Career

Why Entry-Level Jobs Require Experience—and What to Do About It You open an “entry-level” job. It wants a degree, two years of experience, three software platforms, polished communication skills and evidence that you have already done the job somewhere else. This is not entirely your fault. A lot of employers …

There’s a particular insult to being told the job market is “strong” while you’re on your third application portal that demands you retype your résumé—again—into fifteen tiny boxes that cannot parse dates correctly. The economy, you’re informed, is thriving. Your inbox, meanwhile, is a mausoleum of polite auto-rejections and one …