This is my public plea for the business owners, hiring managers and all of you to think beyond experience. 

Experience is not what happens to you: it’s what you do with what happens to you. Experience is only a chance to learn. It does not guarantee any lesson or expertise. You can have many years of experience where you learned nothing or worse, you learned the wrong things. 

Experience and credentials don't predict success. Many years of work experience at the same company or industry can mean that the person had a bad first year, and then repeated it 20 more times. Just because you did something for a long time, doesn't mean you do it well. Just because you are the parent of four adult children, doesn't mean you are an expert in parenting if your kids hate you in secret and hide things from you in fear of disappointing you. Quantity of experience proves nothing and promises very little.

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