A fresher question – if I don’t get chance to work then how will I get experience?

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!