LogFAQs > #930566149

Now that I'm home I can type more.

It depends on the position since some would be reasonable to require experience or training. I wouldn't expect someone to be able to become a pilot without at least some years flight experience and wouldn't be shocked if that came out as '10 years experience'. However, a lot of jobs also do NOT require prior experience to do yet employers are gleefully willing to apply a requirement there. I think some of them just do it out of reflex to be honest. This is made worse because, plenty of times, the only way to get experience in said job is to take a job which requires experience. If everyone requires you to have 5 years doing X but the only way to do X is to have a job... which requires prior experience doing X... you'll end up with an ever-shrinking pool of employees with dwindling skills and the only new blood being people who lied to get in. It's basically almost as if the only way to get anywheres is to just do menial labor until a friend in a job already waves the experience requirements. Sometimes it can be especially absurd but I think we can agree that the really bad ones are flukes as opposed to 'norms'.

So my real answer is 'depends on the job' and 'For entry-level stuff, no. For higher-end stuff, yes. For stuff more in the middle; depends.'
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