As a business manager hiring, would you prefer experience over potential?

[King Belieal]

Hiring of staff for a business can be a really tasking routine. You would have to carefully balance your parameters for hiring of staff to be able to recruit an ideal staff.

If you are to make an option for recruitment into your business or a business you manage, would you pick candidates that have better experience over those with little or no experience but have huge potential? Let's discuss.

 

[Starmix]

Those hired because they're skilled it could also impliedly mean having a potential acquired during years of stay. Yet, on the other hand, those who have potential can immediately understand the task without undergoing months of practice. Both are admirable.

 

[Fidelia]

You employ someone who has potential and after sometime, the person leaves you and your company gets stranded after training him to be good. Better hire an experienced person and get immediate results without having to be trained.

 

[King Belieal]

The funny part is that after the employee came into the company with just potential to offer. He works with your company to become a pro. After that, he would leave and set up his own business that would directly compete with your company.

 

[Starmix]

The funny part is that after the employee came into the company with just potential to offer. He works with your company to become a pro. After that, he would leave and set up his own business that would directly compete with your company.

That surely happens if that employee has capital to operate his own business. It's also a good thing acquiring ideas from the business where he or she works.

 

[Kross]

To be sincere, I won't hire potential. A staff with just potential would only intern for me at a much reduced pay that would be raised when he or she has acquired experience.

 

[Starmix]

A potential employee could be a good partner in business. He could help the business acquire potential growth.

 

[eLdavis]

For me it would be based on the Job. If it's a job where I can train them, then I willing simply go for does with high potential, but in a situation where there is no time to train these workers, it would be best to go for experience. Or I simply hire both.

 

[SHAHID987]

While I was working as a Regional sales Manager south, I was always looking at potential of a candidate because experienced people knows mostly how to make shortcuts.

 

[Fidelia]

While I was working as a Regional sales Manager south, I was always looking at potential of a candidate because experienced people knows mostly how to make shortcuts.

Experienced people would make the shortcuts and deliver the results. And for me, results is very important.