Job searches suck

[axedemoguy]

Do to the abundant amount of searches that I have performed since I graduated, I have always come across an inconsistency that has puzzled me to no end.

It is the ever elusive entry-level position.  I have come across many fantastic positions when I start reading through the job description and then come to that dreaded line of XXX years of

Comments

[golden_iris]

Try for it, if it doesn't say something like 10 years experience. You have 'experience' doing lab work, etc. It certainly can't hurt to send in a resume!

Yes, yes they do.

[mercurialwater]

Over the past year, I've literally been on both sides of the hiring fence. When I was looking, yeah, everything, and I do mean everything seemed to be mocking me with an experience Catch-22. How the hell can you get experience if they won't hire you because you don't have experience??

I've been told that your first job out of college is one of the hardest ever to get.

After being on the other side of the hiring table, and I assisted my old team in locating and landing a suitable replacment after I got my promotion, I learned something very imporant: they don't really mean it. I'm sure it works differently at every organization, but I did learn that for the most part, those little want ads are the hiring manager's dream list- definitely not based in reality and certainly negotiable. Say you've got great references and background, but little or no experience. That doesn't mean you're automatically not qualified, by any stretch of the imagination.

Do what the person above me suggested and apply anyway. It can't hurt, and it's