Overqualified for the job - what bullshit

Overqualified for the job, what does that really mean? It's absolute rubbish and I like to call it out for what it is.

Does this really mean this person will take the job to leave when a better opportunity comes along? What about this scenario, if the enterprise is efficient, then this person has the ability to pursue a career path in the company.

This is the goal of talent management, the acquisition of human capital to achieve strategic outcomes. This is a future high-performing team member that could learn from our mentoring and coaching to become a high-performing member driving the team.

A hiring manager should recruit, select, remunerate and retain the highest available talent. This attitude of worrying about whether this person outshines them is rubbish. How about this scenario? As the hiring team, we identified a star performer and made sure they didn't accept mediocrity, we recruited the best available for the company.