Experience is the key

                    ‘Relevant qualifications and a minimum of three years experience required.’ Anyone who has ever applied for a job has seen this. Chances are that if you are fresh out of university you have got the qualifications but lack the experience. It’s a catch 22, if they give you the job, you’ll have a chance to gain experience but they won’t give you the job because you’re lacking in experience. So what do you do? You could try and develop your skills by working at something similar or with a smaller company, i.e. go out on loan ala David Beckham at Preston North End. You could emigrate, ala Mike Ross at Harlequins or you could catch a lucky break, ala Tom Brady (sixth round draft pick that got his opportunity when Drew Bledsoe got injured and is now one of the best quarterbacks of all time). It’s clear where these companies are coming from though; ‘you can’t put a price on experience’, a saying that Arsene Wenger seems to ignore. Beckham and Ross clearly benefited from their respective decisions and Tom Brady wasn’t a complete novice, having started every game in Michigan in his last two years there.