Lots of Experience versus Little Experience

You have a degree and you have experience. Does that mean you’re more likely to get the job you apply for? What if you have both? Does it increase your chance of being hired? Yes and no. Hiring is a complicated process.
Why? Because it’s not always the most experienced or the one with the greater level of education that gets the job.
Why not? Because a great deal of the decision about who to hire for a position is based on, wait for it, yes, personality. Are you a good fit for the company? Will you get along with the people already working at the company? Will you work well under the management style the company uses?
Employers know that turnover costs them a sizable amount of money. The lower their turnover the greater their profits, especially if they have a team of people that work well together.
Think about this scenario from the employer’s point of view. The interview process has reduced the number of potential candidates to two. Candidate Number One has been doing the type of work in question for many years, seems to know a great deal about the job, also very set in ways, gave the impression that he/she knows all there is to know about job and has nothing to learn. Candidate Number Two less than six months experience on the job, enthusiastic and eager to learn, friendly personality, yet respectful.
Who do you think is going to get hired?
Let’s face it from the interviewer’s notes Candidate Number One has an attitude problem and is use to doing things a certain way. If this company doesn’t do things exactly the same way Candidate Number One is accustomed to, there will be problems.
On the other hand, Candidate Number Two lacks experience which can be a good thing. Candidate Number Two also lacks preconceived ideas about how the job should be done. From the interviewer’s notes Candidate Number Two is the better candidate for the job.