Pros and Cons of hiring Over-Qualified Personnel:

Graduation, post- graduation, MBA, PhD, job experience, somany qualifications tagged to one person usually intimidates an employer ratherthan impressing. The reasons could be several like he might expect too muchsalary, he might over power his colleagues or even his seniors, he might be tooelderly and un-willing to adapt to a new environment, why did he/ she leave hisprevious job in spite of being well- qualified and experienced?

Ambiguity leads to denial hence the over- qualified tag isalarming and many job- seekers fear being called one since over- qualified incongruent to not fit enough.

Being over- qualified surely brings with it a lot ofefficiency. You can expect the concerned person to deliver more than the otheremployees in a short span of time. Also a person with worldliness bears hugeamount of erudition, which can be beneficial in a way that reduces the expensesincurred by the company. His expertise will help the organization during criticalsituations because he will know the exact way of tackling a ballgame. One moreascendancy of being well equipped is the list of contacts that you posses.Building contacts is a valuable asset for the organization and a person whopresents a company with it can be regarded as a hen which hatches golden egg.

At the end of the day recruiters are looking for people whoare delighted to accept the offer and will give their heart and soul to theorganization. So if you present yourself in a way that appeals the head hunter,it doesn’t matter if you’re over or under qualified.

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