….Dishonest citizens will steal more, so they extract greater rewards from public office..
According to Oxford dictionary, experience is the practical contact with and observation of facts or events.
In Cambridge dictionary, experience means the process of getting knowledge or skill that is obtained from doing, seeing, or feeling things, or something that happens which has an effect on you. This article focuses on the bed of experience in various fields of work.
Teachers
Teaching experience is positively associated with student achievement gains throughout a teacher’s career. As teachers gain experience, their students are more likely to do better on other measures of success beyond test scores, such as school attendance.
It was found that the teachers who have less abilities in classroom management are tend to criticize students more than the experienced ones.
Additionally, teachers not only make mistakes in undesired student behaviours but also they pedagogically make mistakes which are incompatible with curriculum.
Administration
Even Administrative experience is a valuable asset for anyone looking for a job in a variety of industries. It can help you develop a wide range of skills, from organization and time management to communication and customer service. And it can show potential employers that you are reliable, efficient, and detail-oriented.
You don’t know what matters to your individual team members. You’re unclear about their abilities. You don’t realize each person is unique and how to manage them as an individual.
Lawyers
Lawyers, often start as associates at law firms, gaining exposure to various cases.
As they accumulate experience, they begin to handle more complex matters in their chosen field of specialization.
This hands-on experience is invaluable for developing the skills and insights necessary to become an expert.
Lawyers must be orally articulate, have good written communication skills and also be good listeners.
In order to argue convincingly in the courtroom before juries and judges, good public speaking skills are essential.
Communication and speaking skills can be developed during your studies by taking part in activities such as mooting or general public speaking.
Lawyers must also be able to write clearly, persuasively and concisely, as they must produce a variety of legal documents.
But it’s not all about projection. To be able to analyse what clients tell them or follow a complex testimony, a lawyer must have good listening skills.
If you hire a lawyer without trial experience, you might second guess the settlement he or she accepted.
Did your attorney recommend that you accept the settlement offer because it was fair or because he or she didn’t want to go to trial?
You may never know unless you have an attorney in your corner ready and willing to go to court.
Although an accident attorney without trial experience may have the knowledge to deal with your injury claim and know what your case is worth, it is an entirely different ballgame to take a case before a jury.
You need to know that you have an attorney on your side who will push back and not accept an unfair settlement.
You need a lawyer who makes the other side take your case seriously and will threaten trial in order to collect the compensation you deserve.
Leadership
Similarly with leadership, the quality, quantity, and diversity of your experiences are important. Also, remember that the benefits of leadership experience goes beyond what’s on your résumé.
Family experiences, volunteer roles, hardships and your personal life and other non-work experiences can also strengthen your leadership skills.
Ineffective leaders create bad morale and hamper employee satisfaction and engagement. Goals may be unclear and productivity suffers.
Demotivated and disgruntled employees, in turn, can impact customer satisfaction. The ripple effects can be significant.
The quality of public officials has at least two dimensions: competence and honesty.
Competence is the skill to identify the appropriate policy objectives and achieving them at minimum social cost.
Honesty is the character trait that leads an official to perform his duties without harassing private citizens for bribes or other kickbacks.
We take it as self-evident that both dimensions of quality vary enormously across countries, and that indeed in some countries quality is dismally low.
For example, the recent empirical growth literature has uncovered and emphasized wide disparities in both the quality of economic policy and in levels of corruption across countries.
While bad policies and corruption have multiple causes, anyone who pays even intermittent attention to the political news from the worst performing and most corrupt countries, cannot fail to perceive that the low quality of the political class is one of them.
Conclusion
Why are some countries’ politicians so much better than those of other countries? And, in particular, how can it be that democracy—a system that allows citizens maximum choice and control over their public decision makers—sometimes generates such bad politicians?
The first idea is that low-quality citizens have a comparative advantage in seeking office.
Under the reasonable assumption that policy-making competence is correlated with market skills, incompetent citizens have a lower opportunity cost of choosing a life in politics.
Dishonest citizens will steal more, so they extract greater rewards from public office.
Conversely, candidates of higher quality are the ones who have more to lose from giving up private life and/or less to gain from holding office.
This comparative advantage tends to lower the quality of the pool of candidates from which voters can choose.
