Graduate Jobs that require 'Experience'!

I'm nowhere near finishing my MA, but a small part of me keeps looking for jobs just to see what the job market is looking like for my future career (PR/Communications).

It's really annoying to see entry level/grad/assistant jobs that require experience. It's not just 6 months; they expect us to have 1-3 years experience? Is this an actual joke?

I've seen these jobs only offer £18K a year and you need to have a long amount of experience for entry level jobs.

To me, this just seems impossible and unfair. How is someone who is fresh out of university supposed to have such experience?

How am I supposed to literally start from the very bottom that still needs years of experience to start from the bottom? It's a ridiculous catch-22 and it's stressing me out.

There's no question here - just burning some frustration on TSR. Feel free to chip away!

If an employer wants 1-3 years experience it's not a role for a new graduate. That said increasingly employers are expecting graduates to have at least one or two placements worth of experience and with long university summers that is perfectly possible to get that.

Either incompetent recruiters or it's not really an entry level position. In the first case, you give them the benefit of the doubt and apply anyway.

Requiring some kind of experience for a grad job however is normal.. You had 3-4+ years of your life to build out a good profile for whatever career you're interested in - if you didn't even look to get part time work, tinker with side gigs, look for internships, volunteer, get stuck in with societies.. then that's sort of your own fault.

It's not a catch 22 because it's entirely possible to get good experience before graduating, you just chose not to and are only now realising your error.

It's not a catch 22 because it's entirely possible to get good experience before graduating, you just chose not to and are only now realising your error.

Either incompetent recruiters or it's not really an entry level position. In the first case, you give them the benefit of the doubt and apply anyway.

Requiring some kind of experience for a grad job however is normal.. You had 3-4+ years of your life to build out a good profile for whatever career you're interested in - if you didn't even look to get part time work, tinker with side gigs, look for internships, volunteer, get stuck in with societies.. then that's sort of your own fault.

Possible to get 1-3 years experience?
A sandwich year barely gives that.

I haven't even finished my master's so why don't you go kick a rock hun.

I absolutely hated it at college and university when people said 'I don't need to get a job' - then learn and realise their mistake after graduation when things get tough in the job market...

Stop whining and get some experience then

A part-time job during studies hardly equates to 'work experience' that grad/entry level jobs requires.

If it was that easy, I wouldn't be on here 'whining'. Don't you have anything better to do with your time?

You do - get some experience

Possibly not in the field they want to get into, but it's albeit a starting point.

A sandwhich year gives you 1 year which meets that requirement on its own.

So every degree should be a sandwich course?

So every degree should be a sandwich course?

It's not a silly idea. At least all degrees should at least have some form of work place module at the very least.