What is more important for an employer to hire an employee, academic background or experience?

Experience is more important. An employee may not be good in grades during study due to any mitigating factor but he may perform excellent during his job. I have posted details on my page regarding all such info of HR:

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Do you remember the quote

Front bencher knows the answer to each question but back bencher knows how to answer each question.

If i was to be an employer, i would go for experience

sure experience, he just need what you can do and what you can add to the company 

Experience is the most important for employers. Most of companies prefer senior employees instead of junior or trainee employees and the job opportunities are for experienced people

I beleive in todays competitve enviornment organisations need dynamic professionals who can do multi tasking. Academics and experience do play a very important role but I beleive little leverage should be given for entry level positions. I personally beleive for senior level and middle management positions experience will be the key but for positions which require1 or2 years experience organisation should go for dynamic professionals who have the capability and belief to help the organsation to achieve its goals.

Experiance60% and Qualification40%. u need both to suceed !!

I will go for experience and for the ones with equivalent experiences, I will look for the academic background. Specific skill ceritification is also important.

But why we put the two options in contradictory issue.

I'm sure the experience is more important .

In my company now i see that academic or master degree they are still learning fresh. 

Accadamic record show your ability for employee and experinces show your body language,so both are necessery for your job.

Its all depends to your points assigned to evaluation criterias. Commonly academic background get less points than experience.