Hello everyone, I spent almost 3 years as a self taught dev and started applying just before the industry layoffs started happening. Tried my hardest, but couldn’t land an interview. I have built multiple full-stack web applications, launched a simple website for a local business, built my own blog site and portfolio, as well as contributed to open source over the years. I decided last semester to go back to college and get my bachelors, hoping the current environment will get better a bit by 2026. Unfortunately, I can only afford to go to a local 4 year college and not a big name university. I plan on approaching a specific professor about doing extra work, hoping he might have something for me to do, but I wanted to get other peoples opinions. I’m also applying for internships as I see them (no luck so far). What else can I do outside of college to really beef up my resume when I graduate? Having a year and a half of time makes me believe I can work on something pretty advanced to WOW a recruiter and have it be a great talking point during an interview, but I’m really coming up short with ideas. Besides participating in research (basically out of the question with my college) or starting my own company, I’m not sure what else I could do that would stick out on a resume. Please, no “switch majors” or doom and gloom responses. Otherwise, any advice is appreciated!!
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r/cscareerquestions Hello everyone, I spent almost 3 years as a self taught dev and started applying just before the industry layoffs started happening. Tried my hardest, but couldn’t land an interview. I have built multiple full-stack web applications, launched a simple website for a local business, built my own blog site and portfolio, as well as contributed to open source over the years. I decided last semester to go back to college and get my bachelors, hoping the current environment will get better a bit by 2026. Unfortunately, I can only afford to go to a local 4 year college and not a big name university. I plan on approaching a specific professor about doing extra work, hoping he might have something for me to do, but I wanted to get other peoples opinions. I’m also applying for internships as I see them (no luck so far). What else can I do outside of college to really beef up my resume when I graduate? Having a year and a half of time makes me believe I can work on something pretty advanced to WOW a recruiter and have it be a great talking point during an interview, but I’m really coming up short with ideas. Besides participating in research (basically out of the question with my college) or starting my own company, I’m not sure what else I could do that would stick out on a resume. Please, no “switch majors” or doom and gloom responses. Otherwise, any advice is appreciated!! submitted by /u/notenoughproblems [link] [comments]
Hello everyone, I spent almost 3 years as a self taught dev and started applying just before the industry layoffs started happening. Tried my hardest, but couldn’t land an interview. I have built multiple full-stack web applications, launched a simple website for a local business, built my own blog site and portfolio, as well as contributed to open source over the years. I decided last semester to go back to college and get my bachelors, hoping the current environment will get better a bit by 2026. Unfortunately, I can only afford to go to a local 4 year college and not a big name university. I plan on approaching a specific professor about doing extra work, hoping he might have something for me to do, but I wanted to get other peoples opinions. I’m also applying for internships as I see them (no luck so far). What else can I do outside of college to really beef up my resume when I graduate? Having a year and a half of time makes me believe I can work on something pretty advanced to WOW a recruiter and have it be a great talking point during an interview, but I’m really coming up short with ideas. Besides participating in research (basically out of the question with my college) or starting my own company, I’m not sure what else I could do that would stick out on a resume. Please, no “switch majors” or doom and gloom responses. Otherwise, any advice is appreciated!!
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