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Ask Devex: Newest marketable skills, how to overcome overqualification and more

Kate Warren, Devex director of global recruitment services, discusses how to handle a situation where you feel overqualified and suggests ways to transition from the military to development in this month’s installment of “Ask Devex.”

By Kelli Rogers // 13 May 2014

Last week, Devex hosted an “Ask Devex” CrowdHall for career account members to pose their pressing career questions to Kate Warren, director of global recruitment services.

The questions were many and varied, but here’s a few — along with Warren’s answers — that you don’t want to miss:

1. What are the newest marketable skills in the global development sector and what skills do you see becoming applicable in the nearest future?

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