Employement Discrimination: Over qualification Issue

There can be numerous causes of rejection but when you are rejected because they said you are overqualified you get some weird thoughts as if it’s your fault that you studied more or this is fault of the society because most of them says you have less experience or less qualification which definitely seems logical but what is the logic of being over qualified.

“They said you have Seventeen years education yet we are looking for people having less educated people so we can’t hire you” A friend from banking sector told after being rejected from the top bank of the country. Although private sector employers have sound reasons to reject over qualified candidates but for government organizations it seems a little absurd. The issue of being over qualified job seekers has been often day by day which has lead even more number of unemployed people sitting at home waiting for the right opportunity to come but as said second chance is not very often. Due to the growing technology lesser need of skilled man may cause them either quit their efforts to fit in or take steps to make their own ground.

There are certain acceptable reasons to discriminate the applicants on behalf of over qualification like,

Lesser jobs and more number of applicants

The basic fear of an employer to higher an overqualified person is if he can hire a low qualified person why do he need to hire an over qualified with higher demand?

Increasing cost of Employment process

The fear of employer that the over qualified candidates may often not enjoy the work or the facilities offered and they always look for better opportunity to avail. If they are hired and they leave sooner or later the employer will have to run the process again,

We can't pay you enough. 

They Employers assume that the applicants demand will be much higher than the one having less qualification. Even if the applicant convinces them on customary pay the employer still fears of him to claim sooner or later for higher package.

You don't really understand what the job is.

The applicants my apply having the idea to work in a higher and well settled office yet the employer is looking for someone to work at the front desk. Further the employee thinks that the candidate who has been working in upper positions might not be able keep their interest for the work.

You won't be happy working for a manager with less experience than you.

The candidate will not be happy to work under people having less qualification then him. Therefore the employers think he will stay for very short period of time.

The question arises here is whether the applicant can deal with it during the interview?

A couple of steps the applicant can take to overcome the problem yet not for sure are

By explaining your genuine interest in the job rather creating any kind of ambiguity for example he can convince the employer by telling the of his limited choices of work and that he needs comparatively easy work to carry rather than sticking into difficult one. (And that's key – it needs to ring true for you; don't make something up.)

Most often the employer worries about salary and they expect a bigger figure to come from the over qualified candidates. The candidate can overcome the confusion by being explicit about salary demand.

These are some optimistic approaches to get settled even in a low position yet the bigger issue comes when the employer don’t invite the applicant for interview or they don’t let the applicant to express what he is looking for.

The problem still remains there and the Policy makers and planners should plan a policy against it before it appears that most employees comes to be less qualified and qualified people remains over qualified. Perhaps that will cause individuals to rethink of their desire to think for higher qualification and skill level.