One in five over qualified for jobs.About one out of every five people in the work force who had a university education was overqualified o·ver·qual·i·fied adj. Educated or skilled beyond what is necessary or desired for a particular job. overqualified Adjective having more professional or academic qualifications than are required for a job for their job at some point during 2001. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a new study, they had worked in a job that required at most high school education, Statistics Canada Canada (kăn`ədə), independent nation (2001 pop. 30,007,094), 3,851,787 sq mi (9,976,128 sq km), N North America. Canada occupies all of North America N of the United States (and E of Alaska) except for Greenland and the French islands of reports. A Statcan paper The dynamics of overqualification: Canada's underemployed un·der·em·ployed adj. 1. Employed only part-time when one needs and desires full-time employment. 2. Inadequately employed, especially employed at a low-paying job that requires less skill or training than one possesses. university graduates indicates that those most likely to be over qualified were; younger workers who had studied arts and humanities; most likely to work in the retail/wholesale; recent immigrants, those in Canada for 10 years or less, who had a higher incidence of overqualification than their Canadian-born counterparts. According to the study, the number of university-educated workers who were overqualified for their job increased by nearly one-third between 1993 and 2001. An estimated 331,100 workers had experienced this situation at some point in 2001, up from 251,600 in 1993. A small group of people accounted for a disproportionate dis·pro·por·tion·ate adj. Out of proportion, as in size, shape, or amount. dis  pro·por share of
time spent in overqualification, according to the study.
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