Feeling underqualified can be a superpower (or a potential trap)

We’ve all been there: staring at a job description or a daunting new project and feeling a cold prickle of dread. You have the degree, maybe even the title, but looking at the task ahead, you feel like a total fraud.

You're ‘underqualified’ – and it feels like only a matter of time before everyone else figures it out.

Common wisdom suggests that underqualification is a problem to be fixed or a hiring mistake to be avoided. However, recent data suggests this feeling is becoming the ‘new normal’.

In fact, 50 per cent of recent college graduates report feeling underqualified to enter the workforce. And it’s even true in highly specialised fields – 26 per cent of medical residents feel they are operating out of their league.

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