Comments on: Everyone has something to offer, no matter how little experience you have http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2004/07/07/everyone-has-something-to-offer-no-matter-how-little-experience-you-have/ Advice at the intersection of work and life Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:13:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: TJ http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2004/07/07/everyone-has-something-to-offer-no-matter-how-little-experience-you-have/#comment-135112 TJ Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:33:10 +0000 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2004/07/07/everyone-has-something-to-offer-no-matter-how-little-experience-you-have/#comment-135112 You can also compliment someone. Even if you feel that you have nothing else to offer, compliments nearly always make peers and superiors feel better. You can also compliment someone. Even if you feel that you have nothing else to offer, compliments nearly always make peers and superiors feel better.

]]> By: Mariah http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2004/07/07/everyone-has-something-to-offer-no-matter-how-little-experience-you-have/#comment-21068 Mariah Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:21:42 +0000 http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2004/07/07/everyone-has-something-to-offer-no-matter-how-little-experience-you-have/#comment-21068 Smart employers are the ones who see the potential from their employees that they are going to hire, not the experience. If the person who has experience but doesn't have ambition and isn't sure what the picture will be in the future 5-10 years, this person doesn't have the potential as the person who has it has. <strong>* * * * * * * </strong> <I>Mariah, I agree with you. Hiring managers overvalue experience becuase the hiring manager has so much of it. And here's the opposite way to look at this situation: I once read an explanation of why someone with 30 years of experience has trouble getting a job. The person said, "You have thirty years of experience doing something that is not my exact job, and I don't want to have to break you of thirty years of old habits." -Penelope</I> Smart employers are the ones who see the potential from their employees that they are going to hire, not the experience.

If the person who has experience but doesn’t have ambition and isn’t sure what the picture will be in the future 5-10 years, this person doesn’t have the potential as the person who has it has.

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Mariah,

I agree with you. Hiring managers overvalue experience becuase the hiring manager has so much of it.

And here’s the opposite way to look at this situation: I once read an explanation of why someone with 30 years of experience has trouble getting a job. The person said, “You have thirty years of experience doing something that is not my exact job, and I don’t want to have to break you of thirty years of old habits.”

-Penelope

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