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- Job hunting sucks.
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And to prove it, I
analyzed 5,000 job listings
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to figure out just how
much experience you need
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for an entry level position.
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Must be a college Grad
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with a minimum of 20 years experience
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in the business world.
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Let me explain.
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- [Announcer] Thank you to Skillshare
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for sponsoring this video.
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- All right.
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So, I'm a YouTuber now,
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but for the longest time
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I thought I was gonna work a 9-5 job,
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so I did all of the things
I thought I needed to do.
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I studied math and finance.
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I joined business clubs at university
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and I ran through the gauntlet
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of every new grad job
opportunity out there.
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It was humiliating,
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it was exhausting
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and honestly,
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it just sucked butts.
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Butts.
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(chuckles)
Sorry.
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If you haven't been job hunting recently
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here's what it's like.
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- Here's the resume you asked for.
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- Cool. Thanks.
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So where'd you go to school?
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- It's on my resume.
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- Any relevant work experience?
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- Oh,
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this is an entry level job, right?
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- Yeah, That's why we're
just looking for like
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3-5 years of relevant work experience.
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- I don't have that.
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- I...
- well, you'll hear from us.
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- And then you never hear from them.
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And I know I'm not alone on this
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because I asked you guys on Instagram
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what your biggest job
hunting frustrations were
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and...
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(sighs loudly)
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There were a lot of them.
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Besides being completely dehumanizing,
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the biggest complaint that
I saw was the notion that
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you needed work experience
to start working.
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It doesn't make sense.
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It's like the chicken and
egg problem on capitalism.
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But is it true?
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Today in this video you and
I are going to figure out
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how much experience you
really need to start working
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and why that's even a thing.
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(soft rock music)
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Okay. I need data.
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So what I'm gonna do is borrow
some entry-level job postings
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without permission
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from a website that rhymes within
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bid.
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Yep. That works.
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But jobs have locations.
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So in order to make this video
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as applicable to you as possible,
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I'm going to be using a
standardized distribution
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of the top three English
speaking countries
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that watch these videos.
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So that is the United States,
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the United Kingdom
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and Canada
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sorry Australia,
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you didn't make the cut.
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It also says that at 54.5%
of y'all watching this
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probably aren't subscribed.
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So,
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you should do something about that.
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Anyway, if my goal is to
analyze 5,000 entry level jobs
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that means I need,
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(sighs)
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(keyboard clatter)
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Future Sabrina, can you do this?
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- I did it.
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All right, let's start.
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So I'm doing a thing called web scraping.
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It's pretty easy.
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It's just time consuming
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for the nerds watching I'm using Python,
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Selenium and Beautiful soup
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as well as a VPN because
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I don't want my actual IP
address to get blacklisted.
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What if I need to get a real job?
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Anyway, for the non nerds,
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here's the gist.
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Every webpage is made of
these little containers
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that hold the information.
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I tell my code what containers to look in
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to get what I need.
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Then it sucks up that
information like a little vacuum.
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Okay.
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So, that's just gonna
run in the background.
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Hopefully it doesn't fail.
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Anyway, while I'm
gathering all of the data
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to figure out how much
work experience "you need"
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to start working.
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I figured it was high time to start
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on the second part of my question
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why?
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what is the reason?
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we can't use that too
many videos in a row.
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What is the reason to expect experience
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for an entry-level job?
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(upbeat music)
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I learnt two things.
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First, the attitude of people
writing about job hunting
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is terrible.
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Here's some of the stuff they said
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New college hires are like toddlers
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they know a bunch of stuff
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but not how to put it all together.
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Someone coming straight out of college
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with zero years of experience
is going to be a dud
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a complete waste of time.
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Not a human being apparently.
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And like the articles that promise tips
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on helping out in the job hunt,
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they just call people lazy
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and shame them for not being successful.
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Like the whole industry
around trying to get a job
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seems to forget that people
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are people who are just trying
to survive under capitalism.
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I'm so tired.
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Anyway, second thing.
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I did find a few articles
that outlined the logic behind
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why Entry-level jobs would
expect any experience at all.
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However, it is largely
based off of anecdotes
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from people who work in HR or survey data.
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So take all of this with a grain of salt.
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- [Narrator] Here are three
reasons why entry-level jobs
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might expect experience.
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First, screening.
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It's the same reason
why college applications
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expect standardized test
scores in personal essays.
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The more comparable data
points employers have
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the easier it is for them to
filter for top candidates.
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while not always the best measure
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having relevant and recent experience
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usually doesn't hurt.
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Second, cost reduction.
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The faster an employee can get to work
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the faster they can start
making employers money.
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People with less experience may need
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more time to learn not only
the specific skills of the job
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but also what is expected of
them in the workplace dynamic.
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Finally, non-existence,
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there's a fair argument to be made
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that our popular understanding
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of entry-level work doesn't align
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with the reality of what's available
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with traditional entry-level work
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being automated or outsourced
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many base level jobs expect
a higher degree of skill
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that education alone
does not prepare you for.
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So, employers just jump ahead
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and ask for people with experience.
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Regardless,
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the expectation of work experience,
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consistently served as shorthand
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for the employer's convenience,
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not a hard rule.
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If you satisfy most requirements,
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believe in your competence
and want the job,
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then it's worth applying anyway.
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The worst thing they can say is no
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or ghost you.
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- So those were just some reasons why
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entry-level jobs might expect experience
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but the question remains.
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How much?
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That's what this spreadsheet is for.
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It's not the most impressive
spreadsheet I've ever made
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but you know,
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I'm doing my best.
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Anyway, this contains the
5,000 jobs that I scraped.
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Just the word of warning.
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This is recent data.
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So it might not be fully
representative of more
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precedented times.
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However, here's what I found out
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of 5,000 entry-level job postings.
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12% expected prior experience.
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Of those jobs, only 15% expected
3-5 years of experience.
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In fact, the vast majority of
jobs that require experience
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preferred only about one to two years.
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But however,
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there was this one bankers
job posting that said,
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'Must be a college Grad
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with a minimum of 20 years experience
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in the business world."
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What does that even mean?
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Anyway,
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the most common jobs
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that don't mention experience
were in retail and service.
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While the ones that do
were usually office jobs
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or work that required
more technical expertise.
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So, how much experience do
you need to start working?
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Well, if you want a job,
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period.
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You're willing to accept anything.
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You don't really need experience,
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or at least that's what
the job listings say.
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However, if you want a job
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that's more traditionally
considered "a career",
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then you're gonna need at
least one year under your belt.
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Preferably two.
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Why that happens can be
for a number of reasons.
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But one thing is true.
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It's a bummer,
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because as you know,
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we live in a society
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and so people need to work to live.
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For most people,
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their job is their main source of money.
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So it directly impacts
their quality of life.
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And every time we increase
the barrier to entry for work,
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we push people away.
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For example,
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consider gig work.
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By definition,
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it is temporary.
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It comes with all of the risks
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and none of the health insurance.
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I asked some of you why you take on gigs
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and the top reason wasn't
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"I wanna be my own boss".
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It was low barrier to entry.
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People need money now.
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So they'll take the job they can get.
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And listen, I know what some
of y'all are about to say.
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Of course we need barriers to entry.
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Businesses have valid
reasons supply and demand
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sToNkS
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but shut up for a second.
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right?
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Because I don't believe that
that is a good enough reason
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for humanity to dedicate
so much of its existence
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to maximizing higher ability.
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Is that,
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is that crazy to say?
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Is that wild?
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Like we're told do well in school
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so you can get into an even better school.
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And that stamp
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from that better school
will get you a better job.
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That's like 10 years of your life
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and economics aside.
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I think that that
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is silly.
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And I don't have a pretty
bow to tie up this video.
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I had a question
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and I found the answer
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that everybody expected.
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However, I do have one thing to say
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just one request for the
people on the other end
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of all of these terrible job portals.
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And it's this,
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can you please just tell
us if we don't get the job?
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You already have our emails.
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Just say you didn't get
it instead of ghosting.
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Is it that hard?
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I'm done
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(laughs)
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