by Ray Langley

Created on: April 15, 2010   Last Updated: April 16, 2010

The No Win Situation of : Needing Experience to Get a Job, and Needing a Job to Get Experience.

Finding the Exit to Employment’s Circular Logic

Needing experience to get a job, while needing a job to get experience is circular logic, which by true logical standards is fallible, yet is it circular by design? The more progressive we get as a society the more we lose touch with the basics of life. We no longer program our own computers as they come pre-programmed. We do not write or call each other we text or email, losing touch with the basic skills that created the conveniences that we enjoy. While the job market and the free market society are laced together, one can use the rung of these laces to over come the “needing experience” quagmire.

Volunteer work - Hospitals, elderly care facilities, police, fire and recreational centers all rely on an army of volunteers to keep operating. These opportunities require a little training and a little responsibility, but can provide valuable experience and some wonderful memories.

Hospitals and care facilities use volunteers in many different ways, from the gift shop attendants to the cafeteria workers, also the volunteers sometimes deliver magazines and board games for the patients.

Police and Fire departments across the country have “Explorer” programs for kids and young adults, which services as an introduction to the service fields, as well as Auxiliary Police squads and volunteer Fire Departments for adults. These types of volunteer work provide an introduction to the equipment and procedures used in the emergency services.

Head start programs, recreational centers and after school programs also utilizes volunteers, and gives them experience in the educational fields, and with working with children.

An internship with any firm can provide useful experience as one enters the final phase of each educational stage. During high school, and through college working one or two days a week as an intern can add up as one works toward graduation.

Discover the requirements of the job for which you seek and try to match any volunteering to a similar industry, as educational studies are completed. This will skip a few steps on the working your way up, ladder.

The situation of needing experience to get a job, and needing a job to get experience is a social conundrum, which is not a mistake. The leaders of industry know the value of free labor, the cost associated with experienced employees, and if one desires to make the grade with the experience then one must make with the labor. Loyalty is measured in years and rewarded with tenure; the truly experienced know that we all have to start somewhere.

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