Weekly Comment 14 Dec 15 – Over 30 years experience
December 14, 2015
DON’T be set on a specific number
of years experience, focus on the
skills and knowledge needed to do
the job.
When I see a job advertisement
requesting a minimum of 5 years
experience, I can’t help but ask
“how does 5 years differ from 4
years?” and do you know, I’m still
not sure…
The ability to do something well
(skill) and information acquired
through education (knowledge)
don’t always require a certain
number of years experience. For
example: Just because someone
has been driving for 30 years
doesn’t make them the best,
safest, most skilled driver - but
one can hope! If we look at some
recent successful F1 racers, they
are not the oldest on the circuit;
they just take more risks so have
honed their skill (and feel that they
have less to lose in my opinion).
Personally I’m a big fan of
Wisdom - “Wisdom goes beyond
intelligence or formal knowledge.
Wisdom is ‘the knowledge of the
knowledge’. Wisdom is knowledge
tempered by experience.”
As you can see, I’m not saying
experience should be discounted
- quite the opposite! I believe
that experience is not a factor of
time, but a factor of what events
happened.
So let us look a little deeper and
identify what it actually takes to
be successful - and who is capable
of it; that diamond in the rough.
This week’s contributor is David Shaw, Recruitment Consultant at Raven’s Recruitment.
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