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The Baby Boomers and older Gen Xers are currently stealing from the Millennials with the "Experience" Scam (requiring experience to get a job AKA requiring experience to get experience). Everyone knows time on the job is spent working, not learning. Any little bit of learning that occurs is coincidental and residual. The knowledge someone enters a job with is what determines whether they excel or merely tread water.
A related scam is the "Overqualified" Scam. Someone can be very qualified, but it's physically impossible for someone to be overqualified. A person is either unqualified, qualified, or very qualified. Knowledge is what matters, not experience and experience does not demonstrate knowledge. For all we know a person's job was super compartmentalized. Meaningful knowledge can be demonstrated by the completion of relevant education. Meaningful knowledge can also be demonstrated by performance on a test that is aligned either to industry practice or to a relevant educational program.
Using the Experience Scam, hiring managers are excluding many of the most qualified people in order to only make the jobs available to people that are like themselves. They've essentially waged a war on Millennials and younger Gen Xers who weren't born before the cut off date to be on the right side of the Experience Scam.
Lots of companies out there running an experience scam. So many people in corporate America are underprepared for the positions they hold. Getting a relevant advanced degree or professional certification remedies that.
Ever wonder why employers require X years of experience when so little can be learned on the job? It's not just so baby boomers can make the jobs only available to people like themselves, it's also so they can hire cheap labor and get an unjust piece of the pie themselves. They pretend to require experience instead of knowledge in order to screen out qualified Americans and hire cheap, marginally qualified H1Bs and illegals or just use it as an excuse to offshore the job.
It's a really nasty scam. Also, a lot of HR people are heavily concerned with things you could learn in a day (or at least pretend to be) which is so obviously part of the experience scam.
I caught my boss running an experience scam. He used the experience thing to screen out most applicants, but would waive it for people who went to one of his Ivy League cartel schools. He used it like a smokescreen or a cover. The only thing experience has in common with parental wealth is that neither will make you good at your job.
Yep. The experience scam was created by lazy people who don't want to pay their dues or learn anything. What do they know? What knowledge have they demonstrated?
Of course little is learned on the job. What, you think the client is paying for you to learn a ton of stuff on their dollar? The experience thing is a total scam.
The notion that experience has some high value is superstition. The people who try to mystify you by assigning value to experience are con-artists.
The word's been spreading about this scam lately and people aren't fooled anymore.