How do most people get their first job without experience?

Luck.

I got my first job from a place that was desperate for staff, and they put me on a zero hour contract. A lot of care homes will take on pretty much anyone as long as you can pass their DBS checks, as they provide all necessary training.

Retail jobs are fairly easy to get, although some may prefer you to have experience, but you can get this by volunteering in a charity shop, even if it's only for a month. Retailers just want you to have at least some experience of customer service and working on a till.

Places like McDonald's, KFC and Burger King are fairly easy to get an interview, but they give you really low pay if you are age 18 or under. They might say that they require experience but apply anyway, they are probably desperate for staff as they have such a high staff turnover rate.

I wouldn't apply to just one job at once, I applied to easily like 20/30 every few evenings on Indeed and own websites for things like retail, hospitality etc as they often wouldn't give a response, so applying to loads at once gives you more chances rather than applying to one and waiting to hear back. Having a good CV and cover letter is good - with no previous experience try to put in things you did at school etc like I was a senior prefect, did some guiding and buddying etc and your qualifications. I found a lot more success to getting at least to interview stage when I started to apply with a cover letter too. I got rejected and ignored by a lot of places, even from McDonalds, but I was applying last year March-September so jobs were difficult to find during those times, and I finally got one at a restaurant, part time in the evenings but glad as it is a very good environment, I got trained up and it is a lot better pay than in McDonalds. It's difficult but you've got to start somewhere I guess. As above said, care homes are generally quite good as they always need extra hands.

wow that's a lot you applied for, did you make sure the job descriptions were alright because I see a lot which require work experience, I have still applied to a few but if I see one that looks sketchy i don't apply. also did you submit a cover letter with your cv, my friend introduced me to indeed yesterday so I've been looking for jobs on there but I don't know how to write my cover letter on there, thanks

any tips techniques for customer service advisor interview at financial institution like Barclays

Obviously you've heard about the STAR approach but things I have learned along the way:
- Be clear in how you speak. I think I may speak to quickly and/or with not enough pauses.

- Be very clear what part of STAR you are talking about. Say clearly "The situation was..."., "The actions I took were A), B) and C)". In my opinion this helps the interviewers assess you which may mean you are graded a higher mark.

- Keep your responses detailed but concise. So if you have prepared half a response to say, maybe consider saying half of that but retaining the detail. My reasoning here is that they do not want to spend their lives listening to me waffle on.

- Always bare in mind you are being graded against the person specification in the job description and the values of the company.

- Always mention both team elements and independent working. I suspect that this is something I have been missing because I rarely get asked specific questions on team work. So whatever the question, try and mention explicitly both "I worked independently" or "I worked within a team of 5 on...".

Since you need experience to get a job, how do you get your first job?

It's like the chicken and the egg thing.

Since you need experience to get a job, how do you get your first job?

It's like the chicken and the egg thing.

Since you need experience to get a job, how do you get your first job?

It's like the chicken and the egg thing.