re: Employers to New Grads: We Don't Care About Your Grades, Classes, or College

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She had a bunch of opportunities for interviews in her field, but was turned down at every place because they refused to hire anyone without 2 years of experience.

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oh how quaint.

this is how it went for me too.

i had a double major (math/journalism-advertising) because i was a geek that also wanted to hang out in classes with hot girls too.

anyway, the point is nobody at the ad agencies in houston (i wanted to be a copywriter) would give me the time of day. they would practically laugh me out of the building with my shitty little resume & degree from LSU.

this was 1990.

i had a Mac SE and a shitton of experience on PageMaker, Freehand (precursor to Illustrator) and tons of experience using Linotronic 300s and Postscript.

so i was hired by a computer retailer in houston..and immeidately began cold calling those same agencies to sell them macs.

because they were just moving off typeset/letraset vinyl type into computers, i made sales with ease because i would go in and do little tutorials on how to layout stuff in PageMaker..hell the Macs sold themselves back then.

CSB i know..but i got my revenge because several of them tried to hire me and by that time i had already decided on a different career path so i would remind them of how they treated me when i was originally interviewing with them as i walked out the door with a smile on my face.