Job Mismatch and Early Career Success
2 days ago
- #career development
- #job mismatch
- #military workforce
- Job mismatch at the start of a career impacts skill acquisition, retention, and promotion.
- The US Air Force allocates jobs based on test scores, creating quasi-random variation for study.
- Overqualified individuals show higher attrition, more behavioral issues, and worse performance evaluations.
- Despite challenges, overqualified workers perform better in job-specific tasks and are more likely to be promoted.
- Underqualified workers are more motivated but struggle to compete with peers in performance metrics.
- Overqualified individuals are in jobs with lower outside earnings potential, while underqualified individuals face the opposite.