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Overqualified as a Euphemism for Too Old?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Lisa M. Finkelstein
Lisa M. Finkelstein*
Affiliation:
Northern Illinois University
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E-mail: lisaf@niu.edu, Address: Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 250 - 251
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