Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by ChuckMcM on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:08PM (#15462075)

In my experience, when someones applicable experience is more than what is stipulated by the job requirements, they come up to speed much faster. I hired a brilliant engineer who did the new hire on-boarding exercises we reserved a couple of weeks for in about 6 hours.

I say applicable because having a PhD in Chemistry is not being "over qualified" for entry level programming. But having 10 writing code could be interpreted as having more qualification than the job merits.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by carlmr on Friday October 13, 2017 @03:45AM (#15463870)

Even if it's somewhat applicable (like coding in a different language), it's still much quicker than onboarding a college grad. Someone who knows C++ and C# can probably learn Java in a week or two, to the level where he can contribute at least as well as your moderately skilled employees.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by le-mark on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:34AM (#15465013)

These is also the appeal of developing in a well popular langguage/framework like .net or java. The hordes of experience devs available. Sure, you may not want to use these heavy weights when your discovering your product/market, but when you've got a fit and need to hire talent, it's nothing for a 15 year java dev to come in and be productive on day one using Spring, maven, intellij, etc.

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