Thoughts on qualifications and experience from a question Brian received on one of his older daily videos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfycjKt9GDY

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Qualifications or Experience?

Hi I'm Brian Pombo, welcome back to Brian J. Pombo Live.

Over the last handful of episodes that we put out, five, I think to be exact, we had an interview with Ari Galper and if you didn't get a chance to watch that, go back and watch those episodes is really good stuff.

Ari is a guy with a whole lot of experience, and qualifications. So really interesting in terms of a different perspective on sales, and sales is a huge part of business so really good to check out.

What we deal with here a lot, is ideas, concepts, principles, strategies, tactics that you can use in your business, if you're the business owner, or the executive, where you're in charge of making decisions and getting things done.

These are the types of things that we talk about here and we talked a lot about the principles that apply to businesses across the board, or at least when it comes to strategies. We deal with the questions that you should be asking yourself.

I got a great question here, off of one of our YouTube videos out there, that this was off of the Five Excruciating Steps to Becoming a Business Strategist. This is from Danny, he just posted this a couple of days ago. He said, If you were to redo your career, from scratch as a strategist in the year 2021, with the knowledge you have, would you focus more on qualifications or gaining experience?

This is a very interesting question and it might require some back and forth, but I'm going to try to answer it as best as from what I understand he's asking here.

So thank you very much for the question, Danny, and anyone else that has questions, please leave a comment wherever you're watching or listening to this, you can always go to BrianJPombo.com. Go into the media section, and find this video or any of the other videos and leave me a comment and a question doesn't even have to do anything with the video.

So this is a great question because there's an ongoing argument over qualifications versus experience and it's asking me specifically what I would do. And for me hands down experience over qualifications any day.

Qualifications is an extremely subjective term and it all depends, it's very much dependent on the person that's judging you, you know, you're judging whether you they think you're going to be good judging whether, whether they'd like to do business with you, and so on, so forth.

So that's where qualifications really come into play for what I do. There are no qualifications. There's no degree on business investment or strategy, not in the way that I do it.

And so many of the things that I've done, actually, most of my life, one of the main reasons why I never finished college, as a little tip there, I never finished college is not that I couldn't, or that I didn't have the ability to, it was more of one of these things where I kind of listed out all the different things that I wanted to do it like in life at that time.

None of them required a degree and a degree wouldn't really help me in any of those areas.

And the areas I was already doing well in, able to get positions to work in, and so forth, they didn't require degrees either and it wouldn't really help.

Now, in some cases, people are looking, especially if you're in a job market where it's tight, and the employer is kind of in charge,