Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in age bias

Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by salqadri on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:32PM (#15462500)

Not quite. If your hiring for a certain level depending on the scope of work, an overly experienced person may not be satisfied with the scope of work. So a good manager would try to find the right level person for the scope of work.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by toomuchtodo on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:32PM (#15462502)

You're entitled to your opinion. I know lots of overskilled folks who are happy to put in their 40 and leave.

You're under the impression (it seems, correct me if I'm wrong) that labor is entirely fungible in an org and you can just shuffle people around to match skills to tasks; rarely is that the case, whether you're a company of 80 or 8000.

Managing people is super hard, and technical skill overlap with management skills is almost non-existent.

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Re:Rejecting a candidate for over-qualification results in a... by salqadri on Friday October 13, 2017 @02:14AM (#15463588)

Well that's why I am saying you want to hire the right level for the role.... It impacts things like promo and peer comparisons etc..

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