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Discussion on: How do I get experience when I have no experience?

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Kurt Corbett

My approach was to put together a portfolio website and fill it out with projects utilising various different skills and frameworks etc. You can see it here if you like: kurtcorbett.co.uk

Then I just put my name out there to various recruiting companies, one of which was eventually able to find me something. In that time I probably applied to 100+ jobs, of which I think I heard back from maybe five of them.

I think the most important thing in this process is to try and form a bit of a tougher skin, just getting an interview is tough and when you get one they are far from easy. It's probably quite likely that you'll have to have at least a few of them before you get anything but just think of them as a learning experience.

If you have the mindset that you're not going to give up and you always keep trying to improve yourself you'll get there.