Inexperience = NO JOB

[madmondeo]

so your looking for a new job. it always make me smile when they say do you have any experience in this type of work. how do you get experience if someone dont tkae you on with ............... NO EXPERIENCE!!

i will never understand that one.

[cuddleMe]

tell me about it madmondeo
ive been struggling to find a proper job for over a year now since gratuating in 2006.

no experience, i spent so much money at uni to get a degree ... and its worthless!!

how are you suppose to get experience if u just come out of uni and how are u sppose to get experience with out getting any experience??

keep trying madmondeo, i am!! :) xx

[madmondeo]

its infuriating. glad someone else can see my point of view! dare i ask, how much have you spent on getting your degree?

[cuddleMe]

madmondeo

3yrs in liverpool... = �15k
2yrs preston = �10k

well those were just my student loans,

got nothing out of it!! how about u madmondeo? and do u drive a mondeo? :)

[madmondeo]

chri$t thats a lot. I have recently spent a lot of money getting my HGV licence and now looking for work to try and get back some of initial outlay!

Oh and by the way i used to own a mondeo lol.

so then cuddleMe are you male or female??

[chappie]

Mamjet, is that really you????

[sickandy]

It's always been like that. I'm an IT manager, and hiring & firing is one of my responsibilities. For every advert I post, I get at least 50 CVs in return.

I don't envy you, but I can assure you that I went through it myself. I worked part time in a mailroom, packed towels on a nightshift, directed traffic, and delivered stationery for nine months prior to getting my first "proper" role. I found my position by sending out my own mail-shot to about 100 companies in London (using Yellow Pages), enclosing a CV and a covering letter. Sometimes paper is better than email. And, if you are signing-on, the Job Centre will pay for your stamps etc.

Oh, and if the field you're going to work in is anything like the IT industry, then avoid signing up to hundreds of agencies - use a couple and phone them once a week to keep your CV near the top of the pile. But look yourself. Boast, brag, cheat, steal... just don't lie.

Keep plugging on and you'll get there.

[Twenty20]

Isn't this the same for anyone leaving education to get their first job?

But maybe you might have got some experience whilst at Uni by doing some work experience or summer work in a similar industry and this is what they are asking? Or maybe you should expand on the experience you do have and adapt it so its more relevant to the job youre applying for?