Vadim Liberman

Experience is hardly unimportant, but it’s the type of experience that counts. There’s experience performing tasks, and then there’s experience performing skills. Sometimes, the two are identical—like, say, having the ability to work with a specific database. But even that capability—like any technical skill—can be learned and is secondary to having superior learning agility. Companies ought to spend less time hunting for people who can carry out a laundry list of rote tasks and more effort finding candidates who can demonstrate overriding behavioral skills.

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