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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
overqualified
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm having trouble finding a job - everyone says I'm overqualified.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ You may find that an overqualified person will quickly become dissatisfied and leave.
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overqualified
  1. Having too many qualifications to be deemed appropriate for a (usually unskilled) jo

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Overqualified (short story collection)

Overqualified is an art project by Canadian writer Joey Comeau in which he wrote a series of cover letters as job applications to companies. The letters were collected into a book and published as Overqualified by ECW Press in 2009. The letters all start off as standard cover letters, but quickly turn very dark, and almost inevitably reveal the author to be mentally unstable. Excerpts from the book were included in the 2010 Best American Nonrequired Reading.

Usage examples of "overqualified".

With each succeeding week, applying himself intensely to a job classification for which he was seriously overqualified, he grew more and more adept at its practice.