Have you looked at freelancing websites, such as Upwork or freelancer?
have you tried lying about your work experience ?
I'm really struggling to turn this experience into a new career. Entry-level jobs seem few and far between and many require 12 months experience, the classic Catch 22.
Quote from: Wil on August 18, 2023, 07:20:29 pmI'm really struggling to turn this experience into a new career. Entry-level jobs seem few and far between and many require 12 months experience, the classic Catch 22.Have you applied for any jobs where you don't meet the criteria? To my knowledge applying for jobs where you don't meet the criteria is part and parcel of getting software jobs. E.g. I recently applied for a full stack job in the NHS which specified an essential criteria as having worked in healthcare, I don't have any healthcare experience. In the end I didn't get it because someone else was similar to me but with healthcare experience, however they did choose to interview me despite it being obvious in my application that I had no healthy experience and said I was second choice despite the lack of healthcare experience (always possible they said this to make the feedback phonecall less awkward, but I'm choosing to believe it...).On a different note, the small company I work for recently employed a graduate with a maths degree but very little coding experience to be a full time software developer in typescript/Angular and some C#. So there are some possibilities out there.
Have you applied for any jobs where you don't meet the criteria? To my knowledge applying for jobs where you don't meet the criteria is part and parcel of getting software jobs.
I've spent a lot of time in the past 18 months learning to code. At the start of the year I did a 3 month boot-camp, creating full-stack apps using React, MongoDB, Express and Node. I've also got some qualifications in TypeScript, C# and Java, as well as a Masters module in Machine Learning and a maths degree.I'm really struggling to turn this experience into a new career. Entry-level jobs seem few and far between and many require 12 months experience, the classic Catch 22.If anyone has any tips I'd love to hear them. Even better if you know someone who can offer me some short contract work to gain experience.