[kirklancaster]

This thread makes my blood boil - What has this country come to when young people who have PROVED themselves decent, hard-working and studious, and willing to make sacrifices in their social lives to attain qualifications, have to then face the prospect of long, lowly-paid stints as glorified labourers?

The 'Catch 22' scenario of not being able to secure a position of employment due to 'lack of experience' when the only way to achieve that experience is by actually being GIVEN a job, is nothig new, but it does appear to have become more common due to the increasingly problematic employment crisis.

I am being deadly serious now, but my advice is not for the faint-hearted or puritanical among you - FAKE that fecking 'experience' on your CV.

It is not difficult and there is a very minimal risk of being 'sussed'. I know lots of - now - successful people who have done just that to gain that all important first job, and none of them have been 'legged up'.

I will even help you do it.

Sorry, but the short-sighted 'Personnel Managers' who insist on this 'experience' MUST have encountered similar when they were first seeking their first job, so one would assume that they would be more sympathetic to newbie applicants.