Experienced Resource

A couple of weekends ago I met a old friend of mine. He told me that his company was looking for resources to fill-in open job requestions. However, they did not want to hire experienced resources. This got me thinking that it is not only illegal to make such a statement it is also foolish for the company to take that stand. And here is why I say this.

Any resource experienced or not needs to go through a learning curve during a job change. There is so much to be unlearnt and new things to be learnt. While all of this is happening, there is the previous experience that one builds upon and leverages in the new job. When companies make the statement of not hiring experienced hands they lose out on the rich learning experiences that one gets only on-the-job. There are tons and tons of such experiences that I would not even care to highlight here.

I do not have anything against the new-hire. I was a new-hire once. However, the term new-hire is used very very losely because there is nothing different about an un-experienced hire - most of these individuals have done something different and got that specific experience. I agree that they might not have experince to take a company IPO or to manage a USD $90 Billion revenue but they have a different skill-set experience which is what companies should capitalize.

So, the next time around someone tells you they are looking for a new-hire I would recommend that you ask them what they really mean by that? Thank about it.