So how does experience correlate to job performance and turnover? Job performance: 0.06 correlation;
Training performance: 0.11 correlation; Turnover: zero correlation. Yep. In effect, basically no correlation, oddly enough even with "training performance," the degree to which people can effectively be trained to perform tasks that, to some degree, they already know how to do. Experience doesn't even help with that. The most valuable indicator of future potential is not past performance. It's recent progress. The people who exceed expectations tomorrow are the ones who improved the most yesterday. Getting better shows the drive and dexterity to learn. Growth is an accomplishment in itself.
