Hiring managers may suffer from unconscious gender bias
Hiring managers are willing to hire overqualified women, but not men, a new study says. They may be victims of unconscious gender bias, assuming overqualified women are more likely to stay, even if another company were to offer them better options.
Job hunting can be tiresome and exhausting. Adding insult to injury, you may even be rejected for being too good for the task at hand. If you’re “overqualified”, does that mean you won’t ever get hired? New research says it may depend on your gender.
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