Talent or Experience- which is important?

Talent and experience both are important ! Why because an experienced person can guide us what to do and what not to do...but an experienced person can never try in a new way which a talented person can think in different ways and try for the new.So,company should have both talented and experienced persons to grow.

I know many jobs that require experience just to apply, but really, if the experience of those people was so good, why are they seeking a new job? Experience many times is the ONLY factor that get s person hired. Many employers won't talk to anyone who doesn't have a number of years of experience. Doesn't help the new person with talent and potential to gain experience when employers do those things. My son is talented in accounting. He has a minimal education in accounting and had done some accounting jobs at a low level. Every where he went he told them he had been doing the job they were seeking someone to do, and he had been but at a lower rate of pay. Didn't matter, he didn't have years of experience and he didn't have a higher level of education. It took him years to gain the years of experience. The only difference was time, because the same talent had been there all along and he had been doing the same type of work all along. Once he was on a job, the employer would realize his talent, but getting to that point, was a headache and getting the employer to pay him according to his talent, was difficult because they always made a big deal out of years of experience. Talent alone doesn't seem to be enough today without years of experience. Funny, today my son has a job where he sits next to a co-worker the same age who has a higher education degree and the same years of experience as my son, by my son's talent has given him a higher rate of pay. Crazy how things work!

yes its a known fact that employers most prefer experienced applicants than those who are complete novices. we gain a lot of priceless knowledge from hands on training that are most often not learned or not at all taught in schools and it is most often true that our natural talents are honed and perfected during "hands on" and on the job trainings.

Yes, i do agree to that. Usually when one is being interviewed , it will be centered on the experiences on the job. But if the interviewee would bravely tell the interviewer of his/her talents, it will be requested to be shown. Though, it has to be something connected to the job he is applying.

Hi Dhinesh, First off all welcome to mylot family. There is a saying "First Impression is the Best Impression", you proved it by your first question that your here to make a mark for yourself. All the best and keep rocking. According to me Talent plays an important role than Exprience. May be for selection process Exprience may play vital role but a man without little talent rather than with experience can't survive. As you know most of talented guys putting fake exprience like that and entered into a job and become a great ones. Talent is ever lasting and it make you to grew in short period but exprience without talent is usless.