Question: “If you don’t have the 5 years’ experience requested by the job description, how do you break into the industry?”
At industry conferences like MIX10, one of the most important things you can do is attend outside events—the ones hosted ad hoc or set up from people outside “the inner circle.”
So often, these events give you otherwise unavailable opportunities to meet Creative Directors, Designers, Developers, Evangelists and just regular guys and gals that have the same questions you do. It was during one such event that someone asked a great question, which spawned a discussion: “If you don’t have the 5 years’ experience requested by the job description, how do you break into the industry?”