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This cycle can be frustrating. But keep pushing. Someone will take a chance on you. Your time is coming. #jobseekers?#careers?#hiring?#experience?#nextlevelcareercoach?
“If there is opportunity, go ahead and DO it; else, create the opportunity (however minuscule), then, go ahead and DO it.” In summary, JUST DO IT. ??
Yep, I have been caught in this cycle several times. Why do employers seem to forget the fact that we all have to start somewhere to gain experience? And yet, many opportunities have been denied to me because I did not have “enough experience”?
Keep pushing is not a solution to a real problem, the concept of ignoring this identifiable problem and patching it with keep pushing is synonymous with the hamster wheel ??. Clearly it’s broken , try addressing the root of the issue .
Try being a volunteer and building up your experience in an unpaid capacity. The experience will help you get a job and the regular hours will help you develop work ready habits…
Sad but true thought. I think employer should change their minds.
No body will have experience working in green technologies we can get in from the ground up with no experience
Sometimes to get that experience you need to start in a position that may not meet your expectations. You may have to start “smaller” than you expected.
Work at Publix
2 年You can’t get a job because you’re not trying hard enough! And you want someone else to pay your way through life!!!!!