Flicka: Thems was the good old days. They really do enforce the experience requirement now. I have no idea why.
If you have clippings and the like, you can sometimes get around this if you have an experienced ‘fixer’ pushing your application or if you are good deeling with civil servants and HR Nazis.
BTW: Your high school experience does not count. Work experience is defined as expereince you have AFTER you graduated from university.