I agree with the author. I will give you examples of people doing jobs for which they are way too overqualified: 1. Computer Science graduates doing data entry. 2. MBAs doing data entry of sales figures in Excel spreadsheet. Everybody has to do this kind of work occasionally. But if that becomes a full time job for an MBA graduate, it's a problem. 3. Computer science graduates working as a personal secretary of the project manager. 4.Engineers doing the job of a shop floor worker. 5.MBA graduates as an e-mail forwarding service. 6.Engineers who have to deal with abusive workers on the shop floor to request them to do their job. Sometimes these new hires get beaten up on the shop floor by workers. Their crime usually is that they ask a wrong person(union leaders or local goonda) to do what they are getting paid for.
Anyone who thinks that the person who is doing this kind of job should have asked for the nature of the job in his/her interview, doesn't know reality. Some of us are lucky to get a job we like. Many are stuck in a miserable situation because of financial or other problems. Many hit the bottle. Some take their frustration out on their family. Too much competition ,mass production and consume more and produce more attitude of companies is responsible for this. We need companies that give equal importance to their bottomline as well as the well being of their employees. Afterall, technology and all the scientific advances are for man, man is not for technolo
RE:It's a big problem...
by Manu on May 01, 2008 10:04 PM Permalink
All your examples are of people who are still having problems understanding their skills and how to apply them or to recognize where they have to work.
RE:It's a big problem...
by Maysh on May 01, 2008 09:41 PM Permalink
If you dont like the job you are doing, then quit.... no one is forcing you to do it. We crib too much
RE:RE:It's a big problem...
by Intrepid on May 01, 2008 10:02 PM Permalink
True, no one is forcing anyone to do it. But quitting is easier said than done. And I wasn't talking about myself. I enjoy my job. But in one of the project I was working on, one guy, a techie, was made to work as a personal secretary of the project manager and he did quit. But it took him six months to find a new job. The agony of doing a job that you hate was a big problem for him.
RE:It's a big problem...
by chini jain on May 01, 2008 09:21 PM Permalink
r u saying ppl r made to do a job lesser thn wht thr qualification calls for? and what abt the person? his/her individual competencies? do u think an employer is tht dumb?
RE:It's a big problem...
by Intrepid on May 01, 2008 09:58 PM Permalink
The simple answer is YES. But it's not the employer who is at fault. It's your manager who makes you do things that you are overqualified for.
