Experienced IT Specialists or Beginners?

Many will say that it is easier to hire an experienced IT professional who will immediately get involved in the work and start bringing in money. But everything is not so simple.

IT experts: pros and cons

Let’s start with the benefits:

• A person comes with a base of knowledge and skills. Top software developers in Ukraine can quickly get involved in work and take on complex projects.
• The specialist knows how to work in a team, and if necessary, he solves many problems on his own, does not distract colleagues.
• There is no need to assign a mentor or additional training to him – he immediately works.

Here are some of the nuances behind the obvious advantages:

• An experienced professional has high salary expectations. 
• The person already has his own principles at work, which may not be acceptable in your company. 
• The ambition of a specialist may not match the ambition of your company at all. And this affects productivity, relationships in the team, and attitude to work in general.

How to select beginners

With specialists, everything is quite simple, they are already sharpened for a specific direction in which you can “drive” them and find out the level of proficiency. Determine how quickly the student is ready to absorb and perceive information; how deeply and how successfully he is able to do it on his own, after being given a vector.

Education – the initial study of documentation and processes – this can keep the student busy in the first couple of days, the main thing is not to get bored. You can also give one process and immediately immerse the student in work with this process. He will learn in the process of work, the main thing is to answer questions and make the student ask these same questions.