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How (different) is it to find a job in your field ...after 2-3 years experience ?
That depends entirely on the quality of that experience
and perhaps even more so on the quality of the trade/industry contacts you've made.
If you aren't being INVITED to join up with other companies...
or at least being told which companies/people to approach on your own...
then those quality levels are suspect.
That depends entirely on the quality of that experience
and perhaps even more so on the quality of the trade/industry contacts you've made.
If you aren't being INVITED to join up with other companies...
or at least being told which companies/people to approach on your own...
then those quality levels are suspect.
Don't be difficult, the question is simple and goes without explaining. "0-1 vs 2-3." The quality of the experience and contacts would be the same for comparison reasons. This is assuming you are working the same job for the time periods.
Don't be difficult, the question is simple and goes without explaining.
I don't agree.
I sense -among far too many- a rejection of the soft values inherent to activities like networking...
preferring a world view where everything can be measured and valued by some objective criteria.
This is especially so among the tech oriented who literally want "an app for that"...
so they can hunker down in the background somewhere and regardless of their contribution
be valued for advancement based on immaterial values like time served.
If you want to apply for other, entry level jobs in your field it will be easier to land a job because you will be competing against other applicants with zero experience.
Why would you want to do that though? Taking another job as a lateral move won't help you in terms of pay, experience, skills development, or any other area of career advancement.
At 2-3 years of experience you should be looking for some type of advancement. You want a job with a bit more money, more responsibility and a better title.
If that is the type of job you are looking for, then it is about as hard as getting your first one, because you are competing with others in your cohort who have 2-5 years of experience.
You can improve your chances by gaining education, certifications, networking, skills and the like. In turn, you will keep reaching ever higher for jobs with more responsibility and pay, and you keep competing against people with more skills and experience. It will always be somewhat challenging.
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It makes a huge difference. We have 2,000 employees, over 400 job titles, and there is no position where the required experience is less than two years. Even those will have "Preferred Qualifications" of 5 years. Looking at my own staff, 4 have been promoted within 2 years of hire, one was just promoted after 6 years but this was the first opportunity since then (retirement).
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