Experience Doesn’t Matter
<h1>Experience Doesn’t Matter (…As Much)</h1>
<p>People gasp when they hear me say it. Or at the very least, they roll their eyes. “When hiring,” I say, “prioritize experience below most other things.” Or, more bluntly, “Experience doesn’t matter nearly as much as you think it does.”</p>
<p>I’m not talking about personal experience, the ability to learn and improve from our own lived successes and failures. In fact, <a href="https://www.zaxis.page/p/rough-drafts?utm_source=www.zaxis.page&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=experience-doesn-t-matter" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>as I’ve written about before</em></a>, personal experience (particularly of the negative kind) is one of the most valuable teachers we have.</p>
<p>Instead, I’m talking about placing former work experience on a pedestal when choosing who to hire.</p>
<p>Flashback to 2015: My early startup days, attempting to build the world’s greatest and fastest team. At <a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/?utm_source=www.zaxis.page&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=experience-doesn-t-matter" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>Anchor</em></a>, we were building products in the audio space and so were naturally inclined to look at resumes that included words like “audio”, “radio”, and the like. My cofounder and I had not formally come from that world. We needed team members who would bring that DNA into the company.</p>
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