I am applying for HHA job at agencies that don't require any experience or certification. But I am worried that I won't get the job because I am a recent college graduate and barely have any job experience. I was thinking perhaps to get a HHA job one might need to be fresh out of high school or else have some job experience after high school, instead of having gone to college for four years like me to be overqualified and suspected of leaving as soon as a better opportunity presents itself, which would not be true in my case.
I applied for a couple jobs that I found didn't require any experience or certificate.
They required three professional references, so I put the names of professors. If I hide my college degree I am not sure what professional references I could use... high school teachers?
I was also thinking that they might see me as overqualified because of my degree and assume that I would apply to other higher paying job and would soon leave, and therefore, not worth hiring.
Am I being paranoid? Do they not care whether you have a college degree or not?
I want to also like to know, for those agencies that only hire experienced or certification, do they have hidden requirement of not being a college graduate (overqualified) or having some previous job experience at any field?
I was thinking maybe getting the CNA certificate might trump my weakness of being overqualifed in education and underqualifed in job experience.
I'm afraid even if I do get my CNA after several hundreds of dollars, I might be deemed over-qualified for my college degree. If I don't put having gone to college on the application, I would be having years of gap without schooling or work, which I guess might look bad.
