It's been a few weeks now, and I've been keeping off the job market, when a job position fell into my lap from a mate who turned it down.

It was an IT job, something I'm definitely qualified for, however upon enquiring about the position I was informed that I did not have the relevant experience, now coincidently I have been pushing to try and gain some voluntary experience *work for free* at my current job with the IT person who is desperate for help. Logic dictates that it would be something I'd be given, costs the company nothing, gains something, but the management have stated I'm not allowed.


I leave this post with the question, how do you gain experience if you're denied voluntary opportunities, and can't acquire work because you do not have the experience? Where do you go from that point forward? ...

I seen an advert in a job board stating there's a need for 500,000 IT staff over the next five years in the UK and it was for apprenticeships, what happened to the graduates in the UK qualified who can't acquire the work because no ones willing to help them get into employment?