The Netherlands has nearly 385,000 open roles and one of Europe's lowest unemployment rates. So why are so many qualified international professionals struggling to get hired? The answer isn't credentials. It's alignment.

You know you can do the job. But interviews feel impossible because you don't know how much to explain, what to leave out, or whether addressing gaps makes it better or worse. You either over-explain and lose them, or skip over it and they fill in the blanks and those blanks are never in your favor. Here's what you're missing.