overqualifiedadjective
uk/ˌəʊ.vəˈkwɒl.ɪ.faɪd/us/ˌoʊ.vɚˈkwɑː.lə.faɪd/having more knowledge, skill, and/or experience than is needed (for a particular job):
The problem with employing people who are overqualified for the job is that they often don't stay in it for long.
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Types of employment
- administrative
- administrative assistant
- at the coalface idiom
- backroom boys
- blue-collar
- clerk
- honorary
- lackey
- managerial
- menial
- NEET
- off-duty
- probation
- professionally
- short time
- skilled
- slave labour
- subcontractor
- sweated
- wilderness
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Skilled, talented and able