I've been wondering this for a while, but when asked about years of experience should you only count post-grad years?

I taught myself the Adobe programs in high school and started freelancing immediately, and also had a bunch of design internships in college that I think were really valuable. I don't want to discredit those experiences, but I also don't want to mislead anyone either. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to go about answering this?

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Count the full months of the internship — so if you did 3 internships for 3 mos each year, then that’s 9 mos of experience. This is of course if you were doing practical and transferable work. If you were an intern but just shadowed someone, don’t count it. I would not discount it outright just “because” it is internship.

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Definitely! You should count all of the months/years of your actual experience. I don't think anyone cares whether or not that experience happened before, during, or after college. I would include it all if I were you!

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I always include all the experience that you have. Even if it was not post-grad you should still include it when you are counting overall years of experience. It is not at all misleading to include it.

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Talk about your overall experience incl. high school years. Get specific about what skills you have currently but don’t shy away from the time you took to learn the programs

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