Since we’ve already talked about salary distortion and title inflation, let’s now discuss another classic that irks people – Experience Inflation.
Experience inflation refers to the practice of employers setting disproportionately high experience requirements for roles that are junior or mid-level in nature. It creates a mismatch between job expectations, responsibilities, and compensation, leading to unrealistic hiring standards.
Contohnya…
🧐 Hiring fresh graduates with minimum 2 years of experience.
🧐 Hiring a Junior Marketing Executive who must know SEO, SEM, social media ads, graphic design, video editing, copywriting, and then offering RM2,800 (WHAT?!).
🧐 Hiring a degree holder with minimum 3 years of experience for RM2,200 as an Admin Assistant.
HELLO? You want manager-level work at assistant-level pay isit?
Being hungry for experience doesn’t mean it’s okay to exploit people.
Stacking 4 roles into 1 JD is not “exposure opportunities”.
If you want real talent, pay lah real money.
If you want real experience, invest in it.
(Just like what I’ve learned from the Home Depot founders – hire character and train skills.)
Also remember, people can smell your BS requirements from a mile away.
I’m not wrong.
xoxoxo
