I'm nearing the end of my 2nd year of uni and, as part of my 3rd year, required for me to GRADUATE, I have to complete 70 hours of work experience relating to my degree.
I've been applying non-stop to part-time, entry level jobs for 2.5 years to get a little bit of income and have made it to exactly 2 interviews and no further, even after getting several rounds of career and CV advice. I figured, oh well, entry level is screwed, I'll get job experience when I do an internship. I've already applied for over 30 internships (many through prospective applications) and heard back from none of them.
I just wanted to show this skill description for one in a sustainability engineering internship. Regardless of whether this job is suitable for my degree or not, these recruiters are *delusional* if they think they're going to find a 20/21 year old student with practical electrician's experience, data analysis, supply chain management experience *and* CAD. I know other students who do various engineering degrees and know for a fact none of them have every skill listed, maybe one or two, but not all. Btw, this internship is a partnership directly with my university, specifically offered as a summer internship for penultimate year students.
Since when did internships, where you're supposed to work for free in return for experience and actually learning these skills, become literal slave labour with no pay, requiring that you already know everything in the first place? How the hell are young people supposed to get jobs? How the hell are we supposed to *graduate* when we need a job to do that, but no job will take us?
Sorry for the rant but I'm just so *tired* of this stupid economy that is actively excluding young people from employment for the fact that they can't be bothered teaching us the job.
