I'm getting really tired of interviewers telling me I don't have enough experience for a role and then seeing a fresh graduate get the same role or one that requires more experience.

I graduated in 2020 with five amazing internships in the film industry at places like Sony Pictures, ViacomCBS, and Snapchat. Of course when I graduated, literally nobody was hiring. I managed to get a semi-adjacent job at a social media start-up and now I'm finally starting to get interviews at big name places since things are opening back up. But in a lot of interviews, they tell me I don't have enough experience because I couldn't find a film job when I graduated (along with 99% of the class of 2020). As if my internships don't count for anything.

I think that's fair enough, but then I see 2021 graduates on LinkedIn posting their long acceptance speeches for jobs that I applied to that told me I don't have "enough experience" and sometimes for jobs that require even more experience. Then I go through their profiles and see that either they have similar internship experience or sometimes even LESS than what I have.

I get it, part of it is luck and being at the right place at the right time. Maybe they interned at the place and their entry level boss was leaving and it made sense to hire them for that role. Or maybe their dad played a round of golf with the SVP of Marketing at Disney. But whatever it is, it's so frustrating and I don't know how to deal with it. Every time an interviewer says I'm a good culture fit but "lack experience", I wish I could send them screenshots of those god damn acceptance speeches. But I know I'm just being bitter.

Has anyone else noticed that?

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