What is the term for a situation where you need to do first in order to do second, but to do first you need to do second?

Practical example:

In order to get a job you need experience. To have experience you need to get a job.

What is the right term to call this?


Solution 1:

The English term you're looking for is Catch-22.

It comes from the title of the 1961 novel Catch-22, by Joseph Heller.

Solution 2:

Also circular dependency or chicken-and-egg problem or (temporal) paradox.