Not unreasonably. Like it or not, at else being equal someone with more current experience is probably the better employee. There's this feeling that employers

Not unreasonably. Like it or not, at else being equal someone with more current experience is probably the better employee. There's this feeling that employers should just take the next person who fits some quota because to pick and choose is to be biased which has somehow become a bad phrase. My employer literally pays me to be biased. My job skills include having appropriate and helpful biases.