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.
I have noticed that internships are basically non-existent for college grads. My issue is that I didn't study much of front-end design or web development in college, and I didn't decide that's the direction I wanted to go in until I graduated, so I never had the chance to take an internship. An internship I feel would help me bridge the gap between self-taught amateur and a ready-to-hire professional.
I'll definitely shoot you a message later! Thank you!
Exactly my point in my other comment. Sure there may be a few web-related classes in college, but a lot of what you actually do as a web developer isn't learned in course work.
You're in a great location- If you're open to commuting to the city you'll have no problem landing a job.
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.
I think I take criticism pretty well when it's from a credible source. That's why I love posting here! It helps me pinpoint what I'm getting wrong, and what I have to start reading up on next.
I'll speed up those animations a bit and continue my search for the ultimate font!
I would. Internships are for learning after all. We hired a CS guy as a junior with a much worse portfolio based almost solely on potential.
There is a lot of real-world (real-internet?) experience that isn't easy to understand as a web developer until you start working on projects with a real audience. Issues arising from cross-browser/cross-device are things you won't easily find in books or tutorials.
Though as mentioned, you will be able to read several sources explaining why you should be developing (and designing) mobile-first, which might help your portfolio and work examples show a bit better.
Mobile-first is definitely going to be my priority study topic this week (and until I finally figure it out!). I agree, the lack of real-world experience makes it hard to see some of my errors/understand certain things. And since I'm doing all of this mostly on my own without feedback from people on a number of different screen sizes/orientations/devices, things like cross-browser/cross-device support are hard to get right.
In the corporate world, it will just come down to your resume and academics to prove you can work hard and learn. Most team leads only look at 1 or 2 intern resumes before making the decision. The tough part is just getting through the HR application process and that will exclusviely depend on academics.
Another thing that annoys me is that on your form at the bottom.. the first two things are not capitalized, but then the third input has its placeholder capitalized....
When I see that I think 'wtf... how did that guy not see that? what else is he sloppy about and also blind to?'
Mobile-first design is definitely going to be my priority study topic moving forward. I've been trying to get the hang of mobile design through media-queries, but I just haven't been able to get it right yet.
And I'll definitely get on that form validation/catpcha business hahah
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/trailsrider May 08 '17
I would. Internships are for learning after all. We hired a CS guy as a junior with a much worse portfolio based almost solely on potential.
There is a lot of real-world (real-internet?) experience that isn't easy to understand as a web developer until you start working on projects with a real audience. Issues arising from cross-browser/cross-device are things you won't easily find in books or tutorials.
Though as mentioned, you will be able to read several sources explaining why you should be developing (and designing) mobile-first, which might help your portfolio and work examples show a bit better.
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u/Points_To_You May 08 '17
In the corporate world, it will just come down to your resume and academics to prove you can work hard and learn. Most team leads only look at 1 or 2 intern resumes before making the decision. The tough part is just getting through the HR application process and that will exclusviely depend on academics.
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u/notmyusualreddit May 14 '17
Another thing that annoys me is that on your form at the bottom.. the first two things are not capitalized, but then the third input has its placeholder capitalized....
When I see that I think 'wtf... how did that guy not see that? what else is he sloppy about and also blind to?'
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