Ciarán Nugent: 330,000 graduates over-qualified for current jobs

Female third-level graduates are also more likely to be overqualified in relative terms, accounting for 185,000 workers, and graduates from central and eastern EU states are much more likely to be overqualified

Approximately three in 10 third-level graduates employed in Ireland are working in occupations where their qualifications are higher than the requirements for the job. 

It’s well known that the share of adults with higher education in Ireland has gone from a relatively low level to one of the highest in the world.

There was a particularly large jump after 2008 in the share of working age adults and the share of workers with tertiary qualifications.