Ask Devex: The under-/overqualified dilemma

By // 22 July 2014
Ask Devex CrowdHall featuring Kate Warren, Devex's senior director and editor of careers & recruiting.

From successfully displaying consulting assignments on a CV to acing technical tests, development professionals face a myriad of career challenges before even landing the job.

See more career tips:

• How to make your Devex profile count
• What to do when you are overqualified
• Doing and becoming: Focus on long-term benefits when evaluating job offers

Kate Warren, Devex senior director and editor of careers & recruiting, invited development professionals to submit their own pressing questions in this month’s installment of our “Ask Devex” Crowdhall series. Having spent a decade of her career working in development recruitment, Warren knows that navigating a successful development career path can be daunting.

About the author

  • Kelli Rogers

    Kelli Rogers is an Associate Editor for Devex. Based on the U.S. West Coast, she works with Devex's team of correspondents and editors around the world, with a particular focus on gender. She previously worked as Devex’s Southeast Asia correspondent based in Bangkok, covering disaster and crisis response, resilience, women’s rights, and climate change throughout the region. Prior to that, she reported on social and environmental issues from Nairobi, Kenya. Kelli holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri, and has since reported from more than 20 countries.

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