What do you mean licensing doesn't establish experience or expertise? That depends entirely on what you use to qualify people for licenses. Naturally, you won'

What do you mean licensing doesn't establish experience or expertise? That depends entirely on what you use to qualify people for licenses. Naturally, you won't hire a heart surgeon to do a brain transplant, but then you don't have a generic "surgeon" license, you have separate "brain surgeon" or "heart surgeon" licenses. You get a Cesarean from someone licensed to do it, and that won't be a thoracic surgeon. And it _would_ make hiring easier, because you have a much smaller pool of candidates to look at. The problem with licensing is that you end up having to pay for a license, and technology changes to fast to keep licensing relevant. And so much of tech education is expected to be done without guidance or experience.