Having a degree and no experience.

I hear ya!!! When I graduated from college I had a heck of a time finding a teaching job. I was hearing the same thing you were - that they were looking for someone with some experience. How do you get that experience if noone wants to hire a fresh graduate?? It's a great question I'd love to know the answer to. I luckily did find a job eventually - but it's still really depressing when you're a fresh college grad and you keep hearing this when you interview!

What kind of job are you looking for? I had a similar problem. I was looking at jobs for quite a while. I sent my application all over the place, but it seemed that everyone wanted me to have experience before they would hire me. The solution I came up with was going through a temporary agency. In the scientific laboratories, the best way to get experience is to take contracts. Sometimes they are 6 or 9 months. Most times they are only 3 months. The pay is lousy and the benefits are usually terrible or nonexistant. But you do get experience. It sucks having to constantly look for new contracts, but all paychecks you get are good ones! Dont give up, keep looking. Be sure to sell yourself and the things you do have experience in that are related to your field. You will find something if you keep looking.

I think you got to apply to any job that you may lay sight of. Don't look for high paying jobs after graduation. Look for something you like and does not require any experience to be employed. With the current status of recession worldwide even I haven't found another job yet. I'm experienced though.

Have you ever tried some on-campus recruitment held by various entreprises? Use the job-hunting service of your school as they'll provide you some vacancies without high experience requirement. I've worked in an very famous HR consulting firm and learned that actually, employers know that graduates won't have too much working experiences except from part-times or internships, so they do develop different channels to recruit new graduate and give them certain trainnings. So maybe you could be more specific while job-hunting, like lots of multinationals provides special traineeships , such as l'oreal, P&G, etc.etc. etc.....