Cameron HeroldFounder of the COO Alliance & Invest In Your Leaders Training

Outdated Experience Is Slowing You Down—Here’s Who to Hire Instead

11 Jun 2025 · 1 min

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Cameron Herold advises hiring younger, tech-savvy employees (specifically recommending 25–27-year-olds) over older candidates who rely on repeated past experience. He contrasts ‘‘40 years’’ of repetitive experience with younger hires who possess current technology skills (mentions learning about ChatGPT 1.5 from his son). He also recommends using freelancers for project work such as building AI-driven marketing and sales engines.

Questions this video answers

25–27-year-olds.

ChatGPT 1.5.

Project people to implement AI-driven marketing engines and sales engines.

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What's dangerous now is you get the baby boomer who comes in and says, Well I have 40 years experience. I'm like, no, you have five years experience eight times in a row. Or you get the 20 or 25 year old or the 30 year old who comes in and says, I have five years experience and the technology skills to kick everybody's ass. I would take that person all day long. So I'd be looking for like the 25 to 27 year olds who are very, very tech centric, who have been like my son taught me about ChatGPT when it was ChatGPT 1.5 too. He was using it to write all of his essays in university three years ago. I didn't even understand it existed and he was putting all of his essays out that way. So hire a 25 to 27 year olds who are really strong, really understand business, really understand tech. Can also look for freelancers on stuff too. Like you can get, you know, project people, you can get a project person that can just put in the marketing engine with the AI, some of the person that can put in the sales engine. There's a lot of freelancers that you can find that we can do this stuff too.