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Underemployment: What It Is And How You Can Avoid It Tips-to-Get-that-Job!-Why-Wear-Great-First-Impression-Colors-4&id=611560">Interviewing Tips to Get that Job! Why Wear Great First Impression Colors 4Underemployment is typically when you are employed in a position that does not fully utilize your skills and is probably a position that is not ideally suitable for you at this stage in your career.Letting yourself get into this position can cause bigger problems long term but can also have immediate negative effects on your career.In my experience as a recruiter, being underemployed can be dangerous for a number of reasons, all of which can hurt your long-term success:People who experience underemployment tend to feel desperate to change jobs.When you are desperate to change jobs, this usually becomes obvious to hiring managers and recruiters. No one wants to hire a desperate person but if you know you are underemployed, you can manifest it by applying for any job that comes your way which may simply lead you to accept another ill-suited position.When you suffer from underemployment, it can be difficult to convince a potential hiring manager that you’re capable of a more senior position.Afterall, if you should have a more senior position, why don’t you? I’ve interviewed job searchers who are underemployed who not only show their desperation to change jobs (see above point) but tell me that they are having trouble convincing hiring managers that they actually qualify for more senior positions.This is tough because some hiring managers will just look at the person’s current job title and respo Most Viewed EzineArticles in the Business:Careers-Employment Category
On a study tour of a Fortune 500 food company, Peter Grazier, an international consultant specialializing in employee involvement, stopped to chat with an elderly machine operator. Within minutes, the operator began discussing a solution for quickly clearing bulk food material from a clogged hopper - apparently a frequent problem. The visitor asked him if he had ever told this idea to his supervisor. "Nobody ever asks for these kind of ideas around here," shrugged the worker, who would be retiring in another few months after 42 years of service. Grazier writes that he felt the plant manager, who was standing behind him, wishing he could sink through the floor! How many other ideas would this employee be leaving behind him? Why was the communication environment between management and worker in this food manufacturing plant apparently as sterile as the physical environment had to be? Of course, we could talk at length about employers or managers who fail to encourage upward communication. We could contrast these with others who go out of their way to not only to recognize the achievements of their employees or subordinates, but also to instill in them a real sense of importance and self-worth. (In another Grazier "story", he came across a janitor sweeping a hospital hallway and asked him what his job was. The instant response was "customer satisfaction.") The influence that a positive, reassuring, work environment - one that cultivates self-dignity and encourages contribution - might have had on our food machine operator is obvious. I would like to suggest, however, that there just might have been other factors contributing to his reticence - factors that have little to do with working conditions in the factory. It may be a long shot, but it's at least remotely possible that in order to understand our operator's reluctance to share information, his unwillingness to involve himself more than he had to - we might have to look farther than at his work life alone. We might have to look, in fact, at his earlier life, at what he was doing even before he began to work. We might even have to go back to an earlier stage, as far back as his youth, or even earlier. Perhaps he might have acted rather differently had he been blessed with a self-confidence not dependant on external circumstances, with an unshakeable sense of self-esteem. And perhaps his self-esteem had been shattered many years before. A friend who is an experienced educator once made an interesting confession to me. I should emphasize that his many years of teaching experience is not in the type of school one reads about so often in the American media - places where chaos and violence reign supreme - but in institutions where the young students are refined and serious, and hail from the best homes. "Usually, a small child arrives for his first day of school with an excellent self-image," he said. "And very often, that's the end of the story!"
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I would like to suggest, however, that there just might have been other factors contributing to his reticence - factors that have little to do with working conditions in the factory. It may be a long shot, but it's at least remotely possible that in order to understand our operator's reluctance to share information, his unwillingness to involve himself more than he had to - we might have to look farther than at his work life alone. We might have to look, in fact, at his earlier life, at what he was doing even before he began to work. We might even have to go back to an earlier stage, as far back as his youth, or even earlier. Perhaps he might have acted rather differently had he been blessed with a self-confidence not dependant on external circumstances, with an unshakeable sense of self-esteem. And perhaps his self-esteem had been shattered many years before. A friend who is an experienced educator once made an interesting confession to me. I should emphasize that his many years of teaching experience is not in the type of school one reads about so often in the American media - places where chaos and violence reign supreme - but in institutions where the young students are refined and serious, and hail from the best homes. "Usually, a small child arrives for his first day of school with an excellent self-image," he said. "And very often, that's the end of the story!"
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