Why 'Entry' Level Jobs Now Need 3-5 Years Experience

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before.

An entry level job paying eight dollars an hour with no benefits at an unremarkable company… Oh and they want you to have at least three years’ experience in a similar role and preferably a masters degree... Searching for a job is a difficult and time-consuming task. Most Americans do not have enough savings to survive for more than two weeks without going into debt which means it is also stressful.

No matter how efficient the hiring process is made you are never going to have fun looking for a job and nothing can change that, but the corporate world has started to introduce a lot of obstacles that make the JOB of FINDING a JOB as painful as possible.

It’s also simply bad business. Attracting the right talent is vital for business success. If businesses make their application process too difficult, they are going to filter out everybody but the most desperate candidates, which are rarely the BEST candidates. Companies that ask for multiple years of experience from applicants applying for entry level jobs also expose themselves to a similar risk. It might sound advantageous for the business to get an employee with years of experience that they can pay like a fresh graduate, but company management frequently overlook the reason that these applicants are looking for entry level jobs in a field they have been working in for years is that they are not that good at their job and they need to keep moving companies before their poor performance catches up with them.

A recent study conducted by Portland State University and published by the Harvard Business Review found that overqualified candidates did not outperform the control group and that paying significantly under market rates for talent will cost most businesses more in other areas. Multiple rounds of interviews also take paid hours from HR, hiring managers and third-party recruiters. Recruiters work on a commission basis for successfully placed candidates, but if a company makes candidates go through multiple rounds of interviews the recruiters can ask for a higher fee or they will be incentivized to send their best recruits to companies that have a simple hiring process so they can get paid quickly and reliably. It’s bad business and good company managers know it but there are three reasons why they still do it anyway.

The first reason is that it has become too easy to apply for a job.

Online job boards make it easy for applicants to apply to hundreds of jobs every day based on convenient filters that let them search results by industry, seniority, experience and salary range. Companies have attempted to adapt to this by having landing pages where users can fill in their details into the company’s own database by manually completing an online form. These forms typically ask for information that should be included on any good resume, but it enters it in a way that can be read by a computer instead of being read by a hiring manager saving them the time of manually going through thousands of applications by hand to find the attributes they are looking for in a candidate. The back end of these forms will enable the hiring company search through candidates by a similar set of filters than the candidates themselves used to find the job posting, evening the arms race between the volume of applications and the people that check those applications. This practice has become so common that there are now AI tools like Zety, Job Scan, and Rezi that check resumes against job posts to make sure that they are appealing to the AI systems that check resumes before the hiring manager does. So, an AI will write a resume to satisfy another AI to stand out against thousands of other applications also written and checked by AI.

So it’s time to learn How Money Works to find out why entry level jobs all of a sudden require three years’ experience and how you can take advantage of this to benefit your own career.

[nlpnt]

My favorite was the one that demanded 5 years coding experience in a programming language that had only existed for 3 years.

[shaymalchione]

I became a certified dental assistant & could not find a job. Every job I applied for told me I needed 1-2 years working experience. I asked well how am I supposed to get this experience if I can’t even get a foot in the door. I was told I should volunteer. I was a single mom with bills. I never found a job & it went to waste. They say people are too lazy to work but they’re too lazy to train people.

[splatbot]

"Nobody is to blame" No the companies are to blame, full stop. It's clear as day

[williampurser]

Yeah, applying for a job is an absolute joke anymore.

Saw a posting for a company I wanted to work for, read down the qualifications, and realized I was a 1 for 1 match with what they wanted. It was so precise, in fact, that I even had the specific degree they called out from the specific college they called out.

Not a word back.

[ponternal]

Finding a job out of school is like finding a partner. You either go through an online process where you are at a massive disadvantage due to sheer number of applications or you meet somebody through your connections.

[thetrainhopper]

“But you should just call the business and show initiative you lazy Millennial!”

Job application: DO NOT CONTACT US!

[Jfromes]

I love submitting a resume and then filling out the application that asks for all the stuff my resume has on it.

[joeman]

only person who is well off is ash from pokemon.
10 years old with 22 years of experience in his field

[maritimans]

And then employers say that no one wants to work anymore. That’s because applying for a job is a full-time job in itself.

[workingguy]

Wait til you see developer jobs that require 4-5 years experience for a technology that was invented just 2 years ago, even the developer who invented the framework applied out of curiosity and got rejected 💀

[taz]

It took 6 months for me to find a job, im convinced 90% of job postings are fake now

[pown]

I graduated from College with an IT/networking diploma last year. I applied for every IT job that had descriptions similar to what I had learned in school. Every, single, one had 1-2/3 years of experience as a “REQUIREMENT” but I applied anyways. I’m now working at a great company for my first IT job because I said fuck it and applied to every job regardless if I had experience or not. I had a great interview, said I was ready to learn and grow regardless if I had the experience they “required”. My advice is apply to every single entry level position regardless of the requirements.

[TheShadowcreator]

I love when my older relatives ask "which jobs have you applied to?" as if I remember the hundreds of jobs I have applied to.

[amandafrance]

I just finished my most recent round of job hunting. After seeing how hard it is even for people like myself with no criminal record, solid references, an address, a phone, a bachelors degree, 3 years experience in my general field of interest, an open schedule, no kids, and the ability to pass a drug screen, it really makes me wonder how on earth anyone without one or more of those things ever manages to get a job. I really feel for you if that's your situation

[vladimirofsvalbard]

I have a CDL, 4 years of Shunter op, excavation plumbing, and brewery. I'm also a stay at home dad that runs a business with my wife.
This was my experience from 2021-2022.

I applied to three breweries; two of which were by phone. Two told me that they weren't hiring and I never heard back from one.
I applied to 6 shipping companies(w/CDL); 2 demanded 6 day workweeks and 16hr shifts (due to a Federal loophole), 1 told me that I had to pickup my truck and drive to Columbus (1.5 hours) before I would be start to be paid each day, and I never heard back from the other three.

I applied to the water department, which I was referred to and told that they were having trouble hiring people. CDL-B was a plus (since I already have A Class). I never heard back from them.

I applied to two entry level data jobs (no college required). Never heard back from either.


I have a strong feeling that businesses have an incentive to falsely report their hiring statistics. How else can you explain the number of jobs available, but the inability to get them?

[mikkelnpetersen]

Friend of mine got a forklift license, he and his class literally applied at every single warehouse, factory, EVERYWHERE that had a forklift on its grounds, in the city and the 3 nearest cities too, and around half of them had "need forklift operator" job offers, EVERYWHERE they got the same answer "we want someone with at least 3 years experience".
How does places expect people to gain experience when nobody wants to hire?

[PinkDiamond]

It's the "everybody's hiring but nobody's getting hired" for me. The way it represents my 18 months of full-time job search/unemployment

[talesofinsomnia]

You forgot one other major problem- a recent study/survey estimated that up to 30% of job postings are for jobs that the hiring managers weren't actively looking to fill. They were "tire kicking" - looking to gauge demand for one of their filled positions, trying to make the business look like it was growing, or doing what was effectively a resume collect.

[Quionol]

I'm a fresh highschool grad and let me tell you entry levels are way harder than expected.
About a week ago I got rejected from Target twice. Two days in a row. I went through their incredibly weird application process and they emailed me saying "We are looking for better candidates." Like thanks pal it would've helped if your online application had a spot to put in my resume rather than a damn assessment.
Then I get a following email the day after saying "Oh we're sorry but your schedule does not comply with ours." I am a highschool student with nothing to do and my dad is already on my ass about finding a job what "schedule" of mine do I have???

Anyway the job market sucks nowadays.

[goddessbraxia]

1.5 years, 700+ applications. only 8 interviews (not counting preliminary ones with hiring companies) and all I got was a job working garden department at Lowe's. I have a bachelors degree in Graphic design and 6 years in the Navy managing personel and operating a nuclear powerplant.