The conundrum of “you can’t get a job because you can’t get the experience” and “you can’t get the experience because you can’t get a job” is a modern-day crisis for many graduates.
Despite all the technological advances with social media, being able to gain hands-on experience today might feel harder now then it was during the Viking conquest of Britain. The days of the village community pulling together to build a bridge or renovate the local church resides in the pages of folklore. In the old village community everybody knew someone personally for a trade, and local businesses were often family-owned using local produces. If you needed work experience you might walk across the field to the local blacksmith yard and ask to “help out” at weekends, after all the person who owned the yard was also a family friend.
As the local family run business gave way to corporate mergers and global franchises, the yard across the road became the subsidiary of the global multi-national corporate venture head-quartered somewhere on a satellite orbiting the rings of Saturn in the fifth cosmos. If you want experience there today the assistants assistant manager needs to escalate your request up ten levels of command and across even more different HR departments, and if you are lucky you might hear something back. Ok, you should at least get the idea.
The reason you have a lack of experience is not due to the fact that a company would not benefit from your extra labour it is because they cannot always afford to sign a contract promising you a permanent wage for the foreseeable future.
Learn Any Job aims to make your life as a graduate easier by providing a one-stop place for building experience, by connecting you to Employers and Charities who want easy access to individuals like yourself, so they can benefit from additional low-cost and voluntary temporary support.
The support you provide will give you the practical evidence you need to stand out in job interviews for permanent positions.