22 04 09 - 19:50
Experience required.
For those of you who are my forever followers this is a repost of something that I posted a few years back. It has become a part of my life again as I have been on the hunt for a new job.
Experience required.
So recently I have been on the hunt for a job. This has proven more difficult then I have ever expected. As a young adult you are told that the higher your education the more opportunities you will have in the job market. But as a college graduate with my BA I have found that it takes more then a degree to get your foot in the door.
On almost all help wanted ad the words experience required appear. Four years of school and five years of work experience during school and shortly after graduation have not proven enough experience to get a job. So if a job requires experience and this is not enough then where do you get experience? How do you get experience? Doesn’t some employer have to take a chance on you for you to gain the experience? ... (more)