Ndubuisi 'Andy' Egwim narrates a personal experience of job hunting where he applied to ~22 jobs without success; after removing his medical degree from his CV he began receiving interview invitations. The interviews were for lower-skilled roles (e.g., bakery, contract manufacturing, student reception) and employers apparently perceived him as overqualified and unsure how to place a qualified doctor.
I didn't get any interviews. I applied for maybe 22 jobs and I did just one simple thing. I took away my medical degree from my cv and suddenly I started getting interviews. Yeah. And these are not like big jobs. They're like, let's go work in a cafe. Not. Not a cafe, I don't have a cafe experience. But like in a bakery or working in, let's say in a factory, like boots, contract manufacturing. Or even just working in the students, basically, like reception, welcoming new students. So I know what that's like, thinking, oh, you were qualified doctor. I'm not sure we have space for you to do that job, but I'm quite happy that you landed in somewhere.
