. I saw it happen again and again to the people from my grad program who got a PhD and then tried to enter the work force.
Why ever would you leave an accomplishment off a resume?
I suspect the degree holder may view their accomplishment as essentially "overqualified" in the way a lot of hiring managers seem to. Very well qualified for something better, so probably going to quit in a year.
It happens to a lot of Science and even Engineering PhD's. The vast majority of jobs out there especially in industry don't require one and will cause you to get screened out as overqualified, too expensive, to good to do general work etc.
There was a posting where someone suggested this on the science careers forum and the people there yelled at the person and told him he would get fired for lying etc but the OP was having a harder time getting a job with a PhD than if he spent 5 years in prison for a felony that many companies were screening him out.
I am so glad I didn't get my PhD so that I don't have to hide it as if it were a obscene tattoo or something.
I just got my PhD and this is the problem I am running into right now. I apply to jobs which require a BSc and get labelled as overqualified. I have also heard about people leaving out the PhD when they apply for jobs that don't require one so I think I am going to try this and see what happens.
Also, wouldn't you have an employment gap if you took off the degree, assuming that you never held a job while in college?
Sometimes the degree can do more harm than the gap depending on the specific job/employer. Even in this thread, there are stories from C-D users who got zero interviews when listing their degree; and plenty of callbacks when omitting their degree. It just depends. No matter what the gap, always have a good reason.
I'd leave it on, unless you have a very good notion that it may cause the employer to think you are overqualified.
OP, with the exception of the above reason, why would you EVER leave your degree off of your resume??
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