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Today's topic, hiring overqualified.

Part 2.

Here we go.

Folks we've mentioned before, we'll say it again.

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and show notes to back it up.

Hope you'll check it out. So last week we covered in some detail

that overqualified candidates are in fact also qualified candidates my

definition and the risk is in hiring it's really a retention issue and retention is in fact a

managing problem right there are ways to solve that problem so our next point we want to talk about is that when you're interviewing you interview for skills first way before you interview for retention problems.

Yeah, exactly. And let me just mention a couple of people wrote to me and said that they were surprised that I took,

we took this approach of overqualified as being qualified.

And they said, Mark, I thought you told us to look for reasons to say no.

And I said, yeah, that's true.

We do.

And this is one of those interesting exceptions.

We're not looking for reasons to say yes, by stretch we're simply not being silly and

eliminating candidates. Unmissesarily without data to support it.

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