Overqualified employees: what to do with overqualification?
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Overqualified
employees: what to do with overqualification?
Today’s challenging labor market with high
unemployment rates and lower labor demands has certainly produced a massive
number of employees who find themselves in places for which they are
overqualified. Those overqualified are thus seen as employees owning education,
work experience, or knowledge beyond what is required by their job (Maynard, et
al., 2006). As a result,
overqualification is normally perceived as a mismatch between employee
education, experience, and organizational requirements (Worthington, 2002).
3 behaviors
to keep overqualified employees happy
1.
Agency
When workers have independence, and when they feel that
they have the ability to affect their work environment, their turnover rate is
no different from others.
2.
Similarly talented coworkers
If overqualified employees interrelate and work with others
at their level, which will retain those employees around.
3.
Appreciation
If overqualified employees sense valued by the organization
and management, they’re also more likely to stay. Staff have chosen to work at
jobs where they are obviously overqualified for some reason not related to the
real job, that makes a difference, too.
How Could overqualification be reduced if company
hire employees fit to the job?
Hiring best applicants suitable to the job is
one of the aims of the HR professionals but when it comes to applicants who
have got much more qualification than the job description for the position what
does it happen? In one study wiped out Albania in 2015 concerning the choice of
employees privately companies it had been found that non-public companies HR’s
didn't really favor overqualified applicants. The rising attention paid to the
issue of overqualification is a result of two recent trends in contemporary
economies stating to the growing number of graduates and to the technological
development requiring not very qualified personnel reducing the companies
expenses due to the growth of the artificial intelligence.
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Global Context
Almost half of American employees with college
degrees are overqualified for jobs they hold, and this tendency is likely to last
in the near future (as many as four job seekers vying for each job
opening (Homan, 2011), many people will endure unemployed or within positions
for which they are overqualified until their job is enlarged, they are
promoted, or they leave the company.
(Source: Interview Success Formula, 2014 available at www.youtube.com)
Conclusion
Assessing an overqualified person’s
fitness for hiring, promotion and other employment-related outcomes is a
process where numerous background and social factors, both linked to the overqualified
individual and the observer, can affect attitudes and behaviors towards that
person.
References
Homan, T.R. (2011), “Skills ‘Mismatch’ Hurts U.S. Jobless as Openings Grow: Economy” Available at <https://www.telegram.com/article/20111214/NEWS/112149839> (Accessed 09th August 2021).
Marklein,
M.B. (2013), “Study: Nearly half are overqualified for their jobs”
Available at: <http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/01/27/study-nearly- half-are-overqualified-for-jobs/1868817/>
(Accessed on 09th August 2021)
Maynard,
D.C., Joseph, T.A. and Maynard, A.M. (2006), “Underemployment, job attitudes
and turnover
intentions”, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Vol. 27, pp. 509-536.
Available at <https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/dougmaynard/files/2013/02/2006- Maynard-Joseph-Maynard.pdf>
(Accessed 09th August 2021)
Trumbull, M.
(2013), “Have degree, driving cab: Nearly half of college grads are overqualified”
Available at: <http://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2013/0128/Have-degree-driving- cab- Nearly-half-of-college-grads-are-overqualified> (Accessed on 09th August)
Worthington, J. (2002), “Overqualified for a job? Here’s what they really mean” Available at: <http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2002/11/18/smallb3.html> (Accessed on 09th August)
