The Over-Qualified Candidate
There are many positive reasons why recruiters and hiring managers should hire those who are perceived to be overqualified. Recent research shows the overqualified, if hired, get higher performance appraisal ratings and perform better than average hires. Research at firms such as Google has also demonstrated widely relied upon recruiting factors such as grades, test scores, brainteasers, and unstructured interviews have little predictive value when it comes to identifying great hires. With the influx of under qualified applicants, it makes no economic sense to reject those whose only fault is having too many qualifications.
