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Originally Posted by Nightfyre
I've been pretty realistic, I'd have to say. I've had several interviews, and was told I did well in them, but there are people with absurd amounts of experience being pressed into lower jobs, especially in the financial industry, which is where I am applying a good amount of the time.
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That's good wrt being realistic. I have seen way too many post-grads trying to land high paying gigs. Any more, experience trumps a diploma (with the exception of most professional fields). Experience + diploma is always a good thing.
Only way to get experience in most cases is to take a low paying, brutal job. Bust your ass and do the best you can for a couple of years, learn the ropes until you can do your job backwards, forwards, and sideways, then move up.
Heh, I interviewed a guy two weeks ago who was all diploma. He got so flustered in the interview I thought he was going to start crying. You CANNOT bullshit the interviewer if said interviewer has expertise in the field. It is better to say "I don't know off the top of my head, but it wouldn't take me long to look it up", then site WHERE one would "look it up", than try to BS your way through it.