Career advice for a 3rd Year CS Undergrad from India
Hello guys, I'm a CS student from India, currently in 2nd semester of my 3rd year, being following theo's channel for a while, my aim is to get an entry-level tech job as a fresher in next 6 months
This is my current tech stack:
- Next.js
- Typescript
- React
- Tailwind CSS
I only know the basic beginner stuff about these, I do happen to GPT things from time to time for projects. I have done only 1 project so far utilising the tech stack above which i think its mediocre at best.
Being a noob here, what do you guys highly recommend I do in the next 6 months to hopefully land a job
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Build more and more projects around the tech stack
not just clone
solve some problem even if it's you who faces those
You have to see the kind of jobs in your area
And see whats common there
Also depends on what you want to do fullstack, purely backend or frontend etc
Must backend or fullstack will require database knowledge
I think the stack you learned is good enough
You should mostly focus on whaat the job posting responsibilities are saying
And learn those
You cant know everything but
You be able to do some of those duties and know best practices and pass the interview
Usually i struggle with good project ideas which can in turn help the developers, so are there any sources, articles, engineer bloggers to follow to get such ideas ?
Sorry, im not sure.
But you generally want projects that bring impact or solves a real problem and something you can add metrics or sales which is better in your resume
what i usually do is explore the recent open source projects and will try to architect the system design of that project on my own and build that project from ground up and compare mine to that open source project. will this strategy works?
If it for learning purposes then sure, but if it for resume then make sure it just not copy and paste and also it something you can quantify and feel comfortable if in an interview they ask you about it
Etc you dont want a todo app on a resume
Instead something like Boosted sales by xyz using abc etc
Or optimized xyz increasing abc etc
Something to quantify on
Alright got it, Thanks @泣いオオカミー ≛ 🏆 ≛ for the kind advice 🤝
Aight ser, will act on that advice
Okay sir, noted!
if your goal is not building a startup and wanna get hired by your projects as well then look for YC startups and what they are building and build project around it so that you can apply there as well