Overqualified?

Race Reflections AT WORK

In today's episode Guilaine responds to, and reflects on, a dilemma from a listener who is a Black woman dealing with the way that workplaces tend to view her as overqualified, is having difficulty navigating these dynamics, has ended up moving from job to job, and increasingly feels the need to hide her knowledge and experience.

Guilaine thinks through the issues around this problem, keeping it general because she doesn’t have the full information and also wants to keep the listener anonymised. She goes over the questions she would ask in group analysis or in one on one coaching or therapy. And considers some of the issues previously covered in podcast episodes such as these:

Envy: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/8728416

Location of Disturbance and Scapegoating: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/8127268

Black Authority in the Workplace: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/8252930

Racial Trauma at Work: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1623760/8033907

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