can you get a job if you're not qualified for it?

[canella]

2 applicants for a job - one external applicant who meets all the person specification and one internal applicant who doesnt have the suitable post graduate qualification for the job. Interview was on tuesday and the internal candidate got the job!

is this not a bit fishy? unless the external candidate totally cocked up the interview doesnt this seem a little suspicious!

Surely the internal applicant shouldnt even have been shortlisted for the job if she didnt meet the person spec?

just wondered if there wwere any HR people out there?

ps - it wasnt me who went for the job! just interested to find out!

I'm not in HR, but did the person spec say "must have" post-grad, or that this was a "desirable"? And maybe the external person did seriously fuck-up in interview, did that myself a few weeks ago.

the person spec said must have and the internal candidate wasnt even considering doing it till the job came up! whole thing just stinks a bit unless the external candidate fucked things up like you said!

the old "who you know rather that what you know"

As a general rule the internal applicant always gets the job. Probably briefed on the questions in advance.