Why Entry Level Jobs Demand Years Of Experience

You can't overstate the irony of requiring years of experience for a job that's "entry level".

It seems employers have employed the narcissistic abuse cycle as their primary mode. 1. Invite 2. Give false positive feedback 3. Accuse insufficiency 4. Discard

I strongly believe that when 95% of jobs say that want someone Entry Level, they’re really saying that they want a Junior Level professional.

My dad, who just turned 60, told me how when he was in high school, the auto companies would set up tables there to recruit seniors to join the assembly lines. You could sign up at school and be working within weeks of graduation, with all of your training done on-the-job. A quick search reveals that in the 80s, these jobs, at least in my area, typically paid around $10/hr. That doesn’t sound like much, but it’s equivalent to a whopping $40 in today’s money. Nowadays, the HIGH end of the pay range for that same job is only around…$20. And yet my dad, who lived through that reality, still insists that it’s my fault I can’t find a job. When every job listing is either $13/hour for the most soul-sucking work possible, has 200 applicants, pays on commission rather than an actual salary, or just isn’t honest about how much experience they’re ACTUALLY looking for.

Entry level job, 10 years experience with programming language that came out last year 😂

If your “entry level” job requires experience, it’s not entry level.

There is one minor reason as well: this really took off after 2008 specifically and you know what happened in 2008? We had a recession meaning there were now a lot of overqualified people out of work trying to apply to entry level jobs and companies showed favor for these applicants both because of employees needing little to no training but also because companies often found older applicants more agreeable personality wise; less likely to be disruptive, often having similar political values, less likely to rock the boat, etc. So companies started ramping up these requirements in order to filter out people with little to no experience.

Its simpler : they want to pay people with years of experience an entry level salary.

The good old employer’s paradox, all demanding experience none of them are willing to give.

I've been looking for literal bottom tier work for the last year and nobody is calling me back for it. I've had my resume looked at my professionals, I've put out so many applications since October of last year. It's absolutely crap. I've seen the jobs I've applied for REPOSTED many times over. Ghost jobs are real, despite what everyone else wants to tell me. Small towns in the south suck to live in but I can't get enough money to frieakin' move. The video is excellent though, I appreciate all the research you do into all of these issues.

As a Boomer worker, i wish to apologize on behalf of our generation for the greedy corporations run by boomers. Don't resent the workers who had nothing to do with the greed at the top. The generations after us got a raw deal.

This is going to cause massive brain drain over time. If you only ever hire people who are already trained, and so does everyone else eventually you will run out of qualified people and then having zero experience the people will have to learn from step 1 when you could previously mentored them so they're several steps ahead.

Nothing new. There were job postings requiring 10 years of C# experience when C# was released. The trick is you have to write exact keywords in your resume to get past the filter.

I think the biggest tell with today's job market is that if you aren't already in a clique or able to benefit from networking or nepotism, you're not even a dime a dozen. Only question is if anything will make that change or if we'll see the rise of an even bigger gig economy where only higher-tier people move onward and upward while everyone else is given less because they often aren't in a position to ask for more.

even if you make it past the filter, they just don't read the resume. They scan over looking for keywords for literally less than 10 seconds and base everything on that. It's absurd

As a business consultant I can attest to the destructive reality that American businesses are their own worst enemy. Management is a low grade clown show.

Outsourcing the hiring process is so silly, no wonder companies are struggling finding workers.

It is scary to think that algorithms and AI are now in control of whether you will be able to find work to survive. I guess that is one silver lining regarding being 67 now. I don’t have to play that game.

Most companies simply lack the ability or willingness to train young/inexperienced workers.

College degree be like aight they’ll look at you but they won’t actually hire you. 😂