What is Corporate Experience — factual or Just a number?

Every time a new opportunity drops in ,you can look around for all the minimum required pointers for the job role in order to qualify what exactly is it that ultimately matters the most ? even though you know it’s the right one for you the “tenurity” is the ultimate deciding factor !!

So here we narrow down the discussion on the corporate experience that gets us thinking ,is it just a number just like age or does it really mean practical knowledge, skill, practice derived from direct observation or participation in events/particular activity!!

Well if it is then why is it made a mandatory deciding factor while undertaking a candidature while being inconsiderate of all other parameters throughout the interview/candidature process?

I happen to be part of a lot of interviews and that to with a lot of top notch & developing companies, startups & freelancing firms giving me an overwhelming experience of the overall process involved in candidature of a person appearing in the interview process. It gave me the insights and experience of the precision that a HR has to take while selecting the right candidate and further the relevance of methodology opted by the next level panel. This too is an experience but in a different context that was derived by enhancing my practices & knowledge by learning from my mistakes/misses.

But all this drove me parallelly to the fact of mindset, that post complete assessment and round clearance when a candidate gets informed that his experience is not apt enough for this role then what was the whole mindset or approach on the candidature? Why is it not conveyed at the very insightful first conversation with the person where it’s said “I have a total X year of experience”!!… It means no offence neither a claim stating that it’s a fact that experience(be it relevant/irrelevant ,meaningful/meaningless) will suppress knowledge every time!!

It’s a matter of fact that Experience is directly proportional to practice via observation or participation in events but as a matter of fact the end product to all this is “Knowledge”, isn’t it? If not ,then I guess it’s better to carry the XP number and keep it marking in the answer section or use it as a trump card in F2F as well…It’s a tedious task to understand the backend of Hr and Panel’s work(trust me you just cannot mug it) but definitely an insightful thought to consider the person who has accomplished a lot in a comparatively short period of time ,definitely once he has completed the entire process of recruitment.

See, parameters are everywhere and have been put through a lot of testing as well as practical approach just like preference of an experienced guy but it’s factual enough to understand that all these parameters are derivatives rather than just being an integral part of the system and henceforth add-ons & enhancements like the underlined pointer can act as a boon!!

Trust me it’s not a comparison b/w the experienced & inexperienced that’s being lured out of these words but are instead words of wisdom that were actually fetched out of experiences that demonstrated with proofs that while experience is residual ,knowledge is factual!!

Please fell feel to share your thoughts on this…