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Although it's easy to argue that the job scene has always been a buyer's market, one especially gruesome weapon in the employer's arsenal seems to have been reloaded with customised dum-dum bullets since the downturn. I'm referring, of course, to the Overqualified-for-this-Position Hand Cannon, an item of ordinance which is utilised to take out any number of otherwise promising graduates in order to clear a path for a less demanding, easier to control job candidate with relatively lower expectations of salary, prospects, and - let's face it - life in general.
No one's saying that the following article (and the Amy Gallo post it references) will replace those lethal cartridges with blanks, but perhaps it is a start:
http://www.bnet.com/blog/harvard/when-hiring-an-overqualified-candidate-makes-sense/10619?promo=713&tag=nl.e713