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How Tolerant Will People Be Towards Lack of Experience?

  • 02-05-2013 3:49pm
    #1
    The_Nipper_One
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭


    To keep a very long story short, I have a very little experience in the workplace due to certain circumstances in my life, but am now actively seeking work.

    I have a problem though, and I'm not sure if I'm just talking myself out of certain positions, or if I would really not be suited to enter certain jobs with my current level of previous experience.

    How tolerant are people to lack of experience/learning on the job?

    For instance, there is a job listing for receptionist which I am not applying to because I feel like I can not do the job well right now.

    I know though that I am perfectly capable of carrying it out, I would need time though to figure out what to do etc in the daily course of things.

    Do employers expect that people will go through this learning process in the first few weeks, or is it expected that when someone answers the ad/is offered a job, that they can fit in and begin work on day one?

    My worst fear at the moment is to be offered a job, and be fired in the first week because I am not what the employer expected.


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