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There is no such thing as too much knowledge or experience

• vr46 7y ago
  His premise is perfect, love it, but I am extremely prejudiced against the Daily Mail and all those who work for it, so am not the best person to talk about this objectively.
• blunte 7y ago
  Indeed, overqualification is usually just an excuse. Many hiring managers are not adequately qualified to judge a candidate; so if they can just be satisfied that two candidates both have the "required" skills (the list of which is often ridiculous), the manager will want the cheaper candidate. Unfortunately, at many companies the added cost value a more experienced candidate would bring would be wasted anyway. Unless management and upper management are high performers, a skilled senior worker will be see some of their advanced capabilities ignored or even stymied by the poor decisions above them.
• oblib 7y ago
  I've filled out a few applications this year. I find a bit of irony in that they cannot ask you your age but require you fill in the dates and location of your education. I never did any higher education but was in High School in the `70s. Hard to get around that one.
• jawns 7y ago
  Anybody remember this court case from ~20 years ago? https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/story?id=95836 https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st... The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York ruled that a Connecticut city could decline to hire a man who had applied for a job on their police force because he was deemed to be too intelligent. The rationale was that it takes a lot of money to train a cop, and if the cop is highly intelligent, he might get bored and leave, and that would be a costly problem for the city.