Why is experience so important?

When you are launched into the real world and head off to find yourself a good job, you will probably be asked, if you have any kind of experience. But why is this so important?

Most of us wonder why it’s so important to have experience. You start of in a junior position anyway and you will get the necessary training to do what they want you to do. So what difference does it make?

There are a lot of reasons why companies ask for people with experience, even though they probably don’t have to do the same job there as at their former one. It all has to do with what you learned.

Experience is a way to learn different approaches to get your assignment done. It’s a way to learn from your own mistakes and those of others. You will deal with situations you haven’t dealt with before and get to know the risks and opportunities you can and can’t take.

So experience is not just knowing what you have to do at your job, it’s all a learning progress. And because you learned these things in a former company you will have a better knowledge of the tasks and assignments you get.

But as a marketing student, it also is a great way to show that you have more to offer than the other students. In Belgium there are roughly around 1500 students that get their degree in Marketing each year. So gaining experience throughout your years at college is a great way to show you want to achieve something, and that you are willing to do what is necessary to reach it.