How to gain experience without work ?
2 min readMar 23, 2023
Here I will be discussing some ways in which you can gain experience and be job-ready, let’s start.
nowadays, it’s difficult to find a job without any previous experience, but we need a job to gain experience and we need experience to get a job, what will end to an infinite loop, so let’s break the loop, and find another suitable solution.
- Find an internship.
- Let’s classify internships into 2 main categories:-
- Real Internships: in which you will be working with a real team on a real project, save your time and start seaching for them on LinkedIn and Internshala.
- Virtual Internships: in which you will be working alone on virtual projects, you can start looking for them now on Forage, TheSparksFoundation and LetsGrowMore. - Find a team and build a project together.
- Being in a team, will let you share your experience with others and gain experience from them, let’s start looking for a team on LinkedIn or Chingu. - Contribute to open source project.
- Contributing to an open source project will make you aware about how large projects are built and how a team can collaborate to build them, if you are interested about this kind of experience, check UpForGrabs and CodeTriage. - Be a volunteer.
- You can start volunteering with any non-profit organization to gain experience, some of these organizations are FreeCodeCamp, CatchAFire, CodeYourFuture, Teals and CoderDojo. - Participate in community activities.
- You can check GoogleDeveloperStudentClub and TheSparksFoundation Campus Ambassador. - Participate in competitions.
- For example, you can check GoogleDeveloperSolutionChallenge. - Build a large network and share your thoughts with them.
- LinkedIn is the best place for that.
That’s all, paying attention to these points will help your gain experience and be job-ready.
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