I have been hearing this question a lot for last one or two years. Two years back I used to ask this question to myself and seniors as well. I was desperately looking for a job just after completing my under graduation. I dropped my resume to many places and they didn’t call me just because I didn’t have any previous experience except some university projects.
I don’t know, I feel, I have this soft corner for fresher, so whenever I can, just try to help them, encourage them make them believe that they can overcome this situation. Well, because I believe in hard work and I came out from this situation!
So, I better tell all fresher how I came out from this situation, maybe it will help them.
I started my journey with the help of Ahsan, he actually recommended me to that company named Alliance Creation and I carried the rest. [Note: it's always good to stay in touch with some Senior IT developers; so that, somehow they know u have some capability to work]. They used to work on PHP project and I was studying on .NET at that time. My all university projects where done by either Java or .Net. [Note: please try to do your university project by yourself; do solve the same problem using different language] So it was completely new scripting language for me to start with. But as I was desperate to be a developer, I took the challenge. At the beginning, life was hell because I was a dumb!! A super dumb who didn’t know how to submit a form using PHP, Who didn’t know how to get value from returned Array (). Well, our universities don’t teach us, do they? But I accepted all those criticism and kept myself positive. My starting salary was surely lower than a rickshaw driver [Note: please don't care about your starting salary!]. After 6 months of work I decided to leave the company because I got enough confident to work on other better places. But company requested me to stay with them. I did! But in next 6 months I joined TripperLabs which was my third company!
Ok, I’m using too much “first person” here, sorry for that. But my intention is not to talk about myself; rather I want to inspire you that you can!
My former colleague Emran wrote a similar post here, I guess you can get more help from there. Just finishing this with some request…
Try to..
- Stay positive
- Work hard, damn hard and believe you can!
- Be a quick learner
- Have problem solving ability!
- Be good at communication
All the best for you newcomer!





If I don’t get chance to work then how will I get experience?
Develop Open Source software !
What can be more pleasing, self-satisfying, rank-boosting and glorifying than that ? On top of that, if the software is useful, you get random donations from people
After you have developed something nice for the open source community, the firms will Come for you, you don’t have to run to them.
Cheers !
I have the same story, you talk right things!
I think many developers over the world start to work such way!
Don't worry for a money, work, work, work and you'll be succeed!
What an inspiration!!!! thanks bhaia..It will definitely work for me.
What an inspiration!!!! thanks bhaia..It will definitely work for me.