I have a friend who works for an IT company.

Everyone at this company studied IT related things, but he studied philosophy (I'm not joking and yes, you read that correctly).

He has a very small IT background and is not very gifted mathematically (i.e. I had to explain to him what a median is for example and using a median vs using an average).

But . . . he comes from a sales background and is very gifted as communicating and exaggerating a little.

Somehow, he got the job as a technology analyst. He uses a massive amount of SQL; but he had a fire under his *** sortaspeak. He exaggerated about knowing what to do and then studied his *** off after work each night.

He has been there for three months so far.

I think not having any experience will definitely work negatively, but I think it also boils down to being able to sell yourself (like any other job).

My local chapter for PASS (I think that's what it is called) meets at an IT company (or at least it has been) once every month or every other month, maybe I'll just stop in and try to network that way.