Apparently you’re supposed to get that experience as an unpaid intern before graduation. Some fucking bullshit, really.
In all seriousness, getting an internship is key for a lot of industries now. And if you can’t be a paid internship, you should at least see if you can get college credit.
I was lucky enough to figure out how to get both credit and a shitty paycheck. Which was the ideal internship.
Absolutely. If you’re in college, an internship is ideal.
And yet, the number of times I had to talk a manager off a ledge about an internship candidate without relevant experience…
This after they’d been through 2-3 rounds of coding challenges and a “culture fit” check.
So put something on your resume. Maybe you were a “support tech in a Linux server environment” for 3 years because you helped your grandparent with a router a few times. We weren’t calling references. And your coworkers will know and expect you are green.
I am a chemical engineer, and they basically don’t want to hire anyone without 2-3 years of post graduate experience and even then the majority of jobs seem to want more than 5 years of post graduate experience. Every year I watch the amount of entry level jobs drop more and more as companies just don’t want to train people anymore
Just apply anyway if it otherwise seems like a good fit. The requirements listed, except those required by law, are a wish list and not a minimum for consideration.
Joke’s on you, the positions are resume farms and your field isn’t hiring.
Ten years ago when I first graduated game development with honours, there wasn’t any local jobs in my field or studios that would bring me over, so while working minimum wage full time for a few years I released a video game solo and several smaller projects that all made no money, and then I finally got hired… at a shit starter job with a 1.5 hour commute time by bus. Meanwhile I had friends with wealthy parents and connections who got hired immediately.
I released more projects, and was applying to other jobs during my lunch hours, and a year later I got a software job that doubled my salary and now I am doing well. I paid off all my loans and then bought a townhouse last year at 30. I don’t find recruiters now, they find me.
I do not like the idea of other people having to go through what I did. My early 20’s were a hellish grindfest that no one should have to do. Genz has it even worse and I have seen it in the workplace.
I don’t know what to tell you, other than you’re not alone. Most people have a huge reality check in their 20s and adulthood hits hard… because we’re not taxing the billionaires.
Reminder: 80% of jobs never reach job boards. Most businesses hire people via their social networks.
Not me, but a comment I remember reading a few years ago.
This person had been working on some new coding software that was created at the tech giant this person was working for. They get laid off with tech cutbacks and start looking for a new job. The new job required 5 years experience with the software… Software was created 2 years ago.
Title’s been outdated for a while now. It’s 5+ years
I remember my wife looking for a web dev position in early 2015 and at one place they were adamant that 5 years of HTML5 in experience was mandatory.
Wikipedia says:
On 28 October 2014, HTML5 was released as a W3C Recommendation,[32] bringing the specification process to completion.
Edit: I know the spec was a work in progress since 2008 but it’s still kind of a ridiculous requirement. To put it in to perspective, my wife’s class was the first year that they trained on Html5 instead of 4.
She could just have held 5 relevant part time jobs at the same time for a year. Boom, 5 years experience in a years time. Resume math
No work experience? Obviously u just don’t want to work
Reddit in a nutshell.
You can’t post without enough karma but how the fuck do you get karma if they don’t even let you post?
This is why Lemmy is better.
Do what I did. Go to university then you’ll get the experi…oh yeah, never mind
Oh yeah, I tried this and it did not work. Thanks for the tip! :D
This is exactly how it is. You set up your entry level filters for your desired fields in linked, and get the notifications! (EXCITEMENT)
Turns out theyre entry level jobs requiring at least 2 years experience in the field…
I just graduated and I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground! Why am I not CEO?
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I’ll just pay for that with the job I can’t get…
That’s the point. Companies want a free lunch instead of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and training new employees
“bUt WhAt iF tHeY jUsT uSe mY cOmPaNy FoR tRaInInG tHeN gO wOrK sOmEwHeRe ElSe” sounds like the free market at work, shoulda made your company a better place to sell their labor, idiot!
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I assume you mean some form of financial assistance? Hard to be sure when people use random acronyms without explanation…
Not everyone has the privilege of access to such assistance, others lack the knowledge or guidance to seek it.
Training is training, not experience.
