Report Accepting a job below one’s skill level can adversely affect future employment prospects

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Accepting a job below one’s skill level can be severely penalizing when applying for future employment because of the perception that someone who does this is less committed or less competent, according to new research from a sociologist at The University of Texas at Austin.

To make ends meet in the short term, many workers may accept part-time positions, seek work from temporary agencies, or take jobs below their skill level. But a study by UT Austin sociologist David Pedulla, which was published online today and will appear in the April print issue of the American Sociological Review, shows that some of these employment situations could be penalizing when applying for jobs in the future.


“We’ve learned a lot about how unemployment affects workers’ future employment opportunities,” said Pedulla, who is also a research associate of the university’s Population Research Center. “Even though millions of workers are employed in part-time positions, through temporary agencies and at jobs below their skill level, less attention has been paid to how these types of employment situations influence workers’ future hiring outcomes.”

To examine the issue and measure how outcomes may vary by gender, Pedulla submitted 2,420 fictitious applications for 1,210 real job openings in five cities across the United States and tracked employers’ responses to each application. All applicant information was held constant, including six years of prior work experience, except for gender and applicants’ employment situation during the previous year. Job histories involved full-time work, part-time work, a temporary help agency position, a job below the applicant’s skill level (“skills underutilization”), or unemployment.

Read more here. (PsyPost)
 

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Accepting a job above one's skill level can adversely affect that as well.
 

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If you got training, it wouldn't be above your skill level. And I will attest that some people are not capable of being properly trained, therefore they were fired for lying about experience they said they had that they clearly did not have.
 
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