There\u2019s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. The photo is of two seasoned, older interviewers glaring critically across the table at a young interview candidate with the following words: \u201cWe\u2019re looking for someone age 22-26\u2026 with 30 years of experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
This credibility paradox is indeed a core dilemma many young people face as they enter the workforce. To be successful, young workers \u2014 or anyone starting a new job or career with little previous experience in a given field \u2014 need to be seen as credible before they have had the opportunity to build expertise from the ground up. It puts a new spin on the idea of \u201chitting the ground running.\u201d With the credibility paradox, there\u2019s no ground to run on; you need to have already covered the ground before even having started. Read the full article here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There\u2019s a meme on the internet, which speaks truth about a dilemma for young people entering the hypercompetitive workforce of 2017. The photo is of two seasoned, older interviewers glaring critically across the table at a young interview candidate with the following words: \u201cWe\u2019re looking for someone age 22-26\u2026 with 30 years of experience.\u201d This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions\/75"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/careerpathways\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}