That's cos it isn't true. Breaking into the industry is almost entirely portfolio based. Occasionally you'll have a graduate recommended by a tutor you met previously but that's probably 1 in 20 or 50 hires. Mostly it's cold applications or people you meet when you go out visiting universities When youve been around a few…
no one is going to give you recommend you if you have a mediocre portfolio. if you get hired and cant actually do the job or deliver half baked results, it's going to blow back on the person who gave the recommendation, and 99% of people dont want to take that risk, hence only vouching for people they have directly worked…