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Isaiah Hankel is the Founder and CEO of Overqualified™, a career consultancy helping experienced professionals reclaim their value in today’s job market. For more than 15 years, Isaiah has worked with over 20,000 highly accomplished professionals with advanced degrees and decades of experience to help them land meaningful roles across industries. Through Overqualified™, Isaiah pioneered a system that transforms the outdated “overqualified” label into a strategic advantage - teaching seasoned professionals how to communicate their worth, eliminate bias in hiring, and leverage deep experience as a competitive edge. His insights help mid- to late-career professionals transition careers with clarity, confidence, and purpose. Isaiah is the author of the newest book, Too Good to Get Hired, a bold investigation into why highly qualified candidates are often overlooked and how they can break through outdated hiring systems. The book blends research, case studies, and practical frameworks for experienced professionals to stop underselling themselves and start securing the roles they deserve. A three-time bestselling author and sought-after career expert, Isaiah’s writing has appeared in outlets including Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Success Magazine, Recruiter Magazine and more.
I founded Overqualified to help senior job candidates with experience and advanced degrees who are being shut out of the job market for being "too qualified". Many employers are replacing these so-called overqualified candidates with cheaper labor and AI. On top of this, there is a white collar recession. Full time, salaried roles for skilled jobs are decreasing in availability. My goal with Overqualified is to reverse this trend so today's highly capable and highly qualified job candidates can continue to produce at the peak or near-peak of their careers in jobs they love, and continue to mentor and pass on their knowledge. If you have 5 or more years of full-time experience in a full-time, you’re in the top 10% of your field. If you’re over 50 years old and have experience, you’re in the top 2%. Less than 10% of today’s 1st world employees have a Masters degree. Less than 2% have a doctorate degree. Even having a Bachelors degree puts you in the top 35%. This makes you rare. Or, in the eyes of a hiring manager today – an aberration. If you don’t address the hidden fears employers have upfront, you won’t get hired. As Founder & CEO, I have published 2 bestselling business books with Wiley and published my methods for getting highly qualified job candidates hired in The Harvard Business Review, Recruiter Magazine, Forbes, Fast Company, Success Magazine and more. Visit us as https://overqualified.com. If you are being seen as overqualified in today’s job market, take our Overqualified Survey here: https://cheekyscientist.com/transition-call-application
"Too Good To Get Hired" isn’t a book about job searching. It’s a survival guide for the modern hiring system that punishes overqualified job candidates. If you’re over 40, especially over 50 or 60, you’ve felt it. The silence. The rejection. The job market that once rewarded your experience now punishes you for it. You’ve been told you’re “too experienced,” “too senior,” “too educated,” or “not the right fit.” Translation: too good to get hired. The truth is, today’s hiring system isn’t built for people like you. It’s run by algorithms and overseen by hiring managers barely in their thirties - many without degrees - who don’t want to hire anyone who reminds them of their mom or dad. They don’t want to be outshined. They want safe, compliant, and cheap. But you’re not done. You’re not obsolete. You’re better. And valuable. You just need to understand the new rules of how the system really works and how to win inside it. Isaiah Hankel has helped more than 20,000 experienced professionals get hired again by decoding the AI filters, the bias, and the fear that keep the most qualified people unemployed. You don’t need to work harder. You don’t need to dumb yourself down. You need to reposition yourself. Because it only takes one yes to get into the right job for you.
<< Smart strategies for pragmatic, science-based growth and sustainable achievement >> The Science of Intelligent Achievement teaches you the scientific process of finding success through your most valuable assets: • Selective focus – how selective are you with who and what you let into your life? • Creative ownership – how dependent are you on others for your happiness and success? • Pragmatic growth – how consistently and practically are you growing daily? This book will show you how to develop your focus by being very selective with where you spend your mental energy. You will also learn how to stop allowing your happiness and success to be dependent on other people and instead, start taking ownership over your life through creative work. Finally, you will learn the art of changing your life through pragmatic decisions and actions. Achieving real success means you must focus, create, and grow daily. The Science of Intelligent Achievement will show you how. To get 2 free chapters & 1 free case study, visit https://www.isaiahhankel.com/the-science-of-intelligent-achievement
<< Black Hole Focus: How Intelligent People Can Create a Powerful Purpose for Their Lives, is a handbook delivering actionable methods for creating a powerful focus that transforms businesses and individual lives. >> Writing Black Hole Focus and publication negotiation occurred concurrent with operating several enterprises. Influence and principles of entrepreneurship came into play in this startup organization which demanded effective time management, and a focus on energy management as well. Critical thinking along with “corporate strategy” would be vital to insuring a successful product launch for my first non-fiction business book. Blending creative thinking with social media marketing and small business marketing strategies, Black Hole Focus became a bestseller and was voted Business Book of the Month. A portion of my public speaking engagements are as a result of Black Hole Focus. More a discussion than a lecture, let’s talk! Visit www.isaiahhankel.com/speaking or send an email to [email protected].
<< What if all your years of hard work in academia finally paid off? >> Imagine never having to work in another dead-end academic position, or being able to tell the world you are in a leadership position within a thriving company. PhDs are in demand in industry, but often, these PhDs are invisible to potential employers. Dr. Isaiah Hankel, leverages his expertise as the CEO of the world's largest career training platform for PhDs, Cheeky Scientist, to help PhDs overcome their biggest obstacle: obscurity. The Power of a PhD is the stepwise blueprint that 18 million PhDs worldwide are seeking. Dr. Isaiah Hankel’s eight core steps within The Power of a PhD include: 1. Industry career options for PhDs 2. Communicating the right skills 3. Writing industry résumés 4. Mastering LinkedIn profiles 5. Networking and job referrals 6. Generating informational interviews 7. Acing industry interviews 8. Negotiating your salary This eight-step approach provides a consistent and proven methodology that allows PhDs to transition into industry without suffering the painful process of trial and error.
Expert Cytometry is a consulting company that provides affordable, effective and leading edge flow cytometry education and training. >> Being seated on the BoD as Chief Executive Officer entails determining corporate strategy, operational oversight, financial oversight inclusive of profitability improvement, contract negotiation, and risk management – all attributes I employ in strategic planning. However, marketing and communication are my favorite business aspects of flow cytometry. My marketing and communication goal is to utilize leading edge knowledge and processes to advance flow cytometry education to as many people as possible, as quickly as possible. Born out a desire to make flow cytometry accessible to anyone interested in learning it, I am excited to be a part of the improvement of educating individual beginner and advanced scientists in the field.