Whom to hire - Fresher or Experienced
When it comes to recruitment, every company will have this confusion. Many companies think that getting an experienced individual will be better because they will come with the industry experience already and it can be easy to onboard. For a fresher, it can take some time to get used to what working in a corporate job means. There are both pros as well as cons to hiring a fresher or an experienced individual.
I would say we will know the best choice only based on the individual's needs. Some teams will need someone based on the skill and some teams will need someone based on experience. When it comes to experience it would be someone who can start working on the job from day 1 itself. But a fresher can take a lot of time to get trained and also to adapt.
Freshers come with a fresh mind
If we look at the advantages, we know that freshers always comes with a fresh mind. Someone who is not part of the existing loop may think differently and the approaches can be different. Sometimes we may need that badly because a team may not be updated to the latest trend at all until someone is introducing it. Freshers usually come with a fresh mind from college so they add a good fun element to the work environment by removing the cloud of seriousness around the existing workers.
Experienced will have to unlearn and learn
Sometimes the problem with experienced individuals is that people will have to first unlearn what they have learned during their previous employment and slowly learn the new concepts. This can also take some time. One good thing is that an experienced individual will do a quick learning compared to a fresher because it is an already known domain. These days freshers are also very sharp and they can pick it up very fast.
Training them is what matters
Many recruiters fear to take freshers because they are either too lazy to train the freshers or they don't want to take the burden of training the individuals. But freshers are someone who can be quick and fast compared to experienced individuals because they are fresh minds. Sometimes we can also compare freshers to wet clay which can be molded into any shape we want for our needs.
Cost cutting with freshers
One of the biggest problems that bigger companies have right now is that they have many old employees who are in a very good package and it is very hard to send them home. Due to labor laws in many countries, it is not possible to send old employees home, and at the same time, it is hard to also allocate a budget to hire someone new. Many companies are eagerly waiting for their old employees to leave so that they can backfill with a small budget.
From this, we can understand that freshers are available for a very low cost compared to experienced people. Sometimes experienced people demand so much and it can be hard for the company to afford that. Sometimes for the cost of one experienced individual, it can even be possible to hire multiple freshers.
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STOPI agree here, but I would say it depends on the field, I own a shop , a unisex salon , i like to employ someone who knows what they are doing abe can hold the forthe, even when i am not there
Thanks for your insight friend, sometimes a fresher can add values you never expecyedepected
where I come from you can hardly get a company that will hire a fresher , their spec is nothing but individuals with huge amount of experience..
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Not just that they can be sober too.....may not have that hubris of an experienced guy to pretend as if the whole company runs on his skillset.
Experience may not always goes the right way....
What is needed is that one is willing learn and preserve those expereinces...ideally human captital encompasses the right balance of fresh and experienced.
It very though making this decision between a new person and the experienced one. Sometimes the new ones come with a new knowledge but the experienced ones have what they do also do it'd in both cases. Thanks for sharing this great post.
I think fresher or experienced, companies should recruit talent and attitude over technology skills.
Technical trends these days change every 3 years. Having said that when you recruit a technology expert, you recruit just for 3 years.
Good talent can pick up technologies on the go. So such recruitments last longer.
Yes very well said. Someone with a good attitude can pick up any technology at the given time. But grooming the attitude is a pain.
A fresher will be able to take and accept corrections as beginners while an experienced person may not take. Also, an experienced will do the job better because he has done it before while a fresher may still be battling with how to start
If you go for a job here, first of all they say experience, and when a person just completes his degree, there is no experience, that's why no one gets a job here and people are living in trouble.
Yeah many expect people to have experience but without opportunity, there is no experience.
Yeah you are right.
Sometimes both can really be choosing the fresh than the experienced but I always prefer the experience because the truth is it helps to save less stress