How to start your career as a software tester?

Hi there!
I guess it's time for me to start write some articles about software testing. As first, I think, it will be some article for fresh testers, about, how to get first job.
So, you are young specialist, maybe not so young, but fresh junior and you don't have any practical experience in testing, and all companies wants at least one year of experience. So, what to do in this case? Where to receive some exp? You can ask yourself - where I can get that 1 year if everyone want a year?
Answer is very simple, and if you are don't know it, hm, think again, or, you can read this article, of course.
Ok, you have some basic knowledge, but not work exp. Then, if you want to get it, you must look for open source projects and ask for a participation, or, you can look for other projects, not only for open source, and join them. This is a perfect solution for a junior tester! You can find these projects on different sites, forums or by friends. For example, you can look for these projects at GitHub, or CodePlex, or, at a lot of different resources, these two are just most popular, but you are free to choose. Next, you can practice your skills of testing by these projects and join to new, also it will be very hopeful to do some blogging, so a lot of people will know about you, and in what projects you are working on. As for me this is very easy and hopeful!
By the way, this is good idea not only for testers, but for a lot of others professions!
So, as you see, this is not a big article, but you got one, but very important advice from here, so, use it!