Why are some jobseekers overqualified?
814360
many employers feel that if someone has too many qualifications or a  higher education than required to do the job that the person will become bored and dissatisfied with the job and quit.\nfor instance, a person with a masters degree in physics working at wal mart as a checker. they'd probably hate it and be bored for lack of mental stimulation.
1023567
the possibility of you getting the job is 75%. what happened indicated two points:\n1- they think you fit the vacancy they have (they wouldn't have wasted their time explaining to you the tasks you'll be doing) and they are in a hurry (coz usually such details are given with the offer letter, unless they wanna check before they give the offer if the candidate is interested in the tasks that will be assigned to him/her)\n2- the interviewer does not have interviewing skills and does not know how to correctly conduct and direct and interview.\n\nhopefully it is the first option...
103603
No there serious. Think about it. These recruiters see tons of resumes and have to sort through them to get to a resumes' that closely match the requirements of the open position. Each situation is different for recruiters.
1041138
Its all about business.  The person who got the job was probably related to someone in the company with clout.  If he was related to one of the big dogs at work it doesnt matter if they declined the job at first.  The job was probably meant for them to have anyway because of who they are related to.  Remember in any business they always look out for their own.  If you are with a company for years and they have someone who needs a job and your job is the one they want, they will not hesitate to sacrifice your position for their son, daughter, ......   In todays world of business we are all just a number when the big dog wants something they usually get it.
1123471
the real quesiton is what can't they do in the hands on someone who knows how to use it.  They can almost do anything out there that is why they are replacing so many humans in the job field.
654925
Because potential employers want to know what type of person they are hiring.  True, just because one employer is not happy with your work does not mean no employer will be, but they want to know anyway.  What if the potential employee was fired for stealing?  Or being a threat to co-workers?  Employers have a right to know those things in advance, so they ask.
1005264
To get better paying jobs.
1104611
Wait...\n\nThe law mandates that the goverment has to provide you with trained workers?\n\nThe law mandates that the goverment has to provide training for people?\n\nWhat sort of neo-marxian shangrila are you living in dude?  Not only is the goverment not required to provide training to people - the goverment is not required to provide you with applicants.\n\nThey are PEOPLE.  Not cogs to be supplied for your use.\n\nMaybe the reason you are having troubble with hiring is that you have a really crummy attitude towards your employees and no one wants to work for you?  If you are having a lot of turn over - there is a reason why people don't want to work for you.\n\nMaybe the industry standard wages are so far below other industries that it is not worth getting the training and experiance you require for the wages you offer.\n\nThere are LOTS of folks who are unemployed - and looking for a job.  If you are having troubble getting help - there is a reason.  I would recomend that you look at teh lowest common denominator - that is to say - what do all of your crummy employees have in common?
1060725
Usually when one is interviewing for a job, and has held a higher position in another field, or has had a faster pace job they will be told this.  It is unfair, because you are trying to get into another field and have to start somewhere.  But as an employer here is what I see\n\nHere is someone who is burnt out with their current job and needs a break, they can't stop working so they'll take a "lesser" job until their batteries recharge, and then they will be gone.  Meanwhile I have spent time and money training the new employee only to lose them.\n\nI will then need to find someone else, train them etc...\n\nIt's the same thing as being told you're 'overqualified'.\n\nIf you are truly sincere about the life change, stress it early in the interview and reinforce it throughout.  \n\ngood luck
544596
You are not going to like this answer, but maybe they did not like working with you, and/or felt your work was not up to the standard.  Maybe they do not want to hire someone they know is going to quit as soon as another opportunity comes along, because hiring and training is an expensive and burdensome process.
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I think it is because they are short sighted.  As someone who is currently unemployed and facing her 60th birthday next March, this is an essential question for me.  I try to put myself in their place, and look at the realities of the job.\n\nFor entry level positions, it is reasonable that they want someone young enough to move up in the company.  But such a position, normally considered "entry level" might also benefit from including someone who has learned much from the School of Hard Knocks, and can provide a stabilizing effect on the younger crew members.  And the higher the skill and experience levels required for a given position, the more an older person is going to be preferred, not merely tolerated.\n\nSome people say the problem is the number of years to retirement age.  Nonsense: younger people are more likely to be lured away by adventure or a bigger salary.  And younger people are more likely to leave due to upheavals in their private lives, or emotional problems, including drugs or alcohol.  The number of years a person actually will work before they leave, whether to retire or otherwise, is not predictable from their age, let alone their apparent age in an interview, since it is illegal to ask for an actual numerical value.\n\nOK, there are accommodations on both sides.  An older person may use their medical insurance more for themselves, but they are unlikely to have dependents to use it, or to need time off for taking care of other family members.  An older person may be slower of foot, but quicker of mind.  And experience does count, it really does.  Real world experience more generally, and not just in the field of the particular job.  Older people are less likely to call in sick for trivial reasons, for example, and tend to have low absentee rates.  They are more likely to have learned good manners and a bit of diplomacy, and be less likely to upset and annoy customers or clients with inappropriate remarks or emotional responses to stressful situations.  And as mentioned before, they can thus set a good example for younger members of the team.\n\nSo why do businesses discriminate?  Poor judgment, to some significant degree.  So go work for someone with good judgment, who can recognize your qualities.
671380
Education isn't over rated. People who are educated are able to pull better jobs. Better jobs mean more money, more money means a higher economic status, and etc. Education can never be overated. If anything, NOT getting an education is overated, this is 2006, one must know something to get something. A H.S. diploma won't cut it.
106443
The job market is saturated right now (more applicants than jobs). Keep looking, something will come along.
290603
Some fields doesnt have skillful persons, so there is no option for the employers. So they had to hire people from other countries. As the immigration law states that people can be given visa if and only if that jobs are not done by americans. So americans had to increase their potential or definitely they are in deep trouble.
238310
The very LAST thing employers want is experience, because experience makes you expensive to an employer.  Employers aren't the slightest bit interested in having a job done WELL by an experienced employee - they would much, much, much rather have an intelligent but INexperienced employee whom they can count on to do the job the way the EMPLOYER wants it done, even if it isn't done well at first.
1111777
They want a better life, better jobs. i think its because there is too muich competion in singapore and there are lots of smart people so some of the not as smart people or not well knowledged people decide to immagrate to different places because its easier to find jobs or its not as crowded.
205850
they didnt like you.  just respond "well, sure... i SHOULD be getting your job, because you are obviously UNDERqualified."