what's the relationship between work and experience?
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Because when you hire people who do not have experience, you have to train them before they can do any meaningful work.  During this time, the person being trained AND the person training them are getting paid, but not being productive.  Training new employees can be VERY expensive.\n\nAnd after you go to all that expense to get them trained, most people, when starting a job in a field they have never worked in before, quit within the first six months.  Then the company has spent all that money with nothing to show for it.\n\nAlso, if you haven't worked in that field before, the company will have trouble ascertaining whether or not you would be a good cantidate for the job.  The skills that made you successful or unsuccessful in previous jobs may be completely unrelated to the job you've applied for.\n\nBottom line: companies don't like to take risks because they usually aren't profitable.  If you have no experience in the field in which you are trying to find work, you are a risk with little potential for profit.
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The very LAST thing employers want is experience, because experience makes you expensive to an employer.  Employers aren't the slightest bit interested in having a job done WELL by an experienced employee - they would much, much, much rather have an intelligent but INexperienced employee whom they can count on to do the job the way the EMPLOYER wants it done, even if it isn't done well at first.
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Experience is very important. If those are your only two choices, then I would go with the Bachelor's and experience. Another option, however, would be to get experience while you are obtaining your Master's degree. You might not be making as much money or you might have to work part time in order to continue your education, but in the end you will have the best of both worlds: you graduate degree AND experience.
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Without actually researching it my best guess\n\n...is that work is synomonous to 'labor'\nand job is synomonous to 'duty'\n\nYou can do work on your own, but a job must be done under some sort of authority like a company or person. A job is assigned, work doesn't have to be.
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True. Work is just one portion of your life and not your whole life. Your whole personality cannot be described by your work alone.
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Volunteer work is a great opportunity to gain valuable work experience.  Check out the link below to read more about how volunteering can help your career.
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Experience. You learn over time, what qualities to look for in a friend. Its trial and error. Take what you get from the bad ones and look for it in new ones.
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Since the question indicates activities in the past, I'm guessing experiential data - the information from past experience.
84956
Both are important depending on a job.  It's best to have both, but if I had to choose...I'd pick education.  An educated person can always get experience.
60657
No. Past experiences (good and bad) make us who we are. People need those experiences to grow from. They shape and mold who a person is.
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Depends on Qualifications.\n\nDOE - Depends on experience.
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Work refers to an activity involving a force and movement in the directon of the force. A force of 20 newtons pushing an object 5 meters in the direction of the force does 100 joules of work. \n\nEnergy is the capacity for doing work. You must have energy to accomplish work - it is like the "currency" for performing work. To do 100 joules of work, you must expend 100 joules of energy. \n\nPower is the rate of doing work or the rate of using energy, which are numerically the same. If you do 100 joules of work in one second (using 100 joules of energy), the power is 100 watts.
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long-term or lifelong job: a job or occupation regarded as a long-term or lifelong activity \n\nprofessional progress: somebody's progress in a chosen profession or during that person's working life
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years of experience\n\nreputation \n\nsucess with staff\n\nknowing when business is good and nots\n\nand having social graces
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education is more relevant when someone is a a newcomer to the work force or a specific field, such as a recent grad or a returning home-maker.  As such, they have little experience, but have invested time, effort and money into education, and can bring the freshest training to the table, and are usually cheaper than experienced personnel.  For mature workers, experience is often key, as it their abilities and proficiencies in their field are actual, not theoretical, and their education, if they have one, is most likely 10-20 years out of date.
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a degree means you have experience because usually to get a degree you have to do volunteer hours in your field of study...the two go hand-in-hand so employers are more likely to hire someone with training AND experience than someone with just experiene alone
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You don't need work experience to do the gmat and it won't help you answer the questions.  However, you will find it helps (alot) to practice on old questions - they say practice won't improve scores and that the test is thoroughly objective but anyone who's done it will tell you that's rubbish.  \n\nDepending on the business school you choose, you may need work experience to get in.  You may also find the experience helpful to put what you're learning on the course into context.  Finally experience will also help when you come out the other end and are looking for jobs equipped with your sparkling new MBA.\n\nSo, in short, you don't need experience to do the GMAT or to get into some business schools but you might find it useful to get some experience first before embarking on an MBA.