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by auxbuss 5778 days ago
You sound like someone who most folk would welcome on board. Don't worry about limited experience so early, I know that's easy to say, but it really won't matter in the near future when you have moved on.

Remember that to recruiters you are the product, not the customer. Adjust your behaviour and thinking accordingly. There are some great recruitment folk out there, but there are far more sales-droids. Don't let them define you or your career.

Nothing is going to change until you change it. So, ...

I'd attend some local tech meet-ups, and start talking to folk. Try to get involved in anything that vaguely interests you that involves the local network.

Scan the job adds, determine the companies, then try approaching them directly. Email might work, but best would be to call them and try to get in front of the appropriate folk.

But don't worry too much about experience. Folk will see that you are starting out and set their expectations accordingly. If you've learned one bunch of tech, chances are that you can learn another. That's what we do throughout our careers, after all.

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Thanks for the support! Well, I understand the business from a recruiters point of view. However, the majority of the job posts comes from recruitment companies and it is hard to avoid that. Occasionally I find a job announcement from a company but it is not easy. Once I apply for the jobs through the recruitment companies, I have the feeling that my application enters in a black hole where someone will decide if I should really apply for the job based on some checklists. I don't have any control or saying on that matter, which is frustrating...