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EXPERIENCE IS BETTER THAN INTELLIGENCE

            One day one of my buddies asked me a question, “how important the score of GPA for you?” Well, maybe for some people this question is very simple, but I bet you the answer for this question is very complicated, more over if you are a student of college which requires some certificates of organization experience to pass the graduation easily.

            Nowadays experience certificates become an important requirement for some college or academy or maybe university in Indonesia. Some people said that, the certificates will be very useful for you if you want to go on your life with some kinds of jobs which you are willing to apply. In other hand some people also said that, the achievement list of GPA is more important, there is no important reason for you to get study in higher education but graduate from there with pride score of GPA.

This kind of perceptions spread among the students and their parents. So it is not weird or odd if you meet some students who have different perception of GPA with their parents. Before we talk deeper about this problem, it would be better if we know who are the actors of this problem and also their nature descriptions. Actually, there are three actors in this case, the first actor is student, the second one is company, and the last is university. Those actors have different nature each other. Usually the natures of students (lets say in university) are want to get something quickly (instant), simple, etc. the nature of companies are high quality and professional lovers, need workers who have ability to mingle with the others, etc. and the nature of university is as a provider of high quality student.

Well, if we pay attention to those nature descriptions actually we can see such kind of chain which can’t be success if one of the parts is lost. The cycle is started from the company as a field of dreams of the students. As I have told before company really need workers who are professional, high quality, experienced, etc. they are providing jobs for someone who has different/unique characteristic. The next part is university. University is a bridge of company and students has a vital position in this chain. The university should able to mold graduates who are fit with the company requirements. The last part is student. Student should have all the requirements that the company needed.

   Based on the explanation above, we know that the most vital position is company, where the graduates anchored. That is why the student and the company should know what is the important point that the company looking for. Based on the information in one site in internet, the most influential thing are (structured from the most important); (1) able to use foreign language (speaking/writing), (2) experienced in organization, (3) mastered/able to use the computer and information technology, (4) good quality of GPA, (5) graduated from well-know university. Those are the influential things for the company when they are selecting the prospective workers for their company.

From the explanation above, we know that the organization experience is more important than the good quality of GPA. It means that the experience have a big part of role when the company decide the prospective workers. Since that, the university and also the student should go with the flow of that requirement. University should able to mold/produce graduates who are experienced in organization. Logically if the students are experienced in organization of course they are able to mingle with other people, cooperate with other workers, etc. that’s why the company is looking for the employee who has that ability.

Finally, we can conclude that experience is better that intelligence in job fields. That’s why as a student we have to prepare our self to be a person who has the criteria of the company requires.