Why Employers Don't Want to Hire Overqualified Candidates (employee, applying, percentage)
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Three out of the five parts make sense. but I would imagine most people read the job descriptions when applying and would also have a realistic pay idea. I mean I don't think people are trying to get $10 an hour at Walmart for being a greeter or 50K for being an entry-level office assistant.
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(1) The people I hire can only negotiate salary up to the midpoint for the range, so if they don't want to work for that amount they will not accept the offer. usually it doesn't happen due to the great benefits and promotional opportunities. (2)If they don't understand the job, I will be able to tell in the interview and will not make an offer, overqualified or not. (3) Boredom can be avoided, if the person is given interesting, diverse assignments and special projects that help prepare him/her for future promotions. (4) This one is valid, I don't have to worry with my long years of managerial experience but for younger managers it is often a concern. (5) Also valid, the hiring manager has to make a judgement as to whether this would happen or not, based on certain interview questions and whether there are higher level jobs for promotion. In our case I am happy to lose someone to a promotion to another department,
part of being a manager is succession planning, not just for that department but for the whole organization. Often an overqualified employee can easily be coached and groomed to take over a higher position in another department.
1. Also, if you have high salary expectations, and you take lower, there will come a point where you start thinking that you could find a job making more money. And this is probably true. So the company spends money training a new hire who doesn't stay in the company for very long.
2. An algebra teacher is qualified to teach 2nd grade math. But do they REALLY understand that they are going to be teaching at a 2nd grade level? If they don't, they are going to have issues.
3. Bored and frustrated employees are less productive and they job hunt.
4. This goes back to my algebra teacher example. If the algebra teacher's boss has never taught algebra and has only taught 2nd grade math, will the new employee be able to respect the boss?
I thought "overqualified" was code word for "too old."
I guess that is possible, but I can't think of a single time when I have had issue with the age of an applicant. As long as they are physically capable of the job I couldn't care less about age...unless the person tells me they are looking for a job to work for 6 months until they are old enough to retire. I have had this happen...
While some of this is true, some of it is nonsense - nobody who's overqualified gets a part-time job at Walmart expecting to make $30 an hour or something.
Of course, what nobody wants to address is that while hiring over-qualified applicants may have a cost associated with doing so (at least if/when they find a job elsewhere), having a disturbing large percentage of the workforce unable to find jobs has an even higher cost. But, oh wait - the company in question can pass those costs on to society as a whole (unemployed, welfare, etc.) vs. having to foot the bill themselves if/when the overqualified person finds a new job elsewhere. And, as we should all know by now, passing the cost of having a functional society on to somebody else is the "new American way," so this makes sense, sadly.
Because we don't think they are going to stick around.
You do not believe in working your way up in an organization?
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