Ask HN: How to hire fresh or recent graduates?

Is your problem that you can't find people at all, or that the people you find are no good?<p>If it's the first, then you may not be advertising in the right places. If it's the second, then you may actually be staring away good candidates with the "no specific experience requirements".<p>I know that that sounds strange, but in a world where most people recruiting are asking for way more experience than they need (and in some cases is even possible), specifically asking for people with "no experience required" tends to throw up red flags for people who are expecting to apply for jobs which, on paper, they aren't actually qualified for.<p>I, myself, have seen plenty of jobs with copy along the lines of "No experience required", and every time it makes me wonder if they're either horrible employers (who can't attract skilled workers), or they're trying to scam me somehow (some recruiters like to place speculative job ads just to collect resumes).

My first thought is to look for math, philosophy, economics, business management majors. Those jobs don't necessarily have such a direct path into the work place like mechanical engineering, accounting, or nursing. Friends I've had in those categories have a harder time finding jobs, especially if they have no experience.<p>Secondly, many of the people who work in sales that I know didn't stay long with school, because at some point they realized they could do well based on their hustle alone. College/university is often seen as a 'safe' bet, while dropping out and working as a commission based salesman isn't, so it attracts a different crowd. The recommendation is to then maybe not focus on recent, inexperienced college grads, but focus on sales people without industry experience who are willing to make a switch. Facebook ads could help target these, maybe?