Many workers are overqualified: about half of Ms Butterly's have degrees.
Many are overqualified for their jobs, and ought to move into more appropriate ones as their English and social networks become stronger.Some are already doing so.
They also bear some responsibility for the 17m who are overqualified for their jobs, and for the 3m unfilled positions for which skilled workers cannot be found.
Nowadays the laws protecting tenants make landlords much less keen to let rooms cheaply to poor strangers.A second, perhaps surprising, reason is that many young southerners feel overqualified for the lowlier jobs on offer up north.
Even Japanese graduates with PhDs from foreign universities despair of getting jobs at big Japanese firms because they will be seen as overqualified.
Students who graduate now settle for several part-time jobs when they get out, and return to live with parents; many experienced employees are fearful to leave their job, even though they are overqualified, because the other options are so limited.Pretty parochial stuff, with few concrete proposals.
Some 44% of the successful recruits were actually overqualified".As the French see it, joining the civil service is not generally considered a track like any other, but a decision to devote one's life to the public interest," purrs an official report.
But in one way he seems as overqualified for Breton's visual auxiliary corps — his work is temperamentally abstract — as Picasso does, with his top-to-bottom command of myriad styles.
According to a new analysis of government data done by the A.P., fifty-three per cent of those twenty-five and under with bachelor's degrees are either unemployed or working low-wage jobs for which they are educationally overqualified — one definition of underemployment.
Giacometti's gifts overqualified him for the easy things that his age demanded.
Jeff Koons, the magus of an aesthetic that transforms commodities into art, which is then presented as the ultimate commodity, was overqualified for the East Village on arrival.
