Experience in a similar position???

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Why all employers are looking for people with "experience in a similar position"

Why all employers are looking for people with "experience in a similar position," no one is born with "experience in a similar position"



How to find a job. My country have government programs, to assist work placement for people with disabilities or who have any health problems, I decided to take advantage of it.

I wanted to find a job as a security guard, but everywhere it is written that "looking for people with experience in a similar position," but what about the experience of working as a security guard or a seller in fast food, after all everyone has their first time, and employers want everyone had to experience, what the point?

I don’t understand this kind of rational either. How do employers expect for anyone to get experience if no one will hire anyone without experience. Use to be you became an apprentice to a master of a trade and you would get experience that way and become a journeyman. I believe it still works that way in some trades like plumbing and carpentry. It seems companies do not to what to take the time to teach anyone they just throw you into a job and expect you to go at it, and if you have trouble, out the door you go. Employees are supposed to be an investment and asset to a business, not a resource to use only to the benefit of an establishment.

Employers like people who do not have to be introduced into the business, it save time and money. And let's be honest, a business or company is about the money, not about the people who work there.

When you apply for such a job and do not have the exact experience you could try citing other experiences that are similar. For example when they seek a car salesman, maybe you did not sell cars but were a book salesman. Or they seek a dotNet programmer, but you have experience with another 'modern' programming language.

Or you could just try to apply for it.

For security guard, military service would qualify for experience in a similar position.

I would dare say that’s way so many business fail. I am an operations manger over a branch of eight people. I have come to find out that experience is not what makes a good employee, it’s about attitude. The person with a good attitude is a great employee the one with a bad attitude is a curse, it only takes one to bring down a business. My boss took me in with no experience gave me a job, invested time and knowledge in me and got a great return. That was over 15 years ago and I am still here, and now I am doing the same with the people I have working for me and I have not been disappointed yet. Experience can be gained, attitude is something you bring with you and it affects everything else, positive or negative. Employers would do well to invest into their employees; after all they are the greatest asset a business can have.

“A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.”
Henry Ford

Military service? to work as a security guard at the supermarket?
But to report the theft in stores, or supervise store trough security cameras, does not necessarily have to be a soldier,