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Good points. The jobs they are posting now require a masters degree. It doesn't even specify what kind of masters degree. This is a new trend. Outside of Lawyers and Phds, very few of the people above me have masters degrees, or ones worth talking about. If you don't have the connects, this trend it essentially freezes mid-career professionals w/out a masters like me out of the market.

You are right about re-evaluating my career. I have been doing that lately.  It seems a change of industry for me would result in a budget-crippling drop in pay that our family could not withstand at this point in time financially. In a sense, I feel a bit trapped.

I am thankful to have a good paying job. Just disappointed that uncessary barriers are being created to make it more difficult for me (and others like me) to advance.

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pp again.

Well just don't forget the part about what I said that if it's a job that you're really interested in to try to apply for it anyways and really try to sell yourself and your experience.

Admittedly, I probably haven't been back in the job market more recently, we might be in different fields and industries, and I might eventually find myself in a similar position as you in the future. Although as mentioned I've already encountered ceilings and opportunities where I couldn't even be put into consideration due to degree requirements.  Although I haven't seen anything as widespread as people are describing.

But don't give up hope.  Again without really seeing what's out there, I would hope there are still companies out there that have what we consider more reasonable requirements for their candidates out there.  It sounds like a lot of us in this thread might be in midcareer and started before this degree creep started to become a trend. And I would think many hiring managers out there started out before the degree creep as well.  So would be willing to look past the education requirements.  As mentioned, in talking about the education requirements in the interview some of them said they had no say in that description and blurb and it was put in by HR.

So your next step might have to be changing fields, unless it's something that you were already considering due to other issues with the field you're in.  It's about having to wait for the right opportunity to come around.

I know some organizations have a schedule where they reevaluate the requirements and duties of a job, sees how it falls in line with other jobs in the area, and compare and adjust salary ranges as necessary.  So for a secretary job, they might not want to pay what someone with a masters degree might be expecting.  But again there is the question about the quality and worth of some degrees out there now.  One organization that did a good job with this (some organizations that go through this process wasn't really meaningful in my opinion) was also one of the better places that I've worked at. Although they also tended to pay on the low side of the salaries too and probably did this as a way to make sure they weren't paying people too much.  But either way I would have to believe there are still organizations out there with reasonable expectations and do this type of evaluation.

Good luck![/quote]

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