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Orianna Rosa Royle

Gen Z grad landed an internship by wearing her university baseball cap to her pizza joint job. Now she works at Cisco

Photo of young woman with a photo of a pizza (Credit: (Left) Courtesy of Ayala Ossowski (Right) SolStock—Getty Images)

When every internship she applied to needed experience she didn’t have yet, one Gen Z grad took matters into her own hands and used a creative method to land a job.

Gone are the days when you can walk into a job just weeks after throwing your graduation cap into the air. In today’s overcrowded working world, entry-level jobs often require two to three years of experience. Internships were poised to be a solution to this conundrum, but as one American University student soon found out while trying to bag work experience, nowadays it’s hard to even land a role fetching coffee for corporate executives.

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