Why you don't need experience in your job search.

The most difficult stage in our human lives, I have to say is the job seeking phase. I know you all going to say marriage, some will say parenting, a more few others will say schooling. Well, it all depends with perception. Every stage in life comes with its twists and turns, as we all know, life is never a bed of roses, so allow me cover you with a thorny bed sheet. There comes a stage in life where you have to choose between being independent and being dependent. The gap between the two is what I term as the ‘job seeking phase’. Getting a job is what will determine whether you are independent or dependent. We all crave for independence, whether it’s financial, or mental, we all want independence. And in this modern world, everyone wants to be financially independent, that’s where job seeking comes in.

If you are currently employed, then at some point in your life you must have looked for that job you have today. Some jobs will need a level of qualification, some will need your physical energy, some will need your mental capacity, and some more others will require your exemplary creativity. All in all, jobs will demand certain specifications from us. The most weird and redundant demands job specifications demand from us is experience. That is the basis of my article today. You browse through your local dailies on the job seekers page, otherwise, the classifieds page. A job posting is displayed before your keen eyes, and you follow the link and open that job catalog. You are hit with a ten year experience demand for that job. You are a first timer, fresh from college. Do you give up?

Of course, any rational mind will be discouraged. But I don’t belong to the rational mind class of people. I will pursue that job to the end. Experience is one overrated word in today’s job market. Every single person has a starting point towards something. The world is founded upon the principles of growth. Nothing happens in a day. America was never founded in a day. Slavery never ended in a day, the I Phone wasn’t designed in a day, neither did Albert Einstein made discoveries in a day. This whole experience thing sucks the life out of our hopes in looking for a job.

In my opinion, you don’t need experience to get a job started. All you need is some little training and you are done. The human mind is designed in a way that it is open to new things. Learning takes place everyday a new thing comes in contact with our mental processes. We will then master that thing by repeatedly engaging in it till we master the craft of doing it. Pablo Picasso wasn’t born a painter as he puts it, he just had an obsession for painting, a thing that made him master the craft of painting, and that’s why to date, he is engraved in our history books. That also applies in the job market. Get the job, train and repeatedly engage in your job specifications. In one month’s time, you are up and ready. As human beings, our perfection is purely based on practice. That’s why, the phrase practice makes perfect was coined.

If you are an employer reading this, be kind enough to admit the starters in your company, train them well and let them handle the rest. If you are not convinced, I will hit you with a brief explanation. I have heard of plane crashes that sent over a hundred souls back to their creator. It was not done by a new person. Some of those pilots have buckled up over 20 years experience in their careers. I have heard of buses claiming lives, buses driven by the same individual for over ten years. I have seen multi-million dollar companies brought down to their knees and eventually to the ground by C.E.O’s who have run the company for over twenty years. All those are experienced people, right? I don’t know what went wrong, but those are experienced people anyway.

There is always a reason why a change is good. Ever heard of the cliche, a change is as good as rest? The change is the new job seeker in the market. They don’t need experience, they are passionate, they need the job, they will do anything to hold that job, and they are passionate, enthusiastic, full of energy and very vibrant. This is an opportunity they are not willing to forfeit, it’s a rare chance. They will give it their all. The experienced person is comfortable, very comfortable. His skills don’t work for him, his experience already sells him. His CV is full of experiences, the kind of a person that a job seeker needs. At the end of it, his negligence is conspicuous. He has been doing this for so many years, today there is nothing different. Same old stuff, just a different day. That’s why the plane crashed, the bus rolled, the building collapsed, the ship sank. Get me?

You don’t need experienced people in your company, you need new people who you are supposed to offer adequate training and let them handle your company. The rest will fall into place. If you took a ten year old kid and trained him to fly an aeroplane for one year, just taking off, landing and how to handle emergency. Trust me; I would be seated pretty behind the cockpit if you gave them an aeroplane to fly from Dubai to America. I wouldn’t be worried about a thing. If the plane crashes, I would term it as an accident, not lack of experience, because when experienced pilots crash planes, it’s called an accident, and mine is no different. It’s also an accident.

I would sum up all this write up in a nutshell and say, you don’t need any form of experience to run certain jobs. Get the training, master your craft, add a little passion and energy, you are good to go. Once you get paid, that’s enough motivation to work harder and aim for the managerial position. If you are looking for a job and someone tells you they need experience, show them this article.