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Dana W is 100% on the money. I was laid off 9 months ago and it has been impossible to get a job. I have interviewed everywhere. The "no brainer" isn't going to happen. No employer will higher an over skilled person who they will think will quit the second they find a "real job". Just tell hubby it is the economy and everything is so much harder. In an article on msn they say any professional can look to being unemployed at least a year before finding a job. Tell him most importantly not to take the rejection personally. These HR people know that they have the time and a huge amount of candidates they can pick and choose from. Their ideal is top of the line at the lowest price, not easy to find. And you might as well brace him to the fact, that when he does find a job in his field the salary will be low balled. It's crazy out there now. Tell him to be patient and as they say this can't go on forever, just seems like it.