How do I get a job without experience?

Erik Andersen
3 min readJul 8, 2022
Photo by Adetola Afolabi on Unsplash

For better or worse, recruiters index on years of experience more than anything else when they read your resume

Do you have several exciting side projects?
Do you contribute to open-source?
Do you volunteer as a mentor?

While these are objectively good activities, none of it matters as much as that timeline on your…

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Erik Andersen

Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. Also an independent coach, teacher, and public speaker. My opinions are my own