I'm sure there are many jobs that ask for relevant experience. It's a vicious circle as old as time. Job requires experience: can't get experience without a job. Many people hoping to get a teacher training place at university will delay their application and work as a teaching assistant for a year. That gives them a real insight into how classrooms work and what a teacher's workload and working conditions are like. Potential students may be rejected without this experience especially when you bear in mind the huge drop out rate in the first five years of teaching (40% within a year!). Perhaps OP could lower her sights and work for a year in a care home or volunteer in a youth club or a battered women's refuge. That would be valuable experience to take to a social worker interview.
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