Trying to get a job?
A common joke is that “you need experience to get experience.” Which would be funny if it didn’t mean that getting a first job, or a first internship, isn’t always the easiest.
That’s what it felt like to me during my freshman year in college. I wanted to participate in my school’s co-op program, in which students could rotate between work experiences and full-time education. But I’d been told that no one would want to hire me as a freshman, so I wasn’t sure how to move forward.
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