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Overqualified Job Applicants: We Still Need Predictive Models

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 January 2015

Saul Fine  and
Baruch Nevo
Saul Fine*
Affiliation:
Midot, Ltd.
Baruch Nevo
Affiliation:
University of Haifa
*
E-mail: saul@midot.co.il, Address: Midot, Ltd., 11 Ben Gurion St., Vita Towers, Bnei Brak 51260, Israel
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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 2011 , pp. 240 - 242
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2011 

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