How To Get a Job With No Work Experience

• How to make your experience (or lack thereof) a non issue

 

• 2 things that will make hiring managers disregard your lack of experience

 

• The key ingredient that most new graduates are lacking in an interview (that often costs them the offer)

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1. How to make your experience (or lack thereof) a non issue

When you’re being compared to a bunch of other more experienced candidates, then of course not having as much experience is not going to help you when you’re interviewing, but what if you were creating your own opportunities instead of competing for existing ones?
 

Creating your own opportunities means that you don’t have to compete in a bloody ocean of jobs (you know the ones on indeed and monster and CareerBuilder and such).
 
 

 
 

➢ You can actually create your own “blue ocean” of opportunities.
 

You do this by reaching out to people who can help you in your job search and hook you up with opportunities that aren’t posted.
 
 

➢ 85% of job opportunities are secured this way, by people networking and reaching out.
 

So if you master how to do that, your experience becomes a whole lot less of a thing because you are no longer competing with thousands of other candidates.

2. Two things that will make hiring managers disregard your lack of experience

Interview skills themselves are not something that many people have taken the time to master. Not many people take time to study how to interview like a pro, or how to come across confidently, or how to really stand in their worth in interviews.
 

When someone comes along that does all those things and impresses them by bringing value, then they are not so concerned about the person’s experience if they connect with someone.
 
 

 
 

➢ The truth is, likeability is more important than skills, intelligence, or experience.
 

The person who is most likable will get preference. Interviewers just can’t help themselves. It’s usually subconscious because they’re only human.
 

You might think it’s unfair and even unprofessional to choose this way, and you would think that given the choice between someone who is highly competent yet unpleasant vs. someone who is extremely likable but a total idiot, the obvious choice would be the competent jerk, right?
 

I thought so too. However, as it turns out, a Harvard Business Review study shows that people say that they’d choose the competent jerk in theory, but in practice, they actually pick the lovable fool.
 

For many reasons (even though interviewers don’t like to admit it, even to themselves), the lovable fool wins.
 
 

 
 

Here are a couple of quotes from the study:

• “If someone is liked, his colleagues will seek out every little bit of competence he has to offer.”

 

• “Sometimes it can be difficult to pry the needed information from the jerk, simply because he is a jerk.”

 
Likeability is one of the things that can literally trump your lack of experience, and there are other things as well. I specialize in helping new graduates with this so I’ve learned and seen all the tricks that work.

➢ The second key thing is connection – failing to make a connection.
 

Make establishing a connection with the people in the room a priority – you want to relate and connect, and the easiest way to do that (I’ve found) is through flattery.
 

People are very drawn to people who give them genuine compliments, and the great thing about that is you don’t need the experience to give genuine compliments!
 
 

 
 

3. The key ingredient that most new graduates are lacking in an interview (that often costs them the job)

This key ingredient you may think is a little easier said than done.
 
 

➢ I’m talking about good old confidence!
 

If you show up confidently, you can be sure that they are going to feel that confidence that you have in yourself, and it will pass to their minds as confidence to do the job.
 
 

➢ The way that you bring confidence to the interview is by being better prepared than anyone else.
 
 

• One is company specific research.

 

• Another is to prepare your (Study-able) answers.

Preparation is the antidote to fear, and so when you are able to really see yourself as a confident person in your mind, and you show up in the interview prepared and with an era of confidence, your lack of experience melts away.
 

There are specific tactics that you can use to develop your confidence, and I am going to give you a head start right now with a FREE Guide.
 
 

 
 

In Conclusion…

So there you have it: How to get a job with no work experience.
 

Thank you for reading! And remember that answering questions is one thing, but there is a lot more to interviewing than just answering the questions.
 

In fact, if all you do is answer the questions alone, you’ve already lost at the interview.
 

There is a whole interview strategy at play, and if you’d like to learn more, you can get started with me by clicking the link below to grab my free guide:
 
 


 
 

What you’ll get inside the guide:

• Top-ten examples of stories that have proven to be impressive interview answers

 

• The S.A.R.I. formula breakdown of how to answer these questions

 

• The step-by-step of why it works

 

• Fill-in-the-blank templates for each question so, you’ll be able to fill in the blanks and get going!

 

• Now you’ll need to come up with your own stories! (You can steal the ones in the guide if they apply to you though too, I don’t mind)

 

If you are still getting stuck because you can’t think of your own stories…

I’ve included 25 questions that you can ask yourself to come up with your stories much quicker!

You’ll get all this in a beautifully designed workbook prepared specifically for you to prepare for your interviews.

By the end of working through this guide, you’ll be feeling confident and ready for any situational interview that comes your way!

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And remember, the current system isn’t perfect, but you can outsmart it. I’m here to prove to you that you do have what it takes.

I’ll see you next time and I can’t wait!

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-Natalie