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Age discrimination and not hiring "overqualified" people are overlapping problems. Older people can often be described as overqualified. It's also unclear whet
by azakai 10y ago
Age discrimination and not hiring "overqualified" people are overlapping problems. Older people can often be described as overqualified.
It's also unclear whether being overqualified is actually a problem, which you assumed as true. See for example
https://hbr.org/2010/12/the-myth-of-the-overqualified-worker https://hbr.org/2010/12/the-myth-of-the-overqualified-worker
> research shows that overqualified workers tend to perform better than other employees, and they don’t quit any sooner.
- dogma1138 10y agoAgain age discrimination is also something easily thrown out. And overqualification simply cannot be dismissed as you easily point out, the studies that have been conducted a are both contradictory and in your case completely misleading. Being "overqualified" by possessing an above average intelligence and being more highly educated than the average employee in a menial position such as retail or sanitation is one thing, being overly qualified in a technical field in a highly competitive market is another. Taking on a considerably more experience engineer than the average for an entry level job might end up good, but it also might not end up that well, you can see it a lot during the recession people needing work accepting lower paying jobs which they overqualify for and they leave as soon as they find a better place. so no "> research shows that overqualified workers tend to perform better than other employees, and they don’t quit any sooner." isn't universally true, it can be true for certain circumstances but this isn't even the level of overqualification we are talking about.
- AstralStorm 10y agoOverqualified should be read as "we want someone who works for peanuts". The fact of life is that older people do not like being taken advantage of.