Who would you rather hire?

[Rogue Pit]

With the economy in the state that it is in at the moment with the percent of jobless people being extremely high, would you rather hire someone, with 15-20 years of experience in a field or a graduate?

Some of the main points I have came up with is that the person with the more experience in the field would theoretically be better than the other but they would go from a job paying much more money like ninety thousand a year to a job thats paying in the thirties, because of the economy. If necessary they would have to take it to support themselve and most likely would have to downgrade their lifestyle to where it is affordable. Than when the economy repairs itself they would more than likely quit to find a job more suitable for their skills that pays much more to return the type of lifestyle they had before or better.

Since the person with the more experience would probably quit they have the option of choosing the graduate because 1) they would expect less money for pay, and 2) because they would stay with the company for a longer time. The company wouldn't waste time/money on training since they could have a semi-permanent worker who probably wouldn't quit when the economy is repaired because they are financially stable.

 

[Sukai]

One of the common decisions you have to make in a recession. Money is going to be relatively the same for both classes, because people are trying to conserve in order to prevent bankruptcy, so at this point, the guy with years of experience is the way to go, he'd be lucky enough to get a job at all, so complaining about payrate in a depression isn't going to help him get a higher salary. The experience will do well, because the employee will be entering a workforce with considerably less workers than the average standard, so naturally, he'll be expected to do more work, which is something you'd sooner entrust to someone who knows their **** in contrast to a new guy.
It sucks really, because the younger people need that money just as much if not more, some people can still crash with their parents, friends or relatives, but others aren't that lucky, they'll have to take out a loan (because that always helps when the country is already in debt, right?), and milk that out until they can find a job to pay the loan back, all at the same time keeping food in the house/apartment, and paying rent, not to mention transportation money whether it be gas for a car, taxi ride or bus (unless they live close enough to work). All the same they'll be paid the same amount of money so it'll be even tighter for them than 15-20 year exp man.
The grim truth of a recession.