Overqualified for the position? How to still get the job. Do you have a lot of specialist knowledge and professional experience, have you perhaps already held a higher position and now want to apply for a job that is significantly below these requirements? Are you perhaps even prepared to accept a lower salary? This often arouses skepticism among companies.
Overqualification can even be the decisive reason for rejection. However, with a few tricks you can increase your chances of being accepted. In 2019 around four million employees worked in a job for which they were overqualified.