This is a great comment and so true, I switch career after a couple of years on the of market and became a software engineer around 33 yrs old. For my first gig, I add to settle for a job similar to what I did before my master's degree because everyone was asking 5 yrs of experience for almost every technology in there job description which i did not have obviously since I just graduated.
I discovered the hard way that not a lot of employers are ready to let you learn on the job.
Before my SE master's, I always coded with VBA and microsoft related technologies. I was always trying to automate my business processes to be more efficient and free my time to do the real job of a business analyst analyse. When I graduated and wanted to make the leap to SE. I discovered that I was treated like if I was a junior even though I ahd been on the job market for 10 yrs. The interesting part is that most of the time I would get the interview because HR was impressed with my resume and all my business experience but when I would talk to the engineers even though I always had a big disclaimer that most of my experience coding was from school but that I was bringing other very good qualities that would help me thrive in a technology environment. The interviewers were looking down on me like I was an idiot. Makes the whole process tedious and idiotic.
The good news is I finally have an employer who did not treat me like a junior and allowed me to grow in to my current role. This employer always finds people to come to work for there organisation. I have noticed that most of the recent hire did not meet all the technology requirements but they all had a passion for technology and getting the job done with whatever they were bringing in there tool box. If more employers would recruit like that, we would not always hear them complained that they can never find good candidates.
I agree, corporate recruitment is broken and I hate when I feel I need to beg for a job in an interview. Hopefully, in the future companies who make it are the ones who finally figured out that they are the one needing resources not the way around.
The good news is I finally have an employer who did not treat me like a junior and allowed me to grow in to my current role. This employer always finds people to come to work for there organisation. I have noticed that most of the recent hire did not meet all the technology requirements but they all had a passion for technology and getting the job done with whatever they were bringing in there tool box. If more employers would recruit like that, we would not always hear them complained that they can never find good candidates.
I agree, corporate recruitment is broken and I hate when I feel I need to beg for a job in an interview. Hopefully, in the future companies who make it are the ones who finally figured out that they are the one needing resources not the way around.