I'm interested in what would make an employer choose a candidate with less experience versus one with more.

My husband is currently interviewing for a high-level job in his industry. It would be a promotion for him, and a big pay raise.

The company seems highly interested because once he returned the recruiter's phone calls, he had four phone interviews with increasingly higher-level employees within about a week, ending with the co-founder. They're checking his references (which are awesome), and one of the references managed to find out a little more about it - specifically, that he's directly competing with one other candidate. This other candidate has, among other qualifications obviously, 15 or 16 years of experience. My husband has about 7 years.

All other things being equal, does it just come down to personality? Or is there basically no chance that my husband could get this position with another candidate having literally twice his experience?

I'm just wondering because it seems like they're pursuing him pretty aggressively (only step left would be to fly him out for an in-person interview) but hearing that the other guy had that much more experience was kind of a bummer.

If anyone can offer any insight I'm very intrigued by this whole thing.

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