Offer to work for your uncle for a few years to get your foot in the door. It’s nobodies fault but your own if your don’t have an uncle in the field.
“Work for free” has been the pitch to college grads and vocational track kids since time immemorial.
You’re just told, over and over again, to accept the work without the income from day one.
Turning over the economy and it’s “Oops! All MLMs!”
Joke’s on you, the positions are resume farms and your field isn’t hiring.
Reminder: 80% of jobs never reach job boards. Most businesses hire people via their social networks.
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.
Rip all careers caught on the wrong side of the algorithm
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.
It was either that or the guy who literally invented a programming language was told he did not have enough experience with it…
Swift? Edit: nvm.
Unpaid. The secret is they want you to do unpaid work. It’s bullshit.
Or have rich parents that can cover the unpaid part, and so the whole job market turns more of an elitist afair.
Reminds me of trying to break into Linux Sysadmin work. Every entry-level job required five years of experience.
How’d you get in?
I built a homelab and taught myself a lot from forums and books and tutorials. I had an in-person interview lined up after I passed a phone interview, but another company offered me a job and financially I couldn’t take the risk. If I didn’t take it and the Linux gig didn’t pan out, I’d be in dire straits.
I’m still not a Linux Sysadmin, but I continue to use it for personal server stuff (the company that hired me was primarily a Windows shop). That was seven years ago and now I work at a state agency (would recommend; I might retire there).
I might try for the Linux team at my current org at some point in the future, but I really like my boss and job duties where I am now.
No work experience? Obviously u just don’t want to work
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…
On the other side: It can be a disconnect between teams and HR.
When a team lead says they need 2 years experience, the unwritten part is that generally: post secondary counts as 2-4 years of experience.But if HR doesnt know that, then it becomes a blocker for everyone.
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.
Here’s this in animated form:
I just graduated and I don’t know my ass from a hole in the ground! Why am I not CEO?
Can you please give me a job where I’ll learn to tell my ass from a hole in the ground?
just lie on your resume bro
wish i did that when i was sitll searching biotech job im too far removed from the industry now, catch 22. probably couldve labeled lab/experiments in a course as lab experience omitting the course part.
It’s too thin. May I get a blanket at least?
Dude just make up a bunch of companies and your friends are the owners/managers. I did that shit a lot when I was younger and when I had no "experience " for certain jobs. I also had a few that were businesses I started. But instead of saying that (employer’s really hate you once owning your own business) I would just put it on my resume like I was employee for said company. And the reason I left “company retired”
Resumes are bullshit ans easy to fake. What matters is your referrals. The main problem today is getting past fucking the AI filters.
i wouldnt even put why i left the company, unless t he interview presses the question, just gave them a bs a response. depends on the type of referrals, if its just all email contact and response thats easy to fake, if its they must verify you with said person, it might be harder if you dont anyone to vouch for you.
