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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by DINKDINK on Thursday October 12, 2017 @07:20PM (#15462142)
>The "traditional understanding" of getting an applicant to your job that is over qualified is that they are just trying to get a paycheck while they look for something better.

Is the solution here to bias the "overqualified" candidate's compensation in equity rather than salary? If the company thinks that salary x is too low and may tempt the person to leave, put the employees skin in the game to stay with more equity. This seems like a potential solution.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by jjjensen90 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:25PM (#15462690)
Overqualified candidates are probably more likely to see that in a vast, vast majority of outcomes equity is worthless and never worth trading for cold, hard cash :)
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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by firebird84 on Thursday October 12, 2017 @09:52PM (#15462756)
If it's publicly tradable equity in a stable company it's worth SOMETHING, but only as much you as a hypothetical buy and hold investor would give it over the cliff period. It obviously also comes with some risk so I'd give a public equity offer with a future vesting date a considerable discount vs cash now.
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