Why the fukk do entry level jobs require YEARS of experience?

[Child_Of_God]

Seriously, this shyt just blows my mind.

And on top of that the pay and work conditions is usually garbage. The managers/interviewers act so fukking condescending, like they barely even want to interview me.

I can’t get the job without experience but I can’t get the experience without the job.

 

[KillerPups]

If they act that way in the interview best believe u do not want to work there. No loss.

Good luck out there breh.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

That's America for ya

 

[King Poetic]

These companies don’t want to pay you for training especially for certain positions

 

[Big Boss]

These companies don’t want to pay you for training especially for certain positions

This

 

[Sonic Boom of the South]

Blame yoself:

You should already have worked for them, thus you would have the experience now----And if you already worked for them, then you wouldn't need to apply now to get rejected for the experience you could have gotten already from them...matta fact you could have already been promoted and thus been the one in the position to hire yourself now.

 

[MajesticLion]

No business is trying to invest the time in teaching entry-level anything, while you're already plotting your next step beyond them, before you even start the gig. It's myopic but not entirely an unreasonable viewpoint. It's just snowballed over time into an overly-tuned vetting system. They've painted themselves into a corner where too many applicants means that the HR mavens now end up wanting actuarial scientists to do data entry work.


Nobody wants to sort 10K applicants to find 3 who know what F5 does, like @Diunx alluded to earlier

 

[NoMoreWhiteWoman2020]

If a person is unqualified, I can hire them on temporary/probationary status and not have to offer them full benefits. Same amount of work, mind you.

 

[Wargames]

Cause entry doesn’t mean “I can’t do shyt”

 

[Illuminatos]

What jobs are you applying for?

 

[Child_Of_God]

What jobs are you applying for?

IT Help Desk.

 

[Scustin Bieburr]

Their assumption is you have internships or volunteer experience you can cite.

Along with the fact that they do not want to pay for training. I'd take things further and say that it's also a test of how well you can lie. Lying will be part of the job and if you're skilled enough to deceive them then you can deceive clients/customers.

 

[HabitualChiller]

These companies don’t want to pay you for training especially for certain positions

Yep. Realized that at 18. My options were either join the military, go to school and not have any experience after 4 years with college debt, try to rap, or go to trade school and make trash money as an apprentice/journeyman.

I stutter, hate school, and making low pay for my an extended period while working hard wasn't gonna cut it.

 

[JLova]

They do that when there is a lot of talent to pick over. When there isn't, the requirements get looser.

As someone has said, they don't have to spend the resources in training you.

 

[blues_funk_reggae]

This was especially brutal in the mid 2000s when I graduated college. This was the time when everybody was hitting the job market with a Bachelors and zero experience. I remember the jobs section on Craigs List and how people use to clown job posts, "5-7 years experience bla bla bla " but the salary was entry level.