Catch Twenty-Two: How Do You Get A Programming Job After Graduating?

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As an Information Technology student, I was once having doubts on myself regarding my programming career after I graduate. There was even a time when I had a thinking of shifting to a more easier course with an assured career in the future. And the question goes like this, "How can you obtain a job with no experience after graduating or about to graduate, a genuine job and no internship from being a computer-related course?" Clearly, there’s always this catch twenty-two that you need to have the experience to obtain a job and you need employment to achieve experience, but the question is how do we do that?

Nowadays, you can construct your own mobile application company or perhaps a web application company and merely build one or two apps. I am thankful that I was born in the millennial era. It is particularly with mobile applications as among the awesome things for a software developer to gain experience even when you are still at school or haven't gone to college and undergone self-taught. It's not necessary an entire team. It's not necessary an enormous factor constructing a business, right?

You are able to really construct your own job and gain experience. If you are attending college at this time, and you’re studying information technology and you want to assure to obtain a job when you are getting out from school, well, start developing a project for yourself now. As a matter of fact, I have started working online from data entries, data mining, scraping, e-commerce, and so on an so forth since when I was a first-year college. I'm not boasting, but right now I can say that I am a proud virtual assistant and a graduating IT student with a long experience regarding the track that I have chosen. It isn't likely to have the standard prestige as employed by perhaps a bigger company but start your personal company, build a few mobile phone applications or develop a web application. Have some type of application that you’ve built, some type of software that may potentially earn money by itself. There will be multiple roads here.

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Maybe you’ll build some type of application and it'll do very well and also you won’t even need to work with another person. Maybe you can develop a whole business from scratches that might be awesome, but in the event that doesn’t happen because it’s less inclined to happen particularly if you’re carrying this part-time task earlier. What's going to happen is when you finish college and you have an experience you are able to say, “Look, if you want to this website, I built it and I’m selling it for $33/month” or anything or say, “Oh! Check out the app store and you may check this iOS or this android application which I built.” You are able to go on and reveal that for an employer and they’re going to check out and they might likely to say, “Wow, you really have experience.”

You’re getting past that catch twenty-two since you will have experience. Yes, it will not be experience employed by another person's company but does it really matter on your resume? Would you even need to report to who owns that company? I am talking about you can literally just get some resume from the little firm that you’ve produced when you work for your company part-time or anything. For those who have the best company and you’ve built the best product, then that may not really matter and a problem. A minimum of you are likely to look much better than all individuals than those similar college graduates that do not have experience. They’re just totally eco-friendly. You would surely beat them for the position you both are fighting for.

It’s going to take a few time to develop and make up that resume but it is of a great start and plus like I stated, you to have this added experience of you if ever you will go on an entrepreneurial route. You may have no idea on how to make a project for another person particularly if you’re just starting in college, but maybe when that you’ve been through your four years of school you’ve built a real business on your own by going this route making use of your skills. The greatest fear that the employer has is the fact that once they hire you, you cannot really write code and there’s an incredible quantity of software developers that emerge from college with four-year levels plus they really have no idea about coding. They're not able to really write code. Yes, they might have already read much useful stuff from book however they can’t really write code.

If you're able to really demonstrate that you could write code and good code that’s shippable, a shippable product, that’s likely to provide them with lots of confidence and it is likely to alleviate your job competitors fear. The large factor is the way are you able to develop experience by yourself. It's not necessary to have another person to get this done. You can produce a company easily. You can put apps in the application store. Marketing things online. I am talking about it is amazing how easy it is considering payments for processes like Stripe and Paypal and all sorts of this.

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Well, hopefully, this resource is useful for you. All the best and hope you receive a nice job when you are getting out from college. For those who have issues, you can message me personally. If you think this might benefit someone I’d be thankful if you would resteem this out and upvote it.

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Well, I guess such notations don't just revolve towards computer-related students rather for most people.

Sorry for being close-minded. Hehe

I was once there. The points you have enlisted here are very true!

We were once there Sir. :)

Well, we can't blame employers before employing a newly graduate programmers too because at the back of their minds is thinking if such fresh graduate is code-able. Good writing by the way.

I agree. That is why, it is a must to have online freelancing experience while you are studying. :)

You read my thoughts as an employer.

Just basing the facts from my previous jobs in online freelancing. ;)

I loved your contents!

Don't worry, I will never stop writing. ;)

Multi-tasking as an online freelancer while studying is worth a salute!

Thank you! :)

Bro, great content! Ang galing mo magsulat, idol! Haha.

Thank you bro! Partida baguhan lang ako sa Steemit. Hehe.

At first, it is scary choosing the field of programming but when you're near to graduation and learnt a lot of languages; it's just a piece of cake.

I salute you for the pride. ;)

The real world is different from the four corners of the classroom.

Yes because school has more pressure. Haha

Based on experience, it is really hard maintaining a programming job.

That is what most of my teachers always tell us. Haha

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