Imagine if you are hiring manager at a certain private enterprise, will you recognise a candidate's experience if you see that he/ she was a public or civil servant or uniformed personnel at his/ her previous job? For example, if you are a hiring manager at an aviation MRO company, will you recognise the experience of an applicant who served as an engineer in the Air Force or with the likes of DSTA in his/ her previous job? Or conversely will an experience in the public or civil service or uniformed service be a demerit point to hire that candidate, knowing that his/ her experience are not exactly "real world" profit making experience.