You Don’t Need to Meet all the Job Requirements
Should you apply if you don’t have any job requirements ?
Organisations expect people who are new to a role (and particularly people who are new to a firm) to grow into the position. That means that you should look for positions that will stretch you, not ones where you can already tick all the boxes. Therefore you do not always have to meet all the job requirements!
Unfortunately, many people focus on potential jobs for which they are already overqualified.
There are upsides to doing this: they will “hit the ground running”, making an employer happy and boost self-confidence.
Unlikely the job will lead to much growth, being stagnant will make it hard the transition to the next position.
Learning these skills when you are overqualified will require you to learn “off the clock”, not incorporating learning into the daily performance of your job.
It’s useful to treat job ads as though they are a set of guidelines about what a position involves.
It is important, of course, to have at least some of the skills a job requires up front. But nobody should limit themselves only to positions for which they are already overqualified.
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Check thess 2 articles about the importance of making personal progress when you are looking for a job. Then the other one about the gender gap that we already have between men and women, talking about salary differences and showing the best case of equality around the world.
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