When hiring juniors i look for curiosity and energy. Clojure knowledge is way lower (and sometimes not even required)

Before I was hired, I had no clojure knowledge aside from a month of casual use in my off time.

If you really want a clojure job and have time for it, build something non trivial (more than 2kloc) in it and get it deployed. Doesn't matter what it is, if I see a 20kloc project on a public git, it means you've learnt a hell of a lot of things about how to put a project together and actually deliver. If you're a junior and you come to me with that, I'll likely put you on par with a number of intermediate developers. Note this is a significant time investment, but it's something that absolutely will get your foot in the door almost anywhere.

It is easier to teach clojure to non-programmers than to many senior programmers