Article: If you are hiring an employee, you may be better off considering people with no experience …

By: Maseed Abrari, PhD

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After working for so many years in the computer field, I learned the lesson: If you are hiring an employee, do not go just with his/her experience, but with his/her attitude, too. It is their good and positive attitude that will enhance a solid professional environment and lots of productiveness. You may find someone that is believed to have lots of experience and hold great expertise, but when it comes to productiveness they have none of it.

I once had a very illuminating conversation with one of my co-workers, telling me how he normally charges 200 dollars an hour to teach. When I asked him how often he taught, his response was absolutely inscrutable. I must admit that I was rather impressed not with how much he charged, but with his willingness to teach. During the conversation, he spook so highly of his knowledge, about how smart he is and how indolent and lackadaisical others are, and complaining about not getting enough money from his current job while he was smoking his cigarettes one after the other. “I teach too,” I told him “but I must confess that I teach those whom you are referring to as stupid. I admit that most of them have no experience, had lost their jobs, but they still may have a dream. They are not necessarily stupid.”

Knowing my co-worker as one with lots of experience and no productiveness, I was somewhat disturbed about how the system works. It is interesting that I, in the course of my life, have discovered that most of the time, a complaint comes from those who have nothing to complain about. In simple terms, we have a word for it “ungrateful.” I thought to myself about how often we are thankful when everything is in order, and with a wrong attitude, we complain all day about how we don’t get enough money.  We ascend so high in social class that we are completely convinced that no one knows as much as we do, disconnecting our communication with the rest of the world. Any assignment to us, either becomes impossible, or takes days to be performed, but we think that we are the best in the group. And we keep complaining with very high expectations with very little results. And there are, of course, individuals in the queue with a positive attitude; willing, able and capable of working, but have no chance to get even an interview only because of this bureaucracy. And then there is the question, always pounding in my mind: is this fair? And I get the notion that everything has its own reasoning and I should not doubt that the harvest comes at its own time.

I believe that we need to revise our job evaluation techniques. The amount of experience that a job candidate has is extremely important, as long as we count it with respect to other factors, as well. A person involved in a field for the last ten years, that has not been involved in any type of training or any real practical work he is doing.  Neither should he consider himself as having ten years of experience, nor should such propaganda trick an employer. Remember that people get very creative when it comes to writing and describing their jobs on their labored and unctuous resumes. It is an interviewer’s responsibility to discover such discrepancies in an applicant’s resume. So from now on, consider people who have no experience but evaluate them with their attitude, capabilities and fulfillment with their assigned work plus a willingness to be trained. I believe that by doing so, you will find that not only will you construct a valuable asset with productiveness, but you will also succeed in building a peaceful and professional environment.

Good Luck and remember to consider people with no experience. 

-- Dr. Maseed Abrari, PhD