17/06/2023
The war between experience and qualification.
No employer would trust your experience as it were without any backing evidence (degree or qualification). If I walk into your hospital and say I can do x,y and z, your first interest will be for me to show evidence (degree or qualification) perhaps that I can really do what I say I can do.
This then becomes a bit contextual right? Because you wouldn’t just give me your patient to operate upon because I just tell you I can do so or I have the experience to do so but you will perhaps give me same patient to operate upon if I show you my qualification or degree as a surgeon (this is relative though).
The fact is that no employer will put his trust in a so-called experience if there’s no backing evidence of qualification or degree. Just like I did indicate, the degree is a symbolic representation of the cumulative experience the individual has gained (there are exceptionalities though) . So one cannot justify his experience if he or she has no proof of having acquired that experience.
I agree with you that there are people with numerous degrees not living up to expectations (that puts a question mark on their means of obtaining such degrees).
*However, it must also be made clear that every organizational work culture changes the initial working attitude of its employees*
As a researcher if you are interested in assessing the relationship between experience and qualification, you must possibly want to take care of *covariates* such as * organizational work culture*. The researcher’s failure to take care of the impact of this kind of *covariate* will only lead him or her to making the conclusion that experience perhaps is far better than qualification (maybe adding all things being equal will make a bit of meaning though).
*Let me however make it clear that a poor organizational work culture is highly unlikely to attract a good or quality work experience from employees but an excellent organizational work culture is highly likely to attract quality work experience from even the average employee*
Note*
*if you are in a white shirt working with a charcoal producer, you have every chance of soiling your white shirt with charcoal*
*Naturally, life’s experience is the best teacher* but that can not be totally true in the formal workplace or work space. I think this best explains the point I am trying to make…..
*The fact is that people who have the ability and right experience to do what is expected of them can still compromise quality delivery of service simply because of environmental issues or the organizational culture. This may happen either consciously or unconsciously*
Another fact also is that the employee naturally is a social person. One that is being affected by family issues, psychological issues, financial issues, working environment etc. The quality of work delivery by this social person has a relationship with each of these independent variables such that a positive or negative change in any of these variables has a chance of making a shift in the quality of work delivery by the employee. Experience may not even play a role because research literature available has shown that even first time employees with limited experience have demonstrated competence over people who have worked for decades. I hope this makes sense 🙏🙏🙏
