I know in the eyes of recruiters a person can possibly be 'overqualified' or 'over-experienced' or 'too good'
or whatever you want to call it, in terms of permanent jobs.
I can imagine the concerns recruiters may have (whether or not their concerns are actually well-founded is another matter all together. No they are not well-founded.) That essentially, they want someone who will stay with them for the long-term. But they are worried that the candidate in question may just be willing to accept any job until one that they really want comes up and that they may then leave the employer in the lurch after getting them to spend time and money training them up. (We all know how it's impossible for a person who is appropriately qualified for a job to quit if they find another job they are also appropriately qualified for.
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But when it comes to short-term temp jobs, it's of course obviously expressed and understood by everyone that employment will only be short-term for X period of time. I'm not talking about the 'initially temporary position, may lead to permanent position' ones. I'm not even talking about temp jobs of up to a year. I mean the ones that are only for several months at most.
So if a candidate who is overqualified/over-experienced applies for a clearly defined short-term temp job and makes it clear that they want to do a temp job for however long this temp job is (in order to put the recruiter's mind at ease) shouldn't they then be the perfect person for the job? After all, that person is going to come, easily do the job, then leave after an agreed period of time. Or is it actually a case of because the employment length will be limited that they can't even
slightly risk hiring someone who
may leave them in this limited time because as far as they know, the candidate might just be bullshitting? Or is it a case of that this temp job is actually (known only by the recruiter and not stated in the job description) potentially going to develop into a permanent job......so their usual bullshit concerns apply and we're back to square one?
And why the fk are all job descriptions so long-winded? The ironic thing is that straightforward jobs are made to look extremely hard and then when a hard-working person applies for that job the recruiters suddenly start shitting themselves. Actually no, they don't start shitting themselves. But they do use the CV as toilet paper. With a smug smile. Probably.
You know if a person is overqualified for a job does that mean they are overqualified for other things too? Like could they tell their utility provider they are overqualified to pay their bills? Or tell the person at the supermarket checkout they are overqualified to pay for their weekly shopping? Do you think if you put in the word 'overqualified' as a promo code when you're doing online shopping you'll get everything for free? How about sky diving without a parachute because you're overqualified to need one? I know, next time I go for a drive I won't bother putting in any petrol and when my car comes to a halt I'll just sit there for 5 hours and try to explain to my car how it is overqualified to need fuel.
