It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.Catch-22Catch-22 /ˌkætʃ twentiˈtuː/ noun [uncountable] 
It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.
WORD ORIGINcatch-22
Origin:
1900-2000 Catch-22 book (1961) by Joseph Heller in which such situations are describedEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
- This is a Catch-22 I don't think rugby will be able to spin out of in this country.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRY It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.
an impossible situation that you cannot solve because you need to do one thing in order to do a second thing, but you cannot do the first thing until you have done the second: It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience. It’s a Catch-22 situation – without experience you can’t get a job and without a job you can’t get experience.