Or is it just a term made up to find an easier reason to reject job applicants?
Definitely… Someone with a doctorate applying at McDonalds is just looking for a stop gap and will be gone the instant something better comes along.
I feel like you could have picked a better example than the fast food industry, which literally is a stop-gap job for almost anyone of working age lmao.
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“When we do jobs, we get money for our qualifications! And we get our money based on this, that, and the other thing!”
More qualification might also translate into doing a job less well. Sometimes what’s important is prompt response, staying on script, getting many jobs done. A deeper understanding could mean you’re more likely to be bored by the tedium of the more shallow role, more likely to spend too much time on an individual task, more likely to address a concern completely rather than adequately or quickly
For example, I am “overqualified” for many IT help desk roles and you bet I’d be slower than people that are good at the role. I’d be driven crazy by the repetitiveness and by stupid human tricks. At the end of my probation I’d be fired because while I answered that one customer in depth, my responsiveness metrics would be shit, I’d have addressed fewer than expected tickets, and I’d be dying to escape. Kudos to all of you who can do a better job than I.
“If your router costs less than your PC, and your PC costs less than a house, I can’t help you.”
- me.
Definitely, it is extremely rare though, and usually has a good reason for it. Had one guy I worked with who used to be Rihanna’s sound engineer, I asked him why he stopped doing that and started working for a local corporate AV company. His simple response was that it wasn’t worth the stress, and he got to stay home and see his kids.
Dude was easily one of the best sound engineers I’ve ever heard, he could make anything sound way better than it had any right to be, and yet he was the local guy pushing cases, running cable, and basically playing second chair to all the corporate AV guys thinking they were sound engineers, including myself for a while. All because it meant he could see his kids and not be stressed about it.
I ended up making him my go to audio guy anytime I needed someone, and stepped back so I could learn.
It’s very real, if you are too qualified for a position you are not going to be fulfilled in that role and you’ll probably leave real fast or just be depressed as hell
That’s an assumption. Maybe they want to switch careers.
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