Just turned 22. I'm filling out job applications with no prior work experience. I have no references to mark down and basically all jobs I've seen asks for this. What am I to do with no connections and work experience?
Get a job at a bar.
>>17882839
Join the Peace Corps. There's always a need for HIV/AIDS educators in Africa.
Get your friends to be fake references
For example
Put your buddy Tyrone down as your former manager at McDonalds. Then put his number down. Then you tell your nigga Tyrone when somebody calls him, that he's gotta confirm that you worked at McDonalds.
Do that like 2-3 times with different people and other fake job positions that you've "held".
>>17882929
This, OP. The human resource is massively inflated. There are many more people than there are jobs. You need to lie, lie, lie, you need to cheat, cheat, cheat, you need to become a crook to keep your head over the water. Either that or work for free for a few years.
>>17882929
>>17882951
not op, but i like you both. You're good people <3
>>17882955
die whore
>>17882955
I'm sorry, your advice was much more helpful to OP.
>>17882839
You don't have to have been paid for it for it to be experience. School clubs, church work, volunteering, etc.
Get a template for a "skills-based" resume and build it on experience you've had.
References can be a teacher, clergyman, neighbor.
Steer the focus away from what you don't have and focus on what you do
You could spin spending hours on 4chan as enjoying 'keeping up with the latest technology and media trends'
Gotta market the fuck out of yourself