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Jason Castillo
Jason Castillo
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Posted by Jason Castillo
Jason Castillo
12,536 Points

Where to start for job placement?

I want to ask if anyone has advise. I have a background in Sales and zero experience with on the job exposure to coding. I am learning SQL and soon Python with treeshouse. I find with no experience, most employers won't give you any chance, however everyone has to start somewhere... Is there like a job board for placement that is open to entry level employees. Just wondering if there was a best practice.

Brandon Khan
Brandon Khan
21,619 Points
Brandon Khan
Brandon Khan
21,619 Points

I agree with you if anyone has good resources for people like us that would be amazing. Or any best practices for landing a job with little exp or what we can do to increase our ability to be hireable

2 Answers

Katheryn Hays
Katheryn Hays
6,778 Points
Katheryn Hays
Katheryn Hays
6,778 Points

Ahh, experience! It always seems to be the catch-22. Cant get a job without it, cant get a job to get it. However, there are always exceptions. Some companies, like MasterCard like to hire people that have no coding experience so they can teach MasterCard's proprietary coding without having to unlearn anything. (This was a few years ago, so it may not still be happening). Otherwise?

  1. Though not glamorous, internships are always an option. Low or no pay to learn.
  2. Get on fullstack and github and other sites and help work on projects that are available open source. You can show you contributed to these projects.
  3. Go through forums, start seeing which questions you can answer. For those you cant, mark them and see what the answer is when it gets posted later so you can learn.
  4. Sites like Guru.com can help you earn cash by completing real world projects, and connect with people to get experience - though you still need some experience to be able to get jobs. You can add these projects to your portfolio.

The best advice I have for anyone, really, is to play.

  1. Find an app that you like but doesn't have quite what you are looking for, and ask if they need help. You can say you contributed to a part of it.
  2. Have an idea for an app or software? build it. Keep it simple at first, but build it. You can add these to your portfolio. Good luck!