The diffrence between qualified and capable

Let us not confuse the diffrence between someone who is qualified to do a job and someone who is capable of doing a job.
You can be one, or the other, or both, but they mean vastly diffrent things.
A qualified person is someone who simply meets a list of predetermined requirements for the job.
A capable person is someone who can actually do the job.
In my experience, I would rather have someone that is capable and not qualified doing the job than I would someone who is qualified and not capable. Ideally, you would have both.

Strangely enough, you can easily become qualified if you are capable for long enough, however if you are not capable that will rarely change no matter how long you are qualified.

This also ties into the diffrence between skilled labor and unskilled labor. A skilled laborer is often someone who is qualified, which does not mean that they are capable of performing the trade that they are qualified to perform. An unskilled laborer is not necessarily capable, but is never qualified. You can become skilled if you are unskilled long enough, but only if you are capable. You never go from being skilled to unskilled, no matter how uncapable you are.