Hey guys, sorry if this isn't appropriate, but I've been applying for jobs for almost a year now and having kind of a rough go of it. Was wondering if anyone had any new grad referrals they were willing to give out? I thought it would be enough to have an internship on my resume, but I guess not. Living at my parents' place will probably drive me insane soon. All I want to do is work on an actual product while generating income lol. All my friends, some worse coders than me, have landed good, high-paying jobs and I'm out here being a bum. Kind of frustrating. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. edit: resume screenshot now attached
Where do your rejections lie? Can’t get a call for interview? Phone screen? Onsite?
Can't get a call for an interview. At first, when I was just trying to get another internship for some extra experience, I got like 5 interviews on ~300 applications. Did well on 4/5 technicals (solved with optimal complexity), explained big O and such, and they did not pan out for reasons I could not figure out. Decided to say screw internships and now ~50 applications into full time it's all just flat out rejections.
Definitely polish your resume. Even look into hiring one of the resume polishing services, it’s not much around $50-$100. I had the same problem a long time ago, a friend helped polish. Helped HUGE. Keywords are important. Template matters a lot since most use scanning bots these days, you most likely end up to the bottom or not parsed at all.
What are you doing currently to both get yourself out there, and build/showcase your skills?
I've just been applying for the past year. At first I wanted another internship to gain a little more experience before getting out there and sent out like ~300 applications with no dice. Got like 5 interviews, did well on 4 of the technicals and none panned out. Was in a rut for a while and about a month ago decided to say screw it and try full time, no luck so far with ~50 applications there. The irony is my first internship prior was landed within like 5 applications lmao
I would move 'skills' under 'Projects'
Lmao I wish
Oh yeah I suppose that's not too important. Will think about what else I could stick in with the extra space. Maybe I'll start another project
Where are you applying? Irvine and Orange County in general is a tough market for new grads.
All over, idc really about location. Most applications scattered around California, some across US. Very few if any applications in OC, though
What did you actually do in your internship? Right now it just sounds like you “worked in c# on a team.” Be more specific on your contribution and impact.
It was pretty mundane work, was just kind of modularizing some 7k line test function to make it more customizable
That’s better than nothing. You could say something “refactored and modularized a 7000 line code base in line with OOP best practices resulting in x% improvement in test coverage [or some other metric] and improved reusability. Right now that first bullet is confusing and a run-on. I’d try to replace the second bullet with something stronger. Stuff like “gained experience in,” “contributed to” and “assisted with” are weak.
I do t get it you should have been able to get recruited out of UCI what happened did you skip every career event.
Actually did get that internship at career fair and after that ended I moved back to norcal
Make sure bullets start with an a verb...developed, created, etc.. you need to spin what you actually did into a good story. What improvement did you make? What are the benefits of the work? Also what level roles are you applying to? My hunch is they are above your years of experience
I'm honestly applying to everything in sight, without discretion, so there's probably something there. Still though, I feel like this process shouldn't suck *this* much. My friends are all chillin
You need a referral and Leetcode (target 200). Your background is solid to get a junior role imo.
Yeah, might as well hit leetcode with all my spare time as well. I've got a pretty high hackerrank practice score, but leetcode seems to be effective for people as well. How do you recommend going about it, just hitting 200 random questions?
It depends. I did by topic.
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Post your resume here so we can ruthlessly criticize it, and maybe you might get some referrals.
Posted, sorry for delay