Over-qualified? Join the Crowd
I know I've been there. Hired to flip burgers when I have a B.S. in journalism and have spent many years in (high-paying) corporate environments. But overqualified employees are a boon to businesses. Of course. A new study found that, while overqualified — the condition of employees who believe that their qualifications exceed the requirements of their jobs — has been widely considered harmful for organizations (which is why most companies shy away from such job applicants), it's quite the opposite. Researchers spent six months conducting interviews and studies of 11 information technology companies in China and discovered that, "when individual employees feel that they are not the only ‘big fish in the pond,’ and when overqualification becomes a norm rather than exception within the group, they tend to have more favorable reactions toward their own over-qualification status and perform better," newswise.com reports. A lot of words to say we'...