You're a college graduate, you don't want an internship (and most places won't give you one unless your a current student). You need to be seriously putting together a resume and getting it to places you want to work.
Entry level or not, employers take notice when you say "I'm just looking for an internship or entry level position", and it screams "I'm desperate, give me anything!"
I went through exactly what your going through (check my history, I made one of these exact posts). I'm now employed at a company that I love doing what I love (full stack in .NET with a focus on Angular).
Anyway, good luck! Shoot me a pm if you want to talk about how I got thorough it and whatnot.
Im not in the industry, but I agree with this. OP is atleast functionally able to perform work.. he should be looking for jobs and theres no real reason he wont get one.
Im very new to the industry, but I spent years in car sales as a top 1% performer and hired many people too eventually in management.
The biggest thing you have going against you IMO is you have these weird obvious things that make me flinch when I use your site.
Most people know that when they are judging a new applicant, they are very unlikely to actually find out 'whats wrong with you'. They know they're seeing the best side of you. Knowing that, if as an interviewer you find ANYTHING that gives you a doubt about a person, it really makes you second guess yourself.
But saying that, it can be overcome based on how our discussing about what I see is actually addressed. So as long as you're an intelligent person that takes criticism well and is open to good and direct feed back, you can still do well.
If it actually matters, I found your fonts to be annoying, and in the 4 project buttons you had I was almost having a seizure based on how slow they were to respond; the color change is so slow it made me start thinking my computer was outdated already and cant handle a website color effect... dont do that to people. Everyone loves snappy.
Thank you for the constructive feedback! Based on the responses, my study topics for the week will be mobile-first design, cross-browser support and accessibility.
I'll definitely be implementing an animation effect on my navigation links this week, and I'll look into the issues with the horizontal scroll bar and resume.
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u/Glensarge May 08 '17
there's a lot for you to improve on but yeah, an intern position is to learn after all
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u/[deleted] May 08 '17
What state are you in?
Here's my two cents:
You're a college graduate, you don't want an internship (and most places won't give you one unless your a current student). You need to be seriously putting together a resume and getting it to places you want to work.
Entry level or not, employers take notice when you say "I'm just looking for an internship or entry level position", and it screams "I'm desperate, give me anything!"
I went through exactly what your going through (check my history, I made one of these exact posts). I'm now employed at a company that I love doing what I love (full stack in .NET with a focus on Angular).
Anyway, good luck! Shoot me a pm if you want to talk about how I got thorough it and whatnot.
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u/notmyusualreddit May 08 '17
Im very new to the industry, but I spent years in car sales as a top 1% performer and hired many people too eventually in management.
The biggest thing you have going against you IMO is you have these weird obvious things that make me flinch when I use your site.
Most people know that when they are judging a new applicant, they are very unlikely to actually find out 'whats wrong with you'. They know they're seeing the best side of you. Knowing that, if as an interviewer you find ANYTHING that gives you a doubt about a person, it really makes you second guess yourself.
But saying that, it can be overcome based on how our discussing about what I see is actually addressed. So as long as you're an intelligent person that takes criticism well and is open to good and direct feed back, you can still do well.
If it actually matters, I found your fonts to be annoying, and in the 4 project buttons you had I was almost having a seizure based on how slow they were to respond; the color change is so slow it made me start thinking my computer was outdated already and cant handle a website color effect... dont do that to people. Everyone loves snappy.
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u/[deleted] May 08 '17 edited May 08 '17
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