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Discussion on: How do I get experience when I have no experience?

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Darryl Norris
  • Read every day, about your industry this will eventually help you gain more experience, more knowledge that can help you in your interviews.

  • Work on open source projects. Companies see the value, and they can even see your skills in the code. Especially if you help has few commits on a big project, that adds value to an interview.

  • Talk to anyone that you know that is looking for a project to build and build it for them for free with the chances that you can showcase it online. Make sure is a realistic project with your skills set. Make sure you take these projects very seriously because they are going to help you in the future.

  • Find a company that needs a programmer and work for them very cheap.

  • Create a LinkedIn account let everybody know that you contribute to open source projects and that you have work on many projects.

These are the things that I did when I was getting started, and it works out perfectly for me. Hopefully, it will help you too.