Dylan Vergara says overqualified candidates get rejected because they don't tell a story. Show employers you left a stable job on purpose, that your family worried about it, and that you chose this role because you genuinely want it, not for a paycheck.
You have more experience than you think they want, but you're still not getting the job, and it's because other people are telling the story better than you. There's other things that companies will specifically seek out to make sure that they're getting the right person at the right place in the right time, the right spot in their company, at the right spot in that person's career. And if they sense that you're so qualified that this role is just another role, and if it doesn't work out, you can just go get another one, there's a chance that that actually turns them off. They would rather have someone that thinks this role is so awesome and such an opportunity that they would give up other things for this role and commit fully and see it through versus someone who just says, oh yeah, it's another way to pay my bills. You're not telling the story in a way that they should care about it. You're not just an appointment setter looking for the next opportunity. You're an appointment setter who graduated college, got the corporate 9 to 5, worked it for a year, realized that was the opposite of the life that you wanted, burned the boats, had your family worried for your well-being, and decided that you wanted to pursue sales. That person has a lot more to prove. Undoubtedly the best salesperson people know how to write and control the narrative, and your application process is one of those narratives.
