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  • B benjymous

    If you're currently at university or college, you might be able to get a company to take you on in a temporary role over your holiday periods. This probably won't pay too greatly, but it's something you can put on a CV -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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    ProffK
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    The company I previouslu worked for almost only hired inexperienced developers, that needed practical experience to finish their diplomas. They used an employment agency that specialised in this line.

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    • D Daniel Turini

      Two easy answers: 1. Open source some code of yours. 2. Write an article. I see dumb people

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      benjymous
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      Yeah, that's true. I had little relevant experience when I applied for my current job, but I did have a few websites to show them containing the freeware stuff I'd been doing which seemed to impress them enough -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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      • S Shiva Prasad T S

        :confusedHi all, which come first work experience or job.. if u want to get a job, u need work experience in today's s/w companies.. if u want work experience , U need to get a job first.. so which one..:confused: chicken egg problem ;),pls don't try to write a complex algorithm for this..

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        Christian Graus
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        It's really easy, do your own work experience at home and show your future employer what you can do. That's what I did, and I have no qualifications at all. Christian No offense, but I don't really want to encourage the creation of another VB developer. - Larry Antram 22 Oct 2002
        C# will attract all comers, where VB is for IT Journalists and managers - Michael P Butler 05-12-2002
        It'd probably be fairly easy to make a bot that'd post random stupid VB questions, and nobody would probably ever notice - benjymous - 21-Jan-2003

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        • B benjymous

          Yeah, that's true. I had little relevant experience when I applied for my current job, but I did have a few websites to show them containing the freeware stuff I'd been doing which seemed to impress them enough -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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          Shiva Prasad T S
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          fortunately, many of us are out of this loop.. the chicken egg problem may also lead to a cock(the male counterpart of hen)... there the loop breaks up..:)

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          • B benjymous

            Yeah, that's true. I had little relevant experience when I applied for my current job, but I did have a few websites to show them containing the freeware stuff I'd been doing which seemed to impress them enough -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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            ProffK
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            I have got my last three jobs without showing any CV or qualification. Its hard to get the first one, but if you do that one well, very often the client will have more requirements. Give them a good enough system, and their competition may even want one. benjymous wrote: I had little relevant experience when I applied for my current job, but I did have a few websites to show them containing the freeware stuff I'd been doing which seemed to impress them enough

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            • S Shiva Prasad T S

              fortunately, many of us are out of this loop.. the chicken egg problem may also lead to a cock(the male counterpart of hen)... there the loop breaks up..:)

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              benjymous
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              Not having experience shouldn't matter though, in this case. Assuming you can program, and it's a programming job you're after, then just sit down and write something simple, like a version of space invaders. Be sure to plan it all out, and implement it in a tidy way (with nicely commented modules) and also make sure you finish it. Maybe you could write a CP article documenting how it went and what you did. Basically show that you can work through the entire cycle of a small project sucessfully - it doesn't matter if writing a game is utterly irrelevant to what the job does - people like games, so will be far more impressed having a little game to play than some boring looking dialog app. Then you can put a web address on your CV pointing to an example of what you're capable of. If an employer can look at that and think "Wow, this guy knows what he's doing" then it doesn't matter if you've not got any real experience, as your CV will have made it through the initial sift of CVs -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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              • S Shiva Prasad T S

                :confusedHi all, which come first work experience or job.. if u want to get a job, u need work experience in today's s/w companies.. if u want work experience , U need to get a job first.. so which one..:confused: chicken egg problem ;),pls don't try to write a complex algorithm for this..

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                peterchen
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                The egg lay back, relaxed, lighting a cigarette. The chicken, grumpy, snorted: "Well, this finally answers that question"


                It's a royal pain to watch a sex drugs and rock'n'roll design decay into an aids crack and techno implementation  [sighist] [Agile Programming] [doxygen]

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                  The egg lay back, relaxed, lighting a cigarette. The chicken, grumpy, snorted: "Well, this finally answers that question"


                  It's a royal pain to watch a sex drugs and rock'n'roll design decay into an aids crack and techno implementation  [sighist] [Agile Programming] [doxygen]

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                  Paul Watson
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                  peterchen wrote: The egg lay back, relaxed, lighting a cigarette. The chicken, grumpy, snorted: "Well, this finally answers that question" Yes, but all I want to know is did the egg have some red wine first before snogging the chicken? ;)

                  Paul Watson
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                  Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

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                  • S Shiva Prasad T S

                    :confusedHi all, which come first work experience or job.. if u want to get a job, u need work experience in today's s/w companies.. if u want work experience , U need to get a job first.. so which one..:confused: chicken egg problem ;),pls don't try to write a complex algorithm for this..

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                    KaRl
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                    I don't know how your scholar system works, but here we have to do training courses in "real world" to validate our diplomas (at least in "technical schools"), so it's possible to valuate these. A solution is also to find temporary jobs during the summer, as said benjymous. If you have to do a military period, it's perhaps possible to do it as an IT engineer through a special program.


                    Angels banished from heaven have no choice but to become demons Cowboy Bebop

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                    • P Paul Watson

                      peterchen wrote: The egg lay back, relaxed, lighting a cigarette. The chicken, grumpy, snorted: "Well, this finally answers that question" Yes, but all I want to know is did the egg have some red wine first before snogging the chicken? ;)

                      Paul Watson
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                      Cape Town, South Africa

                      Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

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                      Nick Parker
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                      Paul Watson wrote: Yes, but all I want to know is did the egg have some red wine first before snogging the chicken? :laugh:


                      Nick Parker

                      The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. - Theodore Roosevelt

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                      • P Paul Watson

                        Shiva Prasad T. S. wrote: which come first work experience or job.. First comes working for slave rates to get experience. Then comes working for good rates at a job. But as usual all these rules have exceptions. Walk in like David Wulff did and stun them into giving you the job.

                        Paul Watson
                        Bluegrass
                        Cape Town, South Africa

                        Roger Wright wrote: Using a feather is kinky; using the whole chicken is perverted!

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                        Lost User
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                        Paul Watson wrote: Walk in like David Wulff did and stun them into giving you the job *image of stunned interviewers like a pile of freshly caught fish* The tigress is here :-D

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                          Paul Watson wrote: Walk in like David Wulff did and stun them into giving you the job *image of stunned interviewers like a pile of freshly caught fish* The tigress is here :-D

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                          David Wulff
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                          It's all in the first handshake. Just remember to wear a high-voltage electrocution ring. :rolleyes:


                          David Wulff http://www.davidwulff.co.uk

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