: About Me

When applying for a job, be aware that being overqualified can actually affect your job chances (for worse or for better!). It seems that when you apply for a low-skilled job, and your potential employer is aware that you have a qualification in which you have invested a great deal of time, energy and effort into attaining (i.e. blood, sweat and tears), that many will assume you will not take the job seriously and will only view a low-skilled position as a 'stepping stone' job. Others assume that you are merely a 'pen-pusher' incapable of a 'hard day's work'. And still others will feel thr...