25 Years of Age and without Work Experience

[cube3]

As in without proper job experience. A few part time jobs and internships thou. Will I suffer when I grad from Uni in 3 yrs time? I am a little bit frighten I won't be able to get good jobs after I graduate thou. Blame my slacking teenage years sigh. Anyone been thru this before?

[chriswick]

My friend left school at 16 he's now 18, owns his own business and making £50,000 or about $100,000. You see knowledge has a price, but expirance doesn't as you will find the working world and a textbook are nothing alike.

[cube3]

hey thats becoz he did his own biz right? i referring much about the corporate world out there friend!

[radreality]

hey thats becoz he did his own biz right? i referring much about the corporate world out there friend!

this is an entrepreneurship forum though. People here are either business owners or wanna-be business owners. Their goals aren't to get good jobs, so I'm not sure if you're asking the right people or not.

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[wully00]

well put, Robert.

[petercn]

Ages never mind.

[Finandom]

Hmm... I never study in university and I don't know the feeling of being unemployed but I pay attention on how I can hire someone best for my business.

By the way, why you afraid of being unemployed? Is there any things or facts that make you think like this? You can share it over here.

[jackace]

degrees with no experience don't land good jobs. expect to work in a low level job for atleast a year or 2.

[zoobie]

this is an entrepreneurship forum though. People here are either business owners or wanna-be business owners. Their goals aren't to get good jobs, so I'm not sure if you're asking the right people or not.

Yes, but no worries. There's life after graduation even at your age.

[byzantium]

I graduated from community college in 2001, just as the economy was tanking. I wasn't able to find anything. It doesn't help that I'm mildly autistic, so employers don't like "weird" people, even if their "behavior quirks" are hardwired. (Hey, corporate managers have been known to force employees to remove tattoos.)

I lived off SSI for a while, then I realized that despite my "education", I didn't have a skill set. So off to tech school I went to get certified as a computer technician. I got a relatively high score on my exams, and the second highest GPA in my group (the guy who beat me had a 4.0), but once I was done, I couldn't find work. The placement office was sending me to call center jobs that had nothing to do with computers. I didn't pay $10k to answer phones for Cheap Insurance Company!

The aforementioned guy with the 4.0 GPA took five months to find work-with a school district. I too worked for the district as a teacher's aide, but the teachers complained so much about me that I was dumped after a year. (those behavior quirks again) So now I'm 32 and starting a business. I really don't have any other options at this point. I'm living with my parents because I can't afford rent. They want me to beg a local employer of the disabled for a job. I already did that and I was too high functioning for them. I don't have any work experience. If corporate America doesn't want to hire anybody who can't be pounded into a neat little box, screw them, I'll make it on my own.

[tsbales]

degrees with no experience don't land good jobs. expect to work in a low level job for atleast a year or 2.

Since you asked about the corporate world, I would have to agree with Jackace that you can't expect to start out on the top rung when entering the corporate world. When we are filling middle to upper level jobs, we are looking for people who have done "the thing" in a past experience.

You'll note that I didn't say in a past job (though that is the case most of the time). If you were a top notch programmer for example, you might be able to demand top dollar entering the corporate world because you have done programming in some other situation.

The 2 - 5 years mentioned above really becomes OJT for the new employee. Don't become discouraged though, for with the proper amount of application of your knowledge gained at the university level, you can leap past those who don't bring those tools into the workplace.

Best of luck in your education!

[Cole Taylor]

hey thats becoz he did his own biz right? i referring much about the corporate world out there friend!

First thing is use proper English even if that entails using spell check. Using purposely misspelled words to be cool is just stupid unless you're a teenage kid. Even then I'd strongly recommend that you act as if...

Second, don’t pay much attention to the success stories of high school dropouts. Although it does happen the odds are heavily against you. Also, don’t think that getting a college education somehow closes the door on your ability to become an entrepreneur. Neither does the fact that you will probably end up working a corporate gig after you graduate. You may have heard the phrase “ideas are cheap.” Its true, implementation is what separates the winners from the losers. You are in a much better position to successfully implement your ideas when you have a little experience under your belt and a broad knowledge base.

Most people I knew in college were there procrastinating life and not really concentrating on what they were learning. These are the people who despite having a college degree enter the workforce and don’t have any idea what they're doing. These are the people that get passed by.

Regarding becoming employable after you graduate I would suggest that you become active in groups and organizations (i.e. entrepreneurs club, young republicans, etc) as well as getting internships in the field you eventually want to be in.

Do yourself a favor and go talk to a career planner/ counselor / whatever they're calling themselves these days.

[John Stafford]

Hello,

Coming out of college, employers expect you not
having much work experience. Since you have
some internships, as long as it's along the same
lines as the job you're looking for you'll be okay.



John

[cactuar]

this is an entrepreneurship forum though. People here are either business owners or wanna-be business owners. Their goals aren't to get good jobs, so I'm not sure if you're asking the right people or not.

Quoted for truth. That's why this forum is called the Young Entrepreneur forum! Who wants a J-O-B?

[sarathy]

I think your part time jobs must themselves account for some experience. Generally, they see, only whether you have any previous professional experience. I dont think it is going to be much of a problem.